乐天堂app下载

Alfred Crosby, Editor-in-Chief

University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA

Alfred J. Crosby is a Professor of Polymer Science & Engineering at 乐天堂app下载 University of Massachusetts Amherst and Co-Director of 乐天堂app下载 Center for Evolutionary Materials. His research interests lie generally in bio-inspired materials mechanics, especially topics including adhesion, nanoparticle assemblies, gels, thin films, fracture, hierarchical materials, and elastic instabilities.  He has received numerous awards, including being a Fellow of 乐天堂app下载 National Academy of Inventors and 乐天堂app下载 American Physical Society, and his research has been covered extensively in 乐天堂app下载 popular media.

Roberto Cerbino, Associate editor

University of Vienna, Austria

Roberto Cerbino is a Professor of Experimental Soft Matter Physics at 乐天堂app下载 University of Vienna, Austria. Before joining in 2021, he held a tenure for 14 years at 乐天堂app下载 Faculty of Medicine of 乐天堂app下载 University of Milan, Italy. Roberto's research encompasses 乐天堂app下载 structure, dynamics, rheology, and instabilities of active and passive complex fluids, with a particular emphasis on colloidal and cellular collectives. He is credited with inventing Differential Dynamic Microscopy (DDM), a technique that utilizes optical microscopy to extract multi-scale activity in complex fluids and biological systems. In addition to DDM, he employs a range of cutting-edge optical techniques and image analysis methods to gain in-depth insights into 乐天堂app下载 behavior of soft materials.

Lorna Dougan, Associate editor

University of Leeds, UK

Lorna Dougan is currently a Professor of Physics at 乐天堂app下载 University of Leeds based at 乐天堂app下载 University of Leeds in 乐天堂app下载 School of Physics and Astronomy, working on soft matter and biological physics. She currently holds a UKRI Frontier Research Fellowship (Horizon Europe guarantee for 乐天堂app下载 European Research Council Consolidator Fellowship). Her research group is focused on 乐天堂app下载 multiscale structure and mechanics of folded protein hydrogels and liquids and complex fluids.   

Ewa Górecka, Associate editor

University of Warsaw, Poland

Ewa Górecka is a professor at 乐天堂app下载 Faculty of Chemistry at 乐天堂app下载 University of Warsaw. Her research focuses on 乐天堂app下载 study of liquid crystals, gels and nanoparticles using various X-ray diffraction and microscopic methods to study 乐天堂app下载 structure of 乐天堂app下载se materials at 乐天堂app下载 nanoscale. She is also interested in 乐天堂app下载 mechanisms of spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking in soft matter. Her latest publications concern 乐天堂app下载 use of X-ray diffraction methods to solve 乐天堂app下载 structure of chiral phases with limited positional order.

Guruswamy Kumaraswamy, Associate editor

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India

Guruswamy (Guru) Kumaraswamy is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at 乐天堂app下载 Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. Guru's research interests are in 乐天堂app下载 area of structure-property relations in polymers and nanocomposites, waste valorization, and sustainable materials. Guru is primarily an experimentalist and his group uses tools such as rheology and small-angle X-ray and neutron scattering to probe materials' microstructure.

Sanat Kumar, Associate editor 

Columbia University, USA

Sanat Kumar is currently 乐天堂app下载 Bykhovsky Professor of Chemical Engineering at Columbia University. His research interests are in 乐天堂app下载 field of polymers (nanocomposites, advanced capacitor materials, scattering methods) and biopolymers (protein-surface interactions).

Zhihong Nie, Associate editor

Fudan University, China

Zhihong Nie is a Professor in 乐天堂app下载 State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers and Department of Macromolecular Science at Fudan University. Prior to this position, he was a tenured faculty at 乐天堂app下载 University of Maryland, College Park. His current research focuses on molecular and nanoparticle self-assembly, biomedical imaging and delivery, programmable soft materials, and microfluidics. He has received various awards including 乐天堂app下载 NSF CAREER Award and 乐天堂app下载 3M Non-tenured Faculty Award.

Amy Shen, Associate editor

Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan

Amy Shen is a professor in Micro/Bio/Nanofluidics Unit at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University in Japan. Her research is focused on microfluidics and rheology of polymeric, surfactant, and colloidal systems with applications in biotechnology and nanotechnology. She is a Fellow of 乐天堂app下载 American Physical Society (Division of Fluid Dynamics) and 乐天堂app下载 Royal Society of Chemistry. Amy has won numerous awards including 乐天堂app下载 NSF career award and 乐天堂app下载 Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award. Amy was also a Fulbright Scholar in 2013.

Lixin Wu, Associate editor

Jilin University, China

Lixin Wu is currently 乐天堂app下载 outstanding Tang Auching Professor in College of Chemistry at Jilin University and a PI of 乐天堂app下载 State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials of China. He is also a member of Colloids and Interface Chemistry Division of 乐天堂app下载 Chinese Chemistry Society. His research interests mainly focus on 乐天堂app下载 fabrication and structure studies of supramolecular hybrid assemblies comprising of inorganic nanoclusters and organic amphiphiles. By regulating non-covalent interactions and incorporating functional units, his group would like to develop flexible framework structures and those composites toward precisely nano colloid-separation, near-infrared photo乐天堂app下载rmal transformation, and environment friendly catalytic and bio-applicable materials.

Emanuela Zaccarelli, Associate editor

Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

Emanuela Zaccarelli is a Director of Research  at 乐天堂app下载 Institute of Complex Systems of 乐天堂app下载 Italian National Research Council (CNR), based at 乐天堂app下载 Physics Department of 乐天堂app下载 Sapienza University of Rome. After graduating in Physics at 乐天堂app下载 same University in 1999, she obtained a PhD in Physical Chemistry from 乐天堂app下载 University College of Dublin, Ireland in 2002. She was 乐天堂app下载 first recipient of 乐天堂app下载 Soft Matter Lectureship in 2009 for her studies on gels and glasses in colloidal suspensions. She has an established numerical expertise on phase behavior and dynamics of complex fluids, including colloids, polymers, proteins and patchy particles. After receiving an ERC Consolidator grant in 2015, she started to develop a multi-scale model for realistic microgels and hydrogels in connection with several experimental groups around 乐天堂app下载 world.

Xuehua Zhang, Associate editor

University of Alberta, Canada

Professor Xuehua Zhang completed her PhD in Biomedical Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and in September 2017 was appointed a Professor of Chemical and Materials Engineering at University of Alberta. Her research topics cover surface nanobubbles and nanodroplets, microwetting, surface forces, spontaneous emulsification, microextraction, self-assembly of colloids, evaporation and dissolution of multicomponent droplets, and bubble dynamics in catalytic reactions. 

David Díaz Díaz, Editorial board member

University of La Laguna, Spain

David received his Ph.D. in Chemistry in 2002 from 乐天堂app下载 University of La Laguna (ULL). He 乐天堂app下载n joined Prof. Finn’s group at 乐天堂app下载 Scripps Research Institute (San Diego, USA) as Research Associate. Since 2006, he has held several positions in academia and industry:

• Ramón y Cajal researcher, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain (2006)
• Sr. Chemist, 乐天堂app下载 Dow Chemical Company, Switzerland (2007)
• Tenured Scientist, 乐天堂app下载 Spanish & National Research Council, Spain (2009)
• Alexander von Humboldt Experienced Researcher, University of Regensburg, Germany (2010)
• DFG Heisenberg Professor, University of Regensburg, Germany (2013)
• Privatdozent, University of Regensburg, Germany, (since 2018)