Academic Editors
The following people constitute the Editorial Board of Academic Editors for PeerJ Inorganic Chemistry. These active academics are the Editors who seek peer reviewers, evaluate their responses, and make editorial decisions on each submission to the journal. Learn more about becoming an Editor.
Carlos O. Della Védova
Public primary school Nº 79 José M. Bustillo, public secondary school ENET Nº 4 Juan B. Alberdi, public Faculty of Exact Sciences – National University of La Plata (Fac. Cs. Ex., UNLP).
Doctor in Chemistry, Fac. Cs. Ex., UNLP. (Director Prof. Dr. Pedro J. Aymonino).
Postdoctoral studies at the Ruhr University of Bochum (RUB), Germany. (Director Prof. Dr. mult. Dres. h.c. Alois Haas).
Subsequent achievement of the degree of Doctor, Dr. rerum naturalium (Dr. rer. nat.), RUB, Germany.
Maria Paula M Marques
Maria Paula Marques (October 1960, Portugal) received her MSc in Physical-Chemistry (1987), her PhD (1995) and her habillitation (2018) from the University of Coimbra (Portugal). M.P.M. Marques is currently an assistant professor at the Department of Life Sciences of the University of Coimbra, assistant-coordinator of the R&D Group “Molecular Physical-Chemistry” and head of the “Chemoprevention, -Therapy & -Toxicology” laboratory. M.P.M. Marques has authored 140 scientific papers, 8 book chapters and co-edited 3 books. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and a member of the Clinical Infrared and Raman Spectroscopy for Medical Diagnosis (CLIRSPEC), the portuguese delegate for the COST Action Raman4Clinics, an associate editor of RSC Advances and a member of the editorial board of Recent Patents on Anti-Cancer Drug Discovery.
Her research is centred on the development of metal-based antitumour agents and on the early diagnostics of cancer, using vibrational spectroscopy, including neutron techniques and synchrotron-based methods.
Artem Mishchenko
Artem Mishchenko is a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Physics and Astronomy, the University of Manchester. His research interests are in the fields of condensed matter physics and nanotechnology, with the emphasis on quantum transport in van der Waals materials; in addition, he has strong expertise in electronics, nanoelectromechanical systems, and instrumentation development. The major contributions to these fields have been published in over 70 peer-referred papers, many in Science and Nature journals, leading to more than 12000 citations and h-index of 33. He is regularly invited to present his results on international conferences; he also leads the collaboration between Manchester and High Magnetic Field Facilities in Europe. He has initiated several new research directions, such as a tunnelling and capacitance spectroscopy of van der Waals heterostructures, and nanoelectromechanics in 2D materials; his works led to the development of many new functional devices, including nanoscale transistors and photovoltaic sensors. As a recognition of his achievements, he has received several prestigious awards including SNSF Fellowship, EPSRC Early Career Fellowship, and EMFL Prize 2018. He is also named in 2018 list of Highly Cited Researchers from Clarivate Analytics.
Angelo M Taglietti
Since October 2014 AT is Associate Professor in the Chemistry Department of University of Pavia, sector CHIM/03.
He has been tutor of about 25 thesis degree and of two PhD students. He is a referee for several international journals. In December 2013 he obtained the scientific abilitation as “Professore Ordinario” .
Here are briefly listed some of his research interests.
Past:
(i) design, synthesis and characterization of systems able to work as fluorescent sensors for analytes of biological interest;
(ii) kinetic characterization of demetallation or translocation processes involving polyamminic complexes of transition metal ions;
(iii) design, synthesis and characterization of systems able to perform controlled translocation of transition metal cations inside poli-aza ligands;
Recent:
(iv) design, synthesis and characterization of devices containing transition metal ions able to perform supramolecular functions;
(v) functionalization of surfaces and polymeric samples with inorganic (Au, Ag, CuS) nano-objects and/or transition metal complexes with microbicidal action, in order to build antibacterial materials;
(vi) synthesis of anisotropic noble metal (Ag, Au) nano-objects, their surface functionalization for sensing and theranostic applications, study of their SERS (Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy) activity;
(vii) green synthesis of noble metal nanoparticles exploiting agricultural waste materials.
Carlo Santini
Carlo Santini is Associate Professor of General and Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Camerino and in 2013 he received the qualification of Full Professor in Fundamentals of Chemical Sciences and Inorganic Systems. He coordinated the Doctoral Area in Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Biotechnologies of the School of Advanced Studies and since 2015 he has been the head of the Chemistry Division of the School of Science and Technology of the University of Camerino. His research interests are in coordination and organometallic chemistry, in functional metal
complexes and metal-based drugs.
