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Chemistry Central continues to recruit excellent researchers to its editorial board
We are delighted to announce the arrival of the following new editorial board members:
Professor Alan Armstrong of Imperial College London, UK, joins the editorial boards of organic and synthetic chemistry.
Prof Armstrong's research is focussed on the development of new synthetic methodologies as well as target-oriented organic synthesis, including the total synthesis of natural products. Of key importance in both areas is the need to develop new ways of controlling both relative and absolute stereochemistry. His other interests include the use of molecular modelling in the prediction of the properties of new molecules.
He has been awarded numerous awards, including the Royal Society of Chemistry's Corday-Morgan Medal and Prize (2002), and has been a member of the EPSRC peer review college since 1997.
Dr James Barker of Kingston University, UK, joins the editorial boards of analytical chemistry, nuclear/radio chemistry, medicinal chemistry and toxicology. 
Dr Barker's research broad range of interests include mass spectrometry - in particular, the separation and characterisation of compounds obtained from plant extracts and their possible therapeutic use -, the toxicological evaluation and monitoring of contaminated landfill sites in addition to radiological analysis, the LC and LCMS analysis of peptides, and forensic analysis of materials and drugs of abuse in relation to vehicular crime.
He has been a member of the RSC's analytical chemists' panel of assessors since 1997, acting as Chairman from 2001-2004.
Dr Dwayne Heard of the University of Leeds, UK, joins the editorial boards of atmospheric chemistry, chemical kinetics and photochemistry.
Dr Heard's research is focussed on making field measurements of key atmospheric intermediates, such as the hydroxyl, halogen and peroxy radicals, using laser-induced fluorescence spectroscopy. His group has carried out such field-tests worldwide. Other interests include studies on the chemical kinetics and photochemistry of atmospheric reactions, using laser flash-photolysis combined with a variety of laser spectroscopic probes.
Professor A. J. Shaka of the University of California, Irvine, USA, joins the editorial boards of NMR, ESR and NQR spectroscopy, and physical chemistry.
Prof Shaka's research centres on improving NMR techniques and applying them to high field solution experiments from small molecules to very large proteins. His group collaborates with structural biologists, organic chemists, crystallographers, and theoretical chemists in the search for improved methods to identify and characterize molecular structure and dynamics in solution.
Dr. Balakrishnan Naduvalath of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA, joins the editorial boards of atmospheric chemistry, chemical physics and computational/theoretical chemistry. He has also been appointed Section Editor for both atmospheric and computational/theoretical chemistry.
Dr. Naduvalath's research interests lie principally in the development of theoretical and computational algorithms to study chemical reactions in a wide variety of environments. The computational methods are applied to the quantitative description of processes of interest in the earth's atmosphere. He is also interested in astrochemsitry as well as fundamental issues in atomic and molecular physics.
Dr Patrick McGowan of the University of Leeds, UK, joins the editorial boards of chemical biology, and transition metal and organometallic chemistry.
Dr McGowan is interested in the synthesis of anti-tumour compounds, including the use of soluble titanium compounds on cis-platin resistant cell lines. Other interests include the preparation, characterisation and evaluation of early and late transition metal compounds as catalysts, for instance in the hydrogenation of polybutadiene. His group is also interested in the development of late transition metal dihydrogen complexes, for instance those involving functionalised cyclopentadienyl and tri-azacyclononane ligands.
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