Jennifer Love, Chair
University of Calgary, Canada
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Jennifer Love obtained her Bachelor's degree from Allegheny College in 1994 and her PhD from Stanford University in 2000. After postdoctoral research at the California Institute of Technology, she began her independent career at the University of British Columbia in 2003. She moved to the University of Calgary in 2019, where she is Professor and Head of the Department of Chemistry. Her research interests span inorganic, organometallic and organic chemistry with a focus on mechanistic analysis, catalyst design, developing new homogeneous catalytic transformations, and synthesis. Follow Jennifer on Twitter: @JenLoveChem
Louise Berben, Associate editor
University of California Davis, USA
I am an Associate Professor of Chemistry at the University of California Davis. I was born in Sydney, Australia, and received a Bachelor of Science degree with 1st class honors from The University of New South Wales in 2000, and in 2005 was awarded a Ph.D. from the University of California Berkeley (Advisor: J. R. Long). Between 2006 and 2009 I was a Postdoctoral Associate at CalTech and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Advisor: J. C. Peters).
My research program spans synthetic and physical inorganic chemistry with a primary emphasis on synthesis of new transition metal and main group molecules with unusual electronic structures, which support electron and proton transfer reactions, and the generation and reaction of hydride with small molecules such as CO2 and N2.
Recent work includes electrocatalytic reduction of CO2 to formate in neutral water, including thermochemical and kinetic investigations that explain the selectivity of the C-H bond formation event. Honors and awards include Chemical Communications Emerging Investigator Lectureship (2013), Organometallics Young Investigator Fellowship (2014), Fellow of the Â鶹AV (2014), and Kavli Fellow (2015).
Vy Dong, Associate Editor
University of California, Irvine
Vy Dong is a Chancellor's Professor at Chemistry at UC Irvine. After graduating from the University of California, Irvine, she joined David MacMillan‘s group at UC Berkeley, moving with his group to Caltech to complete her doctoral studies. She began her independent academic career at the University of Toronto in 2006, where she was promoted with tenure and named the Adrian Brook Professor. After six years in Canada, Vy returned to the United States to assume a professorship at her alma mater, UC Irvine.
Professor Dong's research team is interested in new reaction methods, enantioselective catalysis, and natural product synthesis. Her team has been recognized by the ACS EJ Corey Award, ACS Cope Scholar Award, and Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship. Professor Dong teaches introductory organic chemistry and advanced synthesis courses.
Rebecca Goss, Associate editor
University of St Andrews, UK
I am Professor of Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry at the University of St Andrews. I moved with my Research group as a Reader (Associate Professor) in 2012, having previously held a Readership at UEA and Lectureships at Exeter and Nottingham.
Our group’s research is in the area of elucidating and harnessing biosynthesis of natural products, at the chemical and genetic level, understanding and exploiting enzymes involved in the biosynthesis, and in blending synthetic biology and synthetic chemistry to make new to nature natural products (GenoChemetics), and has led to series of industrial collaborations.
Our research has been recognised through several international awards including the Â鶹AV Natural Product Emerging Invesigator Award 2013, and an ERC Consolidator award 2013. Our group’s early work in synergising molecular biology and synthetic chemistry was recognised by the award of the Â鶹AV Meldola medal in 2006.
I am passionate about natural products, and as well as loving the smell of actinomycetes, relish fresh air! When I am not in the lab, I enjoy spending time with my ten year old daughter and my husband pursuing outdoor activities or painting.
Zhong-Qun Tian, Associate editor
Xiamen University, China
I am a Professor at Xiamen University and serve as a Director of the State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces. I obtained my BSc at Xiamen University, and my PhD under the supervision of Professor Martin Fleischmann at the University of Southampton. I am a Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and an Advisory Board member for more than ten international journals. My main research interests include surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy, spectroelectrochemistry, nano-electrochemistry and nanomaterials.
Xian-He Bu, Associate Editor
Nankai University, China
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Xian-He Bu is a Professor of Chemistry and serves as the dean of the School of Material Science and Engineering at Nankai University. He obtained his B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Nankai University in 1986 and 1992 (advisor: Prof. Y.T Chen), respectively. He is a Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (from 2021) and a Fellow of the Â鶹AV (2014). His main research interests include functional coordination chemistry, crystal engineering, molecular magnetism, and material chemistry.
Giulia Grancini, Editorial Board member
University of Pavia, Italy
Prof. Giulia Grancini is the director of the PVsquared2 team at the University of Pavia (since 2019). She leads an internationally recognized solar facility for the development of new-generation efficient and low-cost solar energy, managing an international team of fifteen researchers.
