Editorial Team

EDITOR IN CHIEF: PRECURSORS

PROFESSOR SEAN BARRY

Professor and Principal Investigator in the Department of Chemistry, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON.

Interests: Precursor chemistry, surface reactivity, metal depositions, thermal mechanisms

EDITOR IN CHIEF: APPLICATIONS

PROFESSOR RUUD VAN OMMEN

Antoni van Leeuwenhoek professor in Chemical Engineering at Delft University of Technology; Co-founder of Delft-IMP.

Interests: Multiphase reactor engineering, scalable production of nanostructured materials, nanoparticle coating via fluidized bed and pneumatic transport ALD reactors, energy conversion, storage and pharmaceutical applications. 

EXECUTIVE EDITORS

PROFESSOR MATO KNEZ

Researcher and Group Leader in Ikerbasque, CIC nanoGUNE in San Sebastián, Spain.

Interests: Synthesis and properties of nanomaterials, material science, thin film coating, bio-inorganic and organic-inorganic hybrid materials

PROFESSOR MARK LOSEGO

Associate Professor and Principal Investigator at the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia, USA.

Interests: Textiles, polymers, ceramics, nanostructures

PROFESSOR MICHAEL NOLAN

Head of Group Materials Modelling for Devices at Tyndall National Institute & Chair ICHEC Science Council

Interests: applying first principles modelling to metal oxides, in particular in the following research themes: Metal Oxides in Renewable Energy Applications. Electronic Structure of Ceria. Reactions at Ceria Surfaces. Vapor infusion in polymers.

PROFESSOR YANG ZHAO

Assistant Professor and Principal Investigator in the Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Western University, London, Canada.

Interests: Energy storage devices, nanomaterials and nanostructure design and fabrication, surface and interface engineering, next-generation batteries, advanced characterization for materials and interfaces.

PROFESSOR FRED ROOZEBOOM

Professor Emeritus at the faculty of Science & Technology, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands and Research Fellow at LionVolt B.V., Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Interests: Semiconductor thin-film & device integration technologies*, next-generation Li-batteries, catalysis, EUV optical lifetime, inorganic membranes for nanofiltration. *[plasma-enhanced] CVD, PVD, ALD, RIE, ALE, MBE, sol-gel deposition, electroplating, RTP, TSV technology.
 

PROFESSOR JIAN LIU

Associate Professor and Principal’s Research Chair in Energy Storage Technologies in the School of Engineering at the University of British Columbia, Kelowna, Canada

Interests: atomic/molecular layer deposition, nanofabrication, surface and interface engineering, energy storage and conversion, lithium-ion batteries and next-generation batteries (solid-state, lithium-sulfur, and zinc-ion), interfacial phenomena in complex energy systems

PROFESSOR TAMAR SEGAL-PERETZ

Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Technion- Israel Institute of Technology.

Interests: Vapor-phase infiltration and growth of inorganic materials in polymers using atomic layer deposition (ALD). This strategy enables the fabrication of inorganic patterns and hybrid organic-inorganic composites. We are investigating new chemistries and processes in order to develop materials and composites with novel optical and electronic properties and to control their three-dimensional structure.

DR. HENRIK H. SØNSTEBY

Principal Investigator and Senior Lecturer at the Center for Materials Science and Nanotechnology, University of Oslo, Norway.

Interests: Low temperature epitaxy of functional complex oxides for next generation electronics, spintronics and photonics. Fundamental aspects of ALD for ternary- and quaternary oxides, with special focus on alkali- and transistion metal complex oxides.

PROFESSOR TANIA SANDOVAL

Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering at Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Santiago, Chile. 

Interests: Computational materials chemistry, surface functionalization, and thin film deposition (ALD and ASD).

DR. SIMON ELLIOTT

Director and researcher of atomic level process simulations at Schrödinger

 

Interests: Applying quantum mechanics and/or machine learning to the surface chemistry of deposition and etching processes.

DR. JACQUES KOOLS

Founder, Encapsulix SAS ; PhD Technical Physics TU Eindhoven. Previous positions include Research scientist at Philips Research and VP of Technology at Veeco Instruments.

Interests : Design and optimization of  Etch and Deposition Equipment ( ALD & ALE) , relationship between reactor design, process parameters and film Properties ; Simulation and virtual prototyping; Industrial aspects

DR. ALFREDO MAMELI

Researcher and principal investigator at Holst Centre at TNO, Eindhoven, the Netherlands.

Interests: materials science, surface chemistry, plasma-surface interaction, atomic-scale selective deposition and etching, surface functionalization.

DR. DENNIS HAUSMANN

Director at LAM Research 

PROFESSOR MARTYN PEMBLE

Professor Emeritus at School of Chemistry Scoil na Ceimic, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.

Interests: CVD/ALD applications in surface catalysts, materials science, electrochemistry, electronic materials, nanotechnology and anti-microbial and self-cleaning surfaces

EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERS

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ASSISTANT EDITOR (AB)

ANNA BUTTER, MSC.

Anna Butter finished her MSc. Degree in Chemistry at the University of Amsterdam/VU university. She specializes in how to use chemistry for energy and sustainability purposes and just finished her project researching the production of catalysts and gas diffusion electrodes (GDEs) for electrochemical CO2 reduction. Together with Ksenia Frolova she fulfills the role of assistant editor, in which they will ensure a smooth editorial work-flow.

ASSISTANT EDITOR (KF)

KSENIA VARGA, MSC.

Ksenia has completed her Master of Science degree at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada under the supervision of Professor Sean Barry and Dr. Charles Macdonald. 
Here, at Atomic Layer Deposition, Ksenia, along with Anna Butter fulfill the role of assistant editor.

FOUNDING EDITOR

DR. D.J. MONSMA

Owner of Ultimaterials BV in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Interests: All ALD aspects, rechargeable batteries, microelectronics, materials science. Established the open access journal "Atomic Layer Deposition" (ISSN  2772-2570).

OTHER

Additional team members will be listed soon.