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Announcing Keary Engle and Garret Miyake as the joint winners of the 2025 ChemSocRev Pioneering Investigator Lectureship

26 Feb 2026

On behalf of the ChemSocRev Editorial Board, we are delighted to announce the joint winners of the 2025 ChemSocRev Pioneering Investigator Lectureship – Keary Engle (The Scripps Research Institute) and Garret Miyake (Colorado State University).

Keary and Garret join our recent past winners Radha Boya (2024), Timothy Noël and Ryan Shenvi (2022/23), and Daniele Leonori and Connie Lu (joint 2021 winners).

Get to know more about Keary and Garret below:

Keary Engle is the John and Susan Diekman Dean of Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies at The Scripps Research Institute and a professor in the Department of Chemistry. His research focuses on accelerating the synthesis of organic molecules that are used in medicines, biological probes, agrochemicals, and materials building blocks. Many of these molecules are difficult to prepare, requiring several steps to create, costing a substantial amount of time and effort, and generating large quantities of waste. His group develop catalysts that enable efficient, effective and sustainable methods of chemical synthesis to better produce small molecules. Catalysts developed in the Engle lab have been rapidly adopted in academic and industrial labs around the world.

Prior to joining Scripps Research as an assistant professor in 2015, Engle was an NIH Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the California Institute of Technology. He is also a recipient of the 2021 NSF CAREER Award, 2021 Amgen Young Investigator Award, 2020 Eli Lilly Organic Chemistry Award, and 2018 Bristol Myers Squibb Unrestricted Grant, among many other honors. Since joining Scripps Research, he has served on more than 90 graduate student advisory committees.

He earned a PhD in Chemistry and a DPhil in Biochemistry after completing his graduate studies jointly at The Scripps Research Institute with Prof. Jin-Quan Yu, and the University of Oxford with Profs. Véronique Gouverneur and John M. Brown.

Garret Miyake is the Dr. Robert Williams Professor of Organic Chemistry at Colorado State University, the Director of the NSF CCI Center for Sustainable Photoredox Catalysis (SuPRCat), and an Associate Editor for Macromolecules. He earned his B.S. in Chemistry from Pacific University. He completed his Ph.D. studies with Eugene Chen at Colorado State University before conducting postdoctoral research with Robert Grubbs at Caltech.

The Miyake group has research interests focusing on photoredox catalysis and sustainable polymers.

Highly-commended nominees

Each year, a large number of excellent researchers gets nominated for the ChemSocRev Pioneering Investigator Lectureship award. Due to the exceptionally high standard of nominations this year, we have again decided to select a number of Highly Commended candidates, whose diverse contributions to both science and the scientific community are appreciated by our Editorial Board.

