Board, Awards and other news

At Chemistry – An Asian Journal, we're pleased to kick off the new year by announcing the new members of our Editorial Board, who are introduced below. We're looking forward to working with them over the next four years, as they join the 12 members of the Editorial Board who are renewing their terms of service. These board members support the professional editorial team through their scientific expertise and their perspective as authors, referees and readers of many different journals and advise us on many different aspects of the publication process.

We're also welcoming 36 new members to the International Advisory Board and seven new members of the Early Career Advisory Board (ECAB). These boards provide broad input and feedback to the journal and give a voice to many different parts of the chemistry community. Look for an introduction of the new ECAB in an upcoming editorial!

In October last year, we celebrated the third Ryoji Noyori ACES Award Symposium and presentation of the award to Prof. Takzuo Aida.

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There was a special welcome from Prof. Ryoji Noyori, Nobel Laureate and Honorary Editorial Board Chair of the journal. He spoke about the importance of chemists working together across disciplines and how we are uniquely positioned to solve some of the most pressing issues of our time. An important message as we face the double crises of the COVID-19 pandemic and accelerating climate change!

Look out for the call for nominations for the 2023 award, which will be released soon. The Ryoji Noyori ACES Award is the highest honor offered by the Asian Chemical Editorial Society (ACES) and recognizes outstanding research in chemistry. The award is the core of the Ryoji Noyori ACES Award Symposium planned for 2023. It consists of a €1000 prize and an invitation to speak at the symposium with expenses covered.

The celebrations continue at our sister journal, the Asian Journal of Organic Chemistry, which has its 10th anniversary this year.

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Check out the anniversary special collection with contributions from present and past members the journal's Editorial, International Advisory and Early Career Advisory Boards.

The third ACES journal, ChemNanoMat, has deepened its connections to the research community in India.

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The excellent work from this rapidly growing community is highlighted in a dedicated special collection on Materials Chemistry in India, which will be published together with The Chemical Record.

I'm also happy to announce a few editorial changes that are designed to make authors’ and readers’ lives easier. At Chemistry Europe and ACES journals, we constantly strive to find ways in which we can improve the author experience at our journals. With this in mind, in October last year we introduced an important change that makes the submission process simpler than ever. For manuscripts reporting the results of primary research, we have now only one article type – the Research Article. We combined the previous article types Full Paper and Communication into the new Research Article, giving our authors the flexibility and freedom to write their research how it needs to be written, submitting a research article to this journal which can be of any length. For more information on this and the other types of manuscripts we publish, we encourage you to consult the journal's Notice to Authors page.

To help make it easier for readers and authors to cite articles immediately after publication, we will be using eLocators to identify articles for Chemistry – An Asian Journal from January 2022. Instead of page numbers, manuscripts will be identified by a 10-character reference derived from the article's digital object identifier (DOI). An example citation is “A. Author, B. Scientist, C. Researcher, Chem. Asian J. 2022, 17, e202201234”.

The eLocators serve the same purpose as page numbers in print media and are being more frequently used in the publishing industry, as most research is published online. They have the advantage that your article is immediately citable in its final form upon acceptance, rather than having to wait for it to be assigned to an issue. This is a positive step in the digitization of science publishing and makes life easier for our journal's authors and readers. There is no change to the citation style for articles published in issues up to the end of 2021; these will still be cited with page numbers.

Thanks for your support of Chemistry – An Asian Journal. We're looking forward to receiving your next excellent manuscript!

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Asim Bhaumik is presently working as a Senior Professor at the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, India. He has obtained his PhD degree from the CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India in 1997. After that he did his post-doctoral studies as a JSPS fellow at The University of Tokyo, Japan during 1997–1999. Then he was Associate Researcher at Toyota Central R & D Labs. Inc. Japan during 1999–2001. His areas of research interest include designing novel porous nanomaterials like: COFs, POPs, MOFs, metal phosphates and phosphonates, metallosilicates, periodic mesoporous organosilicas and functionalized mesoporous materials for energy and environmental applications; H2/CO2 storage materials, adsorptive removal of heavy metals like Hg/As/Cd/Pb from contaminated water; electrochemical and photoelectrochemical water-splitting; photocatalysis, heterogeneous catalysis for CO2 fixation reactions, biomass conversions and synthesis of organic fine chemicals. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, UK (FRSC).

