Jean-François Gérard, Editor-in-chief
INSA Lyon, University of Lyon, France
Yutaka Amao, Associate Editor
Osaka Metropolitan University, Japan
ORCiD 0000-0001-8575-2591
Professor Yutaka Amao received his doctorate in Engineering in 1997 from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. He worked as a researcher at the Kanagawa Academy of Science and Technology from 1997 to 1998, as a researcher at the National Aerospace Laboratory from 1998 to 2001, and as an Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Chemistry of Oita University from 2013 to 2021.
He also worked as a Precursory Research for Embryonic Science and Technology (PRESTO) researcher at the Japan Science and Technology Agency from 2011 to 2016. From 2013 to 2020, he was a Full Professor at the National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Osaka City University. In 2020, he was appointed Full Professor at the Research Centre for Artificial Photosynthesis, Osaka City University (becoming Osaka Metropolitan University after its merger with Osaka Prefecture University in 2022).
During this time, he has served as Vice Director of the Research Centre for Artificial Photosynthesis from 2013-2015, and Director since 2015. He received the Catalysis Research Encouragement Award from the Catalysis Society of Japan in 2008 and was appointed as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2018. His current research interests include photocatalyst, molecular catalyst, biocatalyst, and the development of carbon dioxide conversion to organic molecules with hybrid catalysis system.
Annie Castonguay, Associate Editor
INRS (University of Quebec), Canada
Alexander J. Andre Cobb, Associate Editor
King's College London
Andre Cobb gained his PhD at University College London in 2001, developing novel asymmetric organozinc reactions under the guidance of Professor Charles Marson. He then joined the group of Florian Hollfelder at the University of Cambridge for a short period to work on the design of synthetic enzymes, before then working for Professor Steven V. Ley CBE FRS to start the development of asymmetric organocatalytic processes, whilst also contributing to the design of anti-amyloid compounds.
In 2005, he was appointed to his first faculty position as a lecturer and then Associate Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Reading where he stayed for the next 11 years and during which he was awarded the 2011 Thieme Chemistry Journals Award.
In 2016 he then took up his current position in the new Chemistry Department at King’s College London. His work has primarily been focused on the development of organocatalytic asymmetric reactions in the synthesis of unnatural amino acids, as well as various medicinal chemistry and chemical biology projects.
Vera R. L. Constantino, Associate Editor
University of São Paulo, Brazil
ORCiD 0000-0001-9276-7329
Vera R. Leopoldo Constantino is a Professor at the Chemistry Institute of the University of Sao Paulo (USP), Brazil. She received her Bachelor's degree in Chemistry and Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry from the State University of Sao Paulo (UNESP), Brazil. Her Ph.D. work involved the synthesis and characterization of niobium coordination compounds.
She conducted her postdoctoral research with Professor Thomas J. Pinnavaia at Michigan State University (USA) studying layered materials (1992–1994). She was an Academic Visitor at the School of Chemistry, University of Bristol (UK), hosted in the laboratory of Professor Stephen Mann (2015-2016).
Vera has held a research productivity fellowship from the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development, an agency of the Brazilian Ministry of Science and Technology, since 1995.
She was director of the Materials Chemistry division of the Brazilian Chemical Society (2006-2008). Her research interests include synthesis of inorganic materials, intercalation chemistry, exfoliation process, organic-inorganic hybrids and nanocomposites and drug delivery systems.
Catharine Esterhuysen, Associate Editor
University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
After completing a PhD in crystallography under the supervision of Gert Kruger at the Rand Afrikaans University in Johannesburg, South Africa, Catharine Esterhuysen joined the Stellenbosch University as a lecturer in 2000.
During her studies she developed an interest in computational chemistry, which she was able to develop when an Alexander von Humboldt fellowship allowed her to join the group of Gernot Frenking of Philipps-Universität Marburg in Germany in 2002, and extended with an Alexander von Humboldt follow-up fellowship to work with Tim Clark at the Friedrich-Alexander Universität in Erlangen.
Her main research interest is the study of intermolecular interactions, combining her knowledge of computational chemistry and crystallography to explain unusual interactions and their role in the properties of materials.
David Farrusseng, Associate Editor
IRCELYON-CNRS, France
David Farrusseng got his PhD (caum lauda) in Material Science at the European Institute of Membrane (IEM) in Montpellier under the guidance of Drs. A. Julbe and C. Guizard. He joined as post-doc the group of Prof. F. Schüth at the Max Planck Institute für Kohlenforschung (Germany).
In 2001, he was appointed CNRS researcher in the group of Dr. C. Mirodatos. He is currently group leader at IRCELYON. His research activity is focused on the design of Materials for original catalytic & separation processes and on the development of High Throughput approaches.
