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Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (PCCP) is delighted to announce that Professor Frank Neese has joined the Editorial Board as an Associate Editor.

Frank is Director of the Department of Molecular Theory and Spectroscopy at the Max Planck Institute for Bioinorganic Chemistry. His research interests focus on the fundamental science related to activation of small molecules by transition metals, with the aim of unravelling reaction mechanisms of complex, transition metal catalyzed reactions at the electronic structure level. The work involves the development of new quantum chemical methods, computational chemistry and molecular spectroscopy.

Read Franks recent PCCP paper today:

Revisiting the nitrosyl complex of myoglobin by high-field pulse EPR spectroscopy and quantum mechanical calculations
Marina Radoul, Mahesh Sundararajan, Alexey Potapov, Christoph Riplinger, Frank Neese and Daniella Goldfarb
DOI: 10.1039/C000652A

Frank also took part in Faraday Discussion 148 on Spectroscopy, Theory and Mechanism in Bioinorganic Chemistry. Read his Faraday Discussions paper:

What is not required to make a single molecule magnet
Frank Neese and Dimitrios A. Pantazis
DOI: 10.1039/C005256F

We are pleased to welcome Professor Ron Naaman as a member of the Advisory Board of Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (PCCP).

Professor Naaman completed his graduate studies at the Ben Gurion University at Beer-Sheva, Israel, and at the Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel from 1973-1977, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University between 1977 and 1979 and a  lectureship in the Department of Chemistry at Harvard University in 1979. Since 1992 Prof. Naaman has been based at the Department of Chemical Physics in The Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel.

Professor Namaan’s current research interests cover a broad range of topics including molecular electronics, electron transfer in monolayers, photoelectron spectroscopy and the magnetic properties of monolayers. His group applies their findings to the production of hybrid devices and sensors.

Read Professor Namaan’s excellent PCCP Perspective article on nano-devices today:

Molecular controlled nano-devices
Ron Naaman
DOI: 10.1039/C1CP21106D

We are delighted to announce that Professor Charusita Chakravarty has joined the Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (PCCP) Advisory Board.

Professor Chakravarty completed her Ph.D. under the supervision of Professor D. C. Clary at the University of Cambridge followed by postdoctoral studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara and the University of Cambridge.
Prof. Chakravarty joined the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi in 1994.

Her research covers the development and application of both quantum and classical computational methods towards understanding the properties of liquids. Recently her work has focused on the study of the anomalous properties of water since hydration is a fundamental process in many chemical and biological systems.

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (PCCP) is delighted to welcome Professor Marco Garavelli to our Advisory Board.

Marco received his Laurea in Chemistry (Magna Cum Laude) in 1994 from the University of Bologna, where he subsequently also studied for his PhD. Between 1998-1999 he worked as a Research Associate at King’s College London and in 1999 he joined the University of Bologna as a lecturer.

His research interests are in theoretical and computational chemistry, with particular focus on the simulation of the (chemical and photochemical) reactivity of large molecules and the interactions between complex molecular systems and external stimuli (e.g. photons).

Read Marco’s recent PCCP articles by following the links below:

Product formation in rhodopsin by fast hydrogen motions
Oliver Weingart, Piero Altoè, Marco Stenta, Andrea Bottoni, Giorgio Orlandi and Marco Garavelli
DOI: 10.1039/C0CP02496A

Adenine deactivation in DNA resolved at the CASPT2//CASSCF/AMBER level
Irene Conti, Piero Altoè, Marco Stenta, Marco Garavelli and Giorgio Orlandi
DOI: 10.1039/B926608A

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (PCCP) is delighted to announce that Professor Mattanjah de Vries, of the University of California Santa Barbara, has joined the Advisory Board of the journal.

Professor de Vries received his BSc in Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy from the University of Amsterdam in 1971 and his Masters in Nuclear Physics from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem in 1975. He returned to the University of Amsterdam to study for his PhD in Chemical Physics, graduating in 1980.

His current research covers the use of gas phase techniques to study isolated molecules and the study of fragile organic molecules using laser mass spectrometry.

Professor de Vries latest PCCP article appeared in the themed issue on the Molecular mechanisms of the photostability of life.

Read his exciting research article today:

The effect of C5 substitution on the photochemistry of uracil
Dana Nachtigallová, Hans Lischka, Jaroslaw J. Szymczak, Mario Barbatti, Pavel Hobza, Zsolt Gengeliczki, Gustavo Pino, Michael P. Callahan and Mattanjah S. de Vries
DOI: 10.1039/B925803P