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.
Carmelo La Rosa
Carmelo La Rosa is a Professor of Physical-Chemistry at the University of Catania, Italy. He received a master’s degree in Chemistry and Ph.D. in Physical-Chemistry from the University of Catania (Italy), working on lyotropic liquid crystals. After completing postdoctoral training on thermodynamics and kinetics of protein folding-unfolding at the University of Catania and Leiden University (The Netherland), he joined the department of Chemical Sciences, University of Catania. His current research focuses on the biophysics of amyloidogenic proteins and their interaction with model membranes.
Fu-Ming Tao
EDUCATION
Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, Ph.D., Chemistry, 1991
Suzhou University, Suzhou, PRC, M.S., Chemistry, 1985
University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, PRC B.S., Chemistry, 1982
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Professor, California State University, Fullerton, CA, 2005-present
Associate Professor, California State University, Fullerton, CA, 2000-2005
Assistant Professor, California State University, Fullerton, CA, 1995-2000
Research Associate, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 1992-1995
Research Associate, Brown University, Providence, RI, 1991-1992
Teaching Assistant, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, 1986-1991
Lecturer, Suzhou University, Suzhou, China, 1985-1986
Alexander M. Puziy
Alexander M. Puziy is Head of Department of Carbon Adsorbents for Medicine and Protection of Environment at Institute for Sorption and Problems of Endoecology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. His research interests include development of new advanced carbon adsorbents and catalysts with enhanced performance for medical and environmental use as well as for energy storage. Alexander M. Puziy is expert in synthesis of highly porous carbon adsorbents using polymer and natural (coal, agricultural by-products) precursors, developing porosity in desired pore size range, functionalization of carbon adsorbents as well as characterization of texture, porous structure and surface chemistry.
Lucian Lucia
Lucian Lucia currently serves as a Professor in the Departments of Forest Biomaterials and Chemistry and as a faculty in the programs of Fiber & Polymer Science and Environmental Sciences at North Carolina State University. His laboratory, His Laboratory of Soft Materials & Green Chemistry probes fundamental materials science topics related to the chemistry of renewable polymers. He received his Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the University of Florida for modeling photoinduced charge separation states of novel Rhenium (I)-based organometallic ensembles as a first order approximation of photosynthesis.
He began his professional career as an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Paper Science and Technology at the Georgia Institute of Technology examining the mechanism of singlet oxygen’s chemistry with lignin & cellulose.
A large part of his recent work has been focused on the chemical modification of cellulosics for biomedical applications.
He teaches a undergraduate historical perspectives class on paper history and engineering, an upper level undergraduate green chemistry class & lab, and a graduate student seminar series.
Thomas Kodger
Thomas completed his PhD from Harvard University in 2015 under Prof. David Weitz and postdoctoral studies from University of Amsterdam with Prof. Peter Schall. He is currently an assistant professor in the Physical Chemistry and Soft Matter laboratory at Wageningen University & Research in The Netherlands having joined in 2017.
Duc D Nguyen
Dr. Duc Nguyen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Kentucky. His research interests lie at the interface of data science, mathematical biology, and scientific computing. He has developed several popular online servers for drug design communities such as FRI, RI-Score, DG-GL, and AGL-Score. By integrating mathematics and deep learning, Dr. Nguyen won the most number of contests in the past three D3R Grand Challenges, an annual worldwide competition series in computer-aided drug design. That success has stimulated his partnerships with Bristol-Myers Squibb for developing quantitative systems pharmacological models and with Pfizer for drug de novo hit identification.
Ralph Mead
I am an organic geochemist studying the fate and transport of anthropogenically and natural derived organic compounds in the Anthropocene.
