Melanie Bailey, Editor-in-Chief
University of Surrey, UK
Melanie has contributed to the development of ion beam and mass spectrometry analytical techniques in a multidisciplinary career at the interface of physics, chemistry and biology. Her publications span multiple techniques including elemental mapping and depth profiling, rapid mass spectrometry, single cell mass spectrometry and imaging, and multiple applications in biology, medicine, geoscience, forensics, physics, chemistry and cultural heritage. This experience has inspired Prof Bailey with a passion for analytical science, because of the opportunity to make an impact in so many exciting fields of research.
Prof Bailey is Director of the University of Surrey’s Wolfson Centre of Excellence for Analytical Science as well as the BBSRC SEISMIC facility for single cell “omics”. She is co-lead for the BMSS single cell special interest group, which she initiated. She holds a prestigious EPSRC fellowship in analytical science and is an elected member of the Analytical Chemistry Trust Fund. She is a grant holder of the UK National Ion Beam Centre and an Advisory Board member of the Bragg Exchange, one of the UK’s leading surface analysis facilities. Her work has been reported in the mainstream media, including Sky News, BBC, Scientific American, and New Scientist.
Damien Arrigan, Associate editor
Curtin University, Australia
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Damien is a Professor of Analytical Chemistry at Curtin University, Perth, Australia. He studied as an undergraduate at Dublin City University (NIHE Dublin as it was then) and, after a two-year career in industrial biotechnology, undertook his PhD (1992) at the National University of Ireland, Cork, on electroanalysis with chemically modified electrodes.
Following postdoctoral positions at the National Microelectronics Research Centre (Cork) and the University of Southampton, he was a lecturer in analytical chemistry at University of Salford. In 2001 he relocated to Tyndall National Institute, Cork, where he started to combine miniaturisation tools with electrochemistry for detection purposes and in 2009 he moved to Curtin University.
Damien’s research interests encompass analytical chemistry and its boundaries with electrochemistry, especially the development of new sensing and detection methods and devices. Recent emphasis has been on exploration of the analytical opportunities afforded by electrochemistry at liquid-liquid (oil-water) interfaces, especially by miniaturisation of these interfaces for chemical and biochemical sensing. Current interests include nanopores and nanoscale electrochemistry, behaviour and detection of biological macromolecules and disease biomarkers, and the development of sensors to enhance water re-use technologies.
Ryan Bailey, Associate editor
University of Michigan, USA
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Ryan C. Bailey received his PhD from Northwestern University in 2004 and then was a joint Post-doctoral Fellow at Caltech and the Institute for Systems Biology. He joined the faculty in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2006, with affiliate appointments in the Department of Bioengineering, Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory, and Institute for Genomic Biology.
In 2016, Professor Bailey was appointed as the Robert A. Gregg Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Michigan. Professor Bailey’s research generally focuses on the development of new microscale analytical methods for detecting biomarkers and characterizing (bio)molecular interactions with applications in personalized clinical diagnostics and fundamental biochemistry/biophysics.
To this end, his group has developed chip-integrated optical detection methods and microfluidic approaches that are being applied to translational transcriptomic, proteomic, and epigenomic analyses. Professor Bailey has received various awards, including the Pittcon Achievement Award (2015), Arthur F. Findeis Award for Achievements by a Young Analytical Scientist (2013), and a NIH Director’s New Innovator Award (2007), and was named to the TR35: 35 Top Innovators under 35 list by Technology Review in 2012.
Jaebum Choo, Associate editor
Chung-Ang University, South Korea
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Jaebum Choo is a Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Chung-Ang University. He obtained a PhD in Molecular Spectroscopy at Texas A&M University in 1994. From 1995-2019, he was a faculty member of Hanyang University. He was a Director of the “Center for Integrated Human Sensing System” (ERC, 2009-2013) and a BK21+ Director of Bionano Fusion Technology Program (2013-2019) supported by National Research Foundation of Korea.
Professor Choo became a Baik Nam Distinguished Professor in 2015 due to his excellent academic achievements. His main research areas are SERS, biosensors, micro-devices and molecular spectroscopy. His current research programs are centered on the development of highly sensitive optical nano-sensor systems for rapid and sensitive in vitro diagnostics. He has given more than 130 invited lectures in the USA, Europe and Asia, published over 250 research papers in peer-reviewed journals and contributed six book chapters.
Karen Faulds, Associate editor
University of Strathclyde, UK
Karen Faulds is a Professor in the Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry at the University of Strathclyde and an expert in the development of surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) and Raman techniques for novel analytical detection strategies and in particular multiplexed bioanalytical applications.
