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Reactions: Xin Su

Reactions: Xin Su

Xin Su studied chemistry in China and the United States and started his career in scholarly publishing with John Wiley & Sons in New Jersey. He just flew across the pond to London to join Nature Chemistry as a Senior Editor, and will ultimately be based out of the Springer Nature Shanghai office.  Read more

Reactions: Jen Heemstra

Reactions: Jen Heemstra

Jen Heemstra is in the Department of Chemistry and the Center for Cell and Genome Science at University of Utah, and works on understanding and utilizing the molecular recognition and self-assembly capabilities of nucleic acids for applications in biosensing, bioimaging, and stimuli-responsive materials.  Read more

Reactions: Paolo Melchiorre

Reactions: Paolo Melchiorre

Paolo Melchiorre is an ICREA Research Professor and a Group Leader at the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), Tarragona (Spain). He works on the discovery and mechanistic elucidation of enantioselective organocatalytic and photochemical processes. Paolo recently published a paper in Nature Chemistry entitled “Visible-light excitation of iminium ions enables the enantioselective catalytic β-alkylation of enals.”  … Read more

Reactions: Amit Kumar

Reactions: Amit Kumar

Amit Kumar is the director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) energy club and a research scientist in the Lienhard research group in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. He works on clean energy technology and sustainable water-energy-bioelectrochemical systems for energy generation and resource recovery. Amit recently published a paper in Nature Reviews Chemistry entitled “The ins and outs of microbial-electrode electron transfer reactions”.  Read more

Reactions: Nilay Hazari

Reactions: Nilay Hazari

Nilay Hazari is in the Department of Chemistry at Yale University and studies synthetic inorganic and organometallic chemistry, with an emphasis on reaction mechanisms and catalysis. Nilay recently published a paper in Nature Reviews Chemistry entitled ‘Well-defined nickel and palladium precatalysts for cross-coupling’.  Read more

Reactions: Bassam Shakhashiri

Reactions: Bassam Shakhashiri

Professor Bassam Z. Shakhashiri is in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and contributes to national science education policy and practice. He advocates communicating with the general public through engaging science demonstrations, the web, electronic and print media, radio, television, and — best of all — in person.  Read more

Reactions: Jianjun Cheng

Reactions: Jianjun Cheng

Jianjun Cheng is in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Chemistry, and Bioengineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and works on synthetic polymeric biomaterials, self-healing polymers, nanomedicine for drug and gene delivery, and chemistry mediated in vivo targeting. Jianjun recently published a paper in Nature Chemistry entitled “Cooperative polymerization of α-helices induced by macromolecular architecture“.  Read more