Energy & Environmental Science editorial board members

Jenny Nelson, Chair

Imperial College London, UK

ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1048-1330

Jenny Nelson is a Professor of Physics at Imperial College London, where she has researched novel varieties of material for use in solar cells since 1989.

Her current research is focussed on understanding the properties of molecular semiconductor materials and their application to organic solar cells. This work combines fundamental electrical, spectroscopic and structural studies of molecular electronic materials with numerical modelling and device studies, aiming to optimise solar cell performance based on molecular and hybrid materials.

Since 2010 she has been working together with the Grantham Institute for Climate Change to explore the mitigation potential of photovoltaic and other renewable, technologies.

Christoph Brabec, Editorial board member

University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany

ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9440-0253

Christoph J. Brabec received his PhD (1995) in Physical Chemistry from Linz University, Austria, and joined the group of Alan Heeger at UC Santa Barbara (USA) for a sabbatical.

His career includes:

• SIEMENS research labs (project leader) in 2001
• Konarka in 2004 (CTO)
• Erlangen University (FAU - Professor for Material Science) in 2009
• ZAE Bayern e.V. (scientific director and board member) in 2010
• being spokesperson of the Interdisciplinary Center for Nanostructured Films (IZNF) in 2013
• becoming the director at FZ Jülich (IEK-11) in 2018
• being spokesperson of the profile center “FAU Solar” in 2023

William Chueh, Editorial board member

Stanford University, USA

ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7066-3470

Will Chueh is an Associate Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and in the Department of Energy Science & Engineering, a Senior Fellow of the Precourt Institute for Energy at Stanford University, and a faculty scientist at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. He leads a group of more than thirty researchers tackling the fundamentals of redox and electrochemical processes in the solid state.

Additionally, he directs Stanford's StorageX Initiative which builds academic-industrial partnerships to accelerate the electrification of transportation and the penetration of intermittent renewable electricity in energy systems. He received his BS in applied physics, and his MS and PhD in materials science from Caltech.

Kazunari Domen, Editorial board member

The University of Tokyo, Japan

ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7995-4832

Kazunari Domen is a University Professor at the University of Tokyo and a Special Contract Professor at the Research Initiative for Supra-Material (RISM), Shinshu University, Japan.

Dr. Domen received his B.S. (1976), M.S. (1979), and Ph.D. (1982) honors in Chemistry from the University of Tokyo. He then joined the Chemical Resources Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1982 as an Assistant Professor and was subsequently promoted to Associate Professor in 1990 and Professor in 1996. He moved to the University of Tokyo as a Professor in 2004 and was cross-appointed by Shinshu University as a Special Contract Professor in 2017. He became a University Professor at the University of Tokyo in 2019.

Xiaojing Hao, Editorial board member

University of New South Wales, Australia

ORCiD 0000-0001-5903-4481

Professor Xiaojing Hao obtained her PhD in the School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering of UNSW in 2010. She has focused her research on low-cost, high-efficiency thin film solar cells and tandem solar cells since her PhD. Her research interests include the design, synthesis and optimization of light harvesting materials, and associated optoelectronic devices for both solar PV and solar fuel applications. 

Professor Hao has attracted over $46 million research grants since 2011, and published over 200 peer-reviewed journal papers, including publications in Nature Energy, Nature Photonics, Energy and Environmental Science with several fellowships and awards for her research excellence, including 2020 Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science: Malcolm McIntosh Prize for Physical Scientist of the Year, and 2021 Australian Academy of Science Pawsey Medal. 

Linda Nazar, Editorial board member

University of Waterloo, Canada

ORCiD: 0000-0002-3314-8197

Professor Nazar was educated at UBC and the University of Toronto where she received her Ph.D. degree in materials chemistry. She moved to Exxon Corporate Research to take up a Postdoctoral Fellowship. In 1987 she joined the Chemistry Department at the University of Waterloo, where she initiated her independent academic career.

She was promoted to full professor in 2000 and established the Laboratory for Electrochemical Energy Materials.  She has been an invited professor at the IMN/Université de Nantes, the Materials Science department in UCLA, the CNRS in Grenoble, France; and at Caltech as a Moore Distinguished Scholar (Dept of Materials Science) in 2010.

Jan Rossmeisl, Editorial board member

University of Copenhagen

ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7749-6567

Jan Rossmeisl is a Professor of theoretical catalysis and heads the Center for High Entropy Alloy Catalysis at the Department of Chemistry at Copenhagen University. Before joining the University of Copenhagen in April 2015, Jan was an Associate Professor at the Technical University of Denmark. Jan holds master's (2000) and Ph.D (2004) degrees in physics from the Technical University of Denmark.

Jan has supervised more than 30 Ph.D. and Post-docs. He is a co-author of more than 200 publications and co-founder of two startup companies. He is a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher and recipient of the International Society of Electrochemistry's Alexander Kutsenov Prize (2019) and the RSCs John Jeyes Award.

Jennifer Wilcox, Editorial board member

University of Pennsylvania, USA

ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8241-727X

Jennifer Wilcox is the Presidential Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering and Energy Policy at the University of Pennsylvania. Having grown up in rural Maine, Dr. Wilcox has a profound respect and appreciation for nature. That appreciation permeates her work; she focuses on minimizing the climate and environmental impacts of our dependence on fossil fuels. 

She holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering and an M.A. in Chemistry from the University of Arizona and B.A. in Mathematics from Wellesley College. Dr. Wilcox's research takes aim at the nexus of energy and the environment, developing both mitigation and adaptation strategies to minimize negative climate impacts associated with society's dependence on fossil fuels.

Karen Wilson, Editorial board member

Griffith University, Australia

ORCiD: 0000-0003-4873-708X

Karen is currently a Professor of Catalysis at the Centre for Catalysis and Clean Energy at Griffith University in Australia, and previously held professorial positions at RMIT University (2018-23) and Aston University (2013-17). At Aston, she was also the Research Director of the European Bioenergy Research Institute and held a prestigious Royal Society Industry Fellowship in collaboration with Johnson Matthey.

Karen holds a BA and PhD from the University of Cambridge, and an MSc in heterogeneous catalysis from the University of Liverpool, and has also held academic positions at the University of York and Cardiff University. Karen’s research interests lie in the design of tuneable porous materials for sustainable biofuels and chemical production from renewable resources.