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Chemistry Central Journal announces newcomers to the editorial board
We are delighted to welcome Professor Dr. Dieter M. Kolb of the institute for electrochemistry at the University of Ulm, Germany, Professor Viktor A Safonov of Moscow State University, and Dr Jacob Spendelow of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA, to the electrochemistry editorial advisory board.
Prof
Kolb's reseach is focussed on electrochemistry
and atomic nanostructures, reflectance spectroscopy of electrodes and
adsorbates, single-crystal electrochemistry, adsorption, and matrix-isolated
atoms and clusters. He was an early adapter of scanning tunnelling microscopy to
characterize atomically-smooth electrode surfaces. His recent work, however, has continued
his emphasis on atomic-level understanding of metal/adsorbate interactions,
using numerous sophisticated surface science techniques.Among his
many awards, Prof Kolb boasts the Electrodeposition research award of the Electrochemical Society, the
Walther-Nerst Gedenkmünze of the Deutsche Bunsengesellschaft, the David Grahame
Award of the Electrochemical Society, the Luigi Galvani Medal of the Italian Chemical Society, and the
Faraday Medal of the Royal Society of Chemistry. In addition he is a former president of the
International Society of Electrochemistry
(2003-2004).
Prof Safonov's main scientific interests involve the theoretical problems of metal corrosion including investigations of passivation processes, corrosion in organic and water-organic media, mechanisms of multistep metal dissolution reactions, double electrical layer structure at solid electrodes (including binary alloys) in aqueous and nonaqueous solutions, initial oxidation of metals, chemisorption of ions and molecules at electrodes, and the electrodeposition of crystallographically amorphous metals and alloys. He is presently the executive editor-in-chief of journal Elektrokhimiya, a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences' scientific council on electrochemistry and deputy chairman of the department of electrochemistry at in the faculty of chemistry at Moscow state university.
Dr Spendelow's research background is in chemical engineering, in particular the development of catalysts for fuel cells that use basic electrolytes, as well as the development of such fuel cell prototypes.
We are delighted to welcome Professor Ioannis Pashalidis of the University of Cyprus, Professor Peter Warwick, head of the chemistry department at Loughborough University, UK, and Professor Mats Jonsson, head of the nuclear chemistry division at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, to the radio and nuclear chemistry editorial advisory board.
Prof
Pashalidis' research involves the study of heavy elements and in
particular f-element ions in aquatic systems, and the interaction of
f-element ions with chelating agents (eg hydroxide, carbonate, humate
etc). His studies also focus on the interaction of f-element ions with
chelating agents of clinical use to determine and characterize the
species formed, assess their behaviour under physiological conditions
and compare the coordination chemistry of d- and f-elements with
organic chelators. He is a member of the European Association for Chemical and Molecular
Sciences' working party on nuclear
and radiochemistry as well as being involved in collaborations with the
Institute for Nuclear Waste Management (KFK-Germany).
Prof Warwick's environmental radiochemistry research group focuses on water chemistry including metal interactions with inorganic colloids, low molecular weight natural organics, anthropogenic species and naturally occurring organic colloids, surface interactions, in particular metal and metal-complex interactions with mineral and clay surfaces in the presence and absence of humic materials, the mobility of aqueous species, and predictive computer modelling for the safe disposal of radioactive wastes.
Prof Jonsson's research centres on free radical chemistry. In particular he is interested in thermochemical properties of free radicals, solvent effects on redox properties of free radicals, Kinetics of radical reactions, the oxidation of proteins and radical reactions in heterogeneous systems. He is a member of the Nordic Society for Free Radical Chemistry.
We are delighted to welcome Dr Bruce A. Fowler of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Georgia, USA, Professor Max Costa, chairman of the department of environmental medicine at New York University, Professor Ulla B Vogel and Professor Håkan Wallin of the National Research Centre for the Working Environment, Denmark, to the editorial boards of molecular biology and toxicology.
Dr Fowler's current research is focused on the toxicology of
chemical mixtures involving metals, particularly in relation to semiconductors,
lead, cadmium, arsenic mixtures and the role of lead-binding proteins in
mediating the toxicity of this ubiquitous metal to the kidney and brain. He is
also interested in molecular biomarkers, mechanisms of cell injury and aquatic
toxicology. He has served on a number of
State, national and international committees in his areas of expertise,
including a period as a temporary advisor to the
World Health Organization and the International Agency for Research
Against Cancer. Amongst numerous other duties, he is a
current member of the council of the Society of Toxicology,
as well as having been appointed in 2003 as the assistant director for
science in the division of toxicology and to the Senior Biomedical
Research Service at the US department of health and human services' Agency for Toxic Substances and
Disease Registry.