	Serena Arnaboldi is an Associate Professor of Analytical Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry, University of Milan (UniMi), Italy. Her research is at the cutting edge of chiral electrochemistry, focusing on the development of “inherently chiral” materials and their applications in sensing, motion, and sustainable technologies. She is the Principal Investigator of the PAC-MAN project, an initiative supported by the Seed4Innovation (S4I) program and awarded the Seal of Excellence PoC (ERC Proof of Concept). This project focuses on the development of innovative, wireless, and miniaturized systems for the detection and separation of chiral molecules, bridging the gap between fundamental electrochemical research and industrial application. In recognition of her scientific contributions and commitment to innovation, Dr. Arnaboldi was awarded the “Gian Giacomo Drago e Fausta Rivera Drago 2025” Prize by the Istituto Lombardo Accademia di Scienze e Lettere. Her research, which is also supported by a prestigious ERC Starting Grant (CHEIR), stands out for the use of sustainable media, such as ionic liquids, to create high-performance electrochemical interfaces with reduced environmental impact.
	Federico Bella is Full Professor of Chemistry at Politecnico di Torino (Italy). His main scientific activity covers post-lithium batteries and electrochemical ammonia production, through sustainable chemistry-oriented and multivariate approaches. He has published more than 130 papers and counts a h-index of 80. He has received awards from the most important worldwide scientific associations, such as the International Society of Electrochemistry (2023 Tajima Prize), the Royal Society of Chemistry (2021 Horizon Prize), the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (2019 Piontelli International Award), etc. He is coordinating an ERC Starting Grant project (SuN₂rise), with an overall fund of 1.5 million Euros, and has recently launched the first Italian research laboratory on potassium-based batteries.
	Anna K. H. Hirsch is W3 (full) professor for Pharmaceutical Chemistry at Saarland University and head of the department for drug design and optimization at the Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS). Her work focuses on anti-infective drug design by adopting rational approaches such as structure- and fragment-based drug design in combination with the protein-templated strategies dynamic combinatorial chemistry and kinetic target-guided synthesis. She received her Ph.D. from the ETH Zurich in 2008 in the group of Prof. François Diederich. Subsequently, she joined the group of Prof. Jean-Marie Lehn at the Institut de Science et d’Ingénierie Supramoléculaires (ISIS) in Strasbourg as an HFSP postdoctoral fellow, before taking up a position as assistant professor at the Stratingh Institute for Chemistry at the University of Groningen in 2010 where she was promoted to associate professor in 2015. Anna has authored more than 200 peer-reviewed papers and has received numerous awards such as the Gratama Science Prize in 2014, the SCT-Servier Prize for Medicinal Chemistry in 2015, the Innovation Prize for Medicinal Chemistry of the GdCh/DPhG in 2017, in 2019, the EFMC Young Medicinal Chemist in Academia runner-up Prize, in 2024, the RSC Capps Green Zomaya Award and the Grand Prix en Sciences Chimiques de l’Institut Grand Ducal and in 2025 and the SCT Award for Drug Discovery Chemistry.
	Xu Hou is the Nanqiang Distinguished Professor at Xiamen University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and currently serves as Deputy Director of the State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces. Professor Hou obtained his B.Sc. from Sichuan University and pursued his graduate studies at the National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, where he received the Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He then conducted postdoctoral research at Harvard University starting in 2012. In 2014, he was selected as one of the American Chemical Society CAS Future Leaders. He subsequently received a lectureship appointment from the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology before returning to China and joining Xiamen University in 2016. His research focuses on bioinspired materials and interfacial chemistry. As a pioneering scientist in the field, he originally proposed the groundbreaking concepts of liquid gating technology (LGT) and bioinspired nanofluidic iontronics (BNI), which represent a paradigm shift in modern chemical science. Both innovations have gained global recognition from IUPAC, the world’s leading authority in chemistry: LGT was selected as one of the IUPAC Top Ten Emerging Technologies in Chemistry in 2020, and BNI received the same distinction in 2024.
	Guiliang Xu is a chemist in the Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division at Argonne National Laboratory and a CASE scientist at the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago. He received his Bachelor’s degree in 2009 and Ph.D. in 2014 from Xiamen University. Dr. Xu has over 15 years of research experience in the design, synthesis and processing of multifunctional materials for advanced energy storage systems, including lithium-ion, sodium-ion, lithium–sulfur, and solid-state batteries. His research utilizes cutting-edge characterization techniques to elucidate the fundamental relationships between material structure and electrochemical performance, enabling the development of safer, higher-energy-density battery materials. He is currently leading multiple DOE-funded programs and has published >140 publications in high-impact journals including Science and Nature with a total citations of > 15,000. He is recipient of several awards including 2025 Advanced Light Source Early Career Award, 2025 Argonne Board of Governors Distinguished Performance Award, MIT Technology Review 35 under 35 Innovators.

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2024 ChemSocRev Pioneering Investigator Lectureship Winner – Radha Boya

24 Jul 2024

By Jon Ferrier, Deputy Editor.

