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Editors
Professor D.C. Clary
University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Professor M. Okumura
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA
Professor B. Dietzek
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Jena, Germany
Professor K-L. Han
Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Dalian, Liaoning, China
Honorary Advisory Editor
A.H. Zewail †
Pasadena, California, USA
Advisory Editorial Board
Professor A. Alavi
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, UK
Dr. E. Alexov
Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, USA
Professor H. Allen
The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
Professor R. Arratia-Pérez
Universidad Nacional Andrés Bello, Santiago, Chile
Professor M. Bonn
Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany
Prof. Dr. C. Bressler
European X-ray Free Electron Laser (XFEL), Hamburg, Germany
Professor A.D. Buckingham
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, UK
Professor S. Campagna
University of Messina, Messina, Italy
Professor E. Campbell
University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Professor P. Casavecchia
Università degli Studi di Perugia, Perugia, Italy
Dr. G. Chan
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
Dr. L. Chen
Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, USA
Professor P. Chen
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
Dr. Q. Cui
University of Wisconsin at Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Professor F.M.F. de Groot
Universiteit Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
Professor K. Domen
The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Professor A. Douhal
Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, Toledo, Spain
Professor T. Elsässer
Max-Born-Institut, Berlin, Germany
Professor G. Engel
University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Professor G. Ertl
Fritz Haber Institut der Max Planck Gesellschaft, Berlin, Germany
Professor H. Fielding
University College London (UCL), London, England, UK
Dr. C. Fittschen
Université de Lille, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France
Professor L. Gagliardi
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Dr. A. Ganguli
Institute of Nanoscience & Technology, Mohali, India
Professor Y. Gao
Peking University, Beijing, China
Prof. Dr. L. Gonzalez
University of Vienna, Wien, Austria
Professor D.M. Guldi
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
Dr. A. Hagfeldt
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Professor N.J. Halas
Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA
Professor L. Halonen
University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Professor P. Hamm
Universität Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
Professor L. Hammarström
Uppsala Universitet, Uppsala, Sweden
Professor H. Hashimoto
Kwansei Gakuin University, Hyogo, Japan
Dr. J.L. Herek
University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands
Professor K. Hirao
RIKEN Advanced Science Institute, Saitama, Japan
Professor S. Hirata
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA
Dr. J. Hodges
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA
Professor D. Jonas
University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, USA
Professor A.M. Kelley
University of California at Merced, Merced, California, USA
Professor K.S. Kim
Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, The Republic of Korea
Dr. W.M. Klopper
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
Professor A. Kornyshev
Imperial College London, London, England, UK
Dr. J.E.I. Korppi-Tommola
University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
Dr. G.J. Kroes
Universiteit Leiden, Leiden, Netherlands
Professor K. Kuchitsu
Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo, Japan
Professor Y.T. Lee
Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
Professor T. Lian
Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Professor W. Liang
Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
Professor Z. Liu
Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Dr. R. Luo
University of California at Irvine, Irvine, California, USA
Dr. D. Markovitsi
Francis Perrin Laboratory, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Dr. M. McCarthy
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Professor B. Mennucci
Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Dr. T. Miller
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA
Professor W.H. Miller
University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA
Professor G.A. Morris
University of Manchester, Manchester, England, UK
Prof. Dr. J. Moser
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
Professor P. O'Brien
University of Manchester, Manchester, England, UK
Professor A. Orr-Ewing
University of Bristol, Bristol, England, UK
Prof. Dr. M. Orrit
Universiteit Leiden, Leiden, Netherlands
Dr. D. Osborn
Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California, USA
Dr. A. Painelli
Università degli Studi di Parma, Parma, Italy
Professor T. Polivka
University of South Bohemia, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic
Dr. M. Prato
Università di Trieste, Trieste, Italy
Professor C.N.R. Rao
Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, India
Professor R.J. Saykally
University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA
Professor H.F. Schaefer, III
University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA
Professor G. Scholes
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
Dr. Z. Shuai
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Prof. Dr. R. Signorell
ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
Dr. A. Soper
Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC), Oxfordshire, England, UK
Professor J.F. Stanton
University of Florida, Gainesville, USA
Professor A. Suits
University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA
Professor D.J. Tozer
Durham University, Durham, England, UK
Professor D.G. Truhlar
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Professor C. Vallance
University of Oxford, Oxford, England, UK
Dr. L.S. Wang
Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Professor G. Wei
Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
Professor Y. Weng
Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, China
Prof. Dr. S. Willitsch
Universität Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Professor S. Wimperis
Lancaster University, Lancaster, England, UK
Dr. A. Wodtke
Max Planck Institut (MPI) für Biophysikalische Chemie, Göttingen, Germany
Dr. M. Wulff
European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), Grenoble, France
Dr. K. Wüthrich
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
Professor Y. Xia
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Professor K. Yamasaki
Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan
Dr. H. Yang
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
Professor X. Yang
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, China
Professor J. Ye
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Boulder, Colorado, USA
Professor C-h Yu
National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
Professor R.N. Zare
Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
Dr. D.H. Zhang
Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Dalian, China
Dr. J. Zhang
University of California, Riverside, Riverside, California, USA
Professor J. Zhang
New York University Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Professor D. Zhong
The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA