Current Chinese Science

Huanwen Chen received his Ph.D at Jilin University, China (2001). He was a postdoc in the group of Prof. Graham Cooks at Purdue University (2003–2005), and a Simon Fellow hosted by Prof. Renato Zenobi at ETH Zurich (2006–2008). He worked as full professor of Analytical Chemistry (2008-2017) and vice president (2017-2022) at East China University of Technology, where he founded the Jiangxi Key Laboratory for Mass Spectrometry and Instrumentation. Now, he serves as the vice president of Jiangxi University of Chinese Medicine. The research interest of his team is focused on the fundamentals, instrumentation, and applications of mass spectrometry, especially on molecular mechanisms of life processes. Professor Chen has completed over 20 projects funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Ministry of Science and Technology of China, and international organizations, with 76 patents and more than 300 peer-reviewed papers, including 6 NPG papers and more than 20 cover papers. COVID-19 expiratory detector developed by his team has been approved by the market. His results have been highlighted in Nature, acknowledged by internationally leading experts and presented in handbooks and textbooks on Analytical Chemistry and Mass Spectrometry. He received more than 10 awards, including 4 first-class awards from Jiangxi Provincial Government, 2 first-class awards from the Chinese society of Analytical Chemistry and 2 first-class awards from Jiangxi Provincial Program for Research at Universities, etc.

Dr. Caifeng Ding is currently a Professor at Qingdao University of Science and Technology, China and also the chief director of Key Laboratory of Optic-electric Sensing and Analytical Chemistry for Life Science (Ministry of Education), Head of Innovation Team of Biochemical Analysis (Ministry of Education), and Member of Pharmaceutical Analysis Committee of Chinese Pharmaceutical Association. She received her PhD in the biological functional materials from Nanjing Tech University in 2006. She was awarded the distinguished young investigator grant of Shandong in 2010, and published more than 60 research papers in top-class and core magazines. Her general research interests lie in photoelectric analysis of tumor markers, drug delivery strategy via multifunctional materials and organic fluorescent probes.

Dr. Syed Rizwan received his PhD degree from the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China in 2011 in the field of condensed matter physics, focusing on magnetism and spintronics. He then joined the department of physics, COMSATS university Islamabad followed by a postdoc fellowship at Peking University from 2013-2014. During his Postdoc, his research was focused on nanodevices for data storage applications at nanoscale. He joined the department of physics, national university of sciences and technology (NUST), Islamabad in 2015, where he has been working in a multidisciplinary research domain including magnetism & superconductivity, photocatalysis, energy storage, etc.

Dr. Yuelin Song currently serves as a professor in Beijing University of Chinese Medicine. His research interests mainly focus on the chemome clarification of traditional Chinese medicine, pharmacokinetics, and metabolomics. He has authored 100+ peer reviewed publications in the reputed journals such as Analytical Chemistry, Analytica Chimica Acta, etc.

Ph.D Wufu Zhu is a Professor and Master's Supervisor of Jiangxi Science & Technology Normal University. He is the deputy dean of the School of Pharmacy of this university, and is also the deputy director of the Provincial Key Laboratory of Drug Molecular Design and Evaluation. He is an editorial board member of the the journal of Drug Clinical and Evaluation. Dr. Zhu is Mainly engaged in the design, synthesis and anti- tumor activity of small molecule targeted anti-tumor inhibitors, as well as the development of generic drugs and computer-aided drug design. Currently, Dr. Zhu hosted more than 15 research projects including the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and published more than 60 SCI-indexed papers, and applied for 25 US and Chinese invention patents.

Dr. Ruijie Deng has been a Professor at Sichuan University since July 2017. He received his B.Sc. from Central South University in 2012, and Ph.D. from Tsinghua University in 2017. His current research interests include single cell and single molecule analysis, DNA nanotechnology, fluorescence imaging, isothermal amplification development and biosensors.