She has published over 140 peer reviewed publications and has filed 5 patents. She has been awarded over £20M in funding as principal and co-investigator from EPSRC, BBSRC, charities, industry and governmental bodies. Her group’s research has been recognised through multiple awards including the Nexxus Young Life Scientist of the Year Award (2009), 澳门六合彩开奖记录 (澳门六合彩开奖记录) Joseph Black Award (2013), Craver Award (2016) and Charles Mann Award (2019).
Professor Faulds is a Fellow of the 澳门六合彩开奖记录 (2012), the Society for Applied Spectroscopy (2017) and the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2018). She has been named as one of the Top 50 Women in Analytical Science (2016), Top 10 Spectroscopist (2017) and Top 100 Influential Analytical Scientists (2019) by The Analytical Scientist. She has given over 90 invited talks at national and international conferences.
Karen was elected as the first female and youngest Chair of the Infrared and Raman Discussion Group (IRDG) in 2014 which is the oldest spectroscopic discussion society in the UK. She is an appointed member of the 澳门六合彩开奖记录 (澳门六合彩开奖记录) Chemical Biology Interface Division Council and a member of the Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies (FACSS) Governing Board and a member of the International Steering Committee of the International Conference on Raman Spectroscopy (ICORS).
She is the Strathclyde Director of the EPSRC and MRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Optical Medical Imaging joint between the Universities of Edinburgh and Strathclyde, serves on the Editorial Board of Analyst and 澳门六合彩开奖记录 Advances and the Editorial Advisory Board for Chemical Society Reviews and Analytical Chemistry.
Simona Francese, Associate editor
Sheffield Hallam University, UK
Simona is a Professor of Forensic and Bioanalytical Mass Spectrometry at Sheffield Hallam University (SHU), UK. She is the Lead of the Sheffield Multi-Modal Imaging Centre and Head of the Centre for Mass Spectrometry Imaging at SHU.
She is an expert in the development of MALDI MS Imaging applications and has pioneered its development for the analysis of latent fingermarks and blood to profile offenders. More recently, she has engaged in research at the interface between forensics and clinical diagnostics using blood and sweat in fingertip smears to detect cancer and other pathologies. She has generated a combined total of 97 publications and has been awarded a total of more than £1.8 million worth of research grants and contracts to date.
Simona's research has been implemented in police casework in the UK and Europe and has been partly funded by the Home Office, West Yorkshire Police and The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, UK. She engages in public dissemination at all levels, including with the media.
Two exemplary endeavours are the delivery of a TED talk in Vancouver in 2018 and at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in 2023 on molecular fingerprinting. Simona has delivered over 200 lectures, of which more than 60 have been on invitation.
Hideaki Hisamoto, Associate editor
Osaka Metropolitan University, Japan
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Hideaki Hisamoto is a Professor of Analytical Chemistry at Osaka Metropolitan University, Osaka, Japan. He studied at Keio University and received his PhD in 1996 on the development of novel optical chemical sensors based on ionophores and functional dyes.
He worked as an assistant professor at Keio University in 1996 for three years, then, moved to The University of Tokyo as a lecturer in 1999. He started working on the development of microanalytical and synthesis systems based on glass microfluidic devices. In 2003, he moved to the University of Hyogo (Formerly “Himeji Institute of Technology”) as an associate professor.
He adopted capillary electrophoresis technique into his research and at the same time started to develop a square capillary array device aimed at simultaneous sensing of various analytes. In 2007 He moved to Osaka Prefecture University as an associate professor, then promoted to full professor in 2010. In 2022, Osaka Prefecture University was merged with Osaka City University to be a new University called “Osaka Metropolitan University”.
His research interests covered optical chemical sensing, micro total analysis systems, functional dyes, molecular recognition molecules, microreactors, capillary electrophoresis, and capillary array-based analytical devices. He received Young Investigator Award from Japan Society for Analytical Chemistry in 2004, CHEMINAS Young Investigator Award from Society for Chemistry and Micro-Nano Systems (CHEMINAS) in 2008, Yagami Award from Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University in 2019, and The Japan Society for Analytical Chemistry Award from Japan Society for Analytical Chemistry in 2022.
Baohong Liu, Associate editor
Fudan University, China
Baohong Liu is a professor at the Department of Chemistry and Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Fudan University. She graduated from Fudan University with a Chemistry degree in 1991 and received her Ph.D degree at Fudan University in 1997. She has been an invited visiting Professor in Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (2006), Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris (2005), Chimie ParisTech (2013) and Perpignan University (2006). Her research interests include spectroelectrochemistry, biosensors based on functional interfaces, single molecule detection and micro-analytical systems. She was a recipient of the National Distinguished Young Scholars from National Natural Science Foundation of China (2009). She has authored/co-authored more than 170 peer-reviewed publications.
