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Chemistry Central Journal's editorial board continues to grow
We are delighted to welcome the following newcomers to the editorial board:
Prof Rudolf Allemann of the school of chemistry at the University of Cardiff joins the biochemistry, bioorganic and chemical biology editorial boards.
Prof Allemann’s research principally focuses on the physical and chemical basis of enzyme catalysis and synthetic biology. His studies include those on sequiterpene synthases as a means of studying a typical example of the generation of molecular diversity from a single precursor by a large family of structurally related enzymes. He is also interested in using NMR spectroscopy and X-ray crystallography to study the mechanisms by which hydrogen tunnelling occur in proteins. Other interests include photonic control of biomacromolecular function, in which small peptides are activated with external light pulses, to control interactions involved in biological processes, and thus better understand processes such as gene expression and cell proliferation.
Professor Garnet K.L. Chan, assistant professor in the department of chemistry and chemical biology at Cornell University, USA, joins the computational and theoretical chemistry editorial board.
Prof Chan’s research interests centre on the electronic structure and dynamics of complex processes, involving the development of new and more powerful theoretical techniques to enable the description of strong electronic correlation problems. Of particular theoretical interest is the construction of fast (polynomial) algorithms to solve the quantum many-particle problem, and the treatment of correlation in time-dependent processes.
He has been the recipient of a number of awards, including the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship (2007) and the National Science Foundation CAREER award (2007).
Professor Charles Okujeni of the department of earth sciences at the University of the Western Cape, joins the editorial boards of
geochemistry and mineralogy.
Prof Okujeni’s principal areas of expertise lie in exploration geochemistry, environmental geochemistry, and economic geology. His research focuses on regolith geochemistry in semi-arid/arid terrain; element dispersion plumes; enhancement of surface geochemical response by selective extraction techniques; the application of alteration and litho-geochemical vectors in prospecting concealed ore mineralization; the geochemistry of the unsaturated zone; and geochemical modelling of pollution plume migration patterns.
Professor Dennis W. Lindle, chair in the department of chemistry at the University of Nevada, USA, joins the editorial boards of chemical physics, physical chemistry and spectroscopy.
As a means of better understanding the electronic structure, molecular geometry, and dynamics of the decay process, Prof Lindle's group investigates the many ways in which atoms and molecules dissipate the large amount of energy received from x-ray absorption. To pursue these efforts, the group uses synchrotron radiation
Professor James K McCusker of the Michigan state university, USA, joins the editorial boards of inorganic, physical and photochemistry.
Prof McCusker's group is interested in the physical and photophysical properties of transition metal complexes including photovoltaic materials and exchange-coupled compounds. He is also interested in electronic structure effects on electron and energy transfer dynamics and the ultrafast excited-state dynamics of transition metal compounds. He uses a range of physical techniques including magnetism and femtosecond time-resolved spectroscopy, as wel as high-level theory.
Dr Alicia Ronco of the department of chemistry at the National University of La Plata (UNLP), Argentina, joins the editorial boards of atmospheric and environmental chemistry and toxicology.
Dr Ronco is presently a Member Argentinean National Research Council and head of the Environmental Research Centre of the Faculty of Sciences of the UNLP.
Prof. Mathias O. Senge, head of organic, medicinal, and biological chemistry at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, joins the editorial boards photochemistry, supramolecular, bioorganic and organic chemistry.
Prof Senge’s interests centre on synthetic bioorganic chemistry, in particular the interface between chemistry and biology/medicine. Interests include conformational control of biological cofactors, nonplanar porphyrins, synthesis and reactivity of heteroaromatic compounds, porphodimethenes, biosynthesis of tetrapyrroles; catecholase reactions. In the field of photochemistry, he is interested in photosynthesis and photobiology, photosensitization, light as a 'drug', the function of chlorophyll, model compounds for electron transfer, photodynamic (cancer) therapy; cancer indication, and schizophrenia.
Professor John R. Sodeau, head of physical chemistry at University College Cork, Ireland, joins the editorial boards of atmospheric chemistry, photochemistry and physical chemistry.
Prof Sodeau’s research centres on the photochemistry and photophysics of compounds in gas, liquid and solid phases with applications to atmospheric chemistry and biotechnology. His present research is directed towards the following topics: ‘Ices’ and their influence on ozone depletion mechanisms in the troposphere and stratosphere, the atmospheric chemistry of aerosols, applications of bacterial semiconductors in clean technology and toxicological studies; in addition to the photophysics of siderophores.
Professor Andreas Türler, chair of the radiochemistry at the Technische Universität München, Germany, joins the editorial board of nuclear and radio chemistry.
Prof Türler's research interests include the chemistry and physics of super heavy elements including the decay characteristics of heavy and super heavy nuclides, the synthesis of heavy and super heavy elements, nuclear transformation reactions, and chemical and kinematic separation systems. He is also interested in radio analytic techniques, such as neutron activation analysis, promptly gamma ray neutron activation analysis (PGNAA) with cold neutrons, and accelerator measured spectroscopy (AMS) heavy nuclides (e.g. Pu). Other interests include isotope effects of tritium, migration of actinides in colloid form, refuse disposal (nuclear management waste), and neutron and gamma-ray tomography.
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