The Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) has announced that four of its leading journals will be under the direction of new editors in chief beginning in 2022. The new editors in chief and their journals are: Chuan He, Ph.D., of ACS Chemical Biology; Xiaodong Chen, Ph.D., of ACS Nano; Romain Quidant, Ph.D., of ACS Photonics; and Laura Gagliardi, Ph.D., of the Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation.
Dr. Chuan He, the incoming editor in chief of ACS Chemical Biology, is the John T. Wilson distinguished service professor in the departments of chemistry and of biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of Chicago. His research group studies a broad range of topics in chemical biology, nucleic acid chemistry and biology, epigenetics, and genomics. He is the recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER Award, the American Chemical Society Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award and the ACS Chemical Biology Lectureship Award, among many other awards.
The new editor in chief of ACS Nano, Dr. Xiaodong Chen, is the president’s chair professor in materials science and engineering, and professor of chemistry and professor of medicine, by courtesy, at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He holds a joint appointment as the scientific director and principal scientist at the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research. Chen’s research focuses on developing soft materials for applications in flexible devices, energy storage and healthcare. Chen serves on the editorial advisory boards of ACS Nano and ACS Applied Bio Materials and is an associate editor of ACS Materials Letters.
Dr. Romain Quidant, will lead ACS Photonics. Quidant is a professor at ETH Zürich and director of the Nanophotonic Systems Laboratory. His research group’s activities are focused on the field of nanophotonics, at the interface between photonics and nanotechnology. His research is interdisciplinary, using the unique properties of nanophotonics systems as an enabling tool to address open questions in different disciplines of science, all the way from fundamental to applied research and innovation. Quidant has served the ACS Photonics community since 2014, as an associate editor through 2019, as an executive editor beginning in 2020 and as interim editor in chief since mid-2021.
The Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation (JCTC) will be led by Dr. Laura Gagliardi, the Richard and Kathy Leventhal professor in the department of chemistry, the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, and the James Franck Institute at the University of Chicago. Gagliardi is a theoretical and computational chemist known for her contributions to the development of electronic structure methods and their use for understanding complex chemical systems. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is the recipient of numerous awards. Gagliardi is an associate editor for the Journal of the American Chemical Society and served as an associate editor for JCTC from 2016 to 2020.
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