Meet the Editorial Board of Organic Chemistry Frontiers

Shengming Ma

Editor-in-Chief

Shengming Ma was born in 1965 in Zhejiang, China. He received his PhD from the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry (SIOC). After postdoctoral research at the ETH with Prof. Venanzi and at Purdue University with Prof. Negishi, he returned to SIOC in 1997. Currently, he holds the position of Professor at ECNU and SIOC. He is a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (2005–) and TWAS (2008–).

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Cristina Nevado

Associate Editor

Cristina Nevado was born in 1977 in Madrid, Spain. After receiving her PhD in organic chemistry from the Autónoma University, Cristina joined the group of Prof. Alois Fürstner at the Max Planck Institut für Kohlenforschung (Germany) where she was part of the team who conquered the first total synthesis of Iejimalide B, a marine macrolide possessing a very sensitive architecture. In 2007, she started her independent career at the University of Zürich and now she is a Professor of Organic Chemistry in the same university. Cristina has received many awards including the Chemical Society Reviews Emerging Investigator Award, the Werner Prize of the Swiss Chemical Society and ERC Junior Investigator grant. Her research is focused on complex chemical synthesis and new organometallic reactions.

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Erik J. Sorensen

Associate Editor

Erik Sorensen was born in 1966 in Oneida, New York, USA. He received his PhD from the University of California, San Diego under the mentorship of Professor K.C. Nicolaou. After a National Science Foundation-sponsored postdoctoral experience in the laboratory of Prof. Samuel Danishefsky at the Memorial Sloan–Kettering Cancer Center, he joined the Department of Chemistry and the Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology at The Scripps Research Institute in 1997. In 2001, he achieved the rank of Associate Professor. In 2003, he moved to Princeton University where he is the Arthur Allan Patchett Professor in Organic Chemistry. He is also a visiting Professor in the School of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology at Tianjin University, China.

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Masahiro Terada

Associate Editor

Masahiro Terada was born in 1964 in Tokyo, Japan. He received his PhD from the Tokyo Institute of Technology. During his PhD studies, he was appointed as an Assistant Professor in the Tokyo Institute of Technology (1989–2001). After postdoctoral research at Harvard University with Prof. Shair in 1999–2000, he moved to Tohoku University as an Associate Professor in 2001. Since 2006, he has been a Professor of Chemistry at Tohoku University. His current research interests are focused on the development of new and useful synthetic methodologies based on the design of novel chiral Brønsted acid and base catalysts as well as the utilization of transition metal catalysts.

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Mei-Xiang Wang

Associate Editor

Mei-Xiang Wang received his PhD from the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ICCAS) at Beijing, China. He then worked at ICCAS for the next 17 years, ranking from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor and then Professor. From 2000 to 2004, he served as the Director of ICCAS and the Director of the CAS Center for Molecular Sciences. From May 2009, he has been a professor of organic chemistry in Tsinghua University. His research interests include supramolecular chemistry of novel heteroatom-bridged calixaromatics, enantioselective biotransformations using whole cell catalysts, and selective organic reactions for the synthesis of bioactive compounds.

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Editorial Board members

Guy Bertrand

Guy Bertrand received his PhD from the University Paul Sabatier in Toulouse. After being a CNRS group leader (French National Center for Scientific Research) at the University of Toulouse, and then at the Laboratoire de Chimie de Coordination du CNRS, he has been the Director of the Laboratoire d'Hétérochimie Fondamentale et Appliquée at the University Paul Sabatier from 1998 to 2005. From 2001 to 2012 he served as the Director of the UCR/CNRS Joint Research Chemistry Laboratory, and since July 2012 he is Distinguished Professor and Director of the UCSD/CNRS Joint Research Chemistry Laboratory at the University of California at San Diego. He is a member of the French Academy of Technology (2000), the Academia Europaea (2002), the European Academy of Sciences (2003), the French Academy of Sciences (2004), and is a Fellow of the American Association for Advancement of Sciences (2006). He has recently received the Sir Ronald Nyholm Medal of the RSC (2009), the Grand Prix Le Bel of the French Chemical Society (2010), and the ACS Award in Inorganic Chemistry (2014).

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Geoffrey W. Coates

Geoffrey W. Coates was born in 1966 in Evansville, Indiana (USA). He received a B.A. degree in Chemistry from Wabash College in 1989 and a PhD in Organic Chemistry with Robert M. Waymouth at Stanford University in 1994. Following his doctoral studies, he was an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow with Robert H. Grubbs at the California Institute of Technology. During the summer of 1997 he joined the faculty of Cornell University, and was appointed to the first Tisch University Professorship in 2008. The research focus of the Coates group is the development of new catalysts for the synthesis of macromolecules as well as small molecules.

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Stuart J. Conway

Stuart Conway is an Associate Professor in Organic Chemistry at the University of Oxford and the Fellow in Organic Chemistry at St Hugh's College, Oxford. He studied Chemistry with Medicinal Chemistry at the University of Warwick before undertaking PhD studies with Prof. David Jane in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Bristol. Stuart completed post-doctoral studies with Prof. Andrew Holmes FRS at the University of Cambridge working on the synthesis of inositol polyphosphates. In 2003, he was appointed as a Lecturer in Bioorganic Chemistry at the University of St Andrews and in 2008 he took up his current position. Between March and August 2013 Stuart was a Visiting Associate at the California Institute of Technology, hosted by Prof. Bob Grubbs and Prof. Dianne Newman. Stuart's research focuses on the development of molecular tools to enable the study of biological systems.

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Louis Fensterbank

Louis Fensterbank was born in Poitiers in 1967 and raised in Tours. After graduating from the Ecole Superieure de Chimie Industrielle de Lyon (ESCIL) in 1990, he joined the team of Scott Sieburth at SUNY Stony Brook, worked on silicon-tethered reactions and obtained his PhD in 1993. After a temporary lecturer position at the Université Pierre & Marie Curie (UPMC) in 1994, he was appointed by the CNRS in 1995 as a Chargé de Recherche in Max Malacria's team. In 2004, he obtained a professorship at UPMC and, in 2008, he was nominated junior member of the Institut Universitaire de France. In 2009, he was a Visiting Scientist at the Australian National University, Canberra. His research interests concern the discovery of new molecular transformations relying on radical or organometallic processes and their applications to the synthesis of substrates with relevant properties (natural products, probes, ligands). He has co-authored more than 160 publications.

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Chulbom Lee

Chulbom Lee received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Seoul National University (SNU) under the guidance of Professor Eun Lee, and did PhD studies with Professor Barry M. Trost at Stanford University (2008). After postdoctoral research at Memorial Sloan–Kettering Cancer Center in the lab of Professor Samuel J. Danishefsky in 2001, he joined the faculty of Princeton University as Assistant Professor of Chemistry. In 2008, he returned to SNU as Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry. He has served as Vice President of the Korean Society of Organic Synthesis (2012) and Korean Chemical Society (2014). His research is focused on the development of novel reactions and strategies for chemical synthesis.

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Zhangjie Shi

Zhangjie Shi received his PhD degree (2001) from the Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (SIOC, CAS). After postdoctoral research at Harvard University with Professor Gregory Verdine and later a position with Professor Chuan He at the University of Chicago as a research associate, he joined the faculty of the College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Peking University at the end of 2004 and was promoted to full professor in 2008. His research interests are focused on organometallic chemistry and catalysis, especially in the field of the activation of “inert” bonds and small molecules. Owing to his contributions in this field, Dr. Shi is a recipient of the 2013 OMCOS Award and the 2011 Tetrahedron Young Investigator Award.

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