Analytical Methods editorial board members

B. Jill Venton, Editor-in-chief

University of Virginia, USA

ORCID: 0000-0002-5096-9309

B. Jill Venton is a Professor of Chemistry and Neuroscience at the University of Virginia.  She got her PhD from the University of North Carolina and was a postdoc at the University of Michigan before starting at the University of Virginia in 2005.  She was promoted to Associate Professor in 2011 and full Professor in 2016. Her research is in electrochemical sensors for making real-time measurements of neurotransmitters.  Her lab develops novel electrochemical sensors using carbon nanomaterials and is known for making real-time measurements of adenosine in rats and dopamine in the fruit fly brain. She has won many awards including the Society for Electroanalytical Chemistry Young Investigator Award, Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar, and Eli Lilly Young Analytical Investigator award.  She is also active in many outreach education programs to elementary teachers and students.  

Martina Catani, Associate editor

University of Ferrara, Italy

Martina is Assistant Professor of Analytical Chemistry at the University of Ferrara (Dept. of Chemical, Pharmaceutical and Agricultural Sciences) and she received a PhD in Chemical Sciences in 2018 from the same University.

During her PhD, she has spent research periods at VUB Brussels (Belgium) and the University of Pécs (Hungary). Then, she worked at ETH Zurich (Switzerland) as a postdoctoral research fellow in 2019.

She is the co-author of more than 70 papers published in peer reviewed journals and she has presented her research activities as an invited speaker at several national and international meetings.

Wendell Coltro, Associate editor

Federal University of Goiás, Brazil

Wendell K. T. Coltro obtained his BSc in Chemistry from the State University of Maringá (2002). He received his MSc (2004) and Ph.D. (2008) in Analytical Chemistry from the University of São Paulo (in the Institute of Chemistry at São Carlos under the supervision of Professor Emanuel Carrilho. In 2006, he was a visiting scholar at The University of Kansas (USA) under the supervision of Professor Sue Lunte. He is currently Associate Professor and Director of Chemistry at the Federal University of Goiás, Brazil. In the beginning of 2018, he was nominated as affiliate member of the Brazilian Academy of Science as a young researcher. His research interests involve the development of electrophoresis chips, electrochemical sensors, toner- and paper-based devices as well as 3D printed microfluidic chips for applications in bioanalytical and forensic chemistry.

Anthony Killard, Associate editor

University of West England, UK

ORCID: 0000-0001-6953-3655

Tony received his BA(Mod) Natural Sciences in Microbiology at Trinity College, Dublin in 1993 and his PhD in Biotechnology at Dublin City University (DCU) in 1998. He became Principal Investigator at the Biomedical Diagnostcs Institute, DCU in 2005.

In 2011, he was appointed to the Chair in Biomedical Sciences at the University of the West of England and was made Adjunct Professor at the Biomedical Diagnostics Institute in October 2011. He is a Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Zhen Liu, Associate editor

Nanjing University, China

ORCID: 0000-0002-8440-2554

Zhen is a Distinguished Professor at Nanjing University, China. He obtained his PhD from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Academy of Sciences of China in 1998. After post-doctoral training at Hyogo University (former Himeji Institute of Technology) in Japan as a JPSP scholar (2000-2002) and at the University of Waterloo in Canada (2002-2005), he joined Nanjing University as a Full Professor in 2005.

He was appointed as Adjunct Professor at the University of Waterloo (2011-2014). He was awarded the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (2014). His research interests include separation science, affinity materials, molecular imprinting, bioassays, single-cell analysis, hyphenated analytical approaches, and nanomaterials for cancer therapy.

Matthew R Lockett, Associate editor

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

ORCID: 0000-0003-4851-7757

Matthew obtained his B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Pittsburgh, where he performed undergraduate research in the laboratory of Stéphane Petoud. He received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Wisconsin at Madison under the supervision of Lloyd M. Smith.

From 2010-2013, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University, working in the laboratory of George M. Whitesides. Matthew is an Associate Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Chao Lu, Associate editor

Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China

ORCID: 0000-0002-7841-7477

Chao Lu is currently a Full Professor of State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology. He received his Ph.D. degree in Analytical Chemistry from Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2004. He has been a visiting scholar in Kanazawa University from 2004 to 2005, Hong Kong University from 2005 to 2007, and University of Texas at Arlington from 2007 to 2009. He holds 15 patents, and has published more than 100 peer reviewed articles. His current research interests include the synthesis and characterization of advanced functional nanomaterials for chemiluminescence, electrochemiluminescence, fluoresecence, biosensors, and bioimaging.

Aoife Morrin, Associate editor

Dublin City University, Ireland

Aoife Morrin is Associate Professor in the School of Chemical Sciences at Dublin City University (DCU). Aoife studied Applied Sciences (Chemistry and Mathematics) at Dublin Institute of Technology and later completed a PhD in electroanalytical chemistry in 2000.

Following postdoctoral research, in 2004 she took up a lecturing position at DCU. In 2015 she became Associate Professor and later joined the INSIGHT Research Ireland Centre for Data Analytics as a funded investigator. She also served as the Director of the National Centre for Sensor Research at DCU from 2020-2024. Her research focuses in the field of electroanalytical device development for environmental and biomedical sensing applications.

Beatriz Jurado Sánchez, Associate editor

University of Alcalá, Spain

Beatriz Jurado Sánchez is Associate Professor at the University of Alcalá (Madrid, Spain) since 2022. From 2017 to 2022 she was a Ramón y Cajal researcher at the same University. She received her PhD in chemistry from the University of Cordoba in 2009. In 2013 she was awarded the prestigious Marie Curie IOF fellowship to carry out research at the University of California, San Diego. Her research interests are the synthesis of tubular and Janus micromotors based on nanomaterials, the integration of micromotors into portable instrumentation, biosensing with micromotors integrating quantum dots and the development of micromotor based environmental remediation approaches.

She has co-authored over 92 scientific papers (H Index = 42), 5 book chapters and more than 20 communications in international conferences. She has been Assistant Editor for Microchimica Acta, Associate Editor for RSC Advances and Editorial Board member for Analytical Chemistry.