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

Chang-Beom Eom
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Chang-Beom Eom is a Harvey D. Spangler Distinguished Professor of Materials Science and Engineering (and Physics) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research focuses on epitaxial thin film heterostructures of complex oxides with an emphasis on understanding fundamental solid-state phenomena and developing novel device applications. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and of the Materials Research Society. Eom has authored over 280 publications.

Wei Li
Nankai University  

Wei Li is a Professor at the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Nankai University. His research interests include the synthesis and physical properties of hybrid crystals (especially hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites and metal-organic frameworks), and their potential applications in energy and optoelectronics. He obtained his PhD in 2008 from Chinese Academy of Sciences and did postdoctoral work in University of Cambridge. He took a faculty position in the School of Physics
at Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2015, and moved to Nankai University in 2018.

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.

Lukas Schmidt-Mende
University of Konstanz

Lukas Schmidt-Mende is full professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Konstanz, Germany, where he is leading the Hybrid nanostructures group. He has experience in organic, dye-sensitized, and hybrid solar cells. He received his Ph.D. in the Prof. Sir Richard Friends Optoelectronics group. Later, he joined Prof. Michael Grätzel to work on solid-state, dye-sensitized solar cells. He has also worked in the Material Science Department at the University of Cambridge, UK, and in the Department of Physics at the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich. His current research is in nanostructured materials for energy conversion, with a focus on the device physics of organic and hybrid solar cells.

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.