Scott Martin, Editor-in-chief
Saint Louis University, USA
ORCID: 0000-0002-6952-1408
R. Scott Martin is the Department Chair and Professor of Chemistry at the College of Arts and Sciences at Saint Louis University. He received his BS and MS degrees from Missouri State University and a PhD in analytical chemistry from the University of Missouri-Columbia. He then was a NIH post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the University of Kansas. Dr Martin started at Saint Louis University in 2003, where he was promoted to Associate Professor in 2008 and Full Professor in 2012. In addition to being Department Chair, he has received other recognition including; member of the Board of Directors for the Association for Lab Automation (2009-2010); program chair for the Lab Automation conference (2009); and Editor-in-Chief of Analytical Methods (2017-present). His research interests involve the use of microchip devices for monitoring biological systems. This includes development of methods for analysing cells on-chip through integration of multiple techniques such as cell culture, electrophoresis and electrochemistry.
Jonas Bergquist, Associate editor
Uppsala University, Sweden
ORCID: 0000-0002-4597-041X
Jonas Bergquist is Full Chair Professor in Analytical Chemistry and Neurochemistry at the Department of Chemistry at Uppsala University, Sweden, and Adjunct Professor at the Department of Pathology at University of Utah, USA. He received his MSc degree in Biology and Chemistry from the University of Lund and his MD PhD degree from the Institute of Clinical Neuroscience of the Göteborg University in Sweden. After a postdoctoral position at the Institute of Clinical Neuroscience, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Dr Bergquist was initially promoted to Associate Professor at Göteborg then appointed as a Full Professor and Head of Department (prefect) of Physical and Analytical Chemistry at Uppsala University and later deputy Head for Department of Chemistry – Biomedical Centre. Professor Bergquist's research group is continuously developing general analytical tools for screening and discovery of biomarkers for various pathological states. The technologies includes all within the analytical chain important links: identifying relevant clinical applications, sampling, sample pretreatment, multidimensional liquid based separation, high resolution mass spectrometry such as FT-ICR, and OrbiTrap MS-multivariate data analysis including algorithms for cluster analysis and pattern recognition. Professor Bergquist uses these techniques to study numerous medical issues including neurodegenerative disorders and psychiatry, cancer, cardiovascular diseases, obstetrics and gynaecology, surgery and internal medicine.
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.
Christopher J. Easley, Associate editor
Auburn University, USA
ORCID: 0000-0002-2403-4147
Christopher J. Easley is currently the C. Harry Knowles Associate Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Auburn University. He received his BS degree in chemistry at Mississippi State University in 2002 and his PhD in bioanalytical chemistry from the University of Virginia in 2006, under training from Prof. James P. Landers. His postdoctoral training was provided by Prof. David W. Piston at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center in the Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, from 2006-2008. He began at Auburn in 2008 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2013. Prof. Easley is a co-founder of Proximity Biosciences, LLC and holds several U.S. patents based on biosensing and microfluidics. He is currently a member of the International Advisory Board of Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry (2016-present) and a member of the editorial board at Analytical Methods (2017-present). Prof. Easley and the members of his laboratory develop microfluidic methods to study dynamic function of small numbers of cells in intact, primary tissue from mouse models of disease. To accommodate bioanalysis at the microscale, their team also develops DNA-driven assays for highly sensitive protein quantification in nanoliter volumes using both fluorescence and electrochemistry.
Juan F García-Reyes, Associate editor
University of Jaén, Spain
ORCID: 0000-0001-9158-0271
Juan F. García-Reyes is currently Associate Professor of Analytical Chemistry at the University of Jaén (Spain) since 2010. He served as Associate Editor in Analytical Methods since October 2015. His current research interests includes the development and application of different UHPLC-HRMS methodologies for small-molecule applications such as environmental analysis, food quality and safety testing and forensics, and the use of new ambient and atmospheric pressure ionization methods based on dielectric barrier discharges for mass spectrometric small-molecule applications such as pesticide testing and explosive detection. He is co-author of ca. 100 peer reviewed articles, which have received over 2900 citations (h-index 31) and has presented over 150 contributions in analytical chemistry related conferences.
