I am delighted to announce Piet van Leeuwen as the inaugural Editor-in-Chief of Catalysis Science & Technology. Piet has extensive research experience in the field of homogeneous catalysis and has collaborated, throughout his career, with partners from industry to create more sustainable and environment-friendly industrial processes. Piet will work alongside a second Editor-in-Chief, to be appointed from the heterogeneous community, to guide the content of the new journal.
Professor Piet van Leeuwen
Piet van Leeuwen has been Group Leader at the Institut Català d’Investigació Química (ICIQ) in Tarragona, Spain, since 2004. He has chaired and directed many activities in the field of catalysis in the Netherlands, especially keen on integrating activities in the catalysis area. He worked with Shell Amsterdam for twenty six years heading the section for basic research in homogeneous catalysis. Since 1989, part-time, and since 1994 full time, he initiated and led the homogeneous catalysis group at the University of Amsterdam as a Professor of Homogeneous Catalysis until 2007. He held a chair of Industrial Homogeneous Catalysis at the Technical University of Eindhoven from 2001 till 2006, where he was also director of the National Research School Combination on Catalysis. He has authored 350 refereed articles and reviews, many book chapters, edited several books, and is author of a textbook on homogeneous catalysis.
Editor-in-Chief Piet van Leeuwen says that he is ‘looking forward to working with this exciting new journal, Catalysis Science & Technology, the new home for high-quality research in catalysis’.
Article submissions will open from October 2010, with issue one scheduled for publication early in 2011. And, as for all RSC journals launched since 2008, the first two volumes will be freely available online. For information on how to submit an article to the journal or if you would like more information please contact us at catalysis-rsc@rsc.org.
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