Journal of Materials Chemistry Blog

The Journal of Materials Chemistry annual lectureship, established in 2010, honours early-career scientists who have made a significant contribution to the field of materials chemistry. This year we were delighted to have awarded Prof. Sahika Inal (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia) the 2022 Lectureship.

We received numerous excellent nominations and wanted to recognise our shortlisted candidates for their contributions to materials chemistry. We have listed the names of the shortlisted candidates below and have put together a collection featuring some of their recent work published in Journal of Materials Chemistry journals.

Please note that we have only included candidates who have consented to recognition of their name in this way.

Runners-Up

Prof. Luisa Whittaker-Brooks (University of Utah, USA)

Dr Jessica Wade (Imperial College London, UK)

Shortlisted candidates

Prof. Chibueze Amanchukwu (University of Chicago, USA)

Prof. Federico Bella (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)

Prof. Laure Biniek (Institut Charles Sadron – Strasbourg, France)

Prof. Jakoah Brgoch (University of Houston, USA)

Prof. Federico Calle-Vallejo (Basque Foundation for Science (Ikerbasque) and University of the Basque Country, Spain)

Prof. Maytal Caspary Toroker (Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)

Prof. Tan Chaoliang (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

Prof. Raphaële Clément (UC Santa Barbara, USA)

Prof. Cole DeForest (University of Washington, USA)

Prof. Xu Deng (University of Electronic Science and Technology, China)

Dr Ramendra Sundar Dey (Institute of Nano Science and Technology, India)

Dr Emily Draper (University of Glasgow, UK)

Prof. Ludovic Favereau (Institute of Chemical Sciences of Rennes, France)

Prof. Wei Gao (California Institute of Technology, USA)

Prof. Xu Hou (Xiamen University, China)

Prof. Jingwei Hou (School of Chemical Engineering, The University of Queensland, Australia)

Prof. Ashlee Howarth (Concordia University, Canada)

Prof. Shu Hu (Yale University, USA)

Dr Kirsten Marie Jensen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

Prof. Thomas Kempa (John Hopkins University, USA)

Prof. Matt Pharr (Texas A&M University, USA)

Dr Loredana Protesescu (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)

Prof. Nuria Tapia Ruiz (University of Lancaster, UK)

Prof. Gyorgy Szekely (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia)

Prof. Robert Weatherup (University of Oxford, UK)

Prof. Zhijie Yang (Shandong University, China)

Prof. Bin-Wei Zhang (Chongqing University, China)

Prof. Shrike Zhang (Harvard Medical School, USA)

Read the collection featuring some of the recent work from some of our shortlisted candidates published in Journal of Materials Chemistry A, B and C

Congratulations to all our shortlisted candidates!

Know anyone deserving of the 2023 Journal of Materials Chemistry Lectureship? Nominations will be open around mid-April so keep an eye out for updates on our Twitter and by signing up to our e-alerts.

We would like to congratulate the following poster award winners at the 2022 International Conference on the Science and Technology of Synthetic Metals.

Both the Journal of Materials Chemistry A, B and C, and Materials Horizons were delighted to sponsor the Best Poster prizes.

The Journal of Materials Chemistry A Best Poster prize was awarded to Urvashi Bothra (far right)

The Journal of Materials Chemistry B Best Poster prize was awarded to Anni Eklund (second from right)

The Journal of Materials Chemistry C Best Poster prize was awarded to Paloma Dos Santos (second from left)

The Materials Horizons Best Poster prize was awarded to Donato Ottomano (far left)

We are delighted to announce that Professor María Escudero Escribano has been selected as the winner of the Journal of Materials Chemistry Lectureship 2021. To celebrate, we have put together a collection of her publications in Royal Society of Chemistry journals:

Read the collection

María is currently a Professor at Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Barcelona, Spain. However, in 2021 when she received the lectureship award, she was an Associate Professor of Chemistry at the University of Copenhagen, where her group investigated tailored interfaces and electrocatalyst materials for renewable energy conversion and electrosynthesis of green fuels and value-added chemicals. She graduated in Chemical Engineering from the University of Extremadura and obtained her Ph.D. in Chemistry from the Autonomous University of Madrid in 2011. She then started her postdoctoral research at the Technical University of Denmark and was a ‘DFF: Sapere Aude Research Talent’ fellow at Stanford University, before moving to the University of Copenhagen in 2017.

