1st MDPI Topic Editor Club 2025
4 September 2025
Welcome Message
Dear colleagues,
MDPI invites you to join the very first MDPI Topic Editor Club. This new initiative is designed as a platform to highlight emerging research themes, share editorial experiences, and foster meaningful connections among Topic Editors worldwide.
Topics are collections of papers on a shared theme, published across two or more MDPI journals. They allow researchers from different fields to collaborate, explore common ideas, and reach wider audiences. Each Topic is led by a team of Topic Editors with expertise in different areas and supported by MDPI’s simple and efficient publishing process.
The Topic Editor Club brings together several Topic Editors from various disciplines to showcase their work, discuss both challenges and successes, and share new ideas for developing impactful Topics. It presents a great opportunity to learn from one another, explore cross-disciplinary collaborations, and support the growth of open access research together.
We hope you will join us for this exciting first session of the MDPI Topic Editor Club and welcome your thoughts and questions during the live Q&A segment. Please find the schedule and speaker list below.
Date: 14 August 2025
Time: 2:00 pm CEST | 8:00 pm CST (Asia)
Webinar ID: 837 6434 9842
Webinar Secretariat: journal.webinar@mdpi.com
Keynote Speakers
Experience in Managing Circular Economy Innovation Topics
Dr. Kaewunruen is a reader in railway and civil engineering at the University of Birmingham, UK. He has produced over 600 technical publications and evidence-based consultancy reports and has served on the editorial boards of many reputable international journals. He was a winner of Europe's Trasport Research Arena Vision Award in 2020 and has been consistently ranked in the World Top 100 Most Cited scientists in Civil Engineering by Stanford University and Elsevier. His research is profoundly transformative and has led to notable real-world impacts in relation to standard developments, industry design and maintenance guidelines, policy recommendations, and product innovations.
1. NMR Centre, Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Ioannina, Greece
2. Collaborative Educational Personnel, School of Natural Sciences and Technology, Hellenic Open University, Greece
A Point of View on Topics and Special Issues in MDPI
Constantinos (Konstantinos) G. Tsiafoulis is a chemist (BSc, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece) and holds a PhD in Chemistry (Dept. of Chemistry, University of Ioannina, Greece). He serves as a Laboratory Teaching Personnel, Grade A in RSN, NMR Centre, Lab. of Analytical Chemistry, Dept. of Chemistry, Univ. of Ioannina and is also a Collaborative Educational Personnel at the Hellenic Open University, Patras, Greece. He has produced 33 publications with around 1,100 citations, having an H-index of 17, and has been a reviewer for roughly 30 journals. His work on EVOO doi.org/10.1002/jsfa.13139 has been ranked within the 10% most-viewed papers published by J. Sci Food Agric for 2023. He is Topic Advisory Board at Molecules, Guest Editor in Molecules, and Separations and Topic Editor in MPDI’s Molecules, Beverages, Foods, Nutrients, Separations, and Chemosensors. His current research includes the development of analytical methodologies and metabolomic analysis on biological samples, plant extracts, and foods using NMR spectroscopic techniques and methods.
Introduction to Topics
Mr. Aleksandar Markovic graduated from the University of Belgrade, Serbia, and spent one semester studying at the Poznań University of Life Sciences in Poland. After completing his degree, he worked as a Teaching Assistant at the University of Belgrade. In 2020, he joined MDPI, where he progressed through various roles and now serves as a Journal Relations Specialist, overseeing multiple journals across various disciplines. His primary responsibilities include maintaining communication with scholars worldwide and gathering their feedback to enhance collaboration between them and MDPI.
Registration
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Certificates of attendance will be delivered to those who attend the live webinar.
Can’t attend? Register anyway and we’ll let you know when the recording is available to watch.
Program
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Speaker/Presentation |
Time in CEST |
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MDPI Introduction |
2:00 - 2:10 pm |
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Dr. Sakdirat Kaewunruen (Speaker 1) Experience in Managing Circular Economy Innovation Topics |
2:10 - 2:30 pm |
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Dr. Constantinos (Konstantinos) G. Tsiafoulis (Speaker 2) A Point of View on Topics and Special Issues in MDPI |
2:30 - 2:50 pm |
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Mr. Aleksandar Markovic (Speaker 3) Introduction to Topics |
2:50 - 3:10 pm |
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Q&A |
3:10 - 3:25 pm |
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Closing of Webinar
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3:25 - 3:30 pm |
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