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Welcome to Associate Editor Jason Hattrick-Simpers
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t gives me great pleasure to welcome Prof. Jason HattrickSimpers as a new Associate Editor for ACS Combinatorial Science. Dr. Hattrick-Simpers will focus primarily on the area of combinatorial materials science, which encompasses a wide variety of molecules, materials, techniques, and applications−a job for which his experience and outlook are perfectly suited. Dr. Hattrick-Simpers is a Ph.D. graduate of the University of Maryland, where he worked with Prof. Ichiro Takeuchi, a longstanding member of our Editorial Advisory Board. After postdoctoral research at the National Institute of Standards and Technology under Dr. Leonid Benderksy, Dr. Hattrick-Simpers started his independent professorial career in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of South Carolina in 2010. Although he is only getting started, he is well-known as a leader in the combinatorial development of solid-state materials for many energy-related targets. An inventive and eclectic developer and user of both experimental and theoretical techniques, Dr. Hattrick-Simpers is well positioned to help the journal present and highlight exciting new science and engineering in important fields in which combinatorial methods are making many contributions. While ACS Combinatorial Science is still the premier home for combinatorial synthetic chemistry (under the able guidance of Associate Editor Larry Truesdale), the journal also publishes combinatorial approaches to molecular function in many other fields. These include the discovery, optimization, and evolution of biological molecules and systems, a wide variety of different types of materials, new analytical methods, and the theory and computational tools that enable the extraction of useful information from complex sets of data. Useful is a key word for our field: authors and readers will also find ACS Comb. Sci. a welcome destination for accounts of the application of combinatorial methods to practical and important problems. Nature uses combinatorial methods to solve all of the problems that organisms encounter; the complex systems of humanity’s creations are no less amenable to this type of approach. With Dr. Hattrick-Simpers’ help as Associate Editor, and yours as readers and authors, we will continue to explore this fascinating world together.
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Published: July 27, 2016 © 2016 American Chemical Society
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DOI: 10.1021/acscombsci.6b00109 ACS Comb. Sci. 2016, 18, 437−437