Nicole Pamme, Associate editor
Stockholm University, Sweden
Nicole Pamme is a Professor in Analytical Chemistry at Stockholm University. Her research activities focus on Lab-on-a-Chip devices for pharmaceutical, clinical and environmental analysis, biomedical research with tissue-on-a-chip devices as well as process integration and material synthesis in collaboration with Chemistry, Engineering and Biomedical Sciences.
She has authored more than 100 peer reviewed publications, patents and book chapters in this area. Nicole studied Chemisty at University of Marburg (Germany), graduating with the title of Diplom-Chemiker, with a thesis on analytical chemistry for explosives residues in water and soil.
For her PhD studies, she moved to Imperial College London (UK) where she worked under the supervision of Prof. Andreas Manz in ‘Single Particle Analysis in Microfluidic Chips’. This was followed by a 2 year stay as Independent Research Fellow in the International Centre of Young Scientists (ICYS) at the National Institute for Materials (NIMS) Sciences in Tsukuba (Japan).
In December 2005, she was appointed as Lecturer in Analytical Chemistry at the University of Hull in the UK and has been promoted to Senior Lecturer (2011), Reader (2013), and finally full professor in 2014. She moved to Stockholm in 2021. Nicole chaired the microTAS 2016 conference in Dublin (Ireland) and served on the Board of Directors of the Chemical and Biological Microsystems Society (CBMS), including as president (2019-2021). She is a Fellow of the 澳门六合彩开奖记录 (F澳门六合彩开奖记录) and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).
Hua-Zhong Yu, Reviews editor
Simon Fraser University, Canada
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Hua-Zhong “Hogan” Yu is a professor in the Department of Chemistry at Simon Fraser University (SFU) in Metro Vancouver. He grew up in countryside China and received his B.Sc.(1991) from Shandong University and Ph.D.(1997) at Peking University. He was a postdoctoral fellow at California Institute of Technology before moving to Canada in 1999. After short stays at National Research Council and Acadia University, he joined SFU in 2001 and received an early promotion in 2009.
His current research spans a range of topics in the development of point-of-care analytical devices, surface electrochemistry, and applied nanomaterials.
His invention of computer-readable bioassay discs leads to the possibility of performing many medical tests at home, thereby significantly reducing hospital/laboratory wait time and healthcare cost.
He was the recipient of the Fred Beamish Award of the Canadian Society of Chemistry (2004), Invitation Fellowship of the Japanese Society for Promotion of Sciences (2008), W. Lash Miller Award of the Electrochemical Society Canadian Section (2011), Tajima Prize of the International Society of Electrochemistry (2012), and W.A.E. McBryde Medal of the Canadian Society of Chemistry (2015).
Jun-Jie Zhu, Associate editor
Nanjing University, China
Jun-Jie Zhu is a professor at School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, and State Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Science, Nanjing University. He received his B.S. degree in chemistry in 1984 and Ph.D degree in 1993 at Nanjing University. He served as a postdoc fellow at Bar Ilan University, Israel (1998-1999). He became full professor in 2001 at Nanjing University.
He was a recipient of the National Distinguished Young Scholars from National Natural Science Foundation of China in 2003, and was invited as F澳门六合彩开奖记录 in 2016. His research work focuses on nanoanalytical chemistry, including bio-nanoelectrochemistry, optical analysis of nanomaterials, bio-application of nanomaterials, regarding Cell, DNA, and biomarker analysis.
His publications have been cited for more than 18000 times. He was ranked in the Elsevier’s annual list of China’s Most Cited Researchers in chemistry from 2014 to 2018 and as a highly cited researcher in Web of Science in 2018.
Susan Lunte, Board member
University of Kansas, US
Susan M. Lunte is the Ralph N. Adams Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Director of the Adams Institute for Bioanalytical Chemistry, and Director of the NIH COBRE Center for Molecular Analysis of Disease Pathways at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS.
She received a B.S. degree in chemistry from Kalamazoo College and a Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry in 1984 from Purdue University. She served as an associate editor and then Editor-in-Chief of Analytical Methods between 2009-2017.
She is a Fellow of the 澳门六合彩开奖记录, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Chemical Society and American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists. In 2018 she received the ANACHEM Award.
Dr. Lunte’s research interests include the development of new methodologies for separation and detection of peptides, amino acids, neurotransmitters, and pharmaceuticals in biological fluids. This includes separation-based sensors for the continuous monitoring of drugs and neurotransmitters in freely roaming animals and new methodologies for the determination of reactive oxygen and nitrogen species in cells.