Michael T Ruggiero
Michael Ruggiero is an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the University of Vermont in the United States. He received undergraduate degrees in chemistry and mathematics from the State University of New York (SUNY) College at Geneseo, and his Master’s and Ph.D. from Syracuse University, both in New York State. His doctoral work, performed under the guidance of Professor Timothy Korter, focused on combining experimental terahertz time-domain spectroscopy with ab initio density functional theory simulations, where he pursued the electronic origins of intermolecular forces in molecular crystals. Following a successful defense, he took up an EPSRC-sponsored postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, working with Professor Axel Zeitler in the Terahertz Applications Group. At Cambridge, his focus shifted to disordered molecular solids, with the goal of understanding the molecular dynamics responsible for solid-state crystallization of amorphous drugs. After almost three years in Cambridge, Ruggiero went back to America to take up a position of Assistant Professor at the University of Vermont, where he is currently combining theoretical simulations with experimental spectroscopy. His work is highly interdisciplinary, sitting at the intersection of chemistry, physics, pharmacy, materials science, and computer science, and as such he is a heavy collaborator with groups from around the world.
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
David L Cheung
Dr. David Cheung is a Lecturer in Biophysical Chemistry in the School of Chemistry, University of Galway. Prior to this he was Lecturer in Physical Chemistry in the Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry, University of Strathclyde and a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow in the Department of Chemistry and Centre for Scientific Computing, University of Warwick.
Dr. Cheung began his academic career at the University of Durham where he worked in the group of Prof. Mark Wilson. Following this he performed postdoctoral research at the University of Bielefeld (in the group of Prof. Dr. Friederike Schmid) and University of Warwick (in the groups of Prof. Michael Allen and Alessandro Troisi) before beginning his independent career.
Clara Gomes
Dr. Clara Gomes is an Assistant Researcher at Laboratório Associado para a Química Verde (LAQV), NOVA School of Science and Technology (FCT NOVA), in the Molecular Synthesis group. Since November 2018, she is also the Service Responsible and Service Scientist in the Single Crystal X-Ray Crystallography Service, with duties of implementing and managing the Structure Determination Service and the X-Ray Facility (Department of Chemistry, FCT NOVA). She graduated in Chemistry from the University of Coimbra and finished a MSc in Organic Chemistry in 2003 at the same University, working on the synthesis of heterocyclic compounds. In 2009, she completed a PhD in Chemistry, with specialization in Organometallic Chemistry, at Instituto Superior Técnico (Universidade Técnica de Lisboa), under the supervision of Dr. Pedro T. Gomes. From 2010 to 2018, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Centro de Química Estrutural (IST), where she continued to work on the development of new organometallic/coordination catalytic systems for polymerization of olefins and in the application of boron molecules as luminescent materials, on mechanochemistry and crystallography (SCXRD).
Her research spans the areas of synthetic coordination/organometallic chemistry, whenever possible employing green chemistry synthetic methodologies, such as mechanochemistry, catalysis, and supramolecular chemistry, in the synthesis of flexible metal-organic frameworks and cages for structure elucidation of important non-crystalline target guests, such as oils, liquids or amorphous solids.
Citation metrics in Scopus (ID 24343503400) indicate 72 articles with citation data, 1 of them as corresponding author (>780 citations and h-index 16, August 2022), 2 book chapters, 1 encyclopedia entry and 2 datasets (as corresponding author), 2 patents, 26 oral communications (11 invited and 8 co-authored) and co-authored 55 poster communications.
She has been successful in obtaining financial funding. In 2018, she was awarded a 238k project (PTDC/QUI-QIN/31585/2017), as Principal Investigator. Currently, she is co-PI due to the change in her professional affiliation from IST-ULisboa to LAQV, FCT NOVA, but still assuming coordination duties. She is/was a team member in 13 other projects, including the recently approved Horizon Europe project IMPACTIVE (nr. 101057286) to be started in 2022. She is a Core Group (Gender Balance Coordinator and Grant Awarding Coordinator), Communications Team and a WG1 member of COST Action CA18112.
In the last 5 years, she supervised 14 students (2 MSc, 1 MSc research fellow, 3 internships, 7 BSc projects and 1 ongoing), and tutored 4 PhD students in XRD. In the last 5 years, she was in the jury in 18 academic examinations (including PhD), being the main examiner in 9. She is an Independent Expert for the European Commission (Expert ID: EX2021D410077, Chemical Sciences) and participates in international panels for evaluation of projects and individual grants (Poland, Czech Republic).
Paul T Griffiths
Lecturer at Bristol in atmospheric chemistry. I use models to study atmospheric chemistry, climate and their feedbacks