Industrial Chemistry & Materials Blog

We are thrilled to announce the addition of four distinguished experts to the Advisory Board of Industrial Chemistry & Materials: Professor Graham J. Hutchings, Professor Menachem Elimelech, Professor Seeram Ramakrishna, and Professor Bart Van der Bruggen. Each of them brings a vast wealth of knowledge and experience in the respective fields. We are confident that their contributions will significantly enhance the quality and impact of our publication.

Professor Graham J. Hutchings is the Regius Professor of Chemistry at Cardiff University. He is distinguished for his work in the field of heterogeneous catalysis, particularly catalysis by gold and oxidation catalysis. He has held three academic chairs (Witwatersrand, Liverpool, Cardiff), and for each, he has reshaped his research and attacked new fields, demonstrating a proven track record in opening up new areas of heterogeneous catalysis using multidisciplinary approaches. He established the Cardiff Catalysis Institute in 2008, which has now become one of the leading research centers for catalysis globally. He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2009 and Academia Europaea in 2010.

Professor Menachem Elimelech is the Sterling Professor at Yale University. His research focuses on energy-efficient, sustainable membrane-based technologies for desalination and the management of brines and industrial wastewaters. He earned his Ph.D. in environmental engineering from Johns Hopkins University in 1989. In 2005, he became the Roberto C. Goizueta Professor and Chair of Yale’s Chemical and Environmental Engineering Department. Elimelech is an elected member of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (2022), the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering (2021), the Chinese Academy of Engineering (2017), and the United States National Academy of Engineering (2006).

Professor Seeram Ramakrishna is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the National University of Singapore. He is a co-director of the NUS Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Initiative (NUSNNI) and heads the Centre for Nanofibers and Nanotechnology. His research focuses on Materials Circular Economy, Sustainability, Nanofibers, and Nanotechnology. He has been named among the Top 1% Highly Cited Researchers in cross-field and materials science categories since 2014 by Clarivate. He is an elected Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng), the Singapore Academy of Engineering, the Indian National Academy of Engineering, and the ASEAN Academy of Engineering and Technology.

Professor Bart van der Bruggen is a professor at KU Leuven, Belgium. His current research interests include, but are not limited to, solvent separation, resource recovery, and water treatment. He earned his Ph.D. in Applied Sciences at KU Leuven in 2000, then worked as a postdoc/visiting researcher at Universita della Calabria and ITM-CNR, Italy; Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT), Finland; and the University of North Carolina (UNC-Chapel Hill), USA. With over 800 publications and extensive academic experience, Professor Van der Bruggen is a prominent figure in his field, contributing significantly to both scientific advancements and practical applications in environmental engineering.

We are excited to welcome these esteemed experts to our Advisory Board and look forward to their valuable insights and guidance. Their expertise will undoubtedly help steer the Industrial Chemistry & Materials journal towards new heights of excellence.

                       

We are delighted to announce that Professor João A. P. Coutinho, Professor Markus Antonietti, Professor Lutz Ackermann and Professor Susumu Kitagawa have joined the Advisory Board of Industrial Chemistry & Materials. Each of these experts brings a wealth of knowledge and experience in their respective fields, and we are confident that their contributions will greatly enhance the quality and impact of our publication.

Professor João A. P. Coutinho is Full Professor at the Chemistry Department of University of Aveiro, Portugal and director of CICECO since 2022. He leads a multidisciplinary research team that focuses on the development of green solvents and novel separation processes for biorefinery and circular economy. Currently, he strives to apply aqueous solutions of biobased solvents, DES and ionic liquids to these processes and attempts to better understand their physical-chemical behavior.

Professor Markus Antonietti is the Director at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces and a Full Professor at Potsdam University. His research field is colloid and interface research, which deals with the smallest particles in the micro-and nanometer size range. He is the first German chemist to have received three awards from the European Research Council’s (ERC) global grants. With well over 900 scientific publications in books and journals, he is one of the most-cited German chemists who is among top 1 Chemistry Scientists in Germany at Research.com.

Professor Lutz Ackermann is a Full Professor at Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany. His major current research interests are the development and application of novel concepts for sustainable catalysis constitutes, with a topical focus on electrocatalysis and bond activation. He is the Highly Cited Researcher (Clarivate) from 2019-2023 and among top 11 Chemistry Scientists in Germany at Research.com. His recent awards and distinctions include an AstraZeneca Excellence in Chemistry Award (2011), an ERC Consolidator Grant (2012), a Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz-Preis (2017) and an ERC Advanced Grant (2021).

Professor Susumu Kitagawa is a Distinguished Professor at Kyoto University, Japan. He is the Member of the Japan Academy (2019) and Foreign Member of the Royal Society (2023). His main research field is inorganic and material chemistry, in particular, chemistry of coordination space, and his current research interests are centered on synthesis and properties of porous coordination polymers/metal-organic frameworks. He is a pioneer in the development of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) who was the first to discover and to demonstrate “porosity” for metal complexes with gas sorption experiments (1997).

We are excited to welcome these esteemed experts to our Advisory Board and look forward to their valuable insights and guidance. Their expertise will undoubtedly help steer the Industrial Chemistry & Materials journal towards new heights of excellence.