Anouk Rijs, Chair
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
ORCiD 0000-0002-7446-9907
Professor Anouk Rijs is the chair of Analytics of Biomolecular Interactions of the Division of BioAnalytical Chemistry at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (NL). She is an expert on IR action spectroscopy combined with mass spectrometry for structural characterization of biomolecules such as peptides and carbohydrates. Her work focuses predominantly on the understanding of the complex mechanism of amyloid-forming polypeptides related to pathogenic neurodegenerative diseases and functional amyloids by advancing mass spectrometry and spectroscopic methods.
Henry Schaefer, Deputy Chair
University of Georgia, USA
ORCiD 0000-0003-0252-2083
Professor Henry F. Schaefer III is currently Graham Perdue Professor of Chemistry and Director of the Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry at the University of Georgia, USA. His research involves the use of state-of-the-art computational hardware and theoretical methods to solve important problems in molecular quantum mechanics.
Maria Lucia Curri, Associate editor
University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy
M. Lucia Curri is Full Professor of Physical Chemistry at the Chemistry Department of the University of Bari Aldo Moro (Italy) and Associate Research Scientist at the Institute for Physical and Chemical Processes of the Italian National Research Council (IPCF-CNR). She received her PhD from the University of Bari (Italy) in 1997, then she worked at CNR until 2018, when she was appointed Full Professor at the University of Bari Aldo Moro.
She is active in the field of materials chemistry, targeting the design and fabrication of inorganic and hybrid solids at the nanoscale to obtain multifunctional nanostructured materials and the investigation of their properties.
Her research is focused on developing original strategies for the preparation and functionalization of colloidal nanocrystal based inorganic and hybrid materials, both for fundamental studies and photocatalytic, optoelectronic, energy, (bio)sensing and biomedical applications. She has experience in surface engineering of nanoparticles and nanocrystals, for bioconjugation, organization in mesoscale structures and integration in nanocomposites.
Chantal Daniel, Associate editor
Institute of Chemistry, University of Strasbourg, France
ORCiD 0000-0002-0520-2969
Chantal Daniel is Emeritus CNRS Research Director at the Institute of Chemistry, University of Strasbourg. She graduated in 1985 with a PhD on transition metal complexes excited states and strong electron correlation. She joined the Institute for Molecular Sciences Okazaki, Japan in 1986 as JSPS fellow and IBM Research group Kingston, USA in 1988 as post-doc associate. Her research in theoretical chemistry is focused on photophysics and photochemistry of coordination compounds and excited state properties, including quantum dynamics. Using electronic structure theory and vibronic models Daniel group simulated ultrafast processes in transition metal complexes used as luminescent probes, electron transfer triggers, DNA intercalators and photoinduced release carbonyl materials.
Wolfgang Ernst, Associate editor
Graz University of Technology, Austria
ORCiD 0000-0001-8849-5658
Wolfgang E. Ernst is Emeritus Professor of Physics at Graz University of Technology (TU Graz). He finished his PhD in physics at TU Hannover, Germany in 1977, pursued postdoctoral research at Rice University, Houston, Texas in 1978-79, and obtained his habilitation at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany in 1983. From 1990 to 2002 he held the position of a full professor at Penn State University, USA, after which he moved to Graz University of Technology, Austria, where he served as Professor of Physics and Director of the Institute of Experimental Physics until 2019. Professor Ernst received the 1987 Physics Prize of the German Physical Society, the 1998 Penn State Faculty Scholar Medal, and in 2015 the Styrian Research Prize in Austria. He is an elected Fellow of the American Physical Society and the European Physical Society, and was President of the Austrian Physical Society from 2013 to 2014. His continuing research has focus on the experimental investigation and theoretical interpretation of the electronic and nuclear dynamics in molecules, clusters, and at surfaces, with a broad interest in the atomistic structure of matter, its physical, optical and chemical properties.
Lars Goerigk, Associate editor
The University of Melbourne, Australia
ORCiD: 0000-0003-3155-675X
Lars Goerigk is an Associate Professor in Theoretical and Computational Quantum Chemistry at the School of Chemistry, The University of Melbourne. He completed his undergraduate and graduate studies at The University of Münster, Germany, where he obtained his PhD in the group of Prof. Stefan Grimme in 2011. He then moved to Australia to work with Prof. Jeffrey Reimers at The University of Sydney where he also enjoyed fruitful collaborations with others, including Prof. Leo Radom. In 2014, he became an independent group leader at The University of Melbourne thanks to a Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (Australian Research Council). His work primarily focusses on Density Functional Theory (DFT) for electronic ground and excited states, including method development, the treatment of noncovalent interactions, and making the DFT 'zoo' more accessible to method users. His collaborations with experimentalists involve the design of molecular switches, fluorescent sensors and other materials. He is a recipient of a 2019 Le Fèvre Medal (Australian Academy of Science), a 2020 Rennie Memorial Medal (Royal Australian Chemical Institute), and the 2022 Pople Medal (Asia-Pacific Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists).
Keith Gordon, Associate editor
University of Otago, New Zealand
ORCiD 0000-0003-2833-6166
Keith Gordon is a Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Otago, New Zealand. He graduated from the Queen's University Belfast (Northern Ireland) in 1989 and focused on laser spectroscopy of solar energy compounds. He was awarded a Director’s Fellowship at Los Alamos National Laboratories, USA, and worked with Professor W H Woodruff from 1989 – 1992 on ultrafast laser spectroscopy of biological systems and solar energy materials. In 1993 Keith took up a lecturing post in the Chemistry Department at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, becoming Professor in 2009 in that department and serving as Head from 2018 – 2022. Keith is a founding Principal Investigator in two New Zealand Centres of Research Excellence, the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology and the Dodd-Walls Centre for Photonic and Quantum Technologies. Keith is a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand, the Royal Society of Chemistry and the New Zealand Institute of Chemistry. Keith’s research interests focus on understanding the properties of conducting polymers, nanostructured electromaterials, such as those found in dye-sensitised solar cells, dairy products and pharmaceuticals using spectroscopy and computational chemistry.
