Norman Dovichi, Editor-in-Chief
University of Nore Dame, USA
Norman Dovichi is an emeritus professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Notre Dame. He received his BSc with a dual major in Chemistry and Mathematics from Northern Illinois University and his PhD in Physical Analytical Chemistry from the University of Utah, where he was Joel Harris’s first PhD student. He spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory with Dick Keller. Since then he has held faculty positions at the Universities of Wyoming, Alberta, and Washington before moving to Notre Dame. Dovichi has graduated 69 PhD students, has published over 300 papers, holds seven US patents, and has given over 350 invited talks. He has served on the editorial advisory boards of 16 journals and served as Associate Editor for Analytical Chemistry for 17 years. He also has been named as an honorary professor at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
His group played a pioneering role in a range of research topics in analytical chemistry. In the 1980s, he introduced the concept of single molecule detection to the chemical literature; in recognition for this work, he was invited as a plenary lecturer at the Nobel Conference on Single Molecule Spectroscopy held in 1999. In the 1990s, his group developed capillary array electrophoresis instruments for high-throughput DNA sequencing. He was recognized for this work by the journal Science as an “Unsung Hero of the Human Genome Project” and he was a plenary lecturer at the symposium on the Evolution of DNA Sequencing Technology, held at Cold Springs Harbor in 2015. Over the last decade, his group has focused its attention on coupling capillary electrophoresis with tandem mass spectrometry as a tool for high throughput and high sensitivity proteomic analysis. This instrumentation has been patented and is now marked by CMP Scientific and Agilent. Finally, his group has recently coupled capillary electrophoresis with next-generation DNA sequencing for the comprehensive metagenomic analysis of complex environmental microbiomes.
Damien Arrigan, Associate editor
Curtin University, Australia
ORCID: 0000-0002-1053-1273
Damien Arrigan 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
ORCID: 0000-0003-1021-4267
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
ORCID: 0000-0003-3864-6459
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.
Laura Lechuga, Associate editor
Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Spain
Prof. Laura M. Lechuga received her PhD in Chemistry from the University Complutense of Madrid (Spain) in 1992. She is Full Professor of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and Head of the Nanobiosensors and Bioanalytical Applications Group at the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2) in Barcelona (Spain) and at the Networking Biomedical Research Center (CIBER-BBN). She has been Adjunct Professor at The Arctic University of Norway (2012-2016) and Distinguished Visiting professor at University of Campinas (Brazil) (2013-2017).
The principal focus of her research is the development of novel nanobiosensor devices based on nanoplasmonics and silicon-based photonics principles, including surface biofunctionalization, microfluidics for automatic fluid delivery and complete lab-on-a-chip integration for point-of-care devices. The application of the nanobiosensor devices in a wide range of challenging clinical and environmental applications is one of her main objectives. Her research activities range from basic research to the demonstration of working sensing platforms, as well as their technological transfer to industry. She has been at the forefront at worldwide level in the field of photonic biosensors, pioneering devices as the bimodal waveguide interferometric device, the optonanomechanical sensor, or the magnetoplasmonic biosensor, among others.
She has published over 250 articles, book chapters and proceedings, has 8 families of patents, and has presented her work in more than 300 invited talks. She has co-founded two spin-offs companies. She has received several prizes and recognitions as the Prize of Physics, Innovation and Technology from the Spanish Royal Society of Physics and BBVA Foundation in 2016 and Fellow of the Optical Society (OSA) since 2014.
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
University of Hull, UK
Nicole Pamme is a Professor in Analytical Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Hull. 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 >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) and Reader (2013) and finally full professor in 2014.Nicole chaired the microTAS 2016 conference in Dublin (Ireland) and serves on the Board of Directors of the Chemical and Biological Microsystems Society (CBMS), currently as Vice President. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).
Evan Williams, Associate editor
University of California, USA
ORCID: 0000-0002-1733-3018
Evan Williams received his PhD from Cornell University in 1990 and completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Stanford University before joining the faculty at the University of California at Berkeley, where he also serves as the Associate Director of the Center for Analytical Biotechnology and the Faculty Director of the QB3/Chemistry Mass Spectrometry Center. He also holds a joint appointment in the Earth Sciences Division at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Professor Williams’ research group is developing and applying novel instrumental and computational techniques in mass spectrometry, tandem mass spectrometry, separations, and laser spectroscopy for improved molecular structure elucidation, and to solve problems of fundamental interest in chemistry and biophysics. A number of different types of state-of-the-art mass spectrometers and lasers are used in these studies. Recent honors include the American Chemical Society Field and Franklin Award in 2014, the Royal Society of Chemistry Theophilus Redwood Award in 2014 and the American Society for Mass Spectrometry Ron Hites Award in 2014.
Hua-Zhong Yu, Reviews editor
Simon Fraser University, Canada
ORCID: 0000-0003-1411-3156
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 FRSC 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 Royal Society of Chemistry, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Chemical Society and American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists. In 2018 Dr. Lunte received the ANACHEM Award. Dr. Lunte’s research interests includes 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.
