We are delighted to announce that Professor Christine Thomas has been appointed as the new Dalton Transactions Editor-in-Chief, succeeding Professor Russell Morris.
Christine Thomas is a Professor of Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at The Ohio State University. She received her PhD in inorganic chemistry at the California Institute of Technology, and performed postdoctoral research at Texas A&M University. Her research focuses on fundamental catalyst design involving cooperative effects in bimetallic systems and complexes with non-innocent ligands.
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“I am both honored and excited to rejoin the Dalton Transactions team as Editor-in-Chief. As a long-time author, reviewer, and reader of articles in Dalton Transactions, I look forward to leading new initiatives while we continue to expeditiously publish the highest quality advancements in all areas of inorganic chemistry.” – Christine Thomas, Dalton Transactions Editor-in-Chief |
Christine will commence in her role as Editor-in-Chief from July 1st, 2026. She previously served as an Associate Editor from 2014 until 2023 handling submissions in the fields of catalysis and organometallic, theoretical, and coordination chemistry. She has a strong history of publishing in the journal and has guest-edited several themed collections.
“I am delighted that Christine will be joining the Dalton Transactions team once again. Christine was an asset to the journal during her time as Associate Editor from 2014 to 2023 and I am looking forward to working with Christine again to help shape and develop the journal over the coming years. Her knowledge of the journal, influence in the community and insight into the needs of researchers will ensure that Dalton Transactions goes from strength the strength under her guidance. I am also incredibly pleased that we have appointed the journal’s first female Editor-in-Chief!” – Sally Howells-Wyllie, Dalton Transactions Executive Editor
Take a look at Christine’s recent Perspective in Dalton Transactions:
| Polarized metal–metal multiple bonding and reactivity of phosphinoamide-bridged heterobimetallic group IV/cobalt compounds (Open Access)
Nathanael H. Hunter and Christine M. Thomas* Dalton Trans., 2024,53, 15764-15781 |
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To mark Christine’s appointment as Editor-in-Chief, she is collating some of her favourite recent publications in Dalton Transactions and we will be interviewing her to find out more about her visions for the journal. Stay tuned to see these very soon.
Please join us in congratulating Professor Christine Thomas on her new appointment. We also want to share a huge thank you to Professor Russell Morris for his dedication to the journal since his tenure as Chair began in 2020!
Professor Christine Thomas – Biography
Christine Thomas was born and raised on the East Coast of the United States, in a suburb of Philadelphia. She received her B.S. in chemistry from Lafayette College, completed her PhD at the California Institute of Technology, and performed postdoctoral research at Texas A&M University. After spending more than 9 years on the faculty at Brandeis University, she joined the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at The Ohio State University, where is currently the Phyllis and Richard Leet Professor of Chemistry.
Her research interests focus on synthetic inorganic, organometallic, and main group chemistry, with an emphasis on bond-activation using Earth abundant metals. She pioneered the field of metal-metal multiple bonding in early/late heterobimetallic compounds and her recent work has uncovered multiple modes of bimetallic cooperativity in these frameworks that enable bond activation and functionalization processes. Ongoing projects in her laboratory involve organometallic catalysis using first row transition metals, ligand design, small molecule activation, electrocatalysis, metal-metal and metal-ligand cooperativity, spectroscopy, magnetism, and computational evaluation of electronic structure and reaction mechanism.
She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and the recipient of many awards including the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, the NSF CAREER award, the DOE Early Career Award, the Dalton Transactions Lectureship, and selection as an Organometallics fellow. She was as an Associate Editor for Dalton Transactions from 2014-2023 and has served on the Editorial Advisory boards for Dalton Transactions, Chemical Communications, Chemical Science, Inorganic Chemistry, Polyhedron, and Inorganic Syntheses. She was Chair of the 2018 Gordon Research Conference on Organometallic Chemistry and Co-Chair of the 2024 North American Silicon Symposium, and served as 2020 Chair of the Organometallic Chemistry subdivision of the American Chemical Society Division of Inorganic Chemistry.
Michael Hayward is a Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Oxford. After completing a D.Phil. under the supervision of Prof. M. J. Rosseinsky at the University of Oxford, Prof. Hayward undertook a period of post-doctoral research with Prof. R. J. Cava at Princeton University, returning to Oxford in 2002 as a Royal Society University Research Fellow. In 2004 he was appointed as an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford and Fellow of Somerville College. In 2015 he was promoted to Professor of Inorganic Chemistry. Research in the Hayward group focuses on the synthesis of novel solid compounds which exhibit interesting physical behaviour (magnetic, electronic, electrochemical, etc.). Materials are prepared principally via low-temperature, topochemical routes, which enable the synthesis of metastable phases and allow the introduction of a degree of ‘design’ into the preparation of solid-state materials.