María is a ‘Villum Young Investigator’ (2018-2023) and co-PI of the Center for High Entropy Alloy Catalysis. Her work combines the insight from model studies on well-defined electrochemical interfaces with real systems and advanced materials for catalysis and renewable energy applications. María is a co-inventor of three patents on novel catalyst materials for electrochemical energy conversion. In addition to her regular invited, plenary and keynote lectures at international conferences and invited seminars at universities, she is highly involved in scientific outreach and dissemination activities.

María has received numerous awards at international and national levels in recognition of her groundbreaking research. These awards include the European Young Chemist Award 2016 (Gold Medal) from EuChemS, the Princess of Girona Foundation Scientific Research Award 2018, the Electrochemical Society Energy Technology Division Supramaniam Srinivasan Young Investigator Award 2018, the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry Young Researchers Award 2019, and the Clara Immerwahr Award 2019.

The Journal of Materials Chemistry annual lectureship, established in 2010, honours early-career scientists who have made a significant contribution to the field of materials chemistry.

The Lectureship recipient receives expenses to cover travel and accommodation costs to attend and present at a leading international meeting. The recipient is also invited to contribute an article to one of the Journal of Materials Chemistry journals and to receive a complimentary back cover for the issue in which the article appears.

Please join us in congratulating María on receiving the award.

We are delighted to announce that Professor Giulia Grancini has been selected as the winner of the Journal of Materials Chemistry Lectureship 2020. To celebrate, we have put together a collection of her publications in Royal Society of Chemistry journals:

Read the collection

The Journal of Materials Chemistry annual lectureship, established in 2010, honours early-career scientists who have made a significant contribution to the field of materials chemistry.

The Lectureship recipient receives expenses to cover travel and accommodation costs to attend and present at a leading international meeting. The recipient is also invited to contribute an article to one of the Journal of Materials Chemistry journals and to receive a complimentary back cover for the issue in which the article appears.

Giulia is Associate Professor of Chemistry at University of Pavia, Italy, leading the PVsquared2 team and Principal Investigator of the European Project “HYNANO” (ERC H2020 StG 2018), aiming at the development of novel hybrid perovskites materials and innovative functional interfaces for efficient, cheap and stable photovoltaics. Within this field, Giulia contributed to develop new functional interfaces with low dimensional perovskite, as a way to boost device stability.

She is the author of 92 peer-reviewed scientific papers (h-index=46, >15,000 citations). In 2019 she received the USERN prize in Physical Science, the Swiss Physical Society Award in 2018 for Young Researcher and the IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in Optics. She is currently USERN Ambassador for Italy and board member of the Young Academy of Europe. In 2019 she was listed among the highly cited scientists from Web-of-Science. In 2020 she was listed in the “100 experts against stereotypes project” which identified top-italian women scientists. She is also part of the “1MWIS campaign”, a global effort to promote the role of women in STEM disciplines. More can be found at https://pvsquared2.unipv.it

We would like to congratulate the following winners at Recent Appointees in Materials Science 2019.

Best presentation: Dr Adrien Chauvet, The University of Sheffield: ‘Ultrafast Spectroscopy: Watching electrons dynamics “live”’

Runner Up presentation:Dr Florian Bouville, Imperial College London: ‘Using ceramic processing to produce bioinspired materials’

Runner Up presentation: Dr Robert T. Woodward, Imperial College London: ‘Engineering Porous Organic Polymers from Self-Condensing Compounds’

Best Image: Dr Sanjit Nayak, University of Bradford.

The oral presentation prize at the 10th International Nanomed Conference was sponsored by Journal of Materials Chemistry B. Congratulations to Zerong Ma from the Children’s Cancer Institute, Australia. The award was presented by Nanoscale Advances Associate Editor, Professor Chunying Chen from Chinese Academy of Sciences.

