Interview with Marsha I. Lester, the newly appointed editor of the Journal of Chemical Physics

Dr. Lester is the new editor of JCP. She received her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1981. She has risen through the academic ranks at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is currently the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Distinguished Professor in the Department of Chemistry. Lester has received many honors and awards, including her recent election to Fellowship in the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the Bourke Lectureship of the Faraday Division of the Royal Society of Chemistry, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Physical Society, an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, and the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award.

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