Erick Carreira to be appointed editor-in-chief of JACS
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The next editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS) will be Professor Erick Carreira from the Laboratory of Organic Chemistry at ETH Zurich. Erick Carreira will formally assume the JACS editorship at the beginning of January 2021 from Professor Peter Stang, who has led the journal since 2002.
Founded in 1879, JACS is published by the American Chemical Society (ACS) and is one of the flagship journals in chemistry and the most cited journal in the field.
The American Chemical Society (ACS) is a nonprofit organization chartered by the U.S. Congress. ACS’ mission is to advance the broader chemistry enterprise and its practitioners for the benefit of the Earth and its people. With more than 150 000 members, the Society is a global leader in providing access to chemistry-related information (including SciFinder® and STN®).
Erick Carreira currently serves as the editor-in-chief of Organic Letters, a position he took on in 2019, after 18 years as an Associate Editor for the journal. His appointment as editor-in-chief of JACS follows an external pageextensive public searchcall_made that saw over 100 nominations from across the chemistry community.
Professor Carreira’s current research focuses on a variety of multidisciplinary fields, including natural products total synthesis, synthetic methods, and catalysis to prepare molecules with asymmetric bond construction. He is co-founder of three start-up companies and has been involved in the development of several chemistry education software tools.
He is a member of both the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He’s been a member of the American Chemical Society for 37 years and has received numerous awards from the society, including the 2013 ACS Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry.
According to ACS, Erick Carreira brings a compelling vision to JACS, including a commitment to global representation. To support the strategic development of the journal, Professor Carreira has identified and appointed six new executive editors. In addition to being eminent scientists, the executive editors represent the diversity of chemistry in their research and background.