Prof. Panče Naumov, a Director of the Center for Smart Engineering Materials and the leader of the Smart Materials Lab at NYU Abu Dhabi has joined the editorial team of the Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS), the signature journal of the world’s largest chemical society, ACS, with over 160,000 members. On the journal’s board, in his new editorial role, Naumov is the only editor to represent the chemists of the MENA region and the solid-state chemistry research community. Congratulations to Panče!