Volker Presser, Editor-in-chief
Leibniz Institute for New Materials, Germany
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Dr. Volker Presser has been a full professor at Saarland University and Program Division Leader at the INM – Leibniz Institute for New Materials (both in Saarbrücken, Germany) since 2015. He received his doctorate with distinction in Applied Mineralogy from the Eberhard-Karls University (Tübingen, Germany) in 2009.
From 2010 to 2012, he was a Humboldt Fellow and Research Assistant Professor at Drexel University (Philadelphia, USA), working in the Nanomaterials Group of Yury Gogotsi. Having received an Early Career Grant from the Germany Ministry of Research and Education, he returned to Germany in 2012 to work at the INM.
In 2013, he became an Assistant Professor at Saarland University at the Department of Materials Science & Engineering; he was promoted to full, tenured Professor at Saarland University and to Program Division Leader at INM in 2015.
As Chair of Energy Materials, Dr. Presser and his team explore electrochemical materials and processes for energy storage, water remediation, energy harvesting, and ion separation. His work has received several awards and recognitions, such as the Bayer Early Career Award (2013), the Heinz Maier Leibnitz Prize (Germany Research Foundation, 2013), and the Award for Research Cooperation and High Excellence in Science (Minerva Foundation, 2017). He became a Fellow of the 欧美AV in 2020.
As part of his role with Energy Advances, Volker serves as an Associate Editor handling manuscripts submitted for publication.
Guang Feng, Associate Editor
Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), China
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Guang Feng received his Ph.D. degree in 2010 from Clemson University, USA as the Outstanding Student in the Doctoral Degree Program awardee in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. From 2010 to 2013, he worked at Vanderbilt University and The Fluid Interface Reactions, Structures and Transport (FIRST) Energy Frontier Research Center as a postdoctoral research associate and then as a research assistant professor.
In November 2013, he became a professor in the School of Energy and Power Engineering at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China. He has published 3 book chapters and more than 80 papers in peer-reviewed journals (including Nature Materials, Nature Computational Science, Nature Communications, Physical Review X, Advanced Energy Materials, Nano Energy, etc.), with an H-index of 35.
His current research interests are focused on the study of micro-/nano-scale interface and transport phenomena in electrical energy storage, capacitive deionization for desalination, and CO2-EOR. He was selected as a Fellow of the 欧美AV in 2019 and currently serves as an editorial board member on ChemElectroChem, Fluid Phase Equilibria, and Journal of Ionic Liquids, and young editorial board member on Green Energy & Environment.
Prof. You Han, Associate Editor
Tianjin University, China
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Dr. You Han is currently an Associate Dean and Excellence Professor at the School of Chemical Engineering & Technology of Tianjin University, China. She obtained her PhD in Chemical Technology from Tianjin University in 2008, before working at Tianjin University, becoming a full professor in 2019.
She worked with Prof. William A. Goddard III at the California Institute of Technology as a visiting scholar from 2014 to 2015. Her research expertise lies in catalysis for environment protection and energy utilization, with a focus on ReaxFF forcefield development and DFT calculations for understanding catalytic reaction mechanisms and designing novel catalysts.
You Han has published more than 80 papers in peer-reviewed journals, including PNAS, JACS, and Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Phys. Rev. Lett., Adv. Energy Mater., ACS Catal., and Chem. Eng. J. She has received many awards such as Future Chemical Engineering Scholar by the Global Academy of Chinese Chemical Engineering, for which only eight people globally were selected in 2021, as well as being named National Famous Young Teacher in Petroleum and Chemical Engineering Education (2021) and Top Ten Outstanding Young Teacher of Tianjin University (2020).
Michael Naguib, Associate Editor
Tulane University, USA
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Michael Naguib is a Ken and Ruth Arnold Early Career Professor in Science and Engineering and an assistant professor in the department of Physics and Engineering Physics at Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
Prior to joining Tulane in 2018, he was a Wigner Fellow (2014-2017) and Research Staff (2017-2018) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He received his PhD in Materials Science and Engineering at Drexel University in 2014.
His research interest is in the area of materials science and engineering interfacing with energy related applications.
His research group at Tulane has a theme of “Novel Energy Materials” with a focus on the synthesis and characterization of novel nanomaterials for electrochemical energy storage and conversion (e.g., metal ion batteries and capacitors, supercapacitors, solid state batteries, and hydrogen evolution).
