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ES&T News
Guibin Jiang to direct ES&T’s first Asia office
Guibin Jiang, deputy director of the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences—an institute with more than 300 staff members—has been appointed ES&T’s first Asia-based associate editor. The new office in Beijing officially opens in January 2006.
In making the announcement, Jerald Schnoor, ES&T’s editor, hails Jiang as a distinguished scientist and researcher who has made significant contributions in the area of environmental organic chemistry. As an associate editor, Jiang will handle papers submitted to ES&T from around the world on topics such as emerging chemical contaminants, herbicides, organometallics, green chemistry, and ecotoxicology, Schnoor says.
Jiang earned his Ph.D. from the Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences and has conducted research at Shandong University (China), the National Research Council of Canada, and the University of Antwerp (Belgium). His research interests include speciation of organometallic compounds; biomarkers for screening of endocrine disrupters; and the analysis, fate, and contamination status of persistent organic pollutants.
Both Schnoor and Jiang see the new Beijing office as an important opportunity for the journal and for the environmental sciences. “The number of manuscripts that we are receiving from China, South Korea, and south Asia are increasing rapidly, about 20% per year,” says Schnoor. “Because [the research efforts in] environmental science and engineering are improving rapidly in these countries, we hope that an ES&T Asia office will help to focus attention on the importance of the environment in these countries, help improve the science there, and encourage more papers to be submitted [to] and accepted in ES&T.” Schnoor also hopes that the new office will expand the journal’s reviewer database and forge new connections with Asia’s research community.
Jiang echoes these hopes, saying that he expects the new office to promote the progress of environmental science and technology studies in Asia, especially in China, and act as a bridge between the journal and the environmental science community, organizations, and researchers in this region. “The ES&T Asia office is a window for Chinese people to know the journal better,” says Jiang.
