B-MRS Meeting 2025

Xing Yi Ling is a Professor in Chemistry from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and Jiangnan University China. She received her Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from University of Twente, the Netherlands in 2009,and her postdoctoral research at the University of California, Berkeley between 2009-2011. She is the Fellow of The Royal Society of Chemistry, and received Singapore National Research Foundation Investigatorship, Nanyang Award for Innovation & Entrepreneurship, L’ORÉAL Singapore for Women in Science National Fellowship, Singapore National Research Foundation Fellowship, IUPAC Prize for Young Chemists, and etc.

T. Randall “Randy” Lee earned a B.A. in Chemistry from Rice University. He then earned A.M. and Ph.D. degrees in Chemistry from Harvard University. After working as a NIH Postdoctoral Fellow at the California Institute of Technology, he began his independent research career at the University of Houston in 1993. As a member of the faculty at the University of Houston, he served as the Associate Chair of the Department of Chemistry for eight years and is currently the Cullen Distinguished University Chair and Associate Dean for Research for the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics. Prof. Lee has served as an Associate Editor of ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, now appointed Deputy Editor of ACS Applied Nano Materials. He has authored or co-authored over 240 peer-reviewed articles in fundamental and applied research areas, with a primary focus on the preparation of new organic and inorganic materials (and combinations thereof) for technological applications.

Professor Orlando Rojas is a Canada Excellence Research Chair in University of British Columbia and Director of the Bioproducts Institute. In this latter role, he synergizes a distinguished group of professors and researchers conducting multi- and cross-disciplinary research to create fundamental knowledge and applications, from seeds to cutting-edge biorefining technologies and novel bio-based products. His team members, who take part in the Bio-based Colloids and Materials, are the reasons for Prof. Rojas distinction as the Anselme Payen Award, established by the American Chemical Society in 1962, the highest recognition in the area of cellulose and renewable materials. He is also an elected Fellow of the American Chemical Society (2013), the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters (2017) and recipient of the Tappi Nanotechnology Award (2015). He is adjunct professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering of North Carolina State University where he was NC University Faculty Scholar in its inaugural edition. Prof. Rojas is Associate editor of Biomacromolecules and Emeritus Editor of J. Dispersion Science and Technology. He is member of the Marcus Wallenberg Foundation Selection Committee and Honorary Chair of the Asia Pacific Young Scientists Association.  Prof. Rojas recent research grants include the prestigious European Research Commission Advanced Grant (ERC-Advanced) and a Horizon H2020 project, among others. During his career Prof. Rojas has advised 55 postdoctoral fellows, 65 PhD and 50 MS students. He has also hosted 112 international visiting scholars and professors. With a h-index of 95 and 43000 citations (Google Scholar), he has authored about +500 peer-reviewed papers and a larger number of conference contributions related to the core research, mainly dealing with nanostructures from renewable materials and their utilization in multiphase systems.  He is a top 1% in 2022 and 2023 citations worldwide (Clarivate, Web of Science)

Dr. Toro-Mendoza is a physicist with 20 years of experience in the highly interdisciplinary field of soft matter science with more than 35 publications in journals such as ACS Nano, Langmuir, and JPC, among others. Jhoan earned his Ph.D. in Physics from the Venezuelan Institute of Scientific Research. His work aimed to understand droplet deformability as a critical factor affecting emulsion evolution. After his PhD, Jhoan was a postdoc at the University of New Mexico, USA, with Prof. Dimiter Petsev. There he developed a new strategy to predict film evolution during droplet coalescence. Returning to his homeland in Venezuela, Jhoan developed his independent research group, expanding his repertoire of research interests to microfluidic devices, microrheology of ionic colloidal systems, active droplets, Ostwald ripening, self-assembled carbon nanotubes at fluid interfaces, nanofilm dynamics, emulsion formation and understanding the granular behaviour of liquid dispersions. During this period, Jhoan supervised students at all levels from undergraduate to postdocs while serving as head of the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Physics, a period that lasted more than six years. More recently, Jhoan worked with Prof. Luis Liz-Marzán at CIC biomaGUNE in Spain on protein-nanoparticle interactions and corona formation. Almost three years ago, Jhoan joined ACS Publications based in Oxford, UK.

With a master’s degree in information science and extensive experience as a teaching professor focusing on the production, dissemination, use and application of scientific and technological information, Regiane A. Bracchi’s main role as the ACS Publications Latin America Manager is to support the scientific community in the region. This work centers on the development and implementation projects and partnerships associated to the access, use, and application of all ACS resources and solutions, as well as the promotion of opportunities and programs for the benefit of science in Latin America.