Hiroshi Kondoh, Associate editor
Keio University, Japan
ORCiD:0000-0003-3877-5891
Hiroshi Kondoh is professor of chemistry at Keio University in Yokohama, Japan. His research interests concern the understanding of surface reactions. In particular he has been working on development of in situ/operando techniques using synchrotron-based x-ray surface spectroscopies and their application to elucidation of the mechanisms of functional materials such as heterogeneous catalysts.
Jer-Lai Kuo, Associate editor
Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Prabal Maiti, Associate editor
Indian Institute of Science, India
ORCiD 0000-0002-9956-1136
Prabal K. Maiti is Professor and currently the chair in the Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He works in the area of Multiscale Modelling of Soft and Bio-materials. His major research goal is to pursue theoretical and numerical modelling connecting molecular and macroscopic length scales to improve basic understanding of various soft-matter and biological systems, both from a fundamental and an applied point of view. Areas of current research interest include structure and dynamics of hyperbranched and conjugated polymer, charge transport in molecular systems, DNA-based nanotechnology, and confined fluid. Prof Maiti received his M.Sc and Ph.D. degrees in Physics from IIT, Kanpur, India followed by postdoctoral stays at MPIP, Mainz, the University of Colorado at Boulder, and Caltech, USA. He is a fellow of Indian academy of Science and recipient of Alexander von Humboldt fellowship and Fulbright fellowship.
Spiridoula Matsika, Associate editor
Temple University, USA
Spiridoula Matsika is a Professor of Chemistry at Temple University. She received a B.Sc. in Chemistry from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece in 1994, and a Ph.D. in Chemical Physics from The Ohio State University in 2000. After completing her Ph.D. she spent three years as a postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins University. She joined Temple University in Philadelphia in 2003 where she has been since then. Her research interests focus on the theoretical description of electronically excited states, nonadiabatic dynamics, and conical intersections in molecular systems. She is particularly interested in photophysics and photochemistry of molecular systems, and in electron driven processes.
Ron Naaman, Associate editor
Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
ORCiD 0000-0003-1910-366X
Born in Israel, Professor Ron Naaman earned his BSc in 1973 from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, and his PhD in 1978 from the Weizmann Institute of Science. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University in California, and spent a year in the Department of Chemistry at Harvard University. In 1981, Professor Naaman joined the Weizmann Institute. From 1989-1995, Ron chaired the Institute’s Chemical Services Unit and from 1995-2000, he headed the Department of Chemical Physics. From 2008-2010, Prof. Naaman was the Chair of the Scientific Council at the Institute. Professor Naaman is the incumbent of the Aryeh and Mintzi Katzman Professorial Chair. His research focusses on studying interaction of electrons and their spin with organic and bio-related molecules.
Andrea Russell, Associate editor
Southampton University, UK
ORCiD 0000-0002-8382-6443
Professor Andrea Russell is Professor of Physical Electrochemistry and head of the Electrochemistry group in the School of Chemistry, University of Southampton. She is an expert in spectroscopic studies of electrode surfaces and electrocatalysts, using IR and Raman vibrational and synchrotron-based X-ray spectroscopies. Her work focusses on the development of new/improved electrocatalysts and for electrolysers, fuel cells, and electrosynthesis, and characterisation of these electrocatalysts under in situ and operando conditions.
Isaac Tamblyn, Associate editor
University of Ottawa, Canada
ORCiD 0000-0002-8146-6667
Dr Tamblyn is a machine learning manager at Square, an Adjunct Professor of Physics at the University of Ottawa, and is a Faculty Affiliate of the Vector Institute of Artificial Intelligence. He also holds Adjunct status in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo. Previously, he worked as a Senior Research Officer at National Research Council of Canada.
His research is focused on the application of deep learning and reinforcement learning methods in chemical physics, particularly in the areas of electronic structure theory and nanoscale self-assembly.
Dr Tamblyn conducted postdoctoral studies at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow). He earned his PhD in Physics from Dalhousie University in 2010 as a Killam Scholar and spent time as a visiting student at UC Berkeley and the Carnegie Institution of Washington.
Yunjie Xu, Associate editor
University of Alberta, Canada
ORCiD 0000-0003-3736-3190
Dr Yunjie Xu is a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Alberta, Canada. She is currently a Tier I Canada Research Chair in Chirality and Chirality Recognition and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Her work centres on non-covalent interactions in chiral aggregates and on chirality recognition, transfer, and amplification mechanisms.
Dr Xu studies conformational landscapes of chiral contact pairs and aggregates by using rotational and ro-vibrational spectroscopies and hybrid laser-mass spectroscopy, and chiral phenomena in the condensed phase by vibrational circular dichroism and Raman optical activity spectroscopies, in combination with theoretical modelling.
John Zhang, Associate editor
NYU Shanghai, China
ORCiD 0000-0003-4612-1863
John Zhang is professor of chemistry at New York University Shanghai and Director of NYU-ECNU Center for Computational Chemistry at NYU Shanghai. His current research focuses on protein structure and dynamics, fragment quantum chemistry study of biomolecules, polarizable force field, protein-ligand interaction, protein-protein interaction, ab initio molecular dynamics study of biomolecules and computational drug design.
