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To celebrate International Women′s Day on the 8^th March 2017, IUPAC was pleased to announce the awardees of the IUPAC 2017 Distinguished Women in Chemistry or Chemical Engineering:

• Prof. Misako Aida, Hiroshima University, Japan
• Prof. Lifeng Chi, Soochow University, Suzhou, China
• Prof. M. Concepción Gimeno, Institute of Chemical Synthesis and Homogeneous Catalysis (ISQCH), CSIC-University of Zaragoza, Spain
• Dr Jaqueline Kiplinger, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
• Prof. Zafra Lerman, Malta Conferences Foundation, Evanston, IL, United States
• Prof. Thisbe K. Lindhorst, Universität Kiel, Germany
• Prof. Ekaterina Lokteva, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
• Prof. Yvonne Mascarenhas, University OF Sap Paulo, Sao Carlos, Brazil
• Dr Veronika Ruth Meyer, Empa St. Gallen (retired), Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Switzerland
• Prof. Ingrid Montes-González, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
• Prof. Frances Separovic, University of Melbourne, Australia
• Prof. Jihong Yu, Jilin University, China

This award aims to acknowledge and promote the work of women chemists and chemical engineers throughout the world. All awardees have been selected based on excellence in basic or applied research, distinguished accomplishments in teaching or education, or demonstrated leadership or managerial excellence in the chemical sciences.

The award ceremony will take place during the IUPAC World Chemistry Congress in São Paulo, Brazil in July, coinciding with a special symposium on Women in Chemistry.

We are delighted to announce that Professor Jihong Yu, an Associate Editor for Chemical Science, has been awarded this prize. Congratulations!

Professor Jihong Yu

Professor Yu is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Secretary-General of the International Zeolite Association (IZA) and in 2015 was officially elected as Academician by the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Professor Yu’s group’s research focuses on three main areas, including synthesis of new types of inorganic microporous materials, investigating new routes to the synthesis of inorganic microporous materials, and working toward the rational design and synthesis of inorganic microporous materials.

We proudly congratulate Chemical Science Associate Editor Jihong Yu (Jilin University), who was officially elected as Academician by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) on 7 December 2015 – congratulations from the Royal Society of Chemistry, and especially from the whole Chemical Science team!

After rigorous selection and assessment, Jihong was awarded the title of Academician – widely regarded as one of the highest honours for scientists in China – together with eight other professors working in the chemical sciences. A total of 61 new Academicians from various science disciplines were selected by CAS in this round of biennial elections. As a CAS Academician, Jihong is now even better placed to help shape the nation’s science policy and influence significant decisions on the future of the chemical sciences in China.

Jihong’s research focuses on the synthesis and preparation chemistry of inorganic microporous materials, typically known as zeolites. In the course of her research, she has made significant contributions to the molecular engineering of zeolites by developing effective strategies for the structural design and rational synthesis of these materials.

As an Associate Editor for Chemical Science since 2012, Jihong welcomes submissions in the area of inorganic materials. Together with our dynamic international team of Associate Editors, she has been actively driving the journal’s scientific development by making direct decisions on its content – submit your best work to any of their Editorial Offices today!

Read Jihong Yu’s latest articles in Chemical Science* and its sister journals, published by the Royal Society of Chemistry:

Synthesis of new zeolite structures
Jiyang Li, Avelino Corma and Jihong Yu
Chem. Soc. Rev., 2015, 44, 7112-7127
DOI: 10.1039/C5CS00023H
From themed collection Recent Advances in Zeolite Chemistry and Catalysis

Coupling of chromophores with exactly opposite luminescence behaviours in mesostructured organosilicas for high-efficiency multicolour emission
Dongdong Li, Yuping Zhang, Zhiying Fan, Jie Chen and Jihong Yu
Chem. Sci., 2015, 6, 6097-6101
DOI: 10.1039/C5SC02044A, Edge Article
Open Access

Methyl viologen-templated zinc gallophosphate zeolitic material with dual photo-/thermochromism and tuneable photovoltaic activity
Junbiao Wu, Chunyao Tao, Yi Li, Jiyang Li and Jihong Yu
Chem. Sci., 2015, 6, 2922-2927
DOI: 10.1039/C5SC00291E, Edge Article
Open Access

Ultrafast synthesis of nano-sized zeolite SAPO-34 with excellent MTO catalytic performance
Qiming Sun, Ning Wang, Guanqi Guo and Jihong Yu
Chem. Commun., 2015, 51, 16397-16400
DOI: 10.1039/C5CC07343J, Communication

With thanks to Guanqun Song, our Editorial Development Manager based in Beijing, for contributing to this blog post.

*Access is free through a registered RSC account