17 October 2025
Welcoming New Early Career Editorial Board Members of Crystals

Crystals (ISSN: 2073-4352) is pleased to announce that the following 36 researchers have been added to the journal’s Early Career Editorial Board. We would like to congratulate them on becoming part of Crystals’ community.

Name: Dr. Alessia Teresa Silvestri
Affiliation: Department of Chemical, Materials and Industrial Production Engineering (DICMAPI), University of Naples Federico II, 80125 Naples, Italy
Institutional personal homepage: https://www.docenti.unina.it/#!/professor/414c45535349412054455245534153494c564553545249534c564c535439314335354c3834354c/riferimenti
Research interests: additive manufacturing; monitoring systems; multi-material additive manufacturing; material characterization

Name: Dr. Alexey Redkov
Affiliation: Institute for Problems in Mechanical Engineering RAS, Saint Petersburg 199178, Russia
Research interests: crystal growth; epitaxy; machine learning; AI; thin films; modeling; high-throughput simulation

Name: Dr. Ali Ebrahim
Affiliation: Structural Biology Initiative, CUNY Advanced Science Research Center, New York, NY 10031, USA
Institutional personal homepage: https://asrc.gc.cuny.edu/structbio/people-profiles/#sbi-postdocs
Research interests:
X-ray crystallography; serial crystallography; macromolecular crystallography; fixed target data collection methods; high pressure crystallography; room temperature crystallography; allostery; structure-based drug design; crystallographic drug fragment screening

Name: Dr. Anamarija Stankovic
Affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, 31000 Osijek, Croatia
Institutional personal homepage: https://www.kemija.unios.hr/anamarija-stankovic/
Research interests:
bioinorganic chemistry; inorganic chemistry/spontaneous precipitation; precipitation in vitro; precipitation with additives; pathological biomineralization; biomineralization; mineralogy; material science; crystallization

Name: Dr. Artem Okulov
Affiliations: 1 M.N. Mikheev Institute of Metal Physics, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ekaterinburg 620108, Russia; 2 Institute of Physics and Technology, Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg 620002, Russia
Institutional personal homepage:
https://www.imp.uran.ru/?q=en/user_card&sotrudnik=1511
Research interests:
additive manufacturing; laser cladding; welding metallurgy; solidification cracks; electron microscopy and diffraction; liquid metal dealloying; nanomaterials and nanostructures; materials design; porous materials; shape memory alloys; medium- and high-entropy alloys; biomedical materials; metal matrix coatings; graphene; polymers

Name: Dr. Bingbing Li
Affiliation: School of Chemical Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China
Institutional personal homepage: https://scet.tju.edu.cn/info/1152/2659.htm
Research interests:
material characterization; mechanical property (fatigue and fracture); failure mechanism; life prediction; mechanics of materials; mechanical testing

Name: Dr. Bo Cao
Affiliation: School of Civil Aviation, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, China
Institutional personal homepage: https://teacher.nwpu.edu.cn/bocao.html
Research interests:
mechanics of materials; shape memory alloys; martensitic phase transformation; experimental mechanics, impact engineering

Name: Dr. Chao Chen
Affiliation: School of Materials Science and Engineering, Jilin University, Changchun, China
Institutional personal homepage: https://dmse.jlu.edu.cn/info/1095/6972.htm
Research interests:
additive manufacturing; hybrid welding; laser processes; metal; aluminum alloy; titanium alloy

Name: Dr. Fan Xu
Affiliation: Shenzhen Institute for Advanced Study, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Shenzhen 518110, China
Institutional personal homepage: https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=8pdGjYcAAAAJ&hl=en
Research interests:
perovskite solar cells; tandem cells; nanocrystals; optoelectronic devices

Name: Dr. Feng Yu
Affiliation: Jiangsu Key Laboratory of New Energy Devices & Interface Science, School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
Institutional personal homepage: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0069-2839
Research interests:
supercapacitor; aqueous battery; energy storage materials

