Federico Rosei, Editor-in-Chief
University of Trieste, Italy
Federico Rosei received MSc and PhD degrees from the University of Rome “La Sapienza” in 1996 and 2001, respectively. He joined the University of Trieste (Italy) as a Professor of Industrial Chemistry in March 2023.
Previously he was a Professor and Former Director of Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Énergie, Matériaux et Télécommunications, Varennes (QC) Canada.
He has held the Junior Canada Research Chair in Nanostructured Organic and Inorganic Materials (2003-2013) and the Senior Canada Research Chair in Nanostructured Materials (2016-2023). He also held the UNESCO Chair in Materials and Technologies for Energy Conversion, Saving and Storage (2013-2023).
Shelley A. Claridge, Associate Editor
Purdue University, USA
Shelley is a Professor of Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering at Purdue University. Her work relates to nanoscale chemical patterning and characterization of 2D material interfaces, and of soft materials including hydrogels for biomedical applications such as tissue engineering. She holds undergraduate degrees in Mathematics, Biochemistry, and Genetics from Texas A&M University.
She worked for six years as a professional software engineer prior to earning a PhD in Chemistry at UC Berkeley in 2008, for work on inorganic nanocrystal bioconjugation. Subsequently, she was an NIH Ruth Kirschstein Postdoctoral Fellow at The Pennsylvania State University and at the UCLA, developing custom scanning probe instrumentation incorporating microwave-frequency bias modulation.
Prof. Claridge's research at Purdue has been recognized with many national and international awards, including the 2016 NSF CAREER Award, 2016 DuPont Young Professor Award, 2017 DARPA Young Investigator Award, 2017 3M Nontenured Faculty Award, 2019 DARPA Director's Fellowship, and most recently the 2022 Schmidt Science Polymaths award.
Jianbin Huang, Associate Editor
Peking University, China
Jianbin Huang is a Professor and Chief of surfactant and colloid research and development at Peking University. He is interested in the physical chemistry of surfactants, especially in mixed surfactant systems. His group mainly focuses on molecular organized assemblies in aqueous solutions, such as vesicles or micelles, and the formation, molecular structures and phase behaviours of amphiphilic systems. Professor Huang has published over 180 articles in international and Chinese academic journals.
Serena Margadonna, Associate Editor
Swansea University, UK
Serena Margadonna joined Swansea University in 2015 as Chair in Materials Engineering and is currently the Head of the School of Engineering and Applied Science. Previously, she has worked in several institutions including the Universities of Cambridge as a Jesus College Research Fellow, Edinburgh as a Dorothy Hodgkin Royal Society Fellow and Oslo as a Professor in Materials Chemistry. In 2021 she was elected as a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales (LSW) and in 2022 she was named one of the Top 50 Women in Engineering: Inventors and Innovators by the Women's Engineering Society for her contribution to the sustainable manufacturing of energy storage solutions.
Over the years, Serena has been the recipient of numerous national and international awards, and she is the author of > 120 publications in the area of multifunctional materials and energy storage devices. She has been responsible for significant advances in the fields of strongly correlated electron systems, superconductivity and molecular magnetism. More recently she focuses on developing sustainable materials and processes for the manufacturing of electrochemical energy storage solutions with a particular focus on sodium-ion batteries.
Ryan M. Richards, Associate Editor
Colorado School of Mines & NREL, USA
Ryan M. Richards is a Professor of Chemistry and Materials Science at the Colorado School of Mines (Mines) and holds a joint appointment at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) both in Golden, Colorado USA. Additionally, Prof. Richards is the Mines lead for the Mines/NREL Nexus which coordinates, facilitates and promotes all joint activities and appointments. Prof. Richards received his BS from Michigan State University, MS from Central Michigan University and PhD from Kansas State University. During his PhD studies, he was a visiting scientist at the Boreskov Institute of Catalysis in Novosibirsk, Russia. From 2000-2002 he was a Max Planck Fellow at the Max Planck Institute für Kohlenforschung in Mülheim, Germany. In 2002 Ryan joined the International University of Bremen (now Constructor University) then joined Mines in 2007. Prof. Richards has received numerous awards throughout his career including being selected as a Fellow of the American Chemical Society (ACS), Mines Faculty Senate Distinguished Lecturer, ACS Nanoscience Chair and ACS International Affairs Committee (ACS liaison to Nigeria and South Africa). Prof. Richards was accepted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in November 2023.
Research in the Richards group is focused on new synthetic methods to control the size, shape and composition of nanoscale materials and apply them in systems integral to alternative energy technologies, pharmaceuticals, biomass upgrading, batteries, and environmental remediation.
