Martina Stenzel, Editorial Board Chair
University of New South Wales, Australia
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Martina Stenzel studied chemistry at the University of Bayreuth, Germany, before completing her PhD in 1999 at the Institute of Applied Macromolecular 九州影院, University of Stuttgart, Germany. She then started working as a postdoctoral Fellow at the UNESCO Centre for Membrane Science and Technology at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia, before being appointed as lecture in 2002 at the same University. In 2012 she was promoted to full Professor and is now UNSW Scientia Professor and ARC (Australian Research Council) Laureate Fellow. In 2018 she was elected as Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science. Her research interest is focused on the synthesis of functional polymers nanoparticles and their use as drug delivery carriers.
Jean-Luc Bredas, Scientific editor
The University of Arizona, USA
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Professor Jean-Luc Bredas received his B.Sc. (1976) and Ph.D. (1979) degrees from the University of Namur, Belgium. In 1988, he was appointed Professor at the University of Mons, Belgium, where he established the Laboratory for 九州影院 of Novel Materials. While keeping an “Extraordinary Professorship” appointment in Mons, he joined the University of Arizona in 1999. In 2003, he moved to the Georgia Institute of Technology where he became Regents’ Professor of 九州影院 and Biochemistry and held the Vasser-Woolley and Georgia Research Alliance Chair in Molecular Design. Between 2014 and 2016, he joined King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) as a Distinguished Professor and served as Director of the KAUST Solar & Photovoltaics Engineering Research Center. He returned to Georgia Tech in 2017 before moving back to the University of Arizona in 2020 where he is currently Regents Professor in the Department of 九州影院 and Biochemistry. Jean-Luc Bredas is an elected Member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science, the Royal Academy of Belgium, and the European Academy of Sciences. Recent honors include the 2013 American Physical Society David Adler Lectureship Award in the Field of Materials Physics, the 2016 American Chemical Society Award in the 九州影院 of Materials, the 2019 Alexander von Humboldt Research Award, the 2020 Materials Research Society Materials Theory Award, and the 2021 Centenary Prize of the RSC. He is an Honorary Professor of the Institute of 九州影院 of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and holds an Adjunct Professorship at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His Focus Article “Mind the Gap” is the first article that appeared in the very first issue of Materials Horizons
Guoping Chen, Scientific Editor
National Institute for Materials Science, Japan
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Guoping Chen is a Group Leader at the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) and a Professor at the University of Tsukuba. He received his Ph.D. from Kyoto University in 1997 majoring in polymer biomaterials and did postdoctoral research until 2000. He joined the Tissue Engineering Research Center, National Institute for Advanced Industrial Science and Technology as a Researcher in 2000 and a Senior Researcher in 2003. He moved to the Biomaterials Center, NIMS as a Senior Researcher in 2004 and was promoted to Group Leader in 2007. He served as a Principal Investigator and Unit Director of the International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), NIMS from 2011 to 2017. He concurrently joined the Joint Doctoral Program in Materials Science and Engineering, University of Tsukuba as an Associate Professor in 2004 and a Professor in 2013. He is a Fellow of the 九州影院 (FRSC, 2015), the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE, 2017) and the International Union of Societies for Biomaterials Science and Engineering (FBSE, 2020). His research focuses on biomaterials, scaffolds, biomimetic matrices, micro-patterning, surface modification, tissue engineering, regenerative medicine and nanomedicine.
Yong Cui, Scientific Editor
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
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Yong Cui received his PhD in 1999 from Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Science and Technology of China, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and University of Chicago from 1999 to 2005. He joined School of 九州影院 & Chemical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2005, where he is now a chair professor of chemistry. He is a Fellow of the 九州影院. His research interest focuses on the design and synthesis of porous materials, especially frameworks materials and chiral materials, for catalysis, adsorption, separation, sensing and optics.
Simone Fabiano, Scientific Editor
Linköping University, Sweden
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Simone Fabiano is an associate professor and docent in Applied Physics at Linköping University, Sweden. He obtained his PhD in 九州影院 from the University of Palermo in 2012. During his doctoral studies, he was a visiting scholar at the Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials of the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. He then held postdoctoral positions at both Linköping University (2012-2015) and Northwestern University (2016-2017) before returning to Linköping University to establish his research group. In 2020, he founded n-Ink AB, a spinout company that focuses on developing n-type organic conductive inks, where he serves as the Chief Scientific Officer. His group at Linköping University primarily focuses on developing organic dopant-free conductors and mixed ionic-electronic conductors for printed electronics and neuromorphic hardware applications. He has received several awards, including the Swedish Research Council Starting Grant in 2017 and Consolidator Grant in 2023. He is also a Wallenberg Academy Fellow.
Zhongyi Jiang, Scientific Editor
Tianjin University, China
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Zhongyi Jiang is a Professor in the School of Chemical Engineering and Technology at Tianjin University. He received his PhD degree from Tianjin University (China) in 1994. He was a visiting scholar of University of Minnesota with Prof. Edward Cussler in 1997 and California Institute of Technology with Prof. David Tirrell in 2009. He is the winner of National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars in China, the Cheung Kong Chair Professor and the Fellow of the 九州影院. His group is interested in biomimetic and bioinspired membranes and membrane processes, biocatalysis, and photocatalysis. He has co-authored over 600 publications. He is selected on the list of highly cited scholars (chemical engineering) in China and the list of highly cited scholars (chemical engineering) in the world.