On behalf of the Chemical Society Reviews Editorial Board, we are delighted to announce that the winner of the 2024 ChemSocRev Pioneering Investigator Lectureship is Professor Radha Boya (University of Manchester).

Radha joins our recent past winners Timothy Noël and Ryan Shenvi (joint 2022/23 winners), Daniele Leonori and Connie Lu (joint 2021 winners).

Get to know more about Radha below:

Prof. Radha Boya, FRSC is a professor, Royal Society University Research fellow in the department of Physics & Astronomy, and National Graphene Institute at the University of Manchester. Radha’s research team investigates properties of gas, liquids and ions confined in molecular scale with Angstrom (Å) -scale capillaries constructed out of one atom thin 2D-materials such as graphene.

Radha completing her PhD (2012) in Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research India, and her post-doctoral research at Northwestern University (2012-13) in the United States, and University of Manchester (2014-16) in UK. In Manchester, together with Prof Andre Geim, she devised nanofabrication methods to make ultimately narrow fluidic channels with angstrom-scale dimensions, by effectively removing a single atomic plane from a bulk layered crystal. Radha secured a series of international research fellowships that enabled her to rapidly build an independent career in the UK. She became a full professor in 2020 at the University of Manchester, where she is now a chair in nanoscience. Her research involves developing Å-capillaries as a platform to experimentally probe intriguing molecular-scale phenomena in confinement.

Find out more about Radha’s pioneering research at her group website and personal homepage.

As part of the Lectureship award, Radha will be presenting lectures over the coming 12 months. Details of the lectures will be announced in due course but keep an eye on our Twitter @ChemSocRev for details!

Highly Commended Nominations

Each year, many excellent researchers get nominated for the ChemSocRev Pioneering Investigator Lectureship award. Due to the repeatedly very high standard of nominations this year, we have again decided to select several Highly Commended candidates, whose exceptional science and community contributions are appreciated by our Editorial Board.

Jennifer Hiscock is currently Professor of Supramolecular Chemistry at the University of Kent. She obtained her PhD from the University of Southampton (UK) under the supervision of Prof. Philip A. Gale in 2010, studying supramolecular host–guest chemistry. She continued her post-doctoral research between this group and Dstl (Porton Down – UK) until 2015 when she moved to the University of Kent (UK) as the Caldin research fellow. In 2016 she was awarded a permanent lectureship position at this same institution, which was followed by her promotion to Reader in Supramolecular Chemistry and Director of Innovation and Enterprise for the School of Physical Sciences in 2019. In 2020 she was awarded a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship, developing novel cell surface active therapeutics and drug adjuvants. In 2022 she was promoted to full Professor and was the recipient of the University of Kent inspirational leader of the year award, and Royal Society of Chemistry Bob Hay Award. Her research currently focuses on an interdisciplinary approach to applying supramolecular chemistry to solve real-world problems through the development and application of her patented Supramolecular Self-associating Amphiphile (SSA) and jointly invented Talin Shock Absorbing Material (TSAM) technology. In addition, she is the founding member of the international Women in Supramolecular Chemistry (WISC) network, currently supporting >1900 individuals internationally, an organisation that she chaired from 2019-2023, and has now moved to Chair of the WISC advisory board (2023-onwards). Jen is also the Chair of the Royal Society of Chemistry’s (RSC’s) Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry (MASC) group and also sits on the international board for Supramolecular Chemistry (ISMSC).

Find out more about Jennifer’s research at her homepage.

Jian-Feng Li (李剑锋) is a full Professor of Chemistry at Xiamen University. He received his BSc degree in Chemistry from Zhejiang University in 2003, and his PhD degree in Chemistry from Xiamen University in 2010. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bern and ETH Zurich in Switzerland during 2011–2014.