Dr. Prosenjit Ghosh received PhD in Physics from the Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad. During his PhD, he conducted an experiment on mass spectrometric analysis of natural carbonates to unravel their environmental condition for deposition. Subsequently, he was IAEA- WMO Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany and then moved to Caltech as a postdoctoral researcher. His contribution to the development of air CO2 standards and its acceptance to the global community is an important contribution to be mentioned. While at Caltech's work on clumped isotope thermometry is highly cited and an important milestone in Paleoclimate research. He spent a relatively short span of time at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan working as an Assistant Professor prior to joining IISc as the first faculty in the Centre for Earth Sciences in the year 2007. He is currently a Professor at the Indian Institute of Science Bangalore and serves as adjunct faculty in the Centre for Atmospheric Sciences, Divecha Centre for Climate Change and Interdisciplinary Centre for Water Research.

Dr Anil & his co-researcher currently working on sustainable nanotechnology & hybrid nanomaterial viz, synthesis/preparation of carbonaceous nanomaterial (CNMs-AC, GO, G, GOQDs, CNDs etc.) through utilizing sustainable/green/waste based sources & related applications (sensing, detection, wastewater treatment, environmental remediation, optical, optoelectronic devices, tissue engineering, agriculture etc.). More specifically they are designing the polymer@CNMs hybrid (nanofiber membrane, hydrogel, transparent thin film etc.) for multifaceted applications. His group also engaged in synthesis & photophysical study of functional/fluorescent/plasmonic/photonics nanomaterial (QDs/MNPs/CDs), development of nanomaterial based fluorescent/optical sensor for detection/sensing of analytes (Turn-on/Turn-off/FRET/SET Probe), solvatochromism & spectroscopic analysis of binding interaction between protein/biomolecule-drug/dye/nanomaterial.

Dr. Jaime Portilla was born in Cali (Colombia), is currently a Professor at the Department of Chemistry, Universidad de los Andes of Bogotá (Colombia) and Director of Bioorganic Compounds Research Group, Laboratory Q- 304. After obtaining his PhD in Organic Synthesis (Universidad del Valle, Cali – 2007) under the supervision of Prof. J. Quiroga, Dr. Portilla began his academic career at the Universidad de los Andes. His current research interests involve the areas of supramolecular chemistry and molecular recognition. Portilla's group research focuses on eco-compatible organic synthesis strategies, with a particular interest in aza-heterocyclic compounds of biological and photophysical potential.

Dr. Na’il Saleh received his PhD in Photochemistry from University of Missouri, USA in 2002. He worked as an Assistant Professor of physical chemistry at Yarmouk university, Jordan from 2002-2009. He was also appointed from 2006 to 2008 as a Research Scientist at Jacob university Bremen in Germany. In 2013, he was promoted to Associate Professor by United Arab Emirates University (joined 2009). With more than 48 publications, his research has been focusing on designing and creating new smart constitutional materials with inherent reversibility and responsiveness to chemical and thermal stimuli that have potential applications in biology, energy and environment using a non-classical approach.

Dr. Wang received his Ph.D. from Hokkaido University in Chemistry in 2013. Afterwards, he undertook research positions at University of California, Riverside and then RIKEN from 2013 to 2017. He is currently a Professor at Ocean University of China, and a visiting research scientist at RIKEN. Dr. Wang is also the recipient of JSPS Research Fellowship and RIKEN Research Incentive Award. His research interests include synthesis and analytical applications of plasmonic nanostructures.

Dr. Dhruba Jyoti Sarkar a Ph.D. in Agricultural Chemicals from the ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute (ICAR-IARI), New Delhi. During his doctoral thesis, he worked extensively on the development of pesticidal nanoformulations to improve their efficacy. He received the institute's Gold Medal for his doctoral thesis and also secured ICAR Jawaharlal Nehru Award for P.G. Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Research in Agricultural and Allied Sciences and Best Doctoral Thesis from Society of Pesticide Science, New Delhi for the same. He joined ICAR-IARI, New Delhi as faculty in 2012 and worked specifically on the development of various superabsorbent nanocomposite products for their application in agriculture for better water and nutrient use efficiency. For his work on the superabsorbent technology he received National Award for Technology Innovation in various fields of Petrochemicals and Downstream Plastic Processing Industry, Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers, Govt. of India in 2015. He has two Indian patents on the development of nanoformulations of pesticides and one Indian patent on the development of superabsorbent nanocomposites. Besides this, to his credit one US patent is also granted. He has more than 20 research articles on the application of nanotechnology in agriculture besides other minor publications. Recently, he is researching on the development of various nanostructured materials suitable for fisheries application, heavy metal monitoring in aquatic environment, metagenomics, nanobiosensor development under the aegis of ICAR-Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute, Kolkata, India.

