Sarit Agasti | Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, India |
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Sarit received his Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from the University of Calcutta, in 2003 and then his Master’s degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in 2005. Sarit went on to receive his PhD from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst under the supervision of Professor Vincent M. Rotello. Since his PhD, he has been a Postdoctoral Fellow at both the Massachusetts General hospital-Harvard Medical School and the Wyss Institute at Harvard University working with Professor Ralph Weissleder and Professor Peng Yin, respectively. Sarit has now returned to India and is working as a Faculty fellow at the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research. His lab is interested in engineering small molecules and programmable molecular materials to address challenges in bioimaging, specifically in super-resolution microscopy. Some of his previously published work in Royal Society of Chemistry journals is below.
A photoactivatable drug–caged fluorophore conjugate allows direct quantification of intracellular drug transport Direct photopatterning of light-activated gold nanoparticles |
Athina Anastasaki | Warwick University, UK |
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Athina received her Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She then undertook a PhD in Polymer Chemistry at the University of Warwick under the supervision of Professor David Haddleton. Athina is currently a Monash-Warwick Alliance Research Fellow in the research groups of Professor David Haddleton and Professor Thomas Davis, focusing on controlled living radical polymerization methods, mechanistic studies, photochemistry and sequence-controlled polymers. Some of her recently published work in Royal Society of Chemistry journals is below.
Photo-induced living radical polymerization of acrylates utilizing a discrete copper(II)–formate complex Photoinduced sequence-control via one pot living radical polymerization of acrylates |
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Archive for the ‘Board News’ Category
Introducing the Materials Horizons Community Board
Materials Horizons is thrilled to announce that the first researchers have joined our Materials Horizons Community Board. This board is unique in that it is made up of early career researchers, such as PhD students and postdocs, that are fundamental in the future development of the materials field.
This board will help build relationships with the young researcher community, providing the editorial office with not only essential feedback and advice on the perception of the journal in their community but also education-focused initiatives that will benefit the materials community as a whole.
These engaged and enthusiastic researchers have been nominated by the Materials Horizons and Journal of Materials Chemistry A, B & C Editorial and Advisory Board. We received several excellent nominations and the successful candidates are:
- Sarit Agasti – Jawarhal Nehru Center for Advanced Scientific Research, India
- Athina Anastasaki – Warwick University, UK
- Robert Chapman – Imperial College London, UK
- Chaohua Cui – Soochow University, China
- Rebecca Gieseking – Northwestern University, USA
- Peter Korevaar – Harvard University, USA
- John Labram – University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
- Tian-Yi Ma – University of Adelaide, Australia
- Jaime Martín Pérez – Imperial College London, UK
- Troy Townsend – St Mary’s College of Maryland, USA
- Daiki Umeyama – Stanford University, USA
- Mengye Wang – Xiamen University, China
Please join us in congratulating the new members of the Materials Horizons Community Board.
Bruno Chaudret is our new Scientific Editor
Materials Horizons would like to welcome Bruno Chaudret as our newest Scientific Editor.
Bruno has a wealth of experience having co-authored over 400 publications and being the recipient of several prizes including the Gay-Lussac – Humboldt Prize and the Wilkinson Prize of the RSC. He graduated from École Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Paris in 1975 and then went on to receive his Ph.D. from Imperial College London in 1977 with Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson. He was awarded the degree of a “Docteur ès Sciences” at the University of Toulouse in 1979.
He is now “Director of Research CNRS”, Director of the “Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie des Nano-Objets” in Toulouse and a member of the French Academy of Science since 2005.
His interests have been in the chemistry of hydride and dihydrogen organometallic complexes, and in the early 90s, he developed an organometallic method for the synthesis of metal or metal oxide nanoparticles.
We very much look forward to working with him!
Congratulations Professor Marder
On behalf of the Materials Horizons Editorial Office I would like to congratulate Professor Seth Marder, Chair of Materials Horizons, on his receipt of the MRS Mid-Career Researcher Award.