Professor Li’s research interests include core-shell nanomaterials, surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy, in-situ characterization, electrochemistry, and rapid detection using portable Raman instrumentation. He has published more than 250 peer-reviewed papers including Nature, Nature Nanotechnol., Nature Mater., Nature Energy, Nature Catal., Nature Protoc., Nature Commun., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., with over 20000 total citations. Professor Li serves as a Senior Editor of J. Phys. Chem. and the International Steering Committee (ISC) of the International Conference on Raman Spectroscopy (ICORS).

Find out more about Jian-Feng’s research at his group’s homepage.

Charles W. Machan is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at the University of Virginia, USA. He completed his B.A. in 2008 with Majors in Chemistry and German at Washington University in St. Louis and his Ph.D. in Chemistry in 2012 under the supervision of Prof. Chad A. Mirkin at Northwestern University. Charles was a postdoctoral research associate in the laboratory of Prof. Clifford P. Kubiak from 2013–2016 at UC San Diego, before beginning his independent career at the University of Virginia in 2016. His research interests are in bioinspired and biomimetic small-molecule activation, electrochemistry, and catalysis.

Find out more about Charles’ research at his group’s homepage.

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Ryan Shenvi and Timothy Noël: Winners of the 2022/23 Chem Soc Rev Pioneering Investigator Lectureship!

15 Jun 2023

By Ershad Abubacker, Development Editor.

We are delighted to announce that the 2022/23 ChemSocRev Pioneering Instigator Award has been jointly awarded to Dr Timothy Noël and Dr Ryan Shenvi ! The winners were selected by Editorial Board members due to their outstanding and innovative contributions to chemistry research.

Timothy Noël is a researcher in the field of synthetic organic chemistry and technology, with a particular interest in the delicate synergy between the two fields. In 2004, Tim earned his PhD in the field of synthetic organic chemistry from Ghent University in 2009. Following his PhD, followed by a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship with Professor Stephen L. Buchwald at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Upon returning to Europe, he joined Eindhoven University of Technology in 2012, and later became an Associate Professor in 2017. In 2020, Tim was promoted to Full Professor at the University of Amsterdam, where he is now the Chair of Flow Chemistry.
Follow Professor Noël on Twitter @NoelGroupUvA

Ryan Shenvi is a Full Professor at Scripps Research in La Jolla, CA. Ryan earned his Ph.D. in 2008 from The Scripps Research Institute as an NDSEG Fellow under the supervision of Phil S. Baran, and undertook postdoctoral studies as a Ruth L. Kirschstein NIH Postdoctoral Fellow with E. J. Corey at Harvard University. His laboratory works at the interface of catalysis, complex molecule synthesis and structural biology. He serves as Advisory Editor on the Angewandte Chemie Scientific Advisory Committee, Executive Editor at the Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis and as a member of the Editorial Advisory Board for Tetrahedron Chem, ACS Central Science and Accounts of Chemical Research.

Follow Professor Shenvi on Twitter @Shenvi_Lab

The Chem Soc Rev Pioneering Investigator Lectureship recognizes mid-career scientists who have firmly established themselves in their independent careers, continuously published innovative work, and have pioneered several research areas. As part of the Lectureship award, Ryan and Tim will each be presenting lectures over the coming 12 months.

Details of the lectures will be announced in due course but keep an eye on Twitter @ChemSocRev for details!

Highly Commended Nominations

Each year, a large number of excellent researchers gets nominated for the ChemSocRev Pioneering Investigator Lectureship Awards. Due to the extremely high standard of nominations this year, we have decided to select a number of Highly Commended candidates, who the Editorial Board highlighted as performing exceptional science and deserving of recognition in the community.

