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PUBLISHER’S NOTE for the January 2007 issue
REACTIVE & FUNCTIONAL POLYMERS
Reactive & Functional Polymers 67 (2007) v
www.elsevier.com/locate/react
Publisher’s Note Welcome to the January 2007 issue of Reactive and Functional Polymers which communicates some important changes for the journal. At the end of 2006 Steve Rimmer stepped down as Co-Editor-in-Chief, a position that he had been holding for the last four and a half years. On behalf of Elsevier, I would like to express our sincere thanks to Steve for his commitment and contribution to the success of the journal in the last four years, clearly expressed in its rising impact factor. I am very pleased to introduce the new Co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal, Professor Nicola Tirelli from the University of Manchester. Nicola Tirelli was born in 1968 and completed his first studies in Chemistry. His Master Thesis (1992) and PhD in Polymer Chemistry (1996) were conducted in the field of photochromic and non-linear optics polymers under the guidance of Prof. Francesco Ciardelli at the University of Pisa. In 1996–1997 he was Post Doctoral Assistant with Professor Ulrich W. Suter at the ETH Zurich, working on the synthesis and processing of novel fully aromatic polymers. After another Post Doctoral stay at the EPF Lausanne in 1999 Nicola Tirelli re-joined the ETH Zurich as an Oberassistant (a position comparable to a non tenure-track Assistant Professor) in the group of Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering led by Jeffrey Hubbell (1999–2002). In 2003 he joined the University of Manchester first as a Senior Lecturer and then as Chair of Polymers and Biomaterials (2005) at the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Science. Professor Tirelli was the recipient of a Bessel Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in 2004 and of an Advanced Research Fellowship from the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) in 2005. He has authored 60 publications in international journals and five patents. His research interests centre on the development of new biomaterials in form of hydrogels and nano-structures for tissue engineering and responsive release applications. I wish Professor Tirelli success in his editorial work on Reactive and Functional Polymers! Rumen Duhlev Publisher Elsevier, Oxford, UK E-mail address: [email protected] 1.8 1.582
1.565
1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 Impact factor of Reactive and Functional Polymers
2005
1.6
1.417
1.4 1.165
1.2 0.873
1 0.8
0.836
0.784 0.687
0.592
0.6 0.4 0.2 0 1997
doi:10.1016/j.reactfunctpolym.2006.11.002
Reactive & Functional Polymers 67 (2007) v
www.elsevier.com/locate/react
Publisher’s Note Welcome to the January 2007 issue of Reactive and Functional Polymers which communicates some important changes for the journal. At the end of 2006 Steve Rimmer stepped down as Co-Editor-in-Chief, a position that he had been holding for the last four and a half years. On behalf of Elsevier, I would like to express our sincere thanks to Steve for his commitment and contribution to the success of the journal in the last four years, clearly expressed in its rising impact factor. I am very pleased to introduce the new Co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal, Professor Nicola Tirelli from the University of Manchester. Nicola Tirelli was born in 1968 and completed his first studies in Chemistry. His Master Thesis (1992) and PhD in Polymer Chemistry (1996) were conducted in the field of photochromic and non-linear optics polymers under the guidance of Prof. Francesco Ciardelli at the University of Pisa. In 1996–1997 he was Post Doctoral Assistant with Professor Ulrich W. Suter at the ETH Zurich, working on the synthesis and processing of novel fully aromatic polymers. After another Post Doctoral stay at the EPF Lausanne in 1999 Nicola Tirelli re-joined the ETH Zurich as an Oberassistant (a position comparable to a non tenure-track Assistant Professor) in the group of Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering led by Jeffrey Hubbell (1999–2002). In 2003 he joined the University of Manchester first as a Senior Lecturer and then as Chair of Polymers and Biomaterials (2005) at the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Science. Professor Tirelli was the recipient of a Bessel Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in 2004 and of an Advanced Research Fellowship from the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) in 2005. He has authored 60 publications in international journals and five patents. His research interests centre on the development of new biomaterials in form of hydrogels and nano-structures for tissue engineering and responsive release applications. I wish Professor Tirelli success in his editorial work on Reactive and Functional Polymers! Rumen Duhlev Publisher Elsevier, Oxford, UK E-mail address: [email protected] 1.8 1.582
1.565
1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 Impact factor of Reactive and Functional Polymers
2005
1.6
1.417
1.4 1.165
1.2 0.873
1 0.8
0.836
0.784 0.687
0.592
0.6 0.4 0.2 0 1997
doi:10.1016/j.reactfunctpolym.2006.11.002