Feed Editor 14 Dec 2007 23:50:15 GMT Reactive Reports provides fascinating insights into the world of chemistry and chemical information through a series of interviews with the movers and shakers in this growing and increasingly important field. http://www.reactivereports.com/reactive_people.html http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Weixiang "Andrew" Sun is a graduate student in the College of Material Science & Engineering, at South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, PR China. He is interested in "bottom-up" approaches to constructing nanoscale materials and currently working on the thermogelation of a diblock copolymer and its inclusion complexes with alpha-cyclodextrin. 14 Dec 2007 23:50:15 GMT http://www.reactivereports.com/71/71_0.html http://www.reactivereports.com/71/71_0.html Bryan Vickery did his BSc and PhD in electrochemistry at Liverpool University, England, but eschewed damaged jeans and fume cupboards for the world of electronic publishing. 26 Jul 2007 01:41:53 GMT http://www.reactivereports.com/67/67_0.html http://www.reactivereports.com/67/67_0.html Garcia obtained his BS from the University of California, Riverside, in 2003 in Pure and Applied Chemistry, and then moved to Berkeley to study for his PhD. He is now in the research group of Heino Nitsche investigating the chemistry of rutherfordium and alternative target technologies, and previously worked with Peter Vollhardt on the synthesis of triscyclopropabenzene and before that the kinematics of neon-18 decay with Joseph Cerny. Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:52:37 +0400 http://www.reactivereports.com/66/66_0.html http://www.reactivereports.com/66/66_0.html Computational chemist Steven Bachrach was torn between physics and chemistry. Luckily for the chemical community he found a happy medium in which to explore. Born, August 14, 1959, and graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana in 1981, he obtained his PhD on Organolithium and Organosilicon Chemistry under Andrew Streitwieser, Jr., from University of California at Berkeley in 1985. Wed, 18 Apr 2007 16:09:40 +0400 http://www.reactivereports.com/64/64_0.html http://www.reactivereports.com/64/64_0.html Robert Parker is the recently appointed Managing Director of RSC Publishing, the journals, books, and databases section of the Royal Society of Chemistry and other products for the chemical science community. Dr Parker has worked for the RSC for 22 years and now leads the 185 publishing staff, including those in the society's Library & Information Centre and IT departments. He is a graduate of King's College London, having received his PhD in chemistry in 1985. David Bradley discussed the future of chemistry publishing with Dr Parker for Reactive Reports, with technical information assistance from Richard Kidd. Thu, 22 Feb 2007 12:29:42 -0600 http://www.reactivereports.com/62/62_0.html http://www.reactivereports.com/62/62_0.html British-born Richard "Dick" Lewin Wife followed a traditional educational path, receiving his chemistry first degree from the University of Leeds in 1969 and staying on to do an organic PhD with David W. Jones. Research fellowships then took him to London, New York, and finally California, after which he returned to a job in the UK with Shell in 1976, moving to The Netherlands with the company in 1979. He stayed with Shell until 1987 at which point he founded SPECS and BioSPECS BV, in The Netherlands. In 2005, he co-founded a new company, SORD, which is an active partner of ACD/Labs, publisher of Reactive Reports. Tue, 19 Dec 2006 12:06:22 +0300 http://www.reactivereports.com/61/61_0.html http://www.reactivereports.com/61/61_0.html Mark Leach is a chemical researcher with a difference. He has worked at universities in the UK and overseas, acted as an A-level examiner as well as consulting for international companies and organizations. Fri, 24 Nov 2006 16:17:46 +0300 http://www.reactivereports.com/60/60_0.html http://www.reactivereports.com/60/60_0.html Amilra Prasanna "AP" de Silva was born on April 29, 1952, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, and obtained his PhD in Organic Photochemistry at Queen's University of Belfast, in 1980, having graduated from the University of Sri Lanka in 1975. Tue, 24 Oct 2006 13:37:05 +0400 http://www.reactivereports.com/59/59_0.html http://www.reactivereports.com/59/59_0.html Peter Loew was born and grew up in Munich, Germany. He gained a degree in chemistry in 1979 and received his PhD in Organic Chemistry in 1983 from the Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich. From 1983-1986 he took a Post Doc position at the Technical University in Munich in Computer-Chemistry, which was sponsored by ICI Organics Division, UK. Thu, 14 Sep 2006 20:07:55 +0400 http://www.reactivereports.com/58/58_0.html http://www.reactivereports.com/58/58_0.html William James Griffiths graduated from Imperial College London in 2004 in Chemistry with Management, he spent several months as a scientist at UK biotech company Celltech, but realized that life behind the bench was not for him and has since invested his time in developing the ChemRefer.com website. Fri, 14 Jul 2006 12:22:20 +0100 http://www.reactivereports.com/57/57_0.html http://www.reactivereports.com/57/57_0.html