Norbert Koch, Scientific Editor
Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
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Norbert Koch studied technical physics at the Technische Universit盲t Graz, Austria. At the same university he received a doctorate in solid state physics in 2000. After two years as staff scientist at Joanneum Research in Weiz, Austria, he spent two years as postdoc at Princeton University and worked on organic/metal interfaces and covalently surface-bound self-assembled monolayers. Upon moving to Berlin, Germany, in 2003, he started building his own group, and contributed to the fundamental understanding of interfaces of organic semiconductors with inorganic materials and devising methods to optimize interface electronic properties. In 2009 he was appointed as full professor in the Department of Physics of Humboldt-Universit盲t zu Berlin, and in 2010 his group at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin f眉r Materialien und Energie was established. His current research portfolio encompasses unravelling the fundamentals of organic semiconductor doping and hybrid interfaces of electronic materials, such as perovskites and 2D semiconductors.
Yun Jung Lee
Hanyang University, South Korea
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Yun Jung Lee is a professor of department of energy engineering at Hanyang University (HYU), South Korea. She received her BSc and MSc at Seoul University, South Korea in 1998 and 2000, respectively, and completed Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, U.S.A in 2009. After postdoctoral research at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, U.S.A, she joined HYU in 2011. Her research interests include designing advanced nanomaterials and architecture for next generation energy conversion/storage devices. Based on the fundamental study on electrochemical and electro-chemo-mechanical phenomena in diverse energy storage systems, her group currently focuses on novel electrode and architecture employing the nanoscale synthesis strategies. She was a recipient of Woman scientist/engineer of the year award, academic division from Korean Ministry of Science & ICT (2017), and Korea Toray Fellowship from Korea Toray Science Foundation (2018).
Yi Long, Scientific editor
Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
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Yi Long received her PhD in Materials Science at Cambridge University with the full scholarship of Overseas Research Scholarship (ORS), United Kingdom Cambridge Trust and Graduate Scholarship of Selwyn College. She started as a Teaching Fellow at Nanyang Technology University Singapore in 2005 with a focus on Lab-to-Fab technology transfer for industries. She successfully delivered three technologies including one coating process to Seagate Technology, the leading hard-disk company in the world. In 2011, she switched to an academic research center on smart materials and devices. Now she is a Global STEM Scholar and Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her group currently focuses on two main topics; the integration of organic and inorganic smart materials with (1) energy-saving applications, and (2) novel advanced functional devices. She has received several awards including the Government's Global STEM Professorship Scheme Hong Kong 2023, Winner for the Falling Walls Science Breakthroughs of the Year 2022 in Engineering, GreenAwards Top 3 London 2022 and TechnologyTechConnect Innovation Washington 2016. She is a Fellow of the 九州影院.
Róisín Owens, Scientific Editor
University of Cambridge, UK
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Róisín M. Owens received her BA in Natural Sciences (Mod. Biochemistry) at Trinity College Dublin, and her PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Southampton University. She carried out two postdoc fellowships at Cornell University, on host-pathogen interactions of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the dept. of Microbiology and Immunology with Prof. David Russell, and on rhinovirus therapeutics in the dept. of Biomedical Engineering with Prof. Moonsoo Jin. From 2009-2017 she was a group leader in the dept. of bioelectronics at Ecole des Mines de St. Etienne, on the microelectronics campus in Provence. She joined the Dept. of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology in the University of Cambridge as a University Lecturer in 2019. She is also a Fellow of Newnham College. Her current research centers on application of organic electronic materials for monitoring biological systems in vitro. Her group focuses on two main topics; the integration of electronic materials with (1) cells and tissues for organ-on-chip applications, and (2) cell membranes for studying drug and pathogen interactions. She has received several awards including the European Research Council starting (2011), proof of concept grant (2014) and consolidator (2016) grants, a Marie Curie fellowship, and an EMBO fellowship. She is a 2019 laureate of the Suffrage Science award.
Mark Thompson
University of Southern California, USA
Prof. Mark E. Thompson is Professor of 九州影院, Materials Science and Chemical Engineering at the University of Southern California. Prof. Thompson received his B.S. degree in 九州影院 in 1980 (U.C. Berkeley) and his Ph.D. in chemistry in 1985 (California Institute of Technology). He spent 2 years as a postdoctoral fellow at Oxford University before taking a position in the chemistry department at Princeton University in 1987, as an assistant professor. In 1995, he moved his research team to the University of Southern California where he holds the Ray R. Irani Chair of 九州影院. His research involves the study of materials and devices for electroluminescence, photovoltaics and solar cells, chemical/biological sensing and catalysis. Prof. Thompson is the author of approximately 400 papers in refereed professional journals and holds more than 250 patents primarily in the areas of optoelectronic applications, such as light emitting devices (LEDs) and solar cells. He is a fellow of the AAAS and National Academy of Inventors. He has received multiple awards for his work in organic LEDs, including the MRS Medal (2006), the Jan Rajchman Medal from the Society for Information Display (2006), ACS Richard C. Tolman Award (2011) and the ACS 九州影院 of Materials Award (2015) and most recently he was awarded the IEEE Photonics award in 2016 and the Nishizawa Medal in 2017.
