Academic Editors
The following people constitute the Editorial Board of Academic Editors for PeerJ Physical 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.
Damien P. Debecker
Damien P. Debecker is Associate Professor at the UCLouvain (Belgium), teaching physical chemistry, process engineering, principles of biorefining, and industrial waste treatment. His research group aims at developing new heterogeneous catalysts and biocatalysts, paving the way to the design of more sustainable chemical processes. At the interface between green chemistry, materials chemistry, biochemistry and chemical engineering, his expertise lies in the preparation of innovative solid (bio)catalysts and in their evaluation in relevant reaction conditions. Catalyst preparation methods include the aerosol-assisted sol-gel, emulsion-templating, non-hydrolytic sol-gel, colloidal methods, enzyme immobilization. Targeted applications cover biomass upgrading, volatile organic compounds total oxidation, biocatalyzed organic synthesis, CO2 methanation, olefin metathesis, etc.
Jamie D Walls
Jamie D. Walls obtained his PhD in chemistry in 2003 from UC Berkeley under the supervision of Alex Pines. He subsequently performed postdoctoral research at UCLA (with Prof. Yung-Ya Lin) and at Harvard University (with Prof. Eric J. Heller) before joining the faculty at the University of Miami in 2008, where he is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry.
The research in the Walls group mainly focuses on nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) methodological development and applications and studying spin physics. In particular, there is a focus on research into improving resolution in NMR and expanding the ways we can control spin dynamics.
Hans Martin Senn
Hans Martin Senn obtained his undergraduate and PhD degrees in Chemistry from ETH Zürich. For his undergraduate thesis project in 1996/97, he went to Imperial College, London, where he was supervised by Mike Mingos, who got him into (EHT and DFT) calculations. Back in Switzerland, he did his PhD with Antonio Togni at ETH and Peter Blöchl at the IBM Zürich Research Centre. After a first postdoc with Tom Ziegler in Calgary, he worked in Walter Thiel's group at the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research in Mülheim an der Ruhr (Germany). Since 2007, he has been a lecturer in Theoretical and Computational Chemistry at the University of Glasgow (UK).
Yashonath Subramanian
Obtained Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and then spent time at Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge and Royal Institution of Great Britain, London and University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
Interests include molecular simulation, computational methods, physical chemistry, intermolecular interaction, phase transitions and diffusion. Visiting Professor at several institutions in Europe and Japan such as University of Sassari in Sardinia, Italy as well as IMR, Sendai University.
Jiang Cui
Dr. Cui is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His research is focused on the development of electrode materials for energy storage applications. He is also interested in applying first-principles calculations and in-situ TEM to study the thermodynamics and kinetics of battery materials.
Jiri Vondrasek
Head of Bioinformatics Department at Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech republic, lecturer at faculty of natural sciences, Charles University - Prague, vice president of the Czech Bioinformatics Association and national coordinator of the European infrastructure for biological data - ELIXIR.
Haibo Yu
Dr Haibo Yu completed his undergraduate study at the University of Science and Technology of China and his Ph.D. at the ETH Zürich, Switzerland. He then conducted postdoctoral training at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Chicago in the United States. He joined the School of Chemistry and Molecular Bioscience at the University of Wollongong in July 2010.
Research in his group is focused on developing and applying theoretical and computational tools to understand the structure-dynamics-function relationship in complex (bio)molecular and nanoscale systems.
Hideaki Shirota
Associate Professor of Chemistry, Chiba University, Japan. I study the fs-ps dynamics in condensed phases including molecular liquids, ionic liquids, and hydrogen-bonding systems. In particular, we focus on the intermolecular vibrational dynamics
Jian Zheng
Jian Zheng (郑剑) obtained his Ph.D in inorganic chemistry at Technical University of Munich (Germany) in 2014. He was a research scientist at Southwest University of Science and Technology (China) from 2015 to 2016. He worked as a postoc (2016-2019) and staff scientist (2019-2020) at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (USA). Currently, he is a professor at Sichuan University in China. Research interests: Heterogeneous catalysis; In situ spectroscopic techniques; porous materials.
Marc-Antoine Sani
Marco obtained his PhD from the University of Umeå (Sweden) and the European institute of chemistry and biology (France) in 2008. His field of expertise is biophysics with special interest in solid-state and DNP NMR spectroscopy. In particular, his focus is to develop in situ techniques to study living cells and to elucidate the role of membrane lipids in the molecular mechanism of diseases. He is an editor for ANZMAGazine, Bio-protocol and Protein and Peptide Letters.
Anna K. Croft
Professor at Loughborough University, specialising in biological chemistry, reaction mechanisms, and ionic liquids.
Jordi Cirera
Jordi Cirera (Barcelona, 1979) graduated in Chemistry from the University of Barcelona (2002) and received his doctorate with honors from the same university in 2006. His first postdoctoral stage was at Stanford University (2007-2010) working on spectroscopic studies and theoretical modeling of copper metalloproteins, under the supervision of Prof. Edward I Solomon. Later, he moved to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), for a second postdoctoral stage at Prof. Francesco Paesani ́s group, working in the development and implementation of novel methodologies for the computational modeling of spin-crossover processes in Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs). He has been visiting researcher at the Max-Planck Institute für Festkörperforschung (MPG-FKF) in Stuttgart and the Institut de Physique et Chimie des Matériaux (ICPMS) in Strasbourg, under the supervision of Prof. Jens Kortus, developing new methods for the calculation of the zero-field splitting parameters in transition metal compounds. Dr. Cirera has been awarded with several grants, including a PhD grant from the Spanish government, a grant from Generalitat de Catalunya for his first postdoctoral stage, and a Beatriu de Pinos/Marie Curie COFUND fellowship grant. He has been speaker at 32 conferences and invited speaker at 5 seminars in international research centers, and is co-author of 36 publications in peer review journals (h-index 21, total citations 2371, 7 as a corresponding author) and two book chapters.