Dr. Jeremy Allen, ¾ÅÖÝÓ°Ôº, United Kingdom
Jeremy joined the ¾ÅÖÝÓ°Ôº in July 2014 as a Publishing Editor, starting on the journals Physical ¾ÅÖÝÓ°Ôº Chemical Physics and Nanoscale, before becoming the Deputy Editor for Chemical Science in 2018. At the beginning of 2022 Jeremy became the Executive Editor for Materials Advances and Nanoscale Advances, where he leads on the development of the journals, liaises with the Editorial Boards and oversees the production of articles. He is also the Executive Editor of recently launched journals RSC Applied Interfaces and RSC Applied Polymers. Prior to joining the organisation, he completed a PhD at the University of Bath, UK and worked as a Post-Doctoral Research Assistant at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. His research focused on the use of computational techniques for modelling reactions on surfaces and understanding the defect chemistry of oxide materials.
Professor Federico Rosei, University of Trieste, Italy
Federico Rosei received MSc and PhD degrees from the University of Rome “La Sapienza” in 1996 and 2001, respectively. He joined the University of Trieste (Italy) as a Professor of Industrial ¾ÅÖÝÓ°Ôº in March 2023.
Previously he was a Professor and Former Director of Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Énergie, Matériaux et Télécommunications, Varennes (QC) Canada.
He has held the Junior Canada Research Chair in Nanostructured Organic and Inorganic Materials (2003-2013) and the Senior Canada Research Chair in Nanostructured Materials (2016-2023). He also held the UNESCO Chair in Materials and Technologies for Energy Conversion, Saving and Storage (2013-2023).
Professor Subrata Kundu, CSIR-CECRI, India
Dr Subrata Kundu is a Principal Scientist at the Central Electrochemical Research Institute (CECRI) in Karaikudi, India. He has been recognized as being in the top 2% of scientists worldwide for consecutive years (2020-2022) and was also highlighted as being in the top 5% of highly cited authors in the ¾ÅÖÝÓ°Ôº’s journals in 2019. As well as this, Dr Kundu was also listed in the top 3% of highly cited ACS authors in 2019 by the American Chemical Society.
He has published more than 250 research publications in peer reviewed journals, including Journal of the American Chemical Society, Energy & Environmental Science, Chemical Science, Journal of Materials ¾ÅÖÝÓ°Ôº A, and Inorganic ¾ÅÖÝÓ°Ôº. He is also well-known for his research on the synthesis of metal and inorganic nanomaterials for a wide range of applications, which include electrocatalysis for OER and HER, dye-sensitized solar cells, supercapacitors, and thermoelectric materials. His research also covers analytical and environmental applications and SERS studies.
Professor Akhila Sahoo, University of Hyderabad, India
Akhila K. Sahoo 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 ¾ÅÖÝÓ°Ôº [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 ¾ÅÖÝÓ°Ôº and Member of the National Academy of Science, India.
Dr. Aparna Ganguly, ¾ÅÖÝÓ°Ôº, India
Dr Aparna Ganguly completed her graduation and post- graduation in ¾ÅÖÝÓ°Ôº from University of Delhi and subsequently obtained her PhD in Materials ¾ÅÖÝÓ°Ôº under the supervision of Professor A. K. Ganguli at IIT Delhi. After a short stint at teaching Physical ¾ÅÖÝÓ°Ôº at Central University of Rajasthan, she moved back to the Nanoscale Research Facility, IIT Delhi as a scientist where she worked extensively on porous materials and their applications. In 2014, she joined the ¾ÅÖÝÓ°Ôº where she is currently the Editorial Development Manager and manages the journal portfolio and their growth in India. As a part of her role, she works quite extensively with the scientific community, various Indian chemical societies, and researchers across various disciplines of Chemical Sciences and support the journal teams.
Professor Arun Chattopadhyay, IIT Guwahati, India
Dr. Arun Chattopadhyay is a Professor of the Department of ¾ÅÖÝÓ°Ôº at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. He has been the founder Head of the Centre for Nanotechnology (2004-2009) and Head of ¾ÅÖÝÓ°Ôº from 2009-2014. Prof. Chattopadhyay obtained his M. Sc. in ¾ÅÖÝÓ°Ôº from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (1988) and PhD in Chemical Physics from Columbia University (New York) in the year 1992. He then went on to pursue postdoctoral work at Stanford University (1992-1995).
Dr. Chattopadhyay is a fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences (Bangalore) and Indian National Science Academy (New Delhi). He is currently a J. C. Bose National Fellow of the Government of India. He is in the Editorial Advisory Boards of the Journal of Materials ¾ÅÖÝÓ°Ôº A and Materials Advances (¾ÅÖÝÓ°Ôº).
Dr. Chattopadhyay leads a group of research workers carrying out research in the frontier areas of nanoscale science and technology. Currently, the group is also working on the assembly of nanoclusters and molecules into two-dimensional crystalline materials especially moiré superlattices.