Eric Vogel

Guest Editor for this issue of MRS Bulletin

Georgia Institute of Technology, USA; email [email protected].

Vogel is a professor of materials science and engineering and an adjunct professor of electrical and computer engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology (GIT). He received his BS degree in electrical engineering in 1994 from The Pennsylvania State University and his PhD degree in electrical engineering in 1998 from North Carolina State University. He was the leader of the CMOS and Novel Devices Group and founded the Nanofab at the National Institute of Standards and Technology prior to joining the University of Texas at Dallas in 2006, where he was an associate professor of materials science and engineering and electrical engineering. He joined GIT in 2011. His research interests include micro- and nanoelectronic materials, devices, and circuits. He has published over 160 archival papers and five book chapters, and has given over 80 invited talks and tutorials.

Joshua Robinson

Guest Editor for this issue of MRS Bulletin

Materials Science and Engineering Department, The Pennsylvania State University, USA; email [email protected].

Robinson joined Penn State’s Materials Science and Engineering Department as an assistant professor in 2012, co-founding the country’s first research center focused on 2D materials beyond graphene (Center for Two Dimensional and Layered Materials) with Mauricio Terrones and receiving multiple awards/fellowships for his work. He obtained his PhD degree from The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) in materials science and engineering in 2005. He then joined the US Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC, as a National Research Council Postdoctorate Fellow researching the use of carbon nanotubes for chemical sensors. In 2007, Robinson rejoined Penn State as a research faculty member, where he initiated a graphene and epitaxial graphene research effort. He is now pioneering the science and engineering of exotic 2D materials with a specific focus on understanding nanoscale properties and their impact on electronic, optical, chemical, and structural performance.

Linyou Cao

Department of Materials Science and Engineering, North Carolina State University, USA; tel. 919-515-5407; and email [email protected].

Cao is an assistant professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at North Carolina State University (NCSU). He received his PhD degree in materials science from Stanford University in 2010 and held a Miller Research Fellowship at the University of California–Berkeley, prior to joining the faculty of NCSU in July 2011. His research interests include the photonics, catalysis, and surface science of two-dimensional TMDC materials. He received a Young Investigator Award from the US Army Research Office and a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation.

Wen-Hao Chang

Department of Electrophysics, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan; email [email protected].

Chang is a professor of physics at National Chiao Tung University (NCTU). He received his bachelor’s, master’s, and PhD degrees in physics from National Central University (NCU), Taiwan. After his postdoctoral research at NCU, he joined the Department of Electrophysics at NCTU as an assistant professor in 2005 and became a professor in 2012. His research interests include magneto-optical properties of semiconductor nanostructures, semiconductor cavity quantum electrodynamics, quantum optics of nano photonics/plasmonics, and two-dimensional layered semiconductors. Chang was awarded the Ta-Yu Wu Memorial Award of the National Science Council of Taiwan in 2010.

Manish Chhowalla

Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA; tel. (732) 445-5619; and email [email protected].

Chhowalla is a professor and the associate chair of the Materials Science and Engineering Department at Rutgers University. He received his PhD degree in electrical engineering from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and was a Royal Academy of Engineering Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Cambridge. Chhowalla is also the editor-in-chief of Applied Materials Today and was the director of the Nanotechnology for Clean Energy National Science Foundation (NSF) Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship Program in 2009−2014 and the Donald H. Jacobs Chair in Applied Physics in 2009−2011. His research interests include phase transformations and structural disorder in two-dimensional and other low-dimensional materials.

Thomas Heine

Jacobs University Bremen, Germany; tel. +49 (421) 200-3223; and email [email protected].

Heine is currently with Jacobs University Bremen. He graduated from Dresden University of Technology, Germany. After postdoctoral studies in Bologna, Exeter, and Dresden, Germany, Heine became an associate (2008) and full (2011) professor of theoretical physics/theoretical materials science. His research interests include the development of methods and software for materials science, molecular framework compounds, two-dimensional inorganic materials, and theoretical spectroscopy.

Andras Kis

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland; tel. +41 21 693 3925; and email [email protected].

