New Members of the Editorial Board and International Advisory Board.

The Editorial Board advises the editorial team on all important issues and are selected by the Board of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh; German Chemical Society) upon recommendation by the Editorial Board and the editorial team. After 19 years on the Editorial Board (and 10 years as its Chairman) FranÅois Diederich will now join the International Advisory Board (see below). Hartmut Michel, Walter Thiel, and Otto Wolfbeis have completed two terms and will now leave the Editorial Board, and we thank them all for their commitment to the journal.Matthias Beller, Stefan Buchholz, Claus Feldmann, Martin Suhm, and Herbert Waldmann have all been elected to another term.Alois F rstner (Max Planck Institute for Coal Research, M lheim) is the new Chairman of the Editorial Board, having been a member since 2011, when he was introduced in this section.[1a] In his Editorial published in this issue, F rstner discusses the importance of organic synthesis, among other topics.[1b] Annette G. Beck-Sickinger (University of Leipzig) studied at the University of T bingen, where she worked with G nther Jung for her PhD (awarded in 1989). After postdoctoral work with Ernesto Carafoli at the ETH Zurich (1990–1991) and completing her habilitation at the University of T bingen (1995), she joined the faculty of the ETH Zurich in 1997. She was made Professor of Biochemistry and Bioorganic Chemistry at the University of Leipzig in 1999. Beck-Sickinger s research interests include ligand–receptor interactions, signal transduction, and protein expression and modification.[2] She is also on the International Advisory Board of ChemMedChem. Thomas Carell (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit t (LMU), Munich) studied at the Universities of M nster and Heidelberg, and worked with Heinz A. Staab at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg, for his PhD (awarded in 1993). From 1993–1995, he carried out postdoctoral research with Julius Rebek, Jr. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and he subsequently moved to the ETH Zurich, where he carried out independent research in the group of FranÅois Diederich and completed his habilitation in 1999. He was appointed Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Marburg in 2000, and moved to the LMU in 2004. Carell s research interests include DNA hybrid materials, DNA damage and repair, tRNA modifications, and click chemistry on biomolecules.[3] Carell is also CoChair of the Editorial Advisory Board of ChemBioChem and is on the International Advisory Board of the Israel Journal of Chemistry. Stefan Grimme (University of Bonn) studied at the Technische Universit t Braunschweig, where he was awarded his PhD in 1991 for work supervised by Herbert Dreeskamp. He completed his habilitation 1997 in the group of Sigrid Peyerimoff at the University of Bonn, and in 2000, he was made Chair of Theoretical Organic Chemistry at the University of M nster. He moved to the Chair of Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Bonn in 2011. Grimme s research involves quantumchemical methods, density functional theory and electronic structure, and theoretical electronic spectroscopy and thermochemistry.[4] Grimme is also on the Editorial Advisory Board of ChemistryOpen. Hansjçrg Gr tzmacher (ETH Zurich) studied at the University of Gçttingen, where he completed his PhD (supervised by Herbert W. Roesky) in 1986. From 1986–1987, he was a charg de recherche with Guy Bertrand at the CNRS Laboratoire de Chimie de Coordination, and from 1987–1992 he carried out his habilitation and was lecturer at the University of Heidelberg. In 1992, he was made Professor of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry at the University of Freiburg, and in 1995, he moved to the ETH Zurich, where he is Professor of Inorganic Chemistry. Gr tzmacher s research interests involve main-group chemistry and organometallic chemistry.[5] Wolfgang J. Parak (University of Marburg) studied at the Technische Universit t M nchen and carried out his PhD with Hermann Gaub at the LMU. He carried out postdoctoral research with Paul Alivisatos at the University of California (UC), Berkeley, and was subsequently a junior research group leader at the LMU (2003–2006). He was appointed Professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Marburg in 2007, and was also made Head of the Biofunctional Nanomaterials Unit at CIC biomaGUNE in San Sebastian in 2013. Parak s research interests are in the synthesis, characterization, and biological and bioanalytical applications of nanoparticles.[6] Parak is also on the Editorial Advisory Board of Particle & Particle Systems Characterization. Ferdi Sch th (Max Planck Institute for Coal Research) studied chemistry and law at the University of M nster and received his PhD (supervised by Ewald Wicke) in 1988. After postdoctoral work with Lanny D. Schmidt at the University of Minnesota (1989), he completed his habilitation in the group of Klaus Unger at the University of Mainz (1989–1995). From 1995–1998, he was professor at the University of Frankfurt, and in 1998, he was made director at the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research. Sch th s research in focused on inorganic materials for heterogeneous catalysis.[7] T. Carell A. G. BeckSickinger A. F rstner F. Diederich