He has received many awards such as: Ten at Ten People Award from the Basic Energy Science US Department of Energy; NSF CAREER award; Robert L. Coble Award; Kroto Award, and Ross Coffin Purdy Award. He has been listed as a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics.
Matthew Suss, Associate Editor
Form Energy, USA
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Matthew obtained his PhD in 2013 in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University. From 2010-2013, Matthew was a Lawrence Scholar at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and from 2013 to 2014 a Postdoctoral Associate in Chemical Engineering at MIT.
From 2014-2023, Matthew directed the Cleantech Innovations Lab at Technion, as an Associate Professor affiliated with Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, the Grand Technion Energy Program (GTEP) and Grand Water Research Institute (GWRI). In 2023, Matthew joined the team at Form Energy to push forward the development of decarbonized electrochemical grid-scale energy storage solutions.
Matthew served as a member of the Israel National Research Center for Electrochemical Propulsion (INREP), on the European Federation of Chemical Engineering (EFCE) working group on electrochemical engineering, and is a past Chairman of the International Working Group on Capacitive Deionization & Electrosorption (CDI&E).
He has co-authored over 70 journal papers in the fields of electrochemical systems theory and electrochemical energy and water systems and is the recipient of several research awards including the Alon Fellowship from the Israeli government and an ARCHES award from the German government.
Wai-Yeung (Raymond) Wong, Associate Editor
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
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Wai-Yeung Wong (Raymond) received his BSc and PhD from the University of Hong Kong in 1992 and 1995, respectively. After his postdoctoral work at Texas A&M University in 1996 with Professor F. Albert Cotton, he worked for Professors Lord Jack Lewis (FRS) and Paul R. Raithby at the University of Cambridge in 1997.
He worked at Hong Kong Baptist University from 1998 to 2016 and is currently a Chair Professor in Chemical Technology at the Department of Applied Biology & Chemical Technology of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
His research mainly focuses on synthetic inorganic/organometallic chemistry and materials chemistry, with special emphasis on developing metal-based molecular materials with energy functions and photofunctional/magnetic properties. Wai-Yeung is internationally renowned for his research in metallopolymers and metallo-organic molecules for various optoelectronic applications.
He was the recipient of the Chemistry of the Transition Metals Award by 欧美AV in 2010, and won the FACS Distinguished Young Chemist Award in 2011, the Distinguished Lectureship Award from The Chemical Society of Japan in 2012, the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Prize for Scientific and Technological Innovation in 2012, State Natural Science Award in China in 2013 and Japanese Photochemistry Association Lectureship Award for Asian and Oceanian Photochemist in 2014. He is currently the Chairman of Hong Kong Chemical Society and is a Fellow of the 欧美AV.
B. Layla Mehdi, Editorial Board Member
University of Liverpool, UK
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Dr Mehdi is currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering, Associate Director of the Albert Crewe Centre for Electron Microscopy and Team Lead for Energy Storage in the RUEDI facility at the University of Liverpool.
She received her undergraduate and Master's degree in Chemistry from the University of Warsaw in Poland (2008) and her PhD in Chemistry from Miami University, USA (2013). Following her PhD, she joined the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in 2013 and 2016 was promoted to a permanent staff scientist.
Her work at PNNL involved the development of the in-situ TEM stages to study dynamic process with application to Li-ion batteries as part of Joint Centre for Energy Storage Research (JCESR) funded by US Department of Energy.
She has over nine years of experience in the development and application of in-situ methods in electron microscopy for which she has received numerous awards. These include the 2021 KIT International Excellence Fellowship, 2019 Albert Crewe Award from the Microscopy Society of America MSA for distinguished contributions to the field of microscopy and microanalysis in the physical sciences by an early career scientist, the 2015 MRS Postdoctoral Award, the 2015 Microscopy Society of America postdoctoral award, the 2014 Microscopy & Microanalysis Presidential award.
Additionally, in 2016 she received a JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship to preform Research at the Nagoya University, Japan in collaboration with Toyota, which she turned down to join the University of Liverpool.
Her primary research area is focused on Li-ion battery and Energy Storage. She is a part of the “Degradation” and “Characterization” projects funded by the Faraday Institution/EPSRC. Her research group focuses on developing advanced new microscopy methods to generate an in depth understanding of reaction kinetics at solid/liquid and solid/gas interfaces in batteries, electrocatalysis and pharmaceuticals.