Kanishka Biswas obtained his MS and Ph.D. (Int. Ph.D) (2009) degree (Advisor- C.N.R Rao) from the Solid State & Structural Chemistry Unit, Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and did postdoctoral research (Advisor- Mercouri G. Kanatzidis) (2009–2012) in Northwestern University, USA. He is a full Professor in the JNCASR, Bangalore. He is pursuing research in solid state & inorganic chemistry, thermoelectric energy conversion, 2D materials, topological quantum materials and perovskite halides. He is recipient of numerous awards including the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in Chemistry in 2021 which is the most coveted science & technology prize in India. He is an elected Fellow of Indian Academy Sciences (FASc), Bangalore. He is an invited Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), London, UK. He is an Executive Editor of ACS Applied Energy Materials, ACS and serves as advisory board member of various international journals including Inorganic Chemistry, Journal of Solid State Chemistry, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, iScience, Materials Horizon and JACS Au.

Follow Professor Biswas on Twitter @kanishkabiswas

Prof. Radha Boya FRSC is a professor, Royal Society University Research fellow and Kathleen Ollerenshaw fellow in the department of Physics & Astronomy, and National Graphene Institute at the University of Manchester. Radha’s research team investigates properties of gas, liquids and ions confined in molecular scale with Angstrom (Å) -size capillaries constructed out of 2D-materials. Her research team works on developing Å-capillaries as a platform to experimentally probe intriguing molecular-scale phenomena under confinement.

After completing her PhD (2012) in Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research India with Prof G U Kulkarni, she did her post-doctoral research with Prof Chad Mirkin at Northwestern University in the United States. In 2014, she moved to the University of Manchester in UK working with Prof Andre Geim, where she devised nanofabrication methods to make ultimately narrow fluidic channels with angstrom-scale dimensions, by effectively removing a single atomic plane from a bulk layered crystal. Following this, Radha secured a series of international research fellowships that have enabled her to rapidly build her research profile and an independent career in the UK. She became a full professor in 2020.

Follow Professor Boya on Twitter @radhaboya

Prof. Dr. Rui Cao received his BS (2003) in chemistry from Peking University in China and his PhD (2008) from Emory University in USA with Professor Craig L. Hill. He worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow (2008-2009) at Emory University and was the Dreyfus Postdoctoral Fellow (2009-2011) at MIT with Professor Stephen J. Lippard. In 2011, he became a professor at Renmin University of China, and transferred to Shaanxi Normal University in 2014. His research interests lie in bioinorganic chemistry and catalysis for energy-related small molecule activation reactions. By developing metal porphyrins and metal corroles as model catalysts, he paid particular emphasis on illustrating the reaction mechanisms of H-H and O-O bond formation/lysis. He is the recipient of the SPP/JPP Young Investigator Award in 2020. He is the Editorial Board Chair of ChemSusChem and is the Editorial Board member of several journals, including Chemical Society Reviews, ChemPhysChem, Chinese Journal of Catalysis, Chinese Chemical Letters, and Journal of Electrochemistry.

For the 2022/23 Lectureship, eligible nominees completed their PhD typically between the last 10-15 years. Appropriate consideration was given to those who had taken a career break or followed a different study path. Eligible nominees were shortlisted and then further assessed by members of the Chem Soc Rev Editorial Board, and the winners were determined by independent vote by Editorial Board members.

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Connie Lu and Daniele Leonori: Winners of the Chem Soc Rev Pioneering Investigator Lectureship!

20 Apr 2022

By Richard Kelly.

We are very pleased to announce that Connie Lu and Daniele Leonori are the winners of the 2021 Chem Soc Rev Pioneering Investigator Lectureship! Connie and Daniele were selected by Editorial Board members due to their outstanding and innovative contributions to chemistry research.

Daniele Leonori

Daniele obtained his PhD at the University of Sheffield under the supervision of Professor Iain Coldham (2010). After postdoctoral studies with Professors Magnus Rueping (RWTH Aachen University) and Peter H. Seeberger (Max Planck Institute) he joined the group of Professor Varinder K. Aggarwal FRS as Research Officer (University of Bristol). In 2014 he commenced his independent career as Lecturer in Organic Chemistry at the University of Manchester and was promoted to Reader in 2018 and Professor in 2020. In 2022 Daniele moved to RWTH Aachen University where he is W3 Professor of Organic Chemistry.

