Renzo Shamey Editor

Renzo Shamey is a professor of color science and technology and leads the Color Science and Imaging Laboratory at North Carolina State University. He is a Fellow of the Society of Dyers and Colourists, NC State University Faculty Scholar, an honorary professor at Tianjin Polytechnic University (China), a member of the Board of Directors of Inter-Society Color Council, and AATCC and has served as chair of the AATCC color measurement test methods committee, co/chair of CIE technical committees, and as director of the Polymer and Color Chemistry program at NCSU and received several national and international awards.

Rolf Kuehni was born and educated in Switzerland and trained as a textile chemist at the Textilingenieurschule in Germany. In 1965 Kuehni joined Verona Dyestuffs as Manager of Development and Color Physics and advanced to Vice President, Marketing/Textile Products for Bayer Corp. and later Dystar Corp. from which he retired in 2001. In 2002 he joined North Carolina State University as an invited Adjunct Professor in color science. From 1987-89 Kuehni was the editor of the journal Color Research and Application. He is the author and co-author of six books on color and many peer-reviewed scientific and technical papers and encyclopaedia articles on color science and technology.  He is the recipient of the Armin J. Brunig Award in 1986 from the Federation of Societies for Coatings Technology, the Godlove Award in 2003 from the Inter-Society Color Council (ISCC), the Olney Medal in 2005 from the American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists, and the Nickerson Award from ISCC in 2