Ralph Mead
I am an organic geochemist studying the fate and transport of anthropogenically and natural derived organic compounds in the Anthropocene.
Charles LB Macdonald
Professor of Chemistry and the Dean of the Faculty of Science at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada and Adjunct Professor of Chemistry at the University of Windsor.
Sudip Pan
Dr. Sudip Pan obtained his Ph.D. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India in 2016 under the supervision of Prof. Pratim K. Chattaraj. In the same year, he moved to work as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Cinvestav Merida under Prof. Gabriel Merino. Towards the end of 2017, he moved to Nanjing Tech University for another postdoctoral stay under Prof. Gernot Frenking and Prof. Lili Zhao. From January 2019 to December 2022 he was working at Philipps Universität Marburg, Germany as a postdoctoral fellow under Prof. Gernot Frenking. Since January, 2023 he has been working as full professor under prestigious 'Tang Aoqing Scholar' title. He is a coauthor of 170 scientific publications in very reputed journals like Science, Nature Review Chemistry, Accounts of Chemical Research, Chemical Review, Chemical Society Review, The Journal of American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie, Nature Communications, Chemical Science etc. and has an H-index of 39. He is acting as an associate editor of Frontiers in Chemistry and editorial board memeber in Molecules, PeerJ Physical Chemistry and PeerJ Inorganic Chemistry. He acted as a co-editor in the book entitled ‘Atomic Clusters with Unusual Structure, Bonding and Reactivity’ which is published by Elsevier. He also acted as a co-editor for the special issue in J. Comp. Chem. in honor of 75th birthday of prof. Gernot Frenking.
His research interests include molecular modeling and understanding of bonding and reactivities
Mahamudur Islam
Dr. M. Islam, M.Sc., Ph.D. studied M.Sc. (Chemistry) and carried out doctoral research at National Institute of Technology, Rourkela. Associate Professor at Purushottam Institute of Engineering & Technology, Rourkela, India.
Mehmet Zahmakiran
Professor in Inorganic Chemistry and Principal Investigator of Nanomaterials and Catalysis Research Group
Lakshminarayanan Piramuthu
Dr. Lakshminarayanan Piramuthu is an Indian Inorganic Chemist and Professor at Kalasalingam University (Kalasalingam Academy of Research and Education), India. He is known for his studies on chemical sensing of anions and molecular self-assembly. He is a recipient of the Research Fellowship of the CSIR-India. ISCA; the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Young Scientist Award for Science and Technology one of the highest Indian science awards, in 2007, for his contributions to chemical sciences.
Dr. Lakshminarayanan received his PhD from the Central Salt & Marine Chemicals Research Institute, CSMCRI, Gujarat, India under the guidance of Professor Pradyut Ghosh, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, India. For his first postdoctoral work he joined the group of Prof. Paul Cremer, at Texas A&M University, USA one of the world leading researchers on the development of bio analytical chemistry and spectroscopy;After, he also gained experiences from Professor M.H Haley and Professor Darren W Johnson, at University of Oregon, USA, Professor Omar M Yaghi & Kentaro at National Institute of Materials Science NIMS, Japan as Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Before joined in Kalasalingam University, India he worked as Research Scientist at Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, IBN, Singapore.
His research interests are focused on chemical sensing, anion coordination and molecular self-assembly.
Emma Gallo
Emma Gallo, received her PhD in Chemistry at University of Lausanne (CH) (supervisor: Prof. C. Floriani).
In 2013 and 2017 received the National Academic Qualification as Full Professor (Abilitazione Nazionale).
In 2007 she was Visiting Professor at the University Pierre et Marie Curie Paris VI (France).
Since 2015 she has been Erasmus Coordinator for the Chemistry Department at University of Milan and Vice-president of the Inorganic Division of the Italian Chemical Society.
She is a member of the Italian Chemical Society and the Society of Porphyrins & Phthalocyanines. Her research interests focus on the synthesis of fine chemicals by using sustainable catalytic processes, Heterogenization of homogeneous catalysts, Synthesis of porphyrin-based chemosensors.
E. Gallo is the author of 96 peer-reviewed publications 2 chapters of books and 80 communications at national and international conferences (24 invited oral presentations).