Name: Dr. Fiora Artusio
Affiliation: Department of Applied Science and Technology, Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, 10129 – Torino, Italy
Institutional personal homepage: https://www.polito.it/personale?p=041016
Research interests:
protein crystallization; heterogeneous nucleation; freeze-drying of biopharmaceuticals; pharmaceutical manufacturing

Name: Dr. Giovanni Bella
Affiliation: Department of Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical and Environmental Sciences, University of Messina, Viale F. Stagno d’Alcontres 31, 98166 Messina, Italy
Institutional personal homepage: https://unifind.unime.it/get/person/124788
Research interests:
chirality; computational chemistry; circularly polarized luminescence; circular dichroism; DFT

Name: Dr. Grazia Giuseppina Politano
Affiliation: Department of Environmental Engineering, University of Calabria, 87036 Rende, CS, Italy
Institutional personal homepage: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=5SW73dcAAAAJ&hl=en
Research interests:
membrane; optics; thin films; ellipsometry; graphene oxide; micro-Raman

Name: Dr. Wenqi Guo
Affiliation: Research Institute of Aero–Engine, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China
Institutional personal homepage: https://shi.buaa.edu.cn/guowenqi/zh_CN/index.htm
Research interests:
superalloy; high-entropy alloy; materials design; mechanical behavior; microstructure characterization

Name: Dr. Mingxia Guo
Affiliation: Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, London SW7 2BX, UK
Institutional personal homepage: https://profiles.imperial.ac.uk/m.guo17
Research interests:
small-molecule crystallization; peptide crystallization; protein crystallization; batch and continuous crystallization; peptide conformation; gelation during crystallization; solubility measurement and prediction

Name: Dr. Guoqiang Zhao
Affiliation: Kavli Institute for Theoretical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China
Institutional personal homepage: https://tcmp2.ucas.ac.cn/index.php/en/members/postdoc
Research interests:
condensed matter physics/muon spin spectroscopy; magnetic semiconductors; supersolid; superconductor; topological magnet; mott insulators

Name: Dr. Huili Zhang
Affiliation: Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, China
Research interests: laser crystal; crystal growth; mid-infrared laser; spectral properties

Name: Dr. Jiahao Shi
Affiliation: Department of Bioresource Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, QC H9X 3V9, Canada
Research interests: 3D printing; smart materials; metamaterial design; machine learning; electronics and robots 

Name: Dr. Kai Sun
Affiliation: College of Chemistry, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China
Institutional personal homepage:
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2135-0838
Research interests: photoredox; radical reaction; green chemistry; organofluorine chemistry

Name: Dr. Kassa Belay Ibrahim
Affiliation: Department of Molecular Sciences and Nanosystems, Ca’Foscari University of Venice, 30172, Venice, VE, Italy
Institutional personal homepage:
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3270-1955
Research interests: electrochemistry; H2 duel production based on water splitting; 2D materials synthesis; advanced synchrotron characterization techniques; luminescence solar concentrator; battery

Name: Dr. Lei Wang
Affiliation: School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Science & Technology, Nanjing, 210094, China
Institutional personal homepage: https://smse.njust.edu.cn/a9/92/c9180a240018/page.htm
Research interests:
welding; additive manufacturing; numerical simulation

Name: Dr. Yuanjian Li
Affiliation: Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE) Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore
Institutional personal homepage: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0356-3234
Research interests:
Li-S batteries; Mg metal batteries; electrocatalysis; MOF

Name: Dr. Long Yang
Affiliation: School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, 201804, China
Institutional personal homepage: https://www.yanglonggroup.com/
Research interests:
local structure; total scattering; pair distribution function; machine learning

Name: Dr. Łukasz Szeleszczuk
Affiliation: Department of Organic and Physical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, 02-093 Poland
Institutional personal homepage: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5302-3797
Research interests:
polymorphism; DFT calculations on molecular solids; NMR parameter calculations; molecular dynamics simulations; phase transitions

Name: Dr. Marian Hebenbrock
Affiliation: Institute of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, University of Münster, Münster, 48149, Germany
Institutional personal homepage: https://www.uni-muenster.de/Chemie.ac/forschung/ak_hebenbrock/hebenbrock/index.html
Research interests:
(bio-)inorganic chemistry; X-ray crystallography; mass spectrometry