The Mid-Career Researcher Award is awarded for exceptional achievements and notable leadership in the materials field. Seth Marder was awarded this honour for:
“For establishing fundamental relationships between the chemical structure of organic molecules and their optical and electronic properties, thereby profoundly impacting how the scientific community designs optimized molecular structures for use in nonlinear optical applications”
Seth Marder is Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology with over 400 peer reviewed publications, the recipient of the ACS Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award and is a fellow of multiple scientific communities, including the Royal Society of Chemistry.
More information about this award can be found here.
Our new Scientific Editor Martina Stenzel
Materials Horizons is delighted to welcome Martina Stenzel as our new Scientific Editor.
Martina studied chemistry at the University of Bayreuth, Germany, before completing her PhD in 1999 at the Institute of Applied Macromolecular Chemistry, University of Stuttgart, Germany. She currently holds the position of full professor at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia where she originally started working as a DAAD Postdoctoral Fellow. Her research interests encompass the synthesis of functional polymers with complex architectures such as glycopolymers and other polymers for biomedical applications, especially polymers with in-build metal complexes for the delivery of metal-based anti-cancer drugs.
She has also published more than 200 peer reviewed papers and 8 book chapters and has attracted more than 9000 citations so far. To find out more about Martina, please do have a read of her interview in our sister publication, Chemical Communications below:
Interview with Martina Stenzel
Chem. Commun., 2014, 50, 8626-8627
DOI: 10.1039/C4CC90201G
Congratulations Seth & Zhenan!
Professor Seth Marder, Chair of the Materials Horizons Editorial Board, has been internationally recognised by the Materials Research Society as an outstanding member with sustained and distinguished contributions to the field of materials science. They have recognised his work by honouring him as a Fellow of the Materials Research Society. Established in 2008, MRS Fellows are expected to demonstrate a dedication to the advancement of materials research and is a lifetime appointment.
Professor Marder (Georgia Institute of Technology) was selected “For seminal contributions to fundamental understanding of the relationships between the chemical structure of organic molecules and their electronic and optical, including nonlinear optical, properties.” He is currently working on research into organic materials, optical materials, electronics materials and surface modification.
The Materials Horizons Editorial Office would like to extend our personal congratulations to Professor Marder on this outstanding honour and take the opportunity to thank him for the work he does as the Chair of the Materials Horizons Editorial Board.
For more information on Professor Marder, please visit his home page.
We would also like to take this opportunity to congratulate Professor Zhenan Bao, Chemical Science Associate Editor and Materials Horizons Advisory Board member, who has also been honoured as a MRS Fellow this year. They join the long list of people honoured by the Materials Research Society for their work in materials science.
Congratulations Seth & Zhenan!
Announcing new appointments to the Materials Horizons Advisory Board
We are delighted to announce the new appointments to the Materials Horizons Advisory Board!
Yoshio Bando National Institute for Materials Science, Japan Zhenan Bao Stanford University, USA Mischa Bonn Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Germany Jean-Luc Brédas Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Jillian Buriak University of Alberta, Canada Rachel Caruso University of Melbourne, Austrailia Jinwoo Cheon Yonsei University, South Korea Makoto Fujita University of Tokyo, Japan Jurriaan Huskens University of Twente, Netherlands Graham Hutchings Cardiff University, UK Taeghwan Hyeon Seoul National University, South Korea René Janssen Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands Antoine Kahn Princeton University, USA Richard Kaner University of California, Los Angeles, USA Frederik Krebs Risø DTU National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy, Denmark Kian Ping Loh National University of Singapore, Singapore Lynn Yueh Lin Loo Princeton University, USA HongYee Low Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore |
Richard Martel University of Montreal, Canada Bert Meijer Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands Chad Mirkin Northwestern University, USA Catherine Murphy University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA Markus Niederberger Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland Teri Odom Northwestern University, USA Marie-Paule Pileni Pierre-and-Marie-Curie University, France John A. Rogers University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA Gregory D. Scholes University of Toronto, Canada Nava Setter École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland Takao Someya University of Tokyo, Japan Shu Wang Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China David Weitz Harvard University, USA Yi Xie University of Science and Technology of China, China Peidong Yang University of California, Berkeley, USA Jackie Ying Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, Singapore, Shu-Hong Yu University of Science and Technology of China, China |
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