Peter Rodgers
Chief editor, Nature Nanotechnology, United Kingdom
Research Interest
Nature Nanotechnology publishes papers in all areas of nanoscience and nanotechnology.
Profile
Peter Rodgers has been chief editor of Nature Nanotechnology since it was launched in October 2006. He has a first degree in physics from Imperial College London, a PhD in quantum optics from the Queen's University of Belfast, and was on the scientific staff of the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory for three years before he joined the Institute of Physics Publishing (IOPP) in 1990, where he was editor of Physics World magazine for ten years.
www.nature.com/nnano

Adarsh Sandhu
Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Research Interest
Magnetic imaging, nano-biomagnetics and nanoelectronics
Profile
Adarsh Sandhu has been an editorial consultant to Nature Nanotechnology since January 2006. He is also a professor in the Quantum Nanoelectronics Research Centre at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, where he teaches physics in Japanese, and his research interests include nanoscale scanning Hall probe microscopy and the application of nano-biomagnetic techniques to molecular recognition and medicine. Since completing his PhD at Manchester University in the UK in 1985, Adarsh Sandhu has also worked at the University of Tokyo, Fujitsu Laboratories and Cambridge University. He has lived in Japan for 22 years.
http://spirit.pe.titech.ac.jp/members/index-e.html

Hiroyuki Sakaki
Vice president and professor, Toyota Technological Institute; professor emeritus, University of Tokyo, Japan
Research Interest
Semiconductor physics and electronics (quantum control of electrons by nanostructures for advanced devices)
Profile
Hiroyuki Sakaki received his BS degree in 1968, his MS in 1970 and his PhD in 1973, all from the University of Tokyo. His thesis work was on the size quantization of electrons in silicon MOSFETs. He then joined the Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo, where he served as associate professor (1973–1987) and full professor (1987–2007). Since April 2007, he has been vice president at Toyota Technological Institute. In 1976–1977, he was a visiting scientist in Leo Esaki's group, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. He has won the Japan Academy Prize and the IEEE D. Sarnoff Award, among others, for his seminal works on the quantum control of electrons in semiconductor nanostructures.

Jackie Ying
Executive director, Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, Singapore
Research Interest
Nanostructured materials for drug delivery, tissue engineering, bioimaging and pharmaceuticals synthesis applications
Profile
Jackie Ying was professor of chemical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1992–2005). Her honours and awards include the American Ceramic Society Ross C. Purdy Award, David and Lucile Packard Fellowship, Office of Naval Research and National Science Foundation Young Investigator Awards, Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, American Chemical Society Faculty Fellowship Award in Solid-State Chemistry, Technology Review TR100 Young Innovator Award, American Institute of Chemical Engineers Allan P. Colburn Award, World Economic Forum Global Young Leader and the German Academy of Natural Scientists (Leopoldina).
www.ibn.a-star.edu.sg

Jo-Won Lee
Director, National Program for Tera-level Nanodevices, South Korea
Research Interest
Magnetic recording media/heads, high-temperature superconducting films and devices, diamond thin films and devices, and nanoelectronics (SET and nano-flash memory)
Profile
Jo-Won Lee received an MS and a PhD in metals science from Penn State University and a BS in metallurgical engineering from Hanyang University. Between 1985 and 1990 he worked as a research associate at the Carnegie Mellon University. He spent two years as a visiting scientist at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center (1990–1992) before working at the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology from 1992 until 2000. He served as general secretary and PI of the governmental planning committee for the Korea Nanotechnology Initiative both in 2001 and 2005, and has also co-chaired the advisory committee for the Korea-US nanotechnology forum and been a focal point for collaborations between Korea and the UK. In 2006, he won a national honour medal for his contribution to the advancement of nanotechnology in Korea.
http://www.nanotech.re.kr

Sishen Xie
Professor, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, academician of CAS and member of the Third World Academy of Sciences, China
Research Interest
Synthesis, structure and properties of nanomaterials, especially one-dimensional nanomaterials, such as carbon nanotubes, semiconductor nanowires and oxide nanowires
Profile
Sishen Xie graduated from the Department of Physics at Peking University (1965), and received his PhD (1983) from the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). From 1984–1986, he served as a postdoctoral fellow in S. Geller's group at the University of Colorado, Boulder. In 1986, he joined the Institute of Physics, CAS. As a chief scientist of the National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, he directs the academic activities of the center. He is author or co-author of more than 280 SCI papers and has received several awards, including an ISI Citation Classic Award (2000) and the National Natural Science and Technology Prize of China.