Name: Dr. Mattia Lopresti
Affiliation: Department of Science and Technological Innovation, University of Eastern Piedmont Amadeo Avogadro, Viale Teresa Michel 11, 15121 Alessandria, Italy
Institutional personal homepage: https://upobook.uniupo.it/20010820@studenti
Research interests:
X-ray crystallography; structure determination; Hirshfeld surface analysis; X-ray powder diffraction

Name: Dr. Na Wang
Affiliation: National Engineering Research Center of Industrial Crystallization Technology, School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
Institutional personal homepage: https://tj.teacher.360eol.com/teacherBasic/preview?teacherId=2970
Research interests:
industrial crystallization and crystal engineering; cocrystals and cocrystallization; polymorph; molecular simulation; crystalline materials

Name: Dr. Peng Tang
Affiliation: School of Resources, Environment and Materials, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China,
Institutional personal homepage: https://prof.gxu.edu.cn/teacherDetails/d5ca8043-af28-44a3-89e3-16edbe2265c7
Research interests:
materials science and engineering; additive manufacturing; mechanics of materials

Name: Dr. Shenzhen Chang
Affiliation: School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hainan University, Haikou 570228, China
Institutional personal homepage: https://scce.hainanu.edu.cn/info/1150/2432.htm
Research interests:
coordination chemistry; catalysis and catalytic materials; polyoxometalate (POM); metal–organic frameworks; stimulus responsive materials; photochromic

Name: Dr. Ulises Martin Diaz
Affiliation: Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA
Institutional personal homepage: https://www.tamucorrosionlab.com/
Research interests:
corrosion; material science; electrochemistry; stress corrosion cracking

Name: Dr. Valeriy Verchenko
Affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow 119991, Russia
Institutional personal homepage: https://scholar.google.ru/citations?user=HV_sHmoAAAAJ&hl=en
Research interests:
crystal growth; transition metals; phase transitions; magnetism; spintronics; superconductivity

Name: Dr. Jing Wei
Affiliation: School of Materials Science, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
Institutional personal homepage: https://mse.bit.edu.cn/szdw/jgml/clwlyhxxg/6ee94d82fcc44310a0a3267d6d831ba7.htm
Research interests:
optoelectronic; photovoltaic materials and devices

Name: Dr. Xiaofei Cao
Affiliation: School of Physics and Mechanics, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China
Institutional personal homepage: http://phymech.whut.edu.cn/szdw/zrjs/202410/t20241026_1288787.shtml
Research interests:
metal structural materials; additive manufacturing; explosion and shock dynamics

Name: Dr. Xin Huang
Affiliation: School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
Institutional personal homepage: https://tj.teacher.360eol.com/teacherBasic/preview?teacherId=2970
Research interests:
industrial crystallization; functional crystalline materials

Name: Dr. Xixi Dong
Affiliation: College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, China
Institutional personal homepage: https://cmee.nuaa.edu.cn/2023/0313/c11687a304891/page.htm
Research interests:
materials and manufacturing; light alloys; advanced casting technology; additive manufacturing; intelligent manufacturing

Name: Dr. Zhongren Zhou
Affiliations: 1 National and Local Joint Engineering Research Center for Lithium-Ion Batteries and Materials Preparation Technology, Faculty of Metallurgical and Energy Engineering, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650093, China; 2 Key Laboratory of Advanced Battery Materials of Yunnan Province, Faculty of Metallurgical and Energy Engineering, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650093, China
Institutional personal homepage:
https://yn.kmust.edu.cn/info/1098/4249.htm
Research interests:
lithium-ion battery; molten salt electrochemistry; solid waste resources recovery; positive-electrode material; negative-electrode material; new electrode material; novel electrochemical measurement; lithium storage performance; lithium iron phosphate; lithium nickel–manganese–cobalt oxide; silicon-based material; lithium manganese oxide

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