Connie’s research interests span inorganic and organometallic chemistry, especially topics in chemical bonding, electronic structure, reactivity and catalysis. Her research group designs and develops bimetallic active sites, primarily in molecular complexes but also in metal-organic frameworks, to harness metal-metal interactions for small-molecule activation and catalysis.

Connie was born in Taipei, Taiwan and grew up in Miami, Florida, USA. She earned a BS degree from MIT and a PhD degree from Caltech with Jonas Peters. She was an Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck for Bioinorganic Chemistry with Karl Wieghardt. Connie started her independent career at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities in 2009, received tenure in 2015, and became full professor in 2020.

Connie Lu

The Chem Soc Rev Pioneering Investigator Lectureship recognises mid-career scientists who have firmly established themselves in their independent careers, continuously published innovative work, and have pioneered several research areas.

For the 2021 Lectureship, eligible nominees completed their PhD between January 2005 and December 2012. Appropriate consideration was given to those who had taken a career break or followed a different study path. Eligible nominees were shortlisted and then further assessed by members of the Chem Soc Rev Editorial Board, and the winners were determined by independent vote by Editorial Board members.

As part of the Lectureship award, Daniele and Connie will each be presenting lectures over the coming 12 months. Details of the lectures will be announced in due course but keep an eye on Twitter @ChemSocRev for details!

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Celebrating 100 years of chemistry at Xiamen University

29 Mar 2021

By Richard Kelly.

The College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering (CCCE) at Xiamen University (XMU) is celebrating the 100^th anniversary of the establishment of its chemistry discipline! We’re delighted to publish this collection of articles to celebrate this important milestone.

Established in 1921, Chemistry at XMU has been a national leader in education and research in chemistry. The CCCE houses 6 major national research platforms, including the world-renowned State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces (PCOSS).

On this special occasion, we are pleased to present this virtual collection of CCCE’s recent publications in Chem. Soc. Rev., Chem. Sci. and Chem. Comm. to showcase its cutting-edge research in a broad range of frontiers in chemistry.

Selected by XMU Professors Bin Ren and Jun Cheng, these contributions clearly demonstrate the CCCE’s emphasis on developing rigorous scientific methodologies for achieving fundamental understanding of complex chemistries, as well as its dedication to pushing the limit of synthetic chemistry for making new molecules and materials with novel functions. Combining these strengths, CCCE researchers are developing promising technologies for applications in energy and biological systems and more.

We hope you enjoy reading this collection.

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ChemSocRev Pioneering Investigator Lectureship 2021 – nominate now!

16 Nov 2020

By Harriet Kent, Editorial Assistant.

We are pleased to welcome nominations for the 2021 Pioneering Investigator Lectureship for Chem Soc Rev.

All nominations must be received by 1st February 2021.

Chem Soc Rev Pioneering Investigator Lectureship

Recognises mid-career scientists who have firmly established themselves in their independent careers, continuously publish innovative work, and have pioneered several research areas.
Eligible nominees should have completed their PhD between January 2005 and December 2012. Appropriate consideration will be given to those who have taken a career break or followed a different study path.

Early career researchers may be nominated for the ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureship.

Lectureship details

The winner will be invited to present a lecture on their work, as well as receive £1500 and a certificate of recognition.
The recipient will also be asked to contribute a review article for the journal.

How to nominate

Self-nomination is not permitted. Nominators must send the following to the editorial team via chemsocrev-rsc@rsc.org by 1st February 2021.

Recommendation letter, including the name, contact details and website URL of the nominee.
A one-page CV for the nominee, including a summary of their education, dates of key career achievements, a list of up to five of their top independent publications, total numbers of publications and patents, and other indicators of esteem, together with evidence of career independence.
A copy of the candidate’s best publication to date (as judged by the nominator).
Two supporting letters of recommendation from two independent referees. These should not be someone from the same institution or the candidate’s post doc or PhD supervisor.
The nominator and independent referees should comment on the candidate’s presenting skills.