He was awarded by the Catalysis Division of the French Chemical Society in 2007. For his pioneering contribution in the field on High Throughput Catalysis. He got the prestigious IACS award in 2016 for his major contribution of the application of Porous Materials and more specifically of MOFs in the domain of Catalysis.
Yannick Guari, Associate Editor
University of Montpellier, France
Yannick Guari earned a Ph.D. degree in chemistry at the University of Toulouse in 1998. His thesis work under the supervision of Bruno Chaudret was on ruthenium complexes and their uses for C–H bond activation.
Post-doctoral stay at the University of Amsterdam in the research group of Pr. Piet van Leeuwen studying palladium and platinum complexes in homogeneous catalysis followed, before Yannick joined the CNRS as a permanent researcher in Montpellier. He is now the head of the team Molecular Engineering and Nano-Objects at the Institut Charles Gerhardt Montpellier, carrying out his research on metal-containing nanoparticles and nanocomposites.
Peter Junk, Associate editor
James Cook University, Australia
Peter Junk graduated from The University of Western Australia in 1984 obtaining a Bachelor of Science with first class honours in Physical and Inorganic Chemistry, and completed his Ph.D in Organometallic Chemistry under the supervision of Professor Colin Raston in 1988.
His PhD work involved the use of organometallic reagents in organic syntheses, and also the synthetic and structural aspects of organo- and amido- main group metal complexes. He obtained a DSc from James Cook University for his international reputation in organometallic chemistry of the main group and rare earth elements.
After four years employed in the petroleum industry, Peter held several Postdoctoral positions; a two year stint with Prof. Jerry Atwood at the University of Alabama, six months with Prof. Allan White at University of Western Australia and one year with Prof. Glen Deacon at Monash University.
In 1997, Peter gained an academic position at James Cook University as a Lecturer in Inorganic Chemistry. He was given an accelerated promotion to Senior Lecturer in 1999. He moved to the School of Chemistry at Monash University in 2001 where he was promoted to Professor of Chemistry and was the Head of School between 2007 and 2009. In 2012 he moved to his current position as the Nevitt Professor of Chemistry at James Cook University
His main research interests are in rare earth and main group organometallic, organoamido and aryloxo chemistry, but has applied interests in X-ray imaging and corrosion inhibition. He has published in excess of 380 publications and reviews and he is the 2016 recipient of the Burrows award, the premier award for Inorganic Chemistry in the Royal Australian Chemical Institute.
Hee-Je Kim, Associate Editor
Pusan National University, Republic of Korea
Prof. Hee-Je Kim got PhD of Energy Conversion, Kyushu University, Fukuoka city, Japan. (1990, March). At present he is professor of Department of Electrical Engineering in Pusan National University (Busan, South Korea). And the group leader of BRL (Basic Research Lab.). He is currently working as an Associate Editor of NJC (New Journal of Chemistry)-RSC shared and Editorial Board Member of Journal [Energies].
His research area is dynamic, multi-objective, practical solution based research with a focus on highly efficient solar energy conversion and effective energy storage system. That is related to mainly three areas: i) Fabrication and commercialization of next-generation solar cells such as dye synthesized solar cells, quantum- dot, and perovskite solar cells). ii) Improving efficiency of existing solar PV systems using different tools and techniques. iii) High energy and power density flexible super-capacitor and BSH (Battery Super-capacitor Hybrid) for next generation energy storage system.
Venkata Krishnan, Associate Editor
School of Chemical Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, India
ORCiD 0000-0002-4453-0914
Venkata Krishnan earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry in 2006 from University of Stuttgart, Germany after completing his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India.
Subsequently, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, U.S.A. from 2006 to 2010 and then as a research associate at the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba, Japan from 2010 to 2012. Later, he joined as a faculty member at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Mandi in April 2012 to start his independent academic career and is currently a full professor in its School of Chemical Sciences.
Venkata's research group is mainly working in the field of Green Chemistry and Heterogeneous Catalysis for Energy and Environment Applications. He has published more than 170 articles in well-reputed scientific journals and is also a reviewer for various international journals. He has been bestowed with several awards, including DST INSPIRE faculty award, the IIT Mandi Foundation Day award for excellence in teaching, MANA research fellowship, DoE postdoctoral fellowship, the DFG doctoral fellowship, DAAD visiting scholar fellowship, etc. Apart from academics, he likes reading books and is interested in linguistics.
Dai-Wen Pang, Associate editor
Nankai University, China
Dai-Wen Pang received his BS (1982) and PhD (1992) in chemistry from Wuhan University (WHU) and completed his postdoctoral research in virology at WHU in 1994. He then joined the faculty at WHU and was promoted to full professor in 1996.
He was the Dean of the College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences (2001-2005) and the Director of the Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Biology and Medicine (MOE)(2008-2019), and now he is a distinguished professor at Nankai University (2018-) and the Director of the Research Center for Analytical Sciences.
He has been a member of the National Steering Committee for Nanotechnology since 2007 and the Head of the Workgroup on Standardization of Nano-Optoelectronic Display Technology (WG10) of the National Technical Committee (TC279) on Nanotechnology Standardization, Standardization Administration of China (SAC).
His interests focus on quantum dots (QDs), including live-cell synthesis and quasi-bio synthesis of QDs, and QD-based real-time tracking of single viruses. He is also the Technical Founder of Wuhan Jiayuan Quantum Dots Co. Ltd.
Karine Philippot, Associate Editor
Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, France
Karine Philippot is presently research director at CNRS, at the Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry in Toulouse (LCC-Toulouse), where she is the head of the group “Engineering of Metal Nanoparticles”. She studied biochemistry and then organometallic chemistry at the University of Rennes (Pr P.H. Dixneuf's group).
After a PhD degree in molecular chemistry and homogeneous catalysis gained at the University of Toulouse (1993) she had a postdoctoral position in the department of catalysis at Rhodia-Lyon (1994-95). Then she was appointed CNRS permanent researcher in the group of B. Chaudret at the LCC-Toulouse in 1996, and became a group leader in the same institute in 2008.
Her current research interests cover the design of metal nanoparticles and composite nanomaterials by applying the concepts of molecular chemistry together with their application, mainly in colloidal or supported catalysis and in energy production.
Maarten Roeffaers, Associate Editor
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Maarten B. J. Roeffaers graduated from the Centre for Surface Chemistry and Catalysis, KU Leuven (Belgium), in 2008 studying zeolite catalysis with fluorescence microscopy. After a postdoctoral stay (2009–2010) with Prof. Xie at Harvard University (USA) on the development and use of coherent Raman microscopy, he returned to the KU Leuven.
In 2010, he started his own research group (www.roeffaers-lab.org) focusing on the development of optical microscopy tools to study heterogeneous catalysis and materials for sustainable chemistry. Amongst others, he was awarded a prestigious ERC starting grant (2012) and received the biennial ExxonMobil Chemical European Science and Engineering Award (2015).
Edina Rosta, Associate Editor
University College London, UK
ORCiD 0000-0002-9823-4766
Edina Rosta is a Professor in Molecular Modelling at UCL, Department of Physics and Astronomy. After completing her PhD at USC in the group of Arieh Warshel (2013 Chemistry Nobel Prize Laureate), she joined the Hummer lab as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the NIDDK, NIH. She took up a lecturer position at KCL Chemistry in 2012.
In 2020 she joined UCL Physics. Research in her group focuses on atomistic molecular modeling, including hybrid quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) simulations. To quantitatively and accurately assess how enzymes achieve their extraordinary efficiency and specificity in performing chemical reactions, she develops modern enhanced sampling methods including novel algorithms to calculate molecular kinetics from biased molecular simulations using the theoretical framework of kinetic networks.
Current directions in the Rosta group include machine learning applications to screen chemical libraries for important molecular properties and large scale biomolecular simulation data to identify allosteric drivers. Biological applications aim at understanding and molecular design of the most prominent chemical reactions of living organisms: phosphate transfer and cleavage.
Akhila Sahoo, Associate Editor
University of Hyderabad, India
Akhila K. Sahoo was born in 1972 at Bhubaneswar (Odisha), India. He completed doctoral study at the CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, Pune under the supervision of Prof. Ganesh Pandey in 2001.
He worked as a postdoc researcher at the RWTH-Aachen-Germany with Prof. Hans-Joachim Gais (2002), Prof. Tamejiro Hiyama, Kyoto University, Japan (JSPS; 2002-2004), and finally with Prof. Atsuhiro Osuka, Kyoto University (2004-2006). He then worked as a scientist at the Sai Advantium Pharma Limited (2006-2007), Hyderabad.
He then joined the School of Chemistry [Assistant Professor (2007-2012), Associate professor (2013-2016)] University of Hyderabad. Currently, he is working as Professor. His research interest revolves in the development of novel transformations on metal-catalyzed C-H activation, Au-catalyzed synthetic methods, and construction of strained N, and O-rich energetic materials. He is a Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry and Member of the National Academy of Science, India.
