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Chemistry Central Journal announces new editorial board members
We are delighted to welcome the following newcomers to the editorial advisory
board.
Professor Ole Andersen
of the University of Roskilde Denmark joins the editorial boards of toxicology and molecular
biology.
Prof Andersen's principal research interests include the toxicology and biokinetics of essential and toxic metals, the role of phase I and II enzymes in the metabolism of persistent xenobiotics and the fate and effects of persistent toxins in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. He is a member of the IUPAC subcommittee on toxicology and the executive secretary for the international commission on occupational health's scientific commission on the toxicology of metals.
Dr Michael Palmer
of the University of Edinburgh joins the editorial boards of chemical
physics and computational and theoretical chemistry.
Dr Palmer's research centres on theoretical chemistry,equilibrium structure, molecular electronic properties, electronically excited states in aromatics and heterocycles, and quadrupole coupling. In particular he is interested in the use of ab initio Hartree-Fock SCF, CI and/or Möller-Plesset methods to study the ground and electronically excited states of organic and inorganic molecules. In addition, his research group uses GAMESS-UK and GAUSSIAN-03, and CRYSTAL-95 for comparisons with solid state chemistry.
Professor Hideo Takezoe of the department of organic and
polymeric materials at the Tokyo institute of technology has joined the liquid
crystals editorial board.
Prof Takezoe's research focuses on the properties of antiferroelectric liquid crystals; the study of banana-shaped liquid crystals; liquid crystals as photonic crystals; the emergence and properties of polar nematic liquid crystals; surface alignment of liquid crystals by surface SHG method; and the study of conjugated molecules by nonlinear optical spectroscopy.
Professor Andrzej Wieckowski of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, joins the electrochemistry editorial board. 
Prof Wieckowski's research centres on electrochemical surface science (atomic and molecular
adsorption), electrocatalysis, corrosion ultra-high vacuum spectroscopies, and
in the application of metal NMR and radioactive labelling to electrochemical surface studies.
He has received several national and
international chemistry awards, including the 2003 David C. Grahame Award from the physical electrochemistry division of the Electrochemical Society, the Jacques Tacussel Prize from the International Society of Electrochemistry, 1999 as well as the US Department of Energy Prize, 1992. Prof Wieckowski has also been the North American editor for Electrochimica
Acta since 2001.
Dr Francois P. Gabbai of the Texas A&M University joins the main group inorganic chemistry editorial board.
Dr Gabbai's research is concerned with the chemistry of both organic and organometallic polyfunctional lewis acids, with the aim of harnessing and utilising the cooperative effects occurring in these systems for the discovery of unusual structures, bonding modes, supramolecules and reactivities.Amongst his distinctions, Dr Gabbai counts the Alexander von Humboldt and Marie Curie European Commission research fellowships from the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (1994-1996 and 1996-1998, respectively) and the National Science Foundation career award (2001). He is also a member of the editorial board for Heteroatom Chemistry.
Dr
Simon Aldridge of the University of Oxford, UK, joins the editorial boards of main group and transition metal chemistry.
The focus of Dr Aldridge's research involves the synthesis of novel organometallic complexes, investigation of their underlying electronic structure and delineation of fundamental patterns of reactivity. This work has recently included the synthetic, structural and reaction chemistry of transition metal complexes containing multiple bonds to group 13 elements; structure/bonding studies of transition metal boryl complexes and investigation of their implication in C-H activation chemistry; and the design and synthesis of novel lewis acids with applications in catalysis and sensors.
Professor Constantinos
G. Vayenas of the University of Patras, Greece, joins the editorial boards of catalysis, chemical engineering and electrochemistry.
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