Duncan Graham, Editor-in-Chief
University of Strathclyde, UK
ORCID: 0000-0002-6079-2105
Duncan Graham is Research Professor of Chemistry and director of the centre for molecular nanometrology at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. He has been awarded numerous awards for his research including the Royal Society of Chemistry's SAC Silver medal (2004), Corday Morgan prize (2009), a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit award (2010) and was elected to the fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2008). He is also a cofounder and director of Renishaw Diagnostics Ltd (2007). He completed his PhD in organic chemistry at the University of Edinburgh (1996) and now his interests are in using synthetic chemistry to produce nanosensors that respond to a specific biological species or event as measured by surface enhanced Raman scattering. He has a research group of around 30, and over 170 publications to date.
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.
Perdita Barran, Reviews Editor
The University of Manchester, UK
ORCID: 0000-0002-7720-586X
Professor Barran holds a Chair of Mass Spectrometry in the School of Chemistry and is Director of the Michael Barber Centre for Collaborative Mass Spectrometry at the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, The University of Manchester, UK. From 2002-2013 she was at the University of Edinburgh as an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow, Senior Lecturer and then Reader in Biophysical Chemistry. She graduated from Manchester University with a degree in Chemistry with Industrial Experience (1994), and from Sussex University with a PhD in Chemical Physics (1998) under the supervision of Professors Tony Stace and Sir Harry Kroto. She worked as a post-doctoral researcher for Tony Stace, before moving to the University of California Santa Barbara to work with Mike Bowers. As an MRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, she helped establish a Centre of Proteomics (SIRCAMS). Dr. Barran was awarded an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellowship (March 2003) to study the structure and dynamics of model peptides and proteins in the gas phase. In 2009 in recognition of her achievements Barran was awarded the inaugural Joseph Black award by the RSC Analytical Division.
Her research interests include: Biological mass spectrometry; Instrument and technique development; Protein structure and interactions; HDX; Proteomics; and Molecular modeling. She is an Editor of the International Journal of Mass Spectrometry and on the Editorial Board of Analyst and ACS Central Science. Perdita has authored over 90 publications in peer reviewed journals which have been cited well over 2300 times.
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.
Takehiko Kitamori, Associate editor
University of Tokyo, Japan
Professor Kitamori is Professor in the Department of Applied Chemistry, School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo (1998-present). He was Vice President of the University of Tokyo (2012-13) responsible for Human Resource Development and Internationalization, after serving as Dean of Faculty and Graduate School of Engineering. Prior to joining the University of Tokyo in 1989, he was a researcher at Hitachi's Energy Research Lab. His areas of research are Micro/Extended-Nano Fluidics, Extended-Nano Space Chemistry, and Applied Laser Spectroscopy for Analytical Chemistry. He has received numerous honors for innovative research, including the Japan Society for Analytical Chemistry Award in 2009, the IBM Faculty Award in 2008, and the Chemical Society of Japan Award for Creative Work in 2006. He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from LundUniversity in 2016. He served as a senior vice president of The Japan Society for Analytical Chemistry (2006-2008).
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.
Lanqun Mao, Associate editor
Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Lanqun Mao is currently a professor at Institute of Chemistry, the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He has been working at the interface between analytical chemistry and neuroscience including in vivo electrochemistry, biofuel cells, and in vivo microdialysis. He obtained his PhD in East China Normal University in 1998 and then worked in BAS Inc. Japan as a research scientist (1998–2000) and pursued post-doctoral studies at Department of Electronic Chemistry at Tokyo Institute of Technology (2000–2002). He has authored/co-authored more than 130 peer-reviewed publications. He is a recipient of the “Hundred Distinguished Young Scholars” from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (2002) and the “National Distinguished Young Scholars” from National Natural Science Foundation of China (2006).
Jean-François Masson, Associate editor
University of Montreal, Canada
ORCID: 0000-0002-0101-0468
Jean-Francois Masson holds a PhD (2005) in Analytical Chemistry from Arizona State University for his research on chemical and biological sensing with Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR). During a post-doctoral fellowship at the Georgia Institute of Technology (2005–2007), he specialized in electrochemical sensing devices for medical applications, in collaboration with the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Since 2007, he is a Professor of Analytical Chemistry at the University of Montreal focusing on the development of plasmonic devices for sensing in clinical samples. In 2013–2014, he was a visiting research scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. Specifically, his group has developed new plasmonic materials and surface chemistries for SPR sensing of proteins and therapeutic drugs in biofluids. His group has successfully integrated and validated a small SPR sensing device for monitoring methotrexate in serum of patients undergoing chemotherapy. His research resulted in filing of 8 patents and he published more than 60 research articles. He has received prestigious awards, including the Fred Beamish Award (Canada), the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship (Germany), and the Tomas Hirschfeld Award (USA).
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.
