Yury Gogotsi is a Distinguished University Professor and Bach Endowed Chair in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Drexel University (Philadelphia, USA). He is the founding Director of the A.J. Drexel Nanomaterials Institute. He is credited with principal contributions to developing materials for electrochemical capacitors, the discovery of a large family of 2D carbides and nitrides known as MXenes, and tuning porosity of carbide-derived carbons with sub-nanometer accuracy. He published the first microscopic observation of water inside carbon nanotubes, discovered polygonal nanotubes (graphite polyhedral crystals), and invented the field of high-pressure surface science. The impact of his work is demonstrated by over 300,000 citations. The 2024 Stanford List placed Gogotsi 25th among all scientists in all disciplines and 2nd in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology worldwide, based on his 2023 citations.

He is the Editor or Associate Editor of several high-ranked journals, and a few of them are:

• ACS Nano, since 2022
• ACS Nano, Associate Editor, November 2013 – December 2021
• Carbon (Elsevier), Honorary Advisory Board, since 2016
• Carbon (Elsevier), Editor, April 2007 – March 2014
• Graphene and 2D Materials (Springer-Nature), Honorary Editor-in-Chief, since 2022
• 2D Materials (IoP), Executive Editor, since 2021
• Book Series Editor, Advanced Materials and Technologies, CRC Press/Taylor and Francis
• International Journal of Applied Ceramic Technology, founding Associate Editor, 2003-2007
• Science of Sintering, Regional Editor since 2005