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Dr. Rowan is the Executive Editor of the Physical & Sustainability portfolio, which includes Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (PCCP), Green Chemistry, and Faraday Discussions. Michael studied chemistry at the University of East Anglia and completed his MChem in 2002. He earned his PhD studying the design and synthesis of transition metal catalysts under the supervision of Prof. Carl Redshaw (now at the University of Hull).

He started his publishing career in 2006, working as an Assistant Editor for Chemistry—A European Journal and, after serving as Editor-in-Chief of the catalysis journal ChemCatChem for nearly 10 years (Wiley-VCH), he joined the ÍâÍøÌìÌà in 2022. With nearly 20 years of editorial experience, Michael continues to serve the chemistry research community to the best of his ability.

Professor Akhila K. Sahoo completed his doctoral study at the CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, Pune under the supervision of Prof. Ganesh Pandey in 2001.

He worked as a postdoc researcher at the RWTH-Aachen-Germany with Prof. Hans-Joachim Gais (2002), Prof. Tamejiro Hiyama, Kyoto University, Japan (JSPS; 2002-2004), and finally with Prof. Atsuhiro Osuka, Kyoto University (2004-2006). He then worked as a scientist at the Sai Advantium Pharma Limited (2006-2007), Hyderabad. He then joined the School of Chemistry at the University of Hyderabad, currently he is working as a professor. His research interest revolves in the development of novel transformations on metal-catalyzed C-H activation, Au-catalyzed synthetic methods, and construction of strained N, and O-rich energetic materials. He is a Member of the ÍâÍøÌìÌà and Member of the National Academy of Science, India and an associate editor of NJC.

Professor Asim Bhaumik received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India in 1997. After completing his Ph.D. degree he moved to The University of Tokyo, Japan as a JSPS Post-Doctoral Fellow from 1997-1999. Then during 1999-2001 he was an Associate Researcher at Toyota Central R & D Labs., Inc. Nagoya, Japan.

After that, he joined the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, India, where he is currently working as a Senior Professor. He has published over 525 original research articles and 16 patents with over 28000 citations. He is a Fellow of the ÍâÍøÌìÌà (FRSC). His research interests are: exploring novel organic, inorganic and organic-inorganic hybrid porous materials for the energy and environmental applications, developing heterogeneous catalysts for CO2 fixation reactions into fuels and fine chemicals, and green hydrogen. Professor Bhaumik is an associate editor of Green Chemistry.

Dr. Neeraj Shukla has done Bachelor of Science from University of Allahabad and afterwards he completed his M.Sc. and PhD from IIT Kanpur. He was instrumental in the establishment of 1.7 MeV Tandetron Accelerator along with microbeam line and Focused Ion Beam facility at IIT Kanpur under the supervision of Late Prof. V.N Kulkarni and Prof H.C. Verma. Dr. Neeraj Shukla has served as Scientist in a reputed national laboratory of UGC DAE CSR at Kalpakkam (2012-2016) right after his PhD, where he was involved in the establishment of e.g. SQUID-VSM and 18T Magnetoresistance facility and Computational Facility. He has been recipient of Proficiency Medal for best M.Sc. project at IIT Kanpur and DST Inspire faculty award. He has independently handled several research projects and is currently working as Assistant Professor at NIT Patna department of Physics. He has been awarded National Super Computing Mission (NSM) grant for access to High performance computing research facility. Currently he is working experimentally in Defect Induced Spin Polarization in 2D material (Graphene, MXENE, Ternary and Binary alloys, Janus Layers, Transition Metal Dichalcogenide etc.), which has immense application in data storage and could lead to the development of Quantum materials for sensing, energy storage etc. He has also utilized first Principles Calculations to address celectronics property changes in 2D materials as a consequence of defect.

Dr. Lijina is an Assistant Editorial Development Manager at the ÍâÍøÌìÌÃ. As part of her role, she works across various disciplines and societies of chemical sciences and support the journals. Lijina completed her integrated PhD in chemistry from the Indian institute of Science Education and Research Thiruvananthapuram and subsequently she joined RSC.