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Hye Ryung Byon received her B.S. in 2002 from Sookmyung Women's University. Then she studied at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) with Prof. Hee Cheul Choi and received her Ph. D. degree in 2008. She worked at MIT as a post-doctoral associate with Prof. Yang Shao-Horn. In 2011, she launched her research group, Byon Initiative Research Unit, at RIKEN in Japan and became an adjunct associated professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2014. Then, she moved to Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea, in 2016. She is currently associate professor at KAIST and also KAIST Institute. She received several awards including TJ Park Science Fellowship (POSCO), The Distinguished Lectureship Award (Chemical Society of Japan) in 2017, The Young Scientist Award (The Korean Academy of Science and Technology) in 2018, The I-sense Young Electrochemist Award (Korea Chemical Society) in 2020, and The Science and Technology Prize (Korea Toray Science Foundation) in 2021 for outstanding work in electrochemistry, energy storage, and energy conversion sciences.

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James Crowley obtained his BSc (Hons) (1998) and MSc (2000) from Victoria University of Wellington and completed his PhD (2000–2005) at the University of Chicago under the direction of Prof. Brice Bosnich. In 2005 he moved to Prof. David Leigh's group at the University of Edinburgh, where he was awarded a British Ramsay Memorial Trust Fellowship (2006–2008), to carry out research on molecular machines and mechanically interlocked molecules. He started his independent career at the University of Otago in 2008 and has since moved through the ranks to Professor (2019). His major research interests are in catalysis, self-assembly, molecular recognition and the development of switchable systems. Thanks to the hard work of his co-workers and collaborators James has received several awards, including the New Zealand Institute of Chemistry Easterfield Medal (2013), Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI), Alan Sargeson Lectureship (2014), RACI Organometallic Chemistry Award (2015) and the 2017 Maurice Wilkins Centre Prize for excellence in Chemical Research (NZIC). Additionally, James was on the national council of the NZIC (2012–2019) and was the president of the institute in 2018.

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Geetharani obtained her Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology Madras in 2012. Soon after, she moved to University of Wurzburg, Germany for her postdoctoral studies with Prof. Holger Braunschweig as an Alexander von Humboldt fellow and began her independent research career as assistant professor at department of inorganic and physical chemistry, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India, in 2016. She is a recipient of DST-Inspire Faculty Award (2015). She has also been awarded Young Associate-Indian Academy of Sciences (2018), INSA-Young Scientist medal, NASI-Young Scientist Platinum Jubilee (2019) and SERB-Women Excellence Award (2020). Her research interests are in the areas of catalysis, main group and organometallic chemistry.

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Hoi Ri Moon received her BS in 2001 from Ewha Womans University, and MS in 2003 and PhD in 2007 from Seoul National University. After working as a postdoctoral fellow at Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, she joined Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) in 2010 as an assistant professor and now is a full professor at Department of Chemistry. Her group aims to understand the flexible behaviours of metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) and create unique MOFs for gas separation (especially hydrogen isotope separation), gas storage, molecular sensing and heterogeneous catalysis. She was selected as a member of Young Korean Academy of Science and Technology (Y-KAST) in 2019 and received the International Award for Creative Work from Japan Society of Coordination Chemistry in 2021.

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Kevin C.-W. Wu did his Ph.D. on mesoporous materials with Professor Makoto Kuwabara at The University of Tokyo, Japan (2001–2005). After postdoctoral researches studying the applications of mesoporous silica nanoparticles and thin films, with Professor Kazuyuki Kuroda at Waseda University in Japan (2005–2006) and Professor Victor S.-Y. Lin at Iowa State University in USA (2006–2008), he returned to the Department of Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University where he is now a full professor. His research interests are the structural design and tailoring of functional nanoporous materials for sustainable chemistry & engineering applications including biomass and plastic conversion, biomedicine and energy devices. He has received several awards recently, including the Humboldt Researcher in 2018, the ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering Lectureship Award (Asia/Pacific region) in 2019, and the Outstanding Researcher Award (from Asia/Pacific Associations of Catalysis Societies) in 2019, and the Outstanding Research Award from Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), Taiwan in 2018 and 2020, indicating his outstanding work in materials chemistry, catalysis chemistry and physical chemistry.

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Qichun Zhang received his B.S. at Nanjing University in China in 1992, MS in physical organic chemistry (organic solid lab) at the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1998, MS in organic chemistry at the University of California, Los Angeles (USA, 2003), and completed his Ph.D. in chemistry at the University of California, Riverside in 2007. Then, he joined Prof. Kanatzidis’ group at Northwestern University as a Postdoctoral Fellow (Oct. 2007–Dec. 2008). In Jan. 2009, he joined the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Nanyang Technological University (NTU, Singapore) as an Assistant Professor. On Mar 1st, 2014, he was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure. On Sep 1st 2020, he moved to the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at City University of Hong Kong as a full professor. From 2018 to 2021, he has been recognized as one of highly-cited researchers (top 1%) in cross-field in Clarivate Analytics. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Currently, his research focuses on carbon-rich conjugated materials and their applications.

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