Anthony Killard, Reviews 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. His areas of interest are the development of chemical sensors, biosensors and biomedical diagnostic devices; application of novel electroactive materials (nanostructured conducting polymers and electrocatalysts) to electrochemical sensors and biosensors, while also making these amenable to low cost mass production using technologies such as screen printing, inkjet printing and polymer MEMS fabrication; Integration of these sensors into functional diagnostic devices and systems e.g. point of care diagnostics using novel techniques such as breath monitoring and printed electronics technology and development of novel approaches to blood coagulation monitoring.
Zhen Liu, Associate editor
Nanjing University, China
ORCID: 0000-0002-8440-2554
Zhen Liu is Distinguished Professor at Nanjing University, China. He obtained his PhD from 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. He is particularly interested in integrating multidisciplinary knowledge, expertise and skills to overcome challenges in life science, such as disease diagnosis and cancer therapy. He holds 12 patents, and has authored and co-authored more than 130 peer-reviewed papers, 2 books and 7 book chapters. His h-index is 40 (Google scholar). He is an Editorial Board member of Analytical Methods and an Advisory Board member of Analytica Chimica Acta, Electrophoresis, Separation Science Plus, Chinese Science Bulletin, Chinese Journal of Mass Spectrometry and Chinese Journal of Chromatography. He also serves as an executive council member of Chinese Mass Spectrometry Society and a board member of the Society for Molecular Imprinting.
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.
Fiona Regan, Associate editor
Dublin City University, Ireland
ORCID: 0000-0002-8273-9970
Fiona Regan is Professor in Chemical Science at Dublin City University and Director of the DCU Water Institute. Fiona studied Environmental Science and Technology and later completed a PhD in analytical chemisty in 1994. Following postdoctoral research in optical sensing in DCU, in 1996 she took up a lecturing position at Limerick Institute of Technology. In 2002 Fiona joined the School of Chemical Sciences at DCU as a lecturer in analytical chemistry, in 2008 she became senior lecturer and in 2009 became the Beaufort Principal Investigator in Marine and Environmental Sensing. Fiona’s research focuses on environmental monitoring and she has special interest in priority and emerging contaminants as well as the establishment of decision support tools for environmental monitoring using novel technologies and data management tools. Her work includes the areas of separations and sensors (including microfluidics), materials for sensing and antifouling applications on aquatic deployed systems.
Michael Roper, Associate editor
Florida State University, USA
ORCID: 0000-0002-0184-1333
Michael Roper obtained his BS in chemistry from the University of Texas at Austin in 1998. He then received his PhD from the University of Florida in 2003 under the supervision of Robert T. Kennedy. From 2003–2006, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Virginia in James Landers’ laboratory. He joined the department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Florida State University in August 2006 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2011. He is also a member of the Molecular Biophysics program at FSU. His research interests include the development of separation and detection methods and microfluidic systems for measuring the dynamic secretion of peptides and small molecules released from cells.
B. Jill Venton, Associate editor
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 University of North Carolina and was a postdoc at University of Michigan before starting at 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.
Sabeth Verpoorte
University of Groningen, Netherlands
ORCID: 0000-0002-6616-4134
Sabeth Verpoorte has 25 years of research experience in the lab-on-a-chip field, and has been head of the Pharmaceutical Analysis Group in the Groningen Research Institute of Pharmacy at the University of Groningen since 2003. She started in 1990 as a postdoctoral researcher in the pioneering lab-on-a-chip group headed by Professor Andreas Manz at Ciba Ltd., Basel, Switzerland and continued as staff research scientist there between 1993 and 1996. In July 1996 she assumed the position of team leader in the group of Professor Nico F. de Rooij at the Institute of Microtechnology (IMT), University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, where her research interests concentrated on the lab-on-a-chip area for bioanalytical and environmental applications. Her present research has taken on a strong cell biological / pharmacological focus, and includes innovative joint projects with colleagues in pharmacokinetics and medical biology. Efforts have also concentrated on continuous-flow particle separation strategies, as well as miniaturized analytical instrumentation (paper spray ionization, multidimensional chromatography). Verpoorte has published close to 100 papers in top analytical chemistry journals. She is or has been involved in several international conference organizations and journal editorial boards.
