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PCCP Deputy Chair David Nesbitt has been elected as a 2013 member of theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences.

He joins some of the world’s most accomplished leaders from academia, business, public affairs, the humanities, and the arts, including JILA Fellows Carl Lineberger, Eric Cornell, Margaret Murnane, and Deborah Jin, Fellow emeritus Carl Wieman, and such luminaries as George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Daniel Webster, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Albert Einstein, and Winston Churchill.

David Nesbitt is know for his research in the areas of laser spectroscopy, dynamics and kinetics of fundamental molecular, bio-molecular, and nanoparticle systems.

Check out Prof. Nesbitt’s very recently published article in PCCP:

Multiphoton photoelectron emission microscopy of single Au nanorods: combined experimental and theoretical study of rod morphology and dielectric environment on localized surface plasmon resonances
Andrej Grubisic, Volker Schweikhard, Thomas A. Baker and David J. Nesbitt
DOI: 10.1039/C3CP44385J

We are delighted to welcome Professor David Rueda as a new Associate Editor for Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (PCCP). Professor Rueda is Chair of Molecular and Cellular Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, UK.

Research in the Rueda lab involves the development of quantitative single-molecule approaches to investigate the mechanism of complex biochemical systems, including RNA folding, RNA splicing, DNA replication and ssDNA scanning and deamination.

Professor Rueda was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan and then an associate professor at Wayne State University, where he was awarded the Outstanding Junior Faculty and the A. Paul Schaap Faculty Scholar awards, before taking up his current position at Imperial College London. He studied for his first degree at the Ecole polytechnique  fédérale de Lausanne.

Professor Rueda will begin handling papers soon and so we encourage you to submit to his editorial office.

Publishing work of the highest quality in the broad fields of physical chemistry, chemical physics and biophysical chemistry, PCCP is the ideal place to publish your research.

Check out our online collection of articles recently published in the fields of biophysics and biophysical chemistry in PCCP here…

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (PCCP) is delighted to announce that Professor Gabor A. Somorjai of the University of California, Berkeley has joined the Honorary Board of the journal. Professor Somorjai’s research interests are in the fields of surface science, solid state chemistry and catalysis. During his long career Prof. Somorjai has published >1000 scientific papers and received many awards and honours.

Read Professor Somorjai’s recent PCCP articles today:

Rh_1−xPd_x nanoparticle composition dependence in CO oxidation by oxygen: catalytic activity enhancement in bimetallic systems
James Russell Renzas, Wenyu Huang, Yawen Zhang, Michael E. Grass, Dat Tien Hoang, Selim Alayoglu, Derek R. Butcher, Franklin (Feng) Tao, Zhi Liu and Gabor A. Somorjai
DOI: 10.1039/C0CP01858A

The evolution of model catalytic systems; studies of structure, bonding and dynamics from single crystal metal surfaces to nanoparticles, and from low pressure (<10⁻³ Torr) to high pressure (>10⁻³ Torr) to liquid interfaces
Gabor A. Somorjai, Roger L. York, Derek Butcher and Jeong Y. Park
DOI: 10.1039/B618805B

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (PCCP) is pleased to announce that Professor Ove Christiansen of Aarhus University has joined our Advisory Board.

Ove received his PhD from Aarhus University in 1997 before moving to Mainz, Germany as an Alexander von Humboldt fellow. Between 1999 and 2002 he was Assistant Professor at the University of Lund, Sweden before returning to Denmark to take up his current position.

His research interests are in theoretical chemistry, including internal dynamics, vibrational spectroscopy, hybrid methods for molecules in solution and biomolecular systems, coupled-cluster theory and wave function calculations.

Read these recent papers from Prof. Christiansen in PCCP:

Scrutinizing the effects of polarization in QM/MM excited state calculations
Kristian Sneskov, Tobias Schwabe, Ove Christiansen and Jacob Kongsted
DOI: 10.1039/C1CP22067E

Unraveling the similarity of the photoabsorption of deprotonated p-coumaric acid in the gas phase and within the photoactive yellow protein
Tomás Rocha-Rinza, Kristian Sneskov, Ove Christiansen, Ulf Ryde and Jacob Kongsted
DOI: 10.1039/C0CP01075H

We are delighted to announce that Professor Benny Gerber has joined the Editorial Board of Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (PCCP).

Professor Gerber received his B.S. degree in 1965 from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and his D.Phil. in 1968 from the University of Oxford. He now splits his time between the Institute of Chemistry at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem and the University of California Irvine.

Within the broad fields of theoretical and computational chemistry his research covers the chemistry and chemical dynamics of noble gas atoms, vibrational spectroscopy of large molecules, mechanisms and dynamics of processes in atmospheric chemistry and dynamics of molecules processes at low temperatures.

Read a selection of Prof. Gerber’s recent PCCP papers today:

Stability of noble-gas hydrocarbons in an organic liquid-like environment: HXeCCH in acetylene
Ehud Tsivion and R. Benny Gerber
DOI: 10.1039/C1CP22607J

Raman spectra of long chain hydrocarbons: anharmonic calculations, experiment and implications for imaging of biomembranes
Jiří Šebek, Liat Pele, Eric O. Potma and R. Benny Gerber
DOI: 10.1039/C1CP20618D

Conformational transitions of glycine induced by vibrational excitation of the O–H stretch
Michaela Shmilovits-Ofir, Yifat Miller and R. Benny Gerber
DOI: 10.1039/C0CP01385D

Predicted compounds of radon with acetylene and water
Ehud Tsivion and R. Benny Gerber
DOI: 10.1039/C0CP00875C