Prof
Costa's research centres on environmental health, toxicology and
chemical carcinogenesis. Amongst his other undertakings, he is a member
of the board of associate editors and a member of the editorial board
for the NIEHS' Environmental Health Perspectives, a member
of the Editorial Board for BioMetals and Biological
Trace Element Research, a member of the editorial
advisory board for Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology, and
associate editor for Cell Biology and
Toxicology. He has served on numerous study sections
including the NIH
toxicology study section. He is a member of the American Society for Cell Biology, the American Society for Biochemistry and
Molecular Biology, the Society of
Toxicology, and the American Association for Cancer Research. Prof Costa also joins the editorial board of
environmental chemistry.
Prof
Vogel's research interests centre on the identification of carcinogens
in the working environment, potency evaluation of carcinogens, and
molecular epidemiological investigations of the influence of individual
variation in inherited susceptibility to carciongens. She is interested
in calculations regarding the quantity of a given substance required to
induce cancer. Her group also examines the impact of indvidual
variation in susceptibility to carcinogens in population-based
molecular epidemiological studies, as well as investigating how the
risk of contracting lung cancer, skin cancer and breast cancer is
influenced by inherited variations in the ability to repair damaged
DNA. Prof Vogel is also an adjunct professor at the Institute for
Science, Systems and Models at Roskilde University, Denmark.
In
addition, Professor Paul
Wrede of the the molecular biology and bioninformatics institute at Charite-Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, joins
the editorial boards of biochemistry, cheminformatics and molecular modelling
and molecular biology. His research group is involved in medical bio-computer
science and animal nutrition within veterinary medicine. He also has interests in immunology and evolutionally biology.
We welcome Dr Alistair Boxall of the environment department at the University of York, UK, to the editorial boards of toxicology, aquatic and environmental chemistry.
Dr
Boxall's research interests include the fate, behaviour and effects of
pesticides, biocides, veterinary medicines, industrial chemicals and
nanomaterials on the environment. He has worked in a number of areas
including environmental risk assessment, bioavailability of
contaminants, environmental monitoring, toxicant identification
evaluation, environmental fate modelling, and the use of molecular
modelling techniques to predict toxicity. Amongst other postings he has
previously worked at the Plymouth Marine Laboratory and the Water Research
Centre. He is
or has been a member of a number of professional bodies, including the UK
Veterinary Products Committee, the European Food Safety Authority's ad hoc committee on risk assessment of
feed additives, the Royal Society of Chemistry's expert group on water, and the bioactives group of the
Society of Chemical Industry.
We are delighted to welcome Professor Nicola Pohl of the Iowa State University, and Professor George A O'Doherty of West Virginia University, USA, to the carbohydrate chemistry editorial board.
Prof Pohl's research centres on bioanalytical and bioorganic chemistry and
the synthesis of natural products. Her group is interested in examining the
mechanisms by which fidelity is maintained in carbohydrate biosynthetic
processes and how substrate binding relates to catalysis across the three major
branches of life. She was the recipient of a National Science
Foundation CAREER award in 2004 and was named an Alfred P. Sloan research fellow in 2005. She also serves on the editorial advisory board of Carbohydrate
Research.
Prof O'Doherty's research centres on the de novo synthesis of natural and unnatural structures, with a particular focus on the synthesis of biologically active carbohydrates. His group uses asymmetric catalysis to create all the stereochemistry of monosaccharides, in addition to using diastereoselective catalysis to control the stereochemistry of the glycosidic bond and thus complex oligosaccharides. He boasts numerous awards, including Eberly College of Arts and Science Outstanding Researcher Award (2007) and the Shanghai Normal University Honored Professor award (2005).
Professor Israel Wachs of Lehigh University, USA, joins the editorial boards of catalysis, chemical engineering, and surface and interfacial chemistry.
Prof Wachs' research focuses on surface oxides, in particular the
relationship between structure and surface reactivity (reduction properties and
catalytic activity or selectivity). He applies his research to various other
areas including mixed metal oxide catalysis, ceramic material and
pigment chemistry, and the development of electronic devices that find wide
application in the pollution control industry, chemical industry, petroleum
industry and the advanced materials industries. During his industrial career in research and development at Exxon
(1977-86), Prof Wachs obtained around 100 patents. He is also presently an
editorial adviser for Catalysis
Letters, Topics in
Catalysis and Research in Chemical Intermediates.
We also welcome Dr Mehmet Karakus (Pamukkale University, Turkey), Professor Luminita Silaghi-Dumitrescu (Babes-Bolyai University, Romania) and Professor Andrey Karasik (Arbusov Institute, Kazan, Russia) to the editorial board of main group inorganic chemistry.
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