Meet our Early Career Advisory Board members who work on biointerfaces
We announced our inaugural Advisory Board for RSC Applied Interfaces in early September. In this series of blog posts, we will be shining a spotlight our new Early Career Advisory Board members and introducing them to you!
This week we are delighted to introduce Amit Kumar Mandal and Lucien Weiss as members of our inaugural Early Career Advisory Board.
Amit Kumar Mandal, Raiganj University, India
ORCID: 0000-0001-9249-5052
Amit Kumar Mandal currently serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sericulture and as the Director of the Centre for Nanotechnology Science (CeNS) at Raiganj University. He earned his MSc and PhD from the University of North Bengal and previously held a faculty position at Vidyasagar University under the UGC-Innovative Programme. With over a decade of academic and research experience, he has published more than 80 SCI-indexed papers and holds three patents. His research interests include chemical biology, nano-omics, and molecular diagnostics targeting infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance.
“I am deeply honored to be selected as a member of the Early Career Advisory Board of RSC Applied Interfaces. This opportunity allows me to actively contribute to the journal’s vision of advancing impactful research in applied interface science. I look forward to engaging with the scientific community and supporting the journal’s growth and development through collaboration and innovation.”
Lucien Weiss, Polytechnique Montréal
ORCID: 0000-0002-0971-7329
Lucien Weiss is an Associate Professor at Polytechnique Montréal. He obtained his BA in Chemistry from Harvard University in 2010, and his PhD in Physical Chemistry in 2017 from Stanford University, where he trained with W. E. Moerner. His postdoctoral research was performed in Yoav Shechtman’s Nano-bio-optics lab at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology supported by a Zuckerman STEM Fellowship. He began his independent career in the Department of Engineering Physics at Polytechnique Montréal in 2021. There, the Weiss Lab develops the instruments and methods needed to understand and engineer the behaviors of bio-material interactions over an extremely broad range of spatiotemporal scales: from single molecules to biological cell populations, and from microseconds to weeks.
“I’m excited to be participating in the RSC community and help identify opportunities to accelerate our understanding of the exciting chemistry and physics that occur at interfaces and how this knowledge can be deployed in solving the challenges of today and tomorrow.”
Please join us in welcoming our new Early Career Advisory Board members to the journal community! See our full line-up of Early Career Advisory Board members here.