She attracted 4.5 million Euros in funding from the EU (ERC Grant “HYNANO”, ERC POC “SPIKE”, MUR, Regional Funds) and she manages several collaborations with academics (Oxford, KAUST, Cambridge, EPFL, MIT) and industrial partners (EDISON, ENI, SOLARONIX) for technology transfer initiatives. Through her international career path – from PhD at Politecnico of Milano and Oxford University to Team leader for four years at EPFL (Switzerland), she contributed to the rise of emerging solar technologies in Europe, with pioneering contributions in the field of perovskite solar cells, putting her in the internationally recognized scientists arena working in this field.
For her track record - author of 150 peer-reviewed scientific papers (>21’000 citations) bringing her h index to 50 - she has been listed among the top 1% highly cited scientists in the world by Clarivate in 2019, 2020 and 2021. In 2019 she received the USERN Prize in Physical Science, the Swiss Physical Society Award in 2018 for Young Researcher and the IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in Optics.
She is currently the USERN Ambassador for Italy. In 2020 she was listed in the “100 experts project against stereotypes” which identified top Italian women scientists and she received the honour of “Cavaliere della Repubblica Italiana al Merito” from Italian President Mattarella. She has been recently appointed a member of the prestigious Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze.
Osamu Ishitani, Editorial Board member
Hiroshima University
Osamu Ishitani is a Special Appointed Professor of Chemistry at Hiroshima University and an emeritus professor of Tokyo Institute of Technology. He received his B. Eng. from Kobe University (1982) and Dr. Eng. from Osaka University (1987).
He spent three months as a visiting researcher at the Hahn-Meitner Institute (Berlin, Germany), then joined the National Institute for Resources and Environment (AIST) as a researcher, and moved to Saitama University as an associate professor in 1995. He moved to Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2002 and became a full professor in 2006. He is a Vice President of the Asian and Oceanian Photochemistry Association.
Osami served as President of the Japanese Photochemical Association (2020-) and Vice President of the Chemical Society of Japan (2018-2020). He has been interested in artificial photosynthesis for longer than 30 years. The main scientific targets of his group are photocatalytic CO2 reduction, photochemical properties of transition metal complexes, photo-functional metal complexes, and hybrid photocatalysts consisting of metal complexes and semiconductor materials.
Tatjana Parac-Vogt, Editorial Board member
KU Leuven, Belgium
Tatjana is a full Professor and the Head of the Laboratory of Bioinorganic Chemistry at KU Leuven, Belgium. Before coming to Leuven, she was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, working with Prof. Kenneth N. Raymond, and an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow with Prof. Christian Griesinger (Max-Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry).
She obtained her PhD from Iowa State University (Ames, USA), and her Diploma in Chemistry from the University of Belgrade (former Yugoslavia) with the highest distinctions.
Her interdisciplinary research is at the interface of inorganic chemistry, biochemistry, materials science and catalysis. Her work exploits metal cluster-based complexes and materials such as polyoxometalates (POMs) and metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) for bio-inspired reactivity studies. Her laboratory also creates new hybrid structures based on POMs, using the principles of supramolecular chemistry and molecular recognition.
Tatjana is a member of AcademiaNet, a global portal of outstanding female scientists, and the Vice President of the European Rare-Earth and Actinide Society.
She maintains an active interest in promoting gender and cultural diversity in the working environment and speaks five languages fluently. She also serves as a dedicated coach and mentor to younger female scientists, both in the framework of the Belgian Women in Science Association (BeWiSe) and within KU Leuven.
Raghavan B. Sunoj, Editorial Board member
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India
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Raghavan received his early education in Kerala (India) before earning his Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore, working with Professor J. Chandrasekhar. After a couple of years of postdoctoral research in the laboratory of Professor Christopher Hadad at the Ohio State University, Columbus (USA), he returned to India in 2003.
He took up an independent position in the department of chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, where he is currently a professor and the class of 1998 chair in quantum computing as well as the convener for supercomputing.
Raghavan's research aims to synergize the power of computational chemistry with experimental organic chemistry, particularly of immediate relevance to homogeneous catalysis. Studies focus on reaction mechanism, role of weak noncovalent interactions in asymmetric catalysis, in silico catalyst design using a combination of computational chemistry and machine intelligence methods. Fruitful collaborations with experimental groups have resulted in validation of his predictions besides interesting rationalization of several experimental observations.
He is an elected member of the board of World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists (WATOC), Asia Pacific Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists (APATCC) and an elected fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences. He is on the editorial advisory board of leading journals published by the Â鶹AV, the American Chemical Society, and Wiley. He has received a number of national and international awards such as Charles Coulson lecture (2017) at the University of Georgia, Athens, USA, IIT Bombay excellence in teaching award and the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in Chemical Science for the year 2019.