Kis has been an associate professor of electrical engineering at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) since 2015. He graduated from the University of Zagreb, Croatia, in 1999 with an MSc degree in physics, and he obtained his PhD degree in physics from EPFL in 2003. After working as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California–Berkeley, Kis became an assistant professor of electrical engineering at EPFL in 2008. His research interests include two-dimensional semiconductors and their electrical properties.

Agnieszka Kuc

Jacobs University Bremen, Germany; email [email protected].

Kuc is a research associate in Thomas Heine’s group at Jacobs University Bremen, Germany. She graduated from Wroclaw University, Poland, in 2003 with a MSc degree in physical chemistry and completed her PhD degree under the supervision of Gotthard Seifert at Technical University of Dresden, Germany, in 2008. Kuc’s research interests include electronic structure simulations and characterization of low-dimensional inorganic nanomaterials.

Lain-Jong Li

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia; tel. +966-12 8084665; and email [email protected].

Li is an associate professor in the MSE Department at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia. He received his PhD degree in condensed matter physics at Oxford University, United Kingdom, in 2006. His research interests focus on the growth and characterizations of two-dimensional materials, including graphene and transition-metal dichalcogenides. He has obtained a Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers (Germany) and a Career Development Award (Taiwan). Li has given 40 invited talks and has authored more than 180 contributions in international journals. He holds more than 40 patents.

Kian Ping Loh

Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore, Singapore; tel. (65)-6516-4402; and email [email protected].

Loh is a professor, the head of the Chemistry Department, and leads the two-dimensional (2D) materials division at the Centre for Advanced 2D Materials and Graphene at the National University of Singapore, where he obtained his BSc degree. Loh earned his PhD degree from the University of Oxford in 1996. He received the President's Science Award in 2014 and the Singapore Millennium Foundation Research Horizon Award in 2010. His research interests include the surface of carbon, 2D materials, and the optical and plasmonic properties of graphene.

Yumeng Shi

Physical Sciences and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia; tel. +966-12 8087219; and email [email protected].

Shi is a research scientist at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). In 2011, he received his PhD degree from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. After postdoctoral work at NTU, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and SUTD-MIT International Design Centre, he joined KAUST. Shi’s research interests include the synthesis and applications of low-dimensional materials, such as carbon nanotubes, graphene, boron nitride, and two-dimensional transition-metal dichalcogenides.

Hyeon Suk Shin

Department of Chemistry and Department of Energy Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea; tel. +82-52-217-2311; and email [email protected].

Shin is an associate professor in the Departments of Chemistry and Energy Engineering at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST). He received his PhD degree from the Department of Chemistry at POSTECH in 2002. After working as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, and subsequently as a research professor at POSTECH, he joined UNIST in 2008. His current research is focused on two-dimensional materials, including graphene, h-BN, transition-metal dichalcogenides, and their heterostructures and applications for electrocatalysts and optoelectronic devices.

Damien Voiry

Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA; tel. +1-732-266-4667; and email [email protected].

Voiry has been a postdoctoral researcher at Rutgers University since 2011. He received his bachelor’s degree in materials science and PhD degree in physical chemistry from the University of Bordeaux, France, in 2010. Voiry’s research interests include the phase engineering of transition-metal dichalcogenides for electronics and electrochemical applications.

Jieun Yang

Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA; tel. +1- 732-445-5619; and email [email protected].

Yang is a postdoctoral researcher at Rutgers University working on the synthesis of transition-metal dichalcogenide materials and their hybrids. Yang received her BS degree in chemistry at Kyung Hee University, South Korea, in 2009, and her PhD degree from the Department of Energy Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea.

Hua Zhang

School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; tel. (+65) 6790 5175; and email [email protected].

Zhang received his PhD from Peking University in 1998. After he finished postdoctoral research at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, and Northwestern University, USA, and worked at NanoInk Inc., USA, and the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, Singapore, he joined Nanyang Technological University in 2006. His current research interests focus on synthesis and applications of two-dimensional nanomaterials. He has published 55 patent applications and over 320 papers with citations over 17,700 and an H-index of 65. He was selected by Thomson Reuters as one of the “Highly Cited Researchers 2014” and was named one of the 17 “Hottest Researchers of Today” in Thomson Reuters’ “The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds 2014.” In 2014, he was elected as Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.