The oral presentation prize at the 10th International Nanomed Conference sponsored by the journal Nanoscale Advances is Yi Ju from the University of Melbourne, Australia. The award was presented by Nanoscale Advances Associate Editor, Prof Chunying Chen from Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Oral presentation prize at the 10th International Nanomed Conference sponsored by the journal Nanoscale Horizons is Pramod Jagtap from the Indian Institute of Technology, India. The award was presented by ACN co-Editor Prof Cyrille Boyer.

2019 Journal of Materials Chemistry Lectureship – open for nominations

Established in 2010, this lectureship honours early-career scientists who have made a significant contribution to the field of materials chemistry.

The Lectureship recipient receives £1000 to cover travel and accommodation costs to attend and present at a leading international meeting. The recipient is also invited to contribute an article to one of the Journal of Materials Chemistry journals and to receive a complimentary cover for the issue in which the article appears.

Last year’s winner of the 2018 Journal of Materials Chemistry Lectureship was Professor Shaojun Guo from Peking University, China and he will be giving his lectureship research talk at the RSC’s flagship materials chemistry 14 conference in Birmingham, UK.

To be eligible for the Journal of Materials Chemistry Lectureship, the candidate must:

• Have completed their PhD.
• Be actively pursuing an independent research career within materials chemistry.
• Be at an early stage of their independent career (typically this will be within 10 years of completing their PhD, but appropriate consideration will be given to those who have taken a career break or followed a different study path).
• Have made significant contributions to the field of materials chemistry.

Self-nomination is permitted, and all new nominations from 2018 will automatically be reconsidered this year.

At the Royal Society of Chemistry we believe we have a responsibility to promote inclusivity and accessibility in order to improve diversity. Where possible, we encourage each nominator to nominate an equal number of men and women.

You are welcome to circulate this information widely and please do ask for nominations from your colleagues and nominate researchers yourself.

To nominate a candidate, email the Journal of Materials Chemistry Editorial Office (materials-rsc@rsc.org) by the 18^th of July 2019 with:

• A brief C.V. of the candidate (no longer than two pages), including the candidate name, year and University of PhD, website link to research profile, current University and job title
• A letter supporting the nomination (also no longer than two pages)

The Journal of Materials Chemistry A, B & C Editors-in-Chief will select and announce the Lectureship winner, in autumn 2019.

Selection is not based simply on quantitative measures. Consideration is given to all information provided in the letter of recommendation and candidate C.V., including research achievements and originality, contributions to the materials chemistry community, innovation, collaborations and teamwork, and publication history.

Thank you for helping Journal of Materials Chemistry A, B & C and the Royal Society of Chemistry to support early-career researchers. We sincerely look forward to receiving your nominations.

Congratulations to Wangsoo Cha (University of Newcastle, Australia) who won the Journal of Materials Chemistry A poster prize at the 3rd International Conference on Emerging Advanced Nanomaterials – 2018 for the poster titled Sulfur-doped Mesoporous Carbon Nitride as a High Performance Anode Material for Sodium-ion Batteries. The award was presented by Prof. Yamauchi, Journal of Materials Chemistry A Associate Editor.

Congratulations to Huiyan Piao (EHWA Womans University, South Korea) who won the Journal of Materials Chemistry B poster prize at the 3rd International Conference on Emerging Advanced Nanomaterials – 2018 for the poster titled Near-Infrared Responsive Pulsatile Drug Delivery Implant On-Demand. The award was presented by Prof. Raston, Fellow of Australian Academy of Science.

Congratulations to Zhengfen Wan (Griffith University, Australia) who won the Journal of Materials Chemistry C poster prize at the 3rd International Conference on Emerging Advanced Nanomaterials – 2018 for the poster titled Tuning the sub-processes in laser reduction of graphene oxide by adjusting the power and scanning speed of laser. The award was presented by Prof. Jagadish, President of Australian Materials Research Society.