Alexander Whiteside
I joined the Royal Society of Chemistry after working as a postdoctoral researcher for a few years. By that point I’d settled in to lab work – if computational chemistry counts as lab work – but I saw the publishing editor role as a great way to apply my scientific interests and writing skills in a way that helps spread chemistry knowledge.
As a publishing editor, my main job is to get the best physical chemistry and nanoscience research into journals, but I also undertake lots of other projects, like writing for Chemistry World. Getting to chat with scientists about their new research is a great part of the job.
My interests include good coffee, almost anything involving spaceships, and gardening.
ResearchDelocalisation pins down meaning of bond order
Reliable bond order definition provides new insights into covalency
ResearchCarbon bubble-wrap could be packed with interesting behaviour
Theoretical chemists devise nanoscale version of satisfyingly interactive packaging material
ResearchTech red unmasked
An unusual oxide of radioactive technetium reveals its secrets after 50 years
ResearchBenchmark for molecular machine learning
Scientists make open-source database to test programs that learn chemistry
ResearchPlotting a course to new antibiotics
Mapping out the chemical space of peptide antibiotics offers an efficient way to find new compounds
ResearchNeural network provides accurate simulations without the cost
An efficient new computer brain can provide quick answers to computational chemistry problems
