Klavs F Jensen, Chair
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Klavs Jensen is the chair of the Editorial Board and a Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. His research interests include chemical synthesis in microreactors, which allow for precise control over a greater range of operating conditions compared to traditional reactor designs.
He also works on microfabrication techniques for a range of materials and devices, from microbiosystems to advanced nanomaterials. Professor Jensen was named one of the One Hundred Chemical Engineers of the Modern Era as part of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers’ (AIChE) centennial celebrations. In 2012 he was the first recipient of the IUPAC-ThalesNano Prize in Flow Chemistry.
Ian R Baxendale, Associate editor
Durham University, UK
Ian Baxendale is a Professor in the Department of Chemistry, University of Durham, UK. He works on the design and implementation of new technologies to enable complex chemical syntheses, including flow synthesis, automated methodologies, microwave reactors and immobilised reagents and scavengers.
Ian previously co-founded the Innovative Technology Centre, Cambridge and spin out company Reaxa Ltd with Prof. Steven Ley. He gives teaching lectures and runs lab training for industrial and academic researchers to learn more about his methods, as well as acting as a scientific consultant to a number of companies.
Saif A Khan, Associate editor
National University of Singapore, Singapore
Saif Khan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the National University of Singapore, Singapore, and a Scientific Editor for Reaction Chemistry & Engineering, helping to ensure that articles meet the stringent criteria required for publication in the journal. He works on the design and analysis of chemical reactors which perhaps go beyond the familiar – think reactions in bubbles, droplets and foams.
His platform of choice is microfluidic systems, which allow the control of transport properties and non-equilibrium conditions for efficient, economical and sustainable chemical synthesis. Dr Khan was a R. T. Haslam Presidential Fellow at MIT prior to moving to Singapore.
Laura Torrente-Murciano, Associate editor
University of Cambridge, UK
Laura Torrente is a lecturer in the Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology Department at the University of Cambridge and an EPSRC Fellow in Manufacturing. She is a member of the UK Catalysis Hub, Energy@Cambridge and the NanoCDT. Prior to this, she was a lecturer at the University of Bath, Research Associated at Imperial College London and worked as R&D Engineer at Repsol YPF (Spain).
Her research focuses on the development of sustainable technologies for a wide range of applications such as sustainable energy (production of hydrogen from waste), use of bio-derived feedstocks and novel manufacturing routes. Her group has expertise in three complementary areas:
- development of stable metal nanoparticles-based catalysts and nanostructured materials
- innovation on reactor design supported by fluid dynamic simulations, including micro-reactors
- integration of reaction and separation processes (e.g. membrane reactors and emulsions)
Haihui Wang, Associate editor
Tsinghua University, China
Haihui Wang is a Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Tsinghua University, China. He works on the inorganic membranes for clean energy and clear environment including membrane separation, membrane reactor, electrocatalysis and batteries. He received the Alexander von Humboldt Fellow in 2003 and got the Distinguished Young Scientist Foundation, National Nature Science Foundation of China in 2012. He was a Fellow of The Royal Society of Chemistry since 2016.
Donna G Blackmond
Scripps Research Institute, USA
Donna Blackmond is a Professor in the Department of Chemistry at The Scripps Research Institute, USA, and a Reaction Chemistry & Engineering Editorial Board member. Her research focusses on kinetic and mechanistic investigations of asymmetric catalytic reactions, probing the origin of biological homochirality or developing understanding of crucial synthetic pathways for pharmaceutical production. In 2013, Professor Blackmond was elected to the US National Academy of Engineering, and she is also an investigator in the Simons Collaboration on the Origins of Life.
Petra E de Jongh
Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Petra de Jongh is Chair of Catalysts and Energy Materials in the Debye Institute for Nanomaterials Science at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, and a Reaction Chemistry & Engineering as well as ChemCatChem Editorial Board member. She studies nanostructured inorganic materials (typically metal (oxide) nanoparticles and/or mesoporous materials) to gain insight into the impact of composition, particle size, confinement, and pore structure on the functionality of these materials for applications in catalysis and energy conversion and storage. Professor de Jongh is a member of the Royal Dutch National Academy of Sciences.
Joel M Hawkins
Pfizer Worldwide R&D, USA
Joel is is a Senior Research Fellow in Chemical Research and Development at Pfizer, where his interests lie in the development and application of new technologies for pharmaceutical process research and development. Previously he was an Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley, where he investigated asymmetric Diels-Alder catalysts and fullerene chemistry,
Joel regularly gives talks on the use of flow chemistry in the pharmaceutical industry, including at the 2015 Flow Chemistry Congress. His exciting work on the use of flow chemistry in synthesis relevant to industry is highlighted in his recent Chemical Science paper with Steven Ley, also a member of the Reaction Chemistry & Engineering Editorial Board.
Steven V Ley
University of Cambridge, UK
Steven Ley is Director of Research in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge, UK, and a Reaction Chemistry & Engineering Editorial Board member. A significant thread of his organic chemistry research targets the development of new sustainable chemical methodologies with the goal of improving chemical manufacture and synthesis, in particular using flow methodology. Read his latest article on the deca-gram scale synthesis of enantiopure (R)-(+)-3-methyl-6-isopropenyl-cyclohept-3-enone-1 in Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry:
Professor Ley is a previous president of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2000–2002), and has been awarded over 40 prizes and awards to mark his scientific achievements, including the 2014 IUPAC-Thales Nano Prize in Flow Chemistry which in 2012 was awarded to Klavs Jensen, Reaction Chemistry & Engineering Editorial Board Chair.
Guangsheng Luo
Tsinghua University, China
Guangsheng Luo is a Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Tsinghua University, China, and a Reaction Chemistry & Engineering Editorial Board member. He studies the behaviour of chemical reaction systems on a micro-scale, in order to develop efficient, safe and environmentally friendly chemical processes. He is also interested in separation technologies and the large scale production of functional materials. His scalable nano-precipitation method was published last year in Soft Matter. Professor Luo is the director of the State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering.
Anita Maguire
University College Cork, Ireland
Anita R. Maguire undertook undergraduate and postgraduate studies at University College Cork (B.Sc., 1985; Ph.D., 1989), focusing during her studies on asymmetric catalysis in reactions of α-diazoketones. Following postdoctoral research in the Facultes Universitaires, Namur, Belgium, and subsequently at the University of Exeter, she returned to Cork in 1991 initially as a Lecturer in Organic Chemistry, then as Associate Professor of Organic Chemistry in 2002, and then as the first Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry in 2004.
In 2011 she was appointed as Vice President for Research and Innovation at University College Cork. She was an Adjunct Professor at the University of Bergen from 2011-16. Her research interests include asymmetric synthesis, including transition-metal catalysis and biocatalysis, the development of novel synthetic methodology employing α-diazocarbonyl compounds, organosulfur chemistry, and continuous flow chemistry, and the design and synthesis of bioactive compounds with potential pharmaceutical applications.
Anita is a co-PI in the Synthesis and Solid State Pharmaceutical Centre (SSPC). She is the inaugural Chair of the National Forum on Research Integrity and was elected a Member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2014.
Dionisios G Vlachos
University of Delaware, USA
Dionisios Vlachos is a professor in the Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Delaware, USA, and a Reaction Chemistry & Engineering Editorial Board member. His research involves a combination of modelling, simulation and experimental validation for a variety of applications, including understanding catalytic reaction mechanisms and designing chemical reactors and functional materials, leading ultimately to better and safer chemical processes. Professor Vlachos is a previous winner of the AIChE R. H. Wilhelm Award in Chemical Reaction Engineering and is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