Incomplete nominations or those not adhering to the above requirements will not be considered, and nominees will not be contacted regarding any missing or incorrect documents.

Selection procedure

The editorial team will screen each nomination for eligibility and draw up a shortlist of candidates based on the nomination documents provided.
The recipient of the lectureship will be selected and endorsed by a selection panel composed of members of the ChemSocRev Editorial Board.

NB: Please note that members of the selection panel from the Chem Soc Rev Editorial Board are not eligible to nominate, or provide references, for this lectureship.

For any queries, please contact the editorial team at chemsocrev-rsc@rsc.org.

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Jun Lu: Winner of the ChemSocRev Pioneering Investigator Lectureship 2020!

07 Aug 2020

By Harriet Kent, Editorial Assistant.

On behalf of the ChemSocRev Editorial Board, we are pleased to announce the winner of the 2020 ChemSocRev Pioneering Investigator Lectureship – Dr Jun Lu (Argonne National Laboratory)! Our warmest congratulations to Jun!

Jun Lu earned his Bachelor degree in Chemistry Physics from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 2000. He completed his Ph.D. in 2009 from the Department of Metallurgical Engineering at University of Utah under the supervision of Prof. Zak Fang with a major research project on metal hydrides for reversible hydrogen storage application. He then worked as a post-doctorate under a DOE-EERE postdoctoral fellowship (Vehicles Technology Program (2011-2013)) at Argonne National Laboratory with Dr. Khalil Amine, before being promoted to his current position as a chemist (staff scientist) at Argonne National Laboratory.

His research interests encompass electrochemical energy storage and conversion technology, with his main focus on beyond Li-ion battery technologies. Dr. Lu was elected as associate president and board committee member of the International Academy of Electrochemical Energy Science (IAOEES) in 2016.

Learn more about Jun’s research by reading his recent Review articles in ChemSocRev:

Cationic and anionic redox in lithium-ion based batteries
Matthew Li, Tongchao Liu, Xuanxuan Bi, Zhongwei Chen, Khalil Amine, Cheng Zhong and Jun Lu
Chem. Soc. Rev., 2020,49, 1688-1705

Developing high safety Li-metal anodes for future high-energy Li-metal batteries: strategies and perspectives
Dai-Huo Liu, Zhengyu Bai, Matthew Li, Aiping Yu, Dan Luo, Wenwen Liu, Lin Yang, Jun Lu, Khalil Amine and Zhongwei Chen
Chem. Soc. Rev., 2020,49, 5407-5445

These articles will be free to read from 10th August – 7th September 2020.

As part of the Lectureship award, Jun will be presenting a number of lectures over the coming year. Details of the lectures will be announced in due course but keep an eye on Twitter @ChemSocRev for details!

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Jennifer Love – Introducting the new Chair of Chem Soc Rev

02 Jul 2020

By Harriet Kent, Editorial Assistant.

We are delighted to announce that Jennifer Love (University of Calgary, Canada) has joined the Chem Soc Rev team as Chair of the journal. Find out more about Jennifer below.

Jennifer obtained her Bachelor’s degree from Allegheny College in 1994 and her PhD from Stanford University in 2000. After postdoctoral research at the California Institute of Technology, she began her independent career at the University of British Columbia in 2003. She moved to the University of Calgary in 2019, where she is Professor and Head of the Department of Chemistry. Her research interests span inorganic, organometallic and organic chemistry with a focus on mechanistic analysis, catalyst design, developing new homogeneous catalytic transformations, and synthesis.

“I’m delighted to join as Chair of the Board of CSR – it’s a fantastic journal that covers all areas of chemistry.”

Welcome to the team Jennifer.

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Outstanding Reviewers for Chemical Society Reviews in 2019

06 Apr 2020

By Harriet Riley, Deputy Editor.

