Editorial Team
EDITORS
Alessandro Gandini (agandini@iqsc.usp.br) is a physical chemist who has taught and conducted research for the last fifty years at academic and other institutions in Switzerland, UK, Canada, USA, Cuba, France, Brazil and Portugal, after his first degree in Italy. His main scientific interests are polymer synthesis and characterization, with a special emphasis on polymers from renewable resources, photochemistry, and the physical chemistry of surfaces and interfaces. He has published more than 400 scientific contributions and is an Honorary Doctor of the Saint Petersburg Forestry Academy and of Havana University, and was invested with the Ermine decoration of Grenoble National Polytechnic Institute. Ramaswamy Nagarajan (Ramaswamy_Nagarajan@uml.edu) is a Professor of Plastics Engineering at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell and has a science and engineering background with bachelor degrees in chemistry and rubber technology from India and a doctoral degree in polymer science from the University of Massachusetts. His research interest is in the development of “greener”/sustainable routes to advanced functional materials (polymers, additives and surfactants). Working at the interface of science and engineering his research group has been involved in translating fundamental research into engineering applications for advancing technology in new and emerging areas. He has published more than 55 papers in peer-reviewed journals and holds 17 U.S. patents. |
EDITORIAL BOARD
Mirta Aranguren, University of Mar del Plata, Argentina Naceur Belgacem, Grenoble Polytechnic, France Sami Boufi, University of Sfax, Tunisia Virginia Cadiz, University of Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain Antonio Carvalho, University of São Paulo, Brazil Annamaria Celli, University of Bologna, Italy Craig Clemons, Forest Service, Madison, USA Henri Cramail, ENSCBP, France Pedro Fardim, Åbo Academy, Turku, Finland Juan Galbis, University of Seville, Spain Peter Halley, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia Alfonso Jiménez, University of Alicante, Spain Hyoe Hatakeyama, Fukui University of Technology, Japan David Kaplan, Tufts University, USA Vimal Katiyar, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India Katja Loos, University of Groningen, The Netherlands Robert Mathers, Penn State University, USA Amar Mohanty, University of Guelph, Canada, Ravi Mosurkal, US Army Natick Soldier RDEC Ramani Narayan, Michigan State University, USA Anil Netravali, Cornell University, USA Carlos Peniche, University of Havana, Cuba Srikanth Pilla, Clemson University, USA, Antonio Pizzi, University of Lorraine, France David Plackett, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada Orlando Rojas, Aalto University, Finland Kei Saito, Monash University, Australia Vijay Kumar Thakur, Cranfield University, UK Chad Ulven, North Dakota State University, Fargo, USA Xianhong Wang, Chinese Academy of Science, Changchun |