As of January 1, 2024, Dr. Raymundo Arróyave is the new editor-in-chief of Materials Letters and Materials Letters: X.
For 40 years, Materials Letters has led the way as one of the most extensive materials science journals. The publication encompasses groundbreaking research related to science, applications and materials processing. Materials Letters X is a fully gold open-access journal, which released its first publication in 2019 as a sister journal.
“I will work hard with the editorial board and the publisher to broaden the horizon for Materials Letters so that it grows in quality and quantity and embraces the ongoing transformation of our discipline by artificial intelligence,” said Arróyave. “I hope that my role as editor-in-chief of Materials Letters contributes to the visibility of our department and university.”
Arróyave is the Segers Family Dean’s Excellence Professor and a professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University. He has been an associate editor of Materials Letters since 2016. During his tenure, he was responsible for managing the review of manuscripts submitted to the journal. He also worked closely with the previous Editor-in-Chief Dr. Aldo Boccaccini, a highly regarded materials scientist focused on biomaterials, to find new potential areas of growth for the journal.
I hope that my role as editor-in-chief of Materials Letters contributes to the visibility of our department and university.
In particular, he led the expansion of the journal’s scope to include more contributions that leveraged artificial intelligence and machine learning to carry out materials research.
“I hope to continue the legacy of the editors-in-chief that came before me, including Dr. Gary Messing, who was head of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Penn State while I was a postdoc there, as well as Dr. Aldo Boccaccini,” said Arroyave.
Arróyave focuses on computational materials science, simulation-assisted materials design and AI-enabled materials discovery. His group and collaborators conduct fundamental research on metallic alloys, uncovering the fundamental underpinnings of their behavior and exploiting this understanding to accelerate the discovery of novel materials.
Arróyave and his team have published over 250 papers in some of the most significant materials science and engineering journals, contributing to his selection as editor-in-chief.
As editor-in-chief, he will guide the journal’s direction, ensuring it remains current and can attract state-of the-art contributions to the discipline. Additionally, he will ensure the journal and its community of authors, editors, and reviewers conduct themselves with the highest scientific integrity.
“Moving forward, I hope that Materials Letters continues being the premier rapid communications and letters venue for publishing important, novel results in materials science,” he said.