We would like to highlight the Outstanding Reviewers for Chemical Society Reviews in 2019, as selected by the editorial team, for their significant contribution to the journal. The reviewers have been chosen based on the number, timeliness and quality of the reports completed over the last 12 months.

We would like to say a big thank you to those individuals listed here as well as to all of the reviewers that have supported the journal. Each Outstanding Reviewer will receive a certificate to give recognition for their significant contribution.

Professor Dave Adams, University of Glasgow, ORCID: 0000-0002-3176-1350

Dr Morris R Bullock, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 0000-0001-6306-4851

Dr Rui Cao, Shaanxi Normal University, ORCID: 0000-0002-1821-9583

Dr Youngmi Kim, Kyung Hee University

Professor Jinghong Li, Tsinghua University, ORCID: 0000-0002-0750-7352

Professor KenTye Long, Nanyang Technological University, ORCID: 0000-0001-7936-2941

Professor Connie Lu, University of Minnesota, ORCID: 0000-0002-5162-9250

Professor Rafael Luque, Universidad de Cordoba, ORCID: 0000-0003-4190-1916

Professor Paolo Samori, University of Strasbourg, ORCID: 0000-0001-6256-8281

Professor Bert Weckhuysen, Utrecht University, ORCID: 0000-0001-5245-1426

We would also like to thank the Chemical Society Reviews board and the General chemistry community for their continued support of the journal, as authors, reviewers and readers.

If you would like to become a reviewer for our journal, just email us with details of your research interests and an up-to-date CV or résumé. You can find more details in our author and reviewer resource centre

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ChemSocRev Pioneering Investigator Lectureship – nominate now!

02 Oct 2019

By Harriet Kent, Editorial Assistant.

We are pleased to welcome nominations for the 2020 Pioneering Investigator Lectureship for Chem Soc Rev.

All nominations must be received by Friday 29th November 2019.

Chem Soc Rev Pioneering Investigator Lectureship

Recognises mid-career scientists who have firmly established themselves in their independent careers, continuously publish innovative work, and have pioneered several research areas.
Eligible nominees should have completed their PhD between January 2004 and December 2011. Appropriate consideration will be given to those who have taken a career break or followed a different study path.

Early career researchers may be nominated for the ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureship .

Lectureship details

The recipient of the lectureship will be invited to present a lecture at three different locations over a 12-month period, with at least one of these events taking place at an international conference.
The recipient will receive a contribution of £1500 towards travel and accommodation costs for their lectures, as well as a certificate.
The recipient will be asked to contribute a review article for the journal.

How to nominate

Self-nomination is not permitted. Nominators must send the following to the editorial team via chemsocrev-rsc@rsc.org by Friday 29th November 2019.

Recommendation letter, including the name, contact details and website URL of the nominee.
A one-page CV for the nominee, including a summary of their education, dates of key career achievements, a list of up to five of their top independent publications, total numbers of publications and patents, and other indicators of esteem, together with evidence of career independence.
A copy of the candidate’s best publication to date (as judged by the nominator).
Two supporting letters of recommendation from two independent referees. These should not be someone from the same institution or the candidate’s post doc or PhD supervisor.
The nominator and independent referees should comment on the candidate’s presenting skills.

Incomplete nominations or those not adhering to the above requirements will not be considered, and nominees will not be contacted regarding any missing or incorrect documents.

Selection procedure

The editorial team will screen each nomination for eligibility and draw up a shortlist of candidates based on the nomination documents provided.
The recipient of the lectureship will be selected and endorsed by a selection panel composed of members of the ChemSocRev Editorial Board. The winner will be announced in the first half of 2020.

NB: Please note that members of the selection panel from the Chem Soc Rev Editorial Board are not eligible to nominate, or provide references, for this lectureship.

For any queries, please contact the editorial team at chemsocrev-rsc@rsc.org.

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