Katharina Landfester, Editorial Board Chair
Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Germany
Katharina Landfester received her doctoral degree in 1995. After a postdoctoral stay at the Lehigh University (Bethlehem, PA), she worked at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam (Germany) leading the miniemulsion group. From 2003 to 2008, she was full professor at the University of Ulm. She joined the Max Planck Society in 2008 as one of the directors of the MPIP. She was awarded the Reimund Stadler prize of the German Chemical Society and the prize of the Dr. Hermann Schnell Foundation, followed by the Bruno Werdelmann Lecturer in 2012 and the Bayer Lecturer in 2014. Her research focusses on creating functional colloids for new material and biomaterial applications. She has published more than 600 papers in international journals, 30 reviews and holds more than 50 patents.
Katsuhiko Ariga, Scientific editor
National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2445-2955
Dr. Katsuhiko Ariga is the Leader of the Supermolecules Group and Principal Investigator of the World Premier International (WPI) Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA) at the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS). He was born in 1962 and received his BEng, MEng, and PhD Degrees from the Tokyo Institute of Technology (TIT). He was an Assistant Professor at TIT, worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Texas at Austin, USA, and then served as a group leader in the Supermolecules Project at Japan Science and Technology (JST) agency. Thereafter, he worked as an Associate Professor at the Nara Institute of Science and Technology and then got involved with the ERATO Aida Nanospace Project at JST. In January 2004, he moved to NIMS. He was also appointed as a Professor at the University of Tokyo in 2017. His research field is based on supramolecular chemistry and surface science, including the boundary research areas of organic chemistry, physical chemistry, biochemistry, and materials chemistry. His major interests are the fabrication of novel functional nanostructures with nanoarchitectonics based on molecular recognition and self-assembly including Langmuir–Blodgett films, layer-by-layer films, and mesoporous materials.
Wenlong Cheng, Scientific editor
The University of Sydney, Australia
Wenlong Cheng is a professor in the School of Biomedical Engineering at The University of Sydney, Australia. He is currently an NHMRC Investigator Leadership Fellow and a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and was an Ambassador Tech Fellow at Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication. He earned his PhD from Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in 2005 and his BS from Jilin University, China, in 1999. He was Alexander von Humboldt's fellow in the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics and a research associate in the Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering at Cornell University. He founded the Monash NanoBionics lab at Monash University in 2010. His research interest lies at the nano-bio interface, particularly the design and self-assembly of 2D plasmonic nanomaterials and noble nanocrystals, DNA nanotechnology, soft wearable electronic skin sensors and soft and stretchable energy devices, targeted cancer theranostics, and soft plasmonic metamaterials.
Miaofang Chi, Editorial board member
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0764-1567
Miaofang Chi is a Distinguished Scientist and Microscopist at the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Prior to joining ORNL in 2008, she was a research fellow at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (2004-2006) and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (2006-2008). She serves as the committee chair of Educational Resources for Microscopy Society of America (MSA) and was named a Fellow of MSA in 2022. Her primary research interests are understanding interfacial charge transfer and ion transport behaviour in energy and quantum materials by advancing and employing novel electron microscopy techniques.
Yves Dufrêne, Scientific editor
Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7289-4248
Professor Yves Dufrêne is a Research Director of the National Fund for Scientific Research and a Professor at the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL), Belgium. He obtained his Bioengineering degree and Ph.D at UCL, and then worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Naval Research Laboratory, USA, before returning to UCL. He is interested in nanobioscience and nanobiotechnology, specifically in the development and use of advanced nanoscale techniques for analysing biological systems. His research focuses on studying the nanoscale surface architecture, biophysical properties and molecular interactions of living cells - particularly microbial pathogens - using atomic force microscopy (AFM). The goals are to further understand key cellular functions, like cell adhesion, and to contribute to the development of nanoscopy techniques for the life sciences.
Mark MacLachlan, Scientific Editor
University of British Columbia, Canada
Mark MacLachlan is a professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of British Columbia (UBC), where he holds the Canada Research Chair in Supramolecular Materials and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He obtained his BSc degree in chemistry from UBC in 1995 and his PhD degree in inorganic materials chemistry from the University of Toronto in 1999. Following a 2-year postdoc at MIT, he returned to UBC to begin as an assistant professor in 2001. In 2009-2010, he spent a sabbatical year as a Humboldt Fellow at the RWTH in Aachen. He was a JSPS Invited Fellow at the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) in Tsukuba, Japan in 2013. Since 2016, he has served as an international PI at the Nano Life Science Institute in Kanazawa. Mark's research interests span different areas of supramolecular and materials chemistry, especially coordination chemistry, macrocycles, graphene oxide photonic materials and cellulose nanocrystal-based materials.
Jin-Hong Park, Editorial board member
Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8401-6920
Jin-Hong Park has been a professor at the School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering and SKKU Advanced Institute of Nano-Technology (SAINT), Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) since 2011. He also worked as an assistant professor at Kyung-Hee University and as a postdoctoral researcher at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, from 2009 to 2011. Park has authored or co-authored more than 145 technical journal papers for international journals. He has also been granted over 40 international patents. He received his MS/PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 2006 and 2009 for his work on the physics and technology of low-temperature germanium MOSFETs for monolithic 3D-ICs. In 2004, he received a BS degree in Electrical Engineering from Sungkyunkwan University. Park's current research focuses on developing next-generation devices based on 2D vdW and oxide semiconductor materials, such as GAA-FET, C-FET, NDR/NDT devices, and 3D DRAM cell transistors, as well as process technologies for new channel materials such as 2D vdW and oxide semiconductors.
Xiaohui Qiu, Scientific Editor
National Center for Nanoscience and Technology (NCNST), China
Xiaohui Qiu is a professor at the National Center for Nanoscience and Technology (NCNST), China. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in 2000. He conducted postdoctoral research at the University of California, Irvine, and became a visiting scientist at IBM Research Center in Yorktown Heights and Ohio State University before joining NCNST in 2006. His research interests include advancing scanning probe microscopy and optical spectroscopy techniques to study various properties of low-dimensional materials, down to single molecules and atoms. He has published more than 190 papers in peer-reviewed journals.
Jinlan Wang, Scientific editor
Southeast University, China
Homepage: http://hpc.seu.edu.cn/jlwang/
Jinlan Wang got her Ph. D from Department of Physics, Nanjing University, China in 2002. Then, she had three-year Postdoctoral experience at Chemistry Division, Argonne National Laboratory, USA. Since 2006, she has joined in Southeast University in China as a full professor and developed the computational physics and chemistry group. She currently is a distinguished professor of Southeast University. Her current research interest mainly focuses on computational studies and design of two-dimensional materials and clean energy materials. The techniques involves from machine learning to classical molecular dynamics to different level first-principles methods. She published over 200 papers in high-impact journals, including Science, Nat. Commun, JACS, Angew Chem, Adv. Mater.,with the total citations over 7000 times and H-index of 44. She was also the recipient of the Distinguished Young Scholars award of National Science Foundation of China (2015).
