Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Luigi Casella
Department of Chemistry, University of Pavia, Pavia 27100, Italy.
Research Interests: metalloproteins; biological oxidations; neurometals; metal peptide complexes.
Associate Editor-in-Chief
Assoc. Prof. Stephen Bell
School of Physics, Chemistry and Earth Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia 5005, Australia.
Research Interests: the structure and function of heme proteins and enzymes; the isolation of new heme enzymes and their engineering for biocatalysis; iron-sulfur cluster electron transfer proteins.
Editorial Board Members
Dr. Luisa Maia
Department of Chemistry, NOVA School of Science and Technology | NOVA FCT, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal.
Research Interests: metals in biology & medicine; human health & disease; environment and (bio)energy; metalloenzymes; bioinorganic chemistry; spectroscopy more specific: structure-activity relationships in metalloproteins; enzymes mechanistic characterisation; molybdoenzymes; metal-dependent catalysis; small molecules activation; carbon dioxide utilisation (CDU); nitrate; nitrite; nitric oxide; signalling molecules.
Prof. Kazumasa Wakamatsu
Institute for Melanin Chemistry, Fujita Health University, Toyoake 470-1192, Japan.
Research Interests: biosynthesis of melanin pathway; UV damage; photoaging; internal and external melanin; melanoma; fossil melanin; skin aging; hair color; UV protection; and antioxidant action.
Dr. Chiara Bacchella
Department of Chemistry, University of Pavia, 65-27100 Pavia, Italy.
Research Interests: biocatalysis; metalloproteins; coordination chemistry and metal complexes; neurodegenerative diseases and oxidative stress.
Dr. Marcela Ayala
Departamento de Ingeniería Celular y Biocatálisis, Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), CP 62209, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico.
Research Interests: redox and environmental biocatalysis; bioprospecting; nanobiotechnology; protein engineering; petroleum biotechnology; metalloenzymes.
Prof. Mi Hee Lim
Department of Chemistry, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea.
Research Interests: bioinorganic chemistry and chemical neuroscience; especially focusing on identifying how metal-involved biological networks are linked to dementia; such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases; and establishing new directions for developing chemical reagents as tools; diagnostics; and therapeutics for such diseases.
Dr. Andrea Capucciati
Department of Chemistry, University of Pavia, 65 - 27100 Pavia, Italy.
Research Interests: bioinorganic chemistry; iron and copper chemistry; metals in neurological disorder; metals and protein chemistry; metals catalysis.
Prof. Matteo Tegoni
Department of Chemistry, University of Parma, 43124 Parma, Italy.
Research Interests: formation equilibria of metal complexes; spectroscopic investigation of metal-biomolecule complexes; self-assembly of metal-containing supramolecules; stability and function of metallopeptides.
Prof. Felix Tuczek
Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Kiel University (CAU), 24118 Kiel, Germany.
Research Interests: bioinorganic chemistry (nitrogen fixation; dioxygen activation by copper enzymes); spin-crossover molecules; surface chemistry; surface spectroscopy.
Prof. Anabella Ivancich
Laboratory of Bioenergetics and Protein Engineering, The National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and Aix-Marseille University, 13009 Marseilles, France.
Research Interests: biophysics; bioinorganic chemistry; physical chemistry of biological systems; multifrequency EPR spectroscopy; resonance Raman spectroscopy; enzyme catalysis; heme proteins; protein-based radical intermediates; biological electron transfer; heme peroxidases; bifunctional catalase-peroxidases (KatGs); manganese catalase; de-novo designed heme proteins; cyt P450 monooxygenases.
Prof. Ebbe Nordlander
Department of Chemistry, Lund University, 221 00 Lund, Sweden.
Research Interests: inorganic chemistry; atom and molecular physics and optics; physical chemistry; chemical sciences.
Dr. Miguel Costas
QBIS Research Group, Institut de Química Computacional i Catàlisi (IQCC) and Departament de Química, Universitat de Girona, Campus Montilivi, Girona E-17071, Catalonia, Spain.
Research Interests: catalysis; iron; manganese; copper; C-H oxidation; C=C oxidation; Supramolecular chemistry; O2 activation; Reaction mechanisms; Coordination chemistry; water oxidation.
Prof. José J. G. Moura
Departamento de Química, Campus de Caparica, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal.
Research Interests: bioinorganic; biophysics; biocatalysis; energy bioconversion; role of metals in biology; inorganic systems as models for biocatalysis; spectroscopy; (bio)electrochemistry; biocorrosion; bacterial systems; large scale protein production; molecular modeling; reconstitution of electron transfer chains; metalloproteins structure-function relationships.
Prof. Wendel A. Alves
Center for Natural and Human Sciences, Federal University of ABC – UFABC, 09210-580 Santo André, Brazil.
Research Interests: biopolymers; colloids; peptide and protein aggregation; biosensors; electronic devices.
Prof. Wonwoo Nam
Department of Chemistry and Nanoscience, Ewha Womans University, Seoul 03760, Korea.
Research Interests: chemistry; bioinorganic chemistry; heme and nonheme iron model; water oxidation; metal-oxygen intermediate; reaction mechanism.
Prof. Kallol Ray
Department of Chemistry, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 12489 Berlin, Germany.
Research Interests: bioinorganic chemistry; catalysis; coordination chemistry; spectroscopy; reaction mechanism; energy; fuel cells; small molecule activation.
Assoc. Prof. Isaac Garcia-Bosch
Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA.
Research Interests: bio-inspired catalysts for practical organic synthesis; 3d metal complexes (structure; spectroscopy and reactivity).
Prof. Ying-Wu Lin
School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, University of South China, Hengyang 421001, China.
Research Interests: heme proteins; heme enzymes; artificial metalloenzymes; biocatalysis; X-ray crystallogropy; EPR.
Dr. Marius Réglier
Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, Centrale Méditerranée, iSm2, 13013 Marseille, France.
Research Interests: activation of small molecules (O2; H2; H2O; CO2 …) by metalloenzymes and their biomimetic/bioinspired models; bioinorganic chemistry of copper-containing enzymes.
Dr. Sam P. de Visser
School of Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK.
Research Interests: enzyme catalysis; inorganic reaction mechanisms; cytochrome p450 enzymes; nonheme iron dioxygenases; computational modelling.
Prof. Franc Meyer
Institut für Anorganische Chemie, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, D-37077 Göttingen, Germany.
Research Interests: bioinspired coordination chemistry and catalysis; activation of energy-related small molecules; electronic structure; magnetic properties and spectroscopy of transition metal complexes.
