Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Angie leads the Publishing Integrity Office within Publishing Analytics & Intelligence at ACS Publications. She partners cross‑functionally to advance ethical publishing practices, support integrity investigations, and guide policy development across the journal portfolio. Angie brings a background in synthetic organic chemistry and scientific publishing and has played a key role in shaping ACS initiatives on data quality, FAIR data sharing, and research transparency. Her work champions accountability, trust, and integrity across the scholarly publishing ecosystem.

Matt Grandbois is the Vice President of Business Development for AirJoule, LLC, a joint venture of GE Vernova and AirJoule Technologies Corp (NASDAQ: AIRJ). In this role, Matt leads the commercial organization and business development activities for the company that is focused on freeing the world of its water and energy constraints by developing breakthrough sorption technologies to unleash the power of water from air. Prior to joining AirJoule, Matt held a 15-year career working for Dow Chemical and DuPont where he started as a Ph.D. Chemist within Dow’s Core R&D organization before transitioning to Marketing, Strategy, and Business Development leadership roles within their business unit focused on specialty materials for the global electronics ecosystem. His primary markets and specialization include next generation automotive,  telecommunications, and high-performance computing. Matt earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Minnesota, B.A. degrees in Chemistry & Music Performance from Augustana College (Sioux Falls, SD) and is a graduate of the Program for Leadership Development (PLD) at Harvard Business School. He is a Fulbright Scholar to Norway (2008), Six Sigma Black Belt, Fellow of the American Chemical Society, holds 14 U.S. patents, and has authored numerous scientific publications.

Rory Waterman is currently Professor of Chemistry at the University of Vermont (UVM). After earning a PhD in 2004 from the University of Chicago and completing a Miller Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of California, Berkley, he started at UVM in 2006 and rose through the academic ranks. His work inorganic and organometallic homogeneous catalysis has garnered recognition including being named a Fellow of each the American Chemical Society (ACS) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Beyond his science, he has worked in faculty professional development, co-founding the (now) ACS New Faculty Workshop in 2011 and published on aspects of research access for undergraduate students.

Emily A. Carter is the inaugural Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor in Energy and the Environment, and Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, and Applied and Computational Mathematics at Princeton University. Carter earned a B.S. in Chemistry from UC Berkeley and a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from Caltech, followed by a brief postdoc at CU Boulder. She spent 16 years on the UCLA Chemistry faculty before moving to join Princeton’s mechanical and aerospace engineering, and applied and computational mathematics faculty for the next 15 years. She was Founding Director of Princeton’s Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, then Princeton’s Dean of Engineering and Applied Science, then rejoined UCLA as Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, and as Distinguished Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, before returning to Princeton’s faculty and joining the Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory as Senior Strategic Advisor and member of its executive management team in 2022. Dr. Carter maintains an active research presence, developing and applying quantum mechanical simulation techniques to enable discovery and design of materials and processes for sustainable production of fuels, chemicals, and materials. The author of nearly 500 publications and patents, a devoted mentor to over 100 students and postdocs, Dr. Carter has delivered over 600 invited, keynote, and plenary lectures worldwide, and serves on boards and works with foundations spanning a wide range of disciplines. She is the recipient of numerous honors, including election to the National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, National Academy of Inventors, National Academy of Engineering, European Academy of Sciences, and Great Britain’s Royal Society.

Eric Mills is a Senior Managing Editor with ACS Publications. Eric received his PhD from the University of British Columbia, working on protein simulation and misfolding. After a postdoctoral fellowship at the UBC School of Medicine, Eric moved into scholarly publishing, first with AIP Publishing and then, since 2018, with ACS Publications. Eric manages some of ACS’s highest-profile journals, including JACS, Chemical Reviews, and Accounts of Chemical Research.

Alyah Chmiel is a medicinal chemist at Bristol Myers Squibb in Cambridge, MA. She has been working at BMS for the past two years in oncology. Alyah obtained her B.S. in pharmaceutical sciences from the University of Michigan, where she did research with Prof. Corey Stephenson and Prof. Amanda Garner. She then obtained her PhD in organic chemistry from the lab of Prof. Zachary Wickens at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she focused on methodology development with photochemistry and electrochemistry.