The APL Materials editorial team comprises prestigious international researchers who oversee the entire peer-review process. Their goal is to select only the best, most significant, and most timely work for publication in the journal.

Editor-in-Chief

Bo Wang
Beijing Institute of Technology

Bo Wang received his BS, MS and PhD degrees from Peking University, the University of Michigan Ann Arbor and the University of California Los Angeles, respectively. He has been a professor in the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT), China, since 2011. He is the vice-president of BIT and the standing committee member of the China Association for Science and Technology. And he also serves as the executive committee member of the Committee of International Zeolite Association and International Academy of Electrochemical Energy Science. His research interests focus on novel crystalline functional porous materials design and synthesis and their applications in energy, environment, and life science.

Associate Editors

Marina Leite
University of California, Davis  

Marina Leite is a Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of California, Davis. Her research interests encompass functional materials for sustainability, including strategies for energy harvesting and storage, photonics, and data science. She received her PhD in Physics and BS in Chemistry from Campinas State University and the Federal University of Pernambuco in Brazil, respectively. She held a post-doctoral scholar appointment in the Department of Applied Physics at Caltech and worked at NIST. Prior joining UC Davis, she was an assistant and associate professor at the University of Maryland. She is a Senior member of IEEE and SPIE, a life-time member of the American Physical Society, and a member of the Materials Research Society.

Baishakhi Mazumder
University of Buffalo  

Dr. Baishakhi Mazumder is an Associate professor at the Department of Materials Design and Innovation, University at Buffalo. Dr. Mazumder received her Ph.D. in Material Science from the Université de Rouen, France in December 2010. Prior to joining University at Buffalo in 2017, she was a senior material scientist at Intel Corporation, as a research associate at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She specializes in material analysis using advanced characterization techniques, especially Atom Probe Tomography (APT). Dr. Mazumder is an NSF Early CAREER recipient. Her work in determining critical material properties using APT has contributed to the growth of next generation communication and power electronics devices Her research interests span the areas of power electronics, optoelectronics, wide band gap semiconductors, and oxide electronic materials. Her research mainly focuses on establishing processing-structure-chemistry-property-performance correlations for the design and development of advanced materials.

Emilie Ringe
University of Cambridge

Emilie Ringe started her undergraduate studies at McGill in chemistry, and finished her degree summa cum laude, in chemistry, at Northwestern University. She then obtained her Ph.D. at Northwestern (2012) and then was a postdoctoral fellow in Materials Science at the University of Cambridge, UK. In 2014, she was hired as an assistant professor at Rice University, where she established the Electron Microscopy Center. In 2018, she moved back to the University of Cambridge, joint between the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy and the Department of Earth Sciences; she was promoted to full professor in 2022. She received an ERC Starting grant and a EPSRC grant to pursue her studies of Earth-abundant plasmonics, for which she has been named one of the 2021 C&EN’s “Talented 12” and recipient of the 2021 The Journal of Physical Chemistry C and ACS PHYS lectureship.

Jordi Sort
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Jordi Sort is an ICREA Research Professor working at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, where he leads the ‘Group of Smart Nanoengineered Materials, Nanomechanics and Nanomagnetism’. Prof. Sort performed postdoctoral stays at SPINTEC (Grenoble) and at Argonne National Laboratory. His research is focused on a wide variety of materials (thin films, lithographed structures, porous materials and nanocomposites) with emphasis on their magnetic and mechanical performance. He received awards from the Catalan and Spanish Physical Societies as well as the Federation of European Materials Societies. He was also awarded a Consolidator and a Proof-of-Concept Grants from the European Research Council. He has authored more than 300 publications. He is member of the American Physical Society and the IEEE Magnetics Society.

Ying-Wei Yang
Jilin University

Ying-Wei Yang received his BS (2000) and PhD (2005) degrees from Nankai University and gained postdoctoral training at Arizona State University, the University of California, Los Angeles, and the University of California, Irvine from 2005 to 2010. He became an associate professor of chemistry at Jilin University in 2011 and was promoted to full professor in 2014. He was appointed a Tang Au-Chin Distinguished Professor at Jilin University in 2020. His research interests include molecular crystalline materials, organic−inorganic hybrid materials, porous materials, smart supramolecular systems, and stimuli-responsive polymeric materials for applications in catalysis, cancer theranostics, crop protection, environmental remediation, and optoelectronics. He has authored over 280 publications.