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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.

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Laurence Weatherley

Laurence Weatherley is the Albert P Learned Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Kansas. Weatherley received his PhD from the University of Cambridge in Chemical Engineering for research on ion exchange kinetics in macroporous resins. He has published over 250 research papers, articles, conference papers and other contributions. Dr Weatherley is a chartered professional engineer (UK), is a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers, United Kingdom, and is a Fellow of the Institution of Professional Engineers of New Zealand. He also holds a visiting Professorship at the Lodz University of Technology, Poland. His research interests are in the area of environmental process engineering and green chemical engineeringwith a focus on the intensification of chemical reaction and separation processes involving liquid mixtures and solid/ liquid mixtures. Process intensification is the development of small, highly efficient methods of processing which take up less space, use smaller amounts of hazardous chemicals, and are suited to the application of new “green” chemistry.

Biplab Joarder

He received his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune in 2015 on functional properties of biomolecule-based coordination polymers. He was an AITF postdoctoral researcher with Prof. George Shimizu at the University of Calgary followed by a JSPS postdoctoral fellow at Kyushu University, Japan. His current research endeavors are focused on developing inorganic and organic hybrid porous materials for energy and environmental applications.

Carsten Baldauf

I have studied Biochemistry at Universität Leipzig. In my Diploma thesis I started to use computer simulations (quantum chemistry) to study structure formation in non-natural peptides. I continued along these lines in my PhD studies, also in Leipzig. During a PostDoc stay at BIOTEC of TU Dresden, I started using empirical models (a.k.a. force fields) and dedicated myself to the development of structure search techniques with a focus on molecular docking. My next stop then was in Shanghai. With a Lynen Postdoc fellowship by Humboldt Foundation, I had the chance to investigate regulatory mechanisms and function of the blood protein von Willebrand factor, a key molecule in primary hemostasis. Since 2010, I am a scientist at Fritz Haber Institute (FHI) of the Max Planck Society, since 2013 I am a a group leader. Our work here deals with biomolecules in thin air (i.e. theoretical gas-phase spectroscopy of peptides and carbohydrates), large-scale overview studies on amino acid-cation structures, and organic reactions. Recently, I got interested in data science, data infrastructures and ontologies. I am teaching at Freie Universtität Berlin and was a visiting professor at Universität Leipzig replacing the Chair for Theoretical Chemistry. Since January 2020 I am Representative of the Board at Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society.

Łukasz Szeleszczuk

Dr. Łukasz Szeleszczuk is a Professor at the Medical University of Warsaw. His main areas of interest are DFT calculations, especially for the solid state systems, and solid state NMR spectroscopy.

Carlo Petrongolo

RECENT RESEARCH ACTIVITY
Quantum theories and calculations of molecular excitations and dynamics
Nonadiabatic effects in triatomics
About 110 papers in international referred journals and books

POSITIONS & DEGREES
1987-present Professor of Physical Chemistry, Universita' di Sassari, Universita' di Siena, IPCF-CNR, Pisa, Italy
1980-86 Associated professor of Physical Chemistry, Universita' di Pisa
1980 von Humboldt Fellow, University of Bonn, Germany

VISITING POSITIONS
2016 Istituto di Struttura della Materia, CNR, Roma, Italy.
2012, 2005 University of Barcelona, Spain.
2008 University of Besançon, France.
2000 Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, USA
1999 Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.
1979-95 Universities of Bonn and Wuppertal, Germany
1975 J. Hopkins University, Baltimore, MA, USA

DIRECTOR of SCIENTIFIC PROJECTS
2008-11 ESA-ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
2005-06 Integrated actions Italy-Spain
1987-2011 Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Universita', e della Ricerca, Sassari and Siena
1984-99 CNR, Pisa, Sassari, and Siena
1982-1983 NATO, Bonn

SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES
Societa' Chimica Italiana, European Photochemical Association, Royal Chemical Society, American Chemical Society.

SCOPUS AUTHOR
6602079531

WoS RESEARCHER
J-8745-2016

ORCID
0000-0002-9655-7641

RESEARCH GATE
Carlo Petrongolo

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Elise Dumont

Dr. Elise Dumont is a professor at the Université Côte d'Azur, Institut de Chimie de Nice.

She is an expert in Computational Chemistry and Biochemistry, using methods ranging from quantum mechanics (mainly DFT) to classical mechanics.

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.

Jinghui Luo

Dr. Jinghui Luo is a Scientist at the Paul Scherrer Institute, switzerland.

His research group is focused on understanding the structure and function of amyloid aggregates in neurodegeneration with two objectives:

(1) Optimizing stoichiometry-defined amyloid oligomers towards a new understanding of neurodegeneration.
(2) Characterizing the structure and function of amyloid condensates with the disease-related molecules in neurodegeneration.

Lucie Khemtemourian

Lucie Khemtemourian received an engineer diploma in chemistry from the Ecole Européenne de Chimie, Polymères et Matériaux (ECPM) in Strasbourg, France. She also received a Master degree of chemistry from the University of Saarbrücken, Germany. She performed her Ph.D. in Biophysics working on the synthesis, the structure and the dynamics of membrane peptides. Then, she joined Antoinette Killian’s group (University Utrecht) for 3 years as a postdoc. She worked on the interactions of amyloid peptides and artificial membranes using a biophysical approach. She was appointed associate scientist at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in 2009 in Laboratory of Biomolecules (Paris). In 2019, she moved to the Institute of Chemistry and Biology of Membranes and Nano-objects (CBMN) in Bordeaux and joined the team “spectroscopy and imaging of membrane active peptides”.
Using a pluridisciplinary approach conjugating peptide chemistry, biophysics and biochemistry, she has been interested in studying amyloid forming proteins. In particular, she tries to i) understand the process of fibril formation in solution and in membrane environments, ii) determine why some proteins are toxic and form fibrils only to specific cell lines, iii) find new molecules that inhibit fibril formation and cell death, and to iv) understand the behaviour of extrinsic and intrinsic factors that modulate fibril formation.

Robert S Weber

Dr. Robert Weber is a Senior Engineer (Emeritus) at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. He is experienced in heterogeneous catalysis, reaction kinetics, especially as they relate to renewable energy and process intensification. Dr. Weber was formerly, an associate editor of the Journal of Catalysis and Energy & Fuels. He currently serves on the editorial advisory boards of ACS Omega and AIChE Journal of Advanced Manufacturing and Processing.