Dr. T. L. Zhang is currently working as an Associate Professor, Key Laboratory of Synthetic and Natural Functional Molecular of the Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Northwest University, China. He is also a member of the Professional Committee of Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy Division of the Chinese Optical Engineering Society(CSOE). His research interests include (1) Chemometrics & machine learning; (2) Metallurgical industry process analysis; (3)Environmental analysis; (4) laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS). He has published over 50 papers in refereed journals. Please also suggest a few names in the relevant field suitable for joining the Editorial Board.

Dr Dang Mao Nguyen received his Ph.D. degree in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Grenoble Alpes, France, in 2017. After that, he moved to the Ecole des Ponts ParisTech, France, to work as a postdoctoral researcher in 2018. He is currently a researcher of the Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, Centralesupelec – University Paris-Saclay, France. His research areas are synthesis and modification of polymer and composite materials, natural fiber- reinforced composites, 3D images from tomography, Heat and mass transfers in porous materials, Images processing, and Hybrid materials for electrochemical, water splitting and catalytic applications. During his early career, he has published about 40 reputable-journal publications including book chapters and patents. He is the Associate Editor and Editorial Board Member of several international journals, namely, Journal of the Australian Ceramic Society and Materials Proceedings.

Dr. Aniruddha Patil is working as an assistant professor at Maharshi Dayanand College, Parel, University of Mumbai, India. He received his PhD (Chemical Engineering) from Institute of Chemical Technology-Mumbai (India) in 2015. He did postdoctoral research work at Bio-Smat, Xiamen University, China. His current research interest is preparing shape and size selective nanoparticles and nanocomposites as a functional material, which has catalytic applications for different organic reactions and electrocatalytic applications for biological sample detections (biosensors fabrication). He has published 26 research articles in an international journal. He has 5 Indian (2 granted), and 4 Chinese Patens.

Dr. Hüseyin Çelikkan is currently a Professor in the analytical chemistry department of Gazi University, Turkey. He received the Ph.D. in 2007. His research is focused on electrochemical sensors, electrodeposition, electrocatalysis and the applications of 2D materials.

Dr. Mani Sivakumar received his Bachelor and Master Degree in Physics from Periyar University, Tamil Nadu, India, in 2013. He completed his Ph.D. Degree in Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology at National Taipei University of Technology in July 2017. He is currently working as a postdoctoral fellow in the Graduate Institute of Applied Science and Technology, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan. His research interest mainly focuses on hybrid metal oxides and the carbon- based nanomaterial synthesis from various bio-wastes for electrochemical biosensor and sensors, electrocatalysis and supercapacitors. Recently focused on organic/inorganic composite membrane or carbon-based membrane for salt, dye and gas separation in an environmental application. He has published more than 25 research articles in SCI journals.

Dr. Peng Yang received his Ph.D. in Dalian University of Technology (China) in 2006. Afterwards, he did his postdoc research in INSERM (France), University of Saskatchewan (Canada), University of New Orleans (USA), respectively. In 2011, he joined Shenyang Pharmaceutical University (China). He is now a Professor and Principle Investigator of Wuya College of Innovation at Shenyang Pharmaceutical University. Prof. Dr. Peng YANG has good academic records and he initiates the study on calix[n]carbazoles internationally. His recent research interests focus on the creation of complex molecular architectures, exploration of their biocompatibility as well as generation of their pharmaceutical applications.

Dr Shazia Parveen received her Doctorate degree in Chemistry from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India, in 2013. Her research work includes the design and synthesis of metal based chiral chemotherapeutic agents and their in vitro DNA binding and cleavage studies. She has done research training in Solution phase Peptide Synthesis (SPSS) at Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT), Hyderabad, India in 2009. She has been awarded with various awards including ‘Best Poster Presentation Award’ in “11th International Conference on Chemistry and its Role in Development” held at Mansoura University, Egypt in 2013. After completing her postdoctoral fellowship in Jamia Hamdard, she is currently working as an Assistant Professor in Department of Chemistry, College of Sciences, Yanbu Branch, Taibah University, Madina, KSA.