Ecuador

Grissel Trujillo de Santiago is a Professor at the School of Engineering and Sciences at Tecnológico de Monterrey. She is CSO and the scientific founder of FORMA Foods. She was trained as a Chemistry & Pharmacy Biologist at Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León (summa cum laude); she obtained her MSc degree in Biotechnology (summa cum laude), and her Ph.D. degree in Biotechnology from Tecnológico de Monterrey. Dr. Trujillo de Santiago conducted research in Material Sciences at the Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II (Naples, Italy) during her Ph.D. program. She was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Dr. Khademhosseini’s Lab in the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology Division (2014-2016) and the Microsystems Technology Laboratories at MIT. Dr. Trujillo is a member of the National System of Researchers in Mexico (level 2). She has published more than 70 papers, has been granted a Mexican patent, and has 6 more patent-pending technologies, including 3D chaotic printing. Her work has been cited more than 4700 times, and she has an H-index of 25. She has been recipient of several awards, including the “Professional Development” award by the ISBF, the For Women in Science Fellowship from the L’Oréal-UNESCO-AMC-CONACyT foundation, “Distinguished Citizen” by her hometown, Matamoros Coahuila, the Romulo Garza award for research that leads to entrepreneurship and is member of the “Distinguished Circle of Faculty Members” of her institution. Trujillo is an Associate Editor at ACS Materials Letters and a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee for the United Nations University (Latin America and the Caribbean program). Her main area of interest and expertise is bioprinting, biofabrication, and materials engineering for Tissue Engineering applications. Dr. Trujillo de Santiago research is currently focused on the development of novel platform technologies based on chaos to produce multilayered complex 3D micro-structured living tissues.

Born in Cuba in 1963 and based in Switzerland, Professor Carreira is both the first JACS editor-in-chief to live outside of the U.S. and the first Latin American to lead the journal. Carreira obtained his Bachelor of Science in 1984 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign under the supervision of Scott E. Denmark and a Ph.D. degree in 1990 from Harvard University under the supervision of David A. Evans. He has been a full professor at the Organic Chemistry Laboratory of the ETH Zürich since 1998. A self-described “generalist,” Professor Carreira’s current research focuses on a variety of multidisciplinary fields, including natural products total synthesis, synthetic methods, and catalysis to prepare molecules with asymmetric bond construction. He is co-founder of three start-up companies and has been involved in the development of several chemistry education software tools. Professor Carreira is a member of both the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He’s been a member of the American Chemical Society for 37 years and has received numerous awards from the society, including the 2013 ACS Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry.

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.