Jianji Wang, Associate Editor
Henan Normal University, China
Jianji Wang was educated in Chemistry at Henan Normal University (HNU, China), and received his MSc at Wuhan University (China) and PhD at Yokohama National University (Japan). He worked as a visiting scholar at University College London (1987–1989) and research fellow at University of Surrey (1992–1993), UK.
He became a professor in the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering in 1994, and the founding director of the Key Laboratory of Green Chemical Media and Reactions, Ministry of Education, at HNU in 2009. Currently, he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK). He serves as the chairman of Thermodynamics and Thermal Analysis Committee of Chinese Chemical Society, and the vice chairman of Ionic Liquids Committee of Chinese Chemical Engineering Society.
His work has primarily been focused on structure–property relationship of green solvent systems (such as ionic liquids, deep eutectic solvents) and their applications in green separation, CO2 capture/conversion, and biomass processing. He has authored around 300 papers in peer reviewed journals, and 4 books.
Gregory Welch, Associate Editor
University of Calgary, Canada
Dr. Gregory Welch is a Canada Research Chair in Solar Energy Materials and Devices and Associate Professor within the Department of Chemistry at the University of Calgary. He has published over 100 scientific papers in the areas of organometallic chemistry, metal-free catalysis, conducting polymers, and organic electronics.
He obtained his BSc in Chemistry from the University of Calgary in 2003 and worked in the laboratories of Dr. Tristam Chivers and Dr. Warren Piers. He earned his PhD at the University of Windsor in 2008 under the supervision of Dr. Douglas Stephan where he helped create the concept of Frustrated Lewis Pairs. While trained as a synthetic inorganic chemist he diversified his skill set as a post-doctoral fellow working with Professor Guillermo Bazan at UC Santa Barbara.
During his time at UC Santa Barbara, Dr. Welch studied organic solar cells where he developed record performing molecular semiconductors and new methods to tune optoelectronic properties via Lewis acid-base chemistry. He started his independent career at Dalhousie University in 2012 before relocating to the University of Calgary in 2015.
Running an independent academic research laboratory, Dr. Welch has combined his expertise in synthetic chemistry, materials science, and device engineering to create a dynamic program focused on developing ultra-low-cost clean energy technologies. His research efforts focus on green synthetic chemistry, light-driven catalysis, and printed electronics.
Kazunari Yoshizawa, Associate Editor
Kyoto University, Japan
Kazunari Yoshizawa received his Bachelor, Master and Ph.D. degrees (1992) at Kyoto University under the direction of Kenichi Fukui and Tokio Yamabe. After spending one year (1994-1995) at Cornell University as a visiting scientist with Roald Hoffmann, he joined the faculty of Kyoto University, where he became an assistant and then associate professor.
In 2001 he moved as a full professor to Kyushu University, where his research interests are extended to enzymatic and catalytic reactions, electronic properties of molecules and solids and molecular understanding of adhesion between polymer and metal and carbon materials. After he retired from Kyushu University, he moved back to Kyoto University in 2024. He received the Chemical Society of Japan Creative Work Award in 2011, the Japan Society of Coordination Chemistry Contribution Award in 2018, the Japan Society for Molecular Science Award in 2022 and the Chemical Society of Japan Award in 2024.
Jinghua Yu, Associate Editor
University of Jinan, China
Jinghua Yu joined the University of Jinan in 1983, where she currently works as a Taishan Scholar Distinguished Professor in School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering. She received her Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in 2004.
Her current research mainly focus on the fabrication of microfluidic paper-based analytical devices (also namely as lab-on-paper) for point-of-care testing, design and synthesis of functional nanomaterials as well as their applications in electrochemical, photoelectrochemical, electrochemiluminescent, and fluorescence biosensors, design and assembly of flexible electronics based on micro/nanostructured paper, and development of smart flexible sensing platform.
Debbie Crans
Colorado State University, USA
Debbie C. Crans is a Professor of Organic, Inorganic and Biological Chemistry and of Cell and Molecular Biology at Colorado State University where she is Professor Laureate of the College of Natural Sciences. She did her undergraduate studies in Denmark in Biochemistry and Physical Organic Chemistry and her Ph.D. in Chemistry from Harvard University.
She did her postdoctoral studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She established the International Vanadium Symposium and in 2022 she will chair the ICCC-45 in Colorado. She serves both the American Chemical Society and the Royal Society of Chemistry.
She is a 2015 Author Cope Scholar and a 2004 Vanadis Awardee. Her research interests are in the areas of organic and inorganic drugs, metals in medicine, membranes, coordination chemistry and spectroscopy, and she works on diseases such as diabetes, cancer, Alzheimer’s and tuberculosis.
