Award-winning Analyst Scientific Editor for Reviews

10 July 2009

Professor Duncan Graham, Analyst Scientific Editor for Reviews, has been awarded a 2009 Corday-Morgan Prize for outstanding and pioneering contributions to nanometrology in support of molecular manipulation and chemical and biological detection systems. 

Currently Duncan is Deputy Director of WestCHEM (the joint chemical sciences research school of Strathclyde and Glasgow Universities), Co-director of the Centre for Molecular Nanometrology, Director of Research Admissions and Head of Research for Chemistry at the University of Strathclyde.  He has published over 100 papers and 11 patents.

Duncan's interests are in using synthetic chemistry to produce nanosensors that respond to a specific biological species or event and he has a group of around 25 working on various aspects of this area of science. He joined the Analyst Editorial Board in April 2006 and was appointed as Analyst Scientific Editor, Reviews at the beginning of 2008.

Professor Graham Cooks, also a member of the Editorial Board of Analyst, was presented with the 2008 Robert Boyle Medal at the recent Analytical Division Awards Ceremony in Manchester. The Medal was awarded in recognition of Professor Cooks' exceptional body of work over the past 30 years covering various areas of analytical chemistry and in particular, for his research on gas phase ion kinetics and mass spectrometry.

Nominations for 2010 awards will open on 1st September 2009. Further information about RSC Awards and how to make a nomination is available through the website link below.