From January 1, 2026, there will be changes to the CHIMIA Editorial Board.
Dr. Fridtjof Schroeder, until very recently a research scientist at Givaudan, will be joining the Board to take up the position of Editor-in-Chief from 2027. His experience in industrial chemistry and research interests in process development including green chemistry and biotechnology will ensure a continuation of excellent special topics for CHIMIA. He will work together with the current Editor-in-Chief Catherine Housecroft during 2026 to learn the processes involved and to guarantee a smooth transition in 2027. The Editorial Board of CHIMIA welcomes him!
Prof. Catherine Housecroft, professor emerita at the University of Basel, joined the Editorial Board in 2018 and took over as Editor-in-Chief in 2020. She has invited guest editors from the most diverse fields of the chemical sciences to produce issues that covered all the traditional subjects and topics of increasing interest, such as AI, the environment, and materials science. With her extensive experience in publishing including editorships at other journals, she has contributed greatly to the running and development of CHIMIA. Catherine also has a strong interest in chemical education, publishing textbooks in inorganic chemistry, and is active in the SCS Division of Chemical Education. She edits and is a frequent author of the Chemical Education column in CHIMIA. The Editorial Board of CHIMIA is very grateful to Catherine for all her efforts in the past and is pleased to announce that she will take over as Chair of the Editorial Board from the beginning of 2026.
Dr. Gillian Harvey, the current Chair of the Editorial Board, will resign this position at the end of 2025. She has worked for CHIMIA since 1999 as technical editor, incorporating and developing many changes to the publication processes including digitalisation. Gillian retired as technical editor at the beginning of 2024 and handed over to Gordon Honeyman. She took over as Chair of the Editorial Board in 2019 from Roland Kunz. Gillian introduced changes to the format and general appearance of the journal with a redesign of the title page and supported the webmaster Martin Brändle and SCS Head Office in setting up a website based on OJS to enable all activities from submission through to online publishing. This in turn enabled the journal to be flipped to diamond open access in 2020. Gillian is grateful to all the Editorial Board members over the years who supported her work and is also appreciative of the opportunities she was given to develop and to, hopefully, make a difference to CHIMIA.
G. Harvey, D. Spichiger, SCS
27.11.2025