The Editors
Astrid Sigel has studied languages; she was an editor of the
Metal Ions in Biological Systems series (until Volume 44) and
also of the "Handbooks on Toxicity of Inorganic Compounds" (1988), the "Handbook on Metals in Clinical and Analytical Chemistry" (1994;
both with H. G. Seiler) and of the "Handbook on Metalloproteins" (2001; with Ivano Bertini). She is also an Editor of the
MILS series from Volume 1 on
and she coauthored about 50 papers on topics in Bioinorganic Chemistry.
Helmut Sigel is Emeritus Professor (2003) of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Basel, Switzerland, and a previous
editor of the MIBS series until Volume 44. He serves on various editorial and advisory boards, published over 350 articles on
metal ion complexes of nucleotides, coenzymes, and other ligands of biological relevance, and lectured worldwide. He was
named Protagonist in Chemistry (2002) by ICA (issue 339); among further honors are the P. Ray Award (Indian Chemical
Society, of which he is also an Honorary Fellow), the Alfred Werner Prize (Swiss Chemical Society), a Doctor of Science
honoris causa degree (Kalyani University, India), appointments as Visiting Professor (e.g., Austria, China, Japan, Kuwait,
UK) and Endowed Lectureships.
Roland K. O. Sigel is Full Professor (2016) of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, and currently
Dean of the Faculty of Sciences (2017-2022). From 2003 to 2008 he was endowed
with a Förderungsprofessur of the Swiss National Science Foundation and he is a recipent of an ERC Starting Grant 2010.
He received his doctoral degree summa cum laude (1999) from the University of Dortmund, Germany, working with Bernhard Lippert.
Thereafter he spent nearly three years at Columbia University, New York, USA, with Anna Marie Pyle (now Yale University).
During the six years abroad he received several prestigious fellowships from various sources, and he was awarded the EuroBIC Medal
in 2008 and the Alfred Werner Prize (SCS) in 2009. His research focuses on the structural and catalytic role of metal ions in ribozymes,
especially group II introns, and on related topics. He was also an editor of Volumes 43 and 44 of the MIBS series. He is married to E. Freisinger.
Eva Freisinger is Associate Professor for Bioinorganic Chemistry and Chemical Biology (2018) at the Department of Chemistry at the
University of Zurich, Switzerland. From 2008 to 2014 she held a Förderungsprofessur of the Swiss National Science Foundation. She obtained
her doctoral degree from the University of Dortmund, Germany, working with Bernhard Lippert and spent three years as a postdoc at SUNY Stony
Brook, USA, with Caroline Kisker. Since 2003 she performs independent research at the University of Zurich and received her habilitation in
Bioinorganic Chemistry in 2014. Her research is focused on the study of plant metallothioneins with an additional interest in the
sequence-specific modification of nucleic acids. She serves on a number of advisory boards for international conference series, since 2014
she is the secretary of the EuroBIC conference series, and is an editorial board member of the Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry. She joined
the group of editors of the MILS series from Volume 18 on.