Gschneidner has published over 485 journal articles and chapters in
books and edited or written 40 books on the chemistry, materials
science, and physics or rare earth materials. He was the founder of
the Rare-earth Information Center and served as its Director for 30
years. Jean-Claude Bünzli (he/him) is an Honorary Professor
emeritus at the EPFL where he founded the Laboratory of Lanthanide
Supramolecular Chemistry He earned a degree in chemical engineering
in 1968 and a PhD in 1971 from the Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology, Lausanne (EPFL). After two years at the University of
British Columbia as a teaching postdoctoral fellow (photoelectron
spectroscopy) and one year at the Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology in Zürich (physical organic chemistry) he was appointed
in 1974 as assistant-professor at the University of Lausanne. He
launched a research program on the coordination and spectroscopic
properties of f-elements and was promoted to full professor of
inorganic and analytical chemistry in 1980. During 2009-2013 he was
also a World Class University professor at Korea University (South
Korea) at the WCU Center for Next Generation Photovoltaic Devices.
In 2016, he has been appointed as adjunct professor at the Haimen
Institute of Science and Technology (Haimen, Jiangsu, P.R. China)
which is a satellite campus of Hong Kong Baptist University. His
research interests deal with various aspects of luminescent
lanthanide coordination and supramolecular compounds, developing
luminescent bioprobes and bioconjugates for the detection of
cancerous cells with time-resolved microscopy as well as
luminescent materials for various photonic applications, including
solar energy conversion. In 1989, he founded the European Rare
Earths and Actinide Society which coordinates international
conferences in the field and for which he is presently acting as
president. V.K. Pecharsky received a combined BSc/MSc degree in
Chemistry (1976) and a PhD degree in Inorganic Chemistry (1979)
from Lviv State University (now Ivan Franko National University of
Lviv) in Ukraine. He held a faculty appointment at the Department
of Inorganic Chemistry at Lviv State University between 1979 and
1993, after which he moved to Ames, Iowa, where he became a staff
member at the U.S. Department of Energy Ames Laboratory. In 1998 he
accepted a faculty position at the Department of Materials Science
and Engineering at Iowa State University, while remaining
associated with Ames Laboratory. He was named an Anson Marston
Distinguished Professor of Engineering in 2006. He also serves as a
Faculty Scientists, Field Work Project Leader, and Group Leader at
Ames Laboratory.
While in Lviv, V. Pecharsky was studying phase relationships and
crystallography of ternary intermetallic compounds containing rare
earths. After moving to Ames his research interests shifted to
examining composition-structure-physical property relationship of
rare-earth intermetallic compounds. Together with Karl Gschneidner,
Jr., he discovered a new class of materials that exhibit the giant
magnetocaloric effect in 1997, triggering worldwide interest in
caloric materials and caloric cooling, which promises to become an
energy-efficient, environmentally-friendly alternative to
conventional vapor-compression approach. Today his research
interest include synthesis, structure, experimental thermodynamics,
physical and chemical properties of intermetallic compounds
containing rare-earth metals; anomalous behavior of 4f-electron
systems; magnetostructural phase transformations; physical
properties of ultra-pure rare earth metals; caloric materials and
systems; hydrogen storage materials; mechanochemistry, mechanically
induced solid-state reactions and mechanochemical
transformations.
He organized the 28th Rare Earth Research Conference in Ames, Iowa
in 2017. He serves as co-editor of the Handbook on the Physics and
Chemistry of Rare Earths and senior editor of the Journal of Alloys
and Compounds. He has published over 500 WOS papers (>22 600
cites, h factor = 60).
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