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Prof. Thomas Holme, Ph.D., is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Chemical Education, published by the American Chemical Society. He received a B.S. in Chemistry and Physics from Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa, and his Ph.D. from Rice University. After postdoctoral work at Hebrew University in Jerusalem and the University of Pennsylvania, he participated as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Zambia. He served an Assistant Professor at the University of South Dakota and then as an Associate Professor and Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. He is currently a Morrill Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Iowa State University. Thomas Holme’ research has two distinct strands: chemical education research and human–computer interaction. He served as Director of the Examinations Institute of the American Chemical Society from 2002 to 2015 and conducts education research to improve the quality of information that can be obtained from exams and other forms of assessment. His current work in human–computer interaction is focused on the development and testing of augmented reality interfaces for use in chemistry education.

Kelly Chibale is a professor of organic chemistry at the University of Cape Town (UCT) where he holds the Neville Isdell Chair in African-centric Drug Discovery & Development. He is also a member of the UCT Institute of infectious disease & molecular medicine, founding Director of the South African medical research council drug discovery & development research unit at UCT and the Founder and Director of the UCT drug discovery and development centre, H3D, a Johnson and Johnson (J&J) Satellite Centre for Global Health Discovery. His research interest is in infectious disease drug discovery. Kelly obtained his PhD in Synthetic Organic Chemistry from the University of Cambridge in the UK. This was followed by postdoctoral stints at the University of Liverpool in the UK and at the Scripps Research Institute in the USA. He was a Sandler Sabbatical Fellow at the University of California San Francisco, a US Fulbright Senior Research Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and a Visiting Professor at Pfizer.  He is a recipient of many awards and honors, including being named by Fortune magazine as one of the World’s 50 Greatest Leaders in 2018. He previously served as an Associate Editor of Journal of Medicinal Chemistry.