Heidi Goenaga-Infante
LGC, London, UK
ORCID: 0000-0002-2416-9666
Heidi’s scientific career of over twenty years of experience on elemental and speciation analysis started with the award of a PhD from Oviedo University, Spain. She joined LGC as senior researcher in speciation analysis in 2003. Currently, she is a Science Fellow of LGC. She is also the Principal Scientist and Team Leader of the Inorganic Analysis team of fourteen PhDs and postgraduate scientists. Her group expertise currently lies in trace element speciation analysis, metallomics research, the characterisation of nanomaterials, high accuracy isotope ratio analysis, quantitative elemental bio-imaging and the characterisation of “speciated” reference materials and standards. Heidi Goenaga-Infante is the UK representative at the Inorganic Analysis Working Group of the CCQM, the international Consultative Committee for Metrology in Chemistry. She is also a member of the international advisory boards of Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry and the RSC journal Metallomics and of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, and a member of IUPAC. She is the Government Chemist representative on the Nanomaterials Environment and Health Government Group chaired by DEFRA and the LGC representative at ISO TC 24 (Particle characterisation). She is the EURAMET representative for inorganic analysis at the CCQM Key Comparison Working Group. She has acted as the coordinator of the EU EUROPEAN Metrology Research Proposal (EMRP) NanoChop “Chemical, Optical and Biological characterisation of nanomaterials in biological samples”. She is the leading author of over a 106 scientific research papers and 5 book chapters. Heidi was recently awarded the 2020 Lester W. Strock Award from SAS.
Jörg Feldmann
University of Graz, Austria
ORCID: 0000-0002-0524-8254
Jörg Feldmann is a Professor at the University of Graz, Austria. He obtained his PhD from the University of Essen (Germany) and was a Feodor-Lynen Fellow (Alexander von Humboldt) at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver (Canada) before going to Scotland in 1997 as a Lecturer at the University of Aberdeen. He is leading TESLA, the Trace Element Speciation Laboratory Aberdeen, as part of the newly founded Marine Biodiscovery Centre. He is a member of the Advisory/Editorial Boards of Environmental Chemistry, Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry and Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry. He as published more than 200 scientific papers (Scholar h-index 52), mainly on element speciation analysis in environmental and biological systems, and gave more than 100 invited and plenary lectures at international conferences. He received the biennial European Award for Plasma Spectrochemistry 2015. The main focus of his research is on elemental speciation with an emphasis on the development of hyphenated mass spectrometry for studies of the molecular forms of arsenic and their behaviour in biology and the environment.
Érico Marlon Moraes Flores
Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Brazil
ORCID: 0000-0001-9785-2477
Érico M. M. Flores has a permanent position at Universidade Federal de Santa Maria in Brazil performing research and teaching activities. He was Director of Analytical Chemistry Division of Brazilian Chemical Society and he is currently a titular member of National Deliberative Council of Brazilian Pharmacopoea. He has experience in the development of methods for sample preparation, atomic spectrometry, microwave and ultrasound applications, speciation analysis and quality control of industrial products using atomic spectrometry. He has published more than 240 peer reviewed papers, patents, book and also book chapters in these fields and developed a new system of microwave induced combustion (MIC) that is commercialized in many countries. Nowadays, he is a member of the National Advisory Committee of Chemistry of National Council for Scientific and Technological Development, Scientific Director of FAPERGS (Foundation of Rio Grande do Sul State for Research Support, Brazil) and an Associate Member of the Analytical Chemistry Division of IUPAC.
Steve Hill
University of Plymouth, UK
Steve Hill is Professor of Analytical chemistry at the University of Plymouth where he is also Associate Head of School leading the Chemistry group. He received his PhD from Plymouth Polytechnic in 1985 and went on to work on a NAB funded post-doctoral fellowship at the same institution. In 1989 he joined the academic staff at Plymouth University and was promoted to Professor in 1996. He has been recognized with several awards, most recently in 2016 when he was awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry LS Theobald Lectureship. He has published more than 200 scientific papers and books mainly on the development of instrumental techniques, element speciation analysis and soil/ food interactions. He has been a long term member of the Atomic Spectrometry Updates (ASU) reviews and General Editor since 1993.
Björn Meermann
Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM), Berlin, Germany
OCRID: 0000-0002-8636-0765
Björn Meermann is head of the Division 1.1 “Inorganic Trace Analysis” at the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM) in Berlin/Germany.
He received his PhD in Analytical Chemistry from the University of Münster with Prof. Uwe Karst in 2009. Afterwards, he worked for almost two years as a post-doctoral researcher with Prof. Frank Vanhaecke at Ghent University (Belgium). Between 2012 and 2019 he worked within the Department of Aquatic Chemistry at the Federal Institute of Hydrology (BfG) in Koblenz (Germany) as a junior research group leader (“Habilitand”) in Analytical Chemistry in association with the University of Koblenz/Landau.
His research interests are focused on (i) method development for the analysis of nanoparticles and cells by means of single particle & single cell-ICP-ToF-MS, (ii) method development for speciation analysis of chemical elemental species in environmental samples by means of HPLC, GC and CE on-line with ICP-(SF)MS, (iii) application of stable isotopes for tracing and on-line isotope dilution, (iv) method development for the analysis of non-metals (e.g. fluorine) by means of HR-CS GFMAS.
Jorge Pisonero
University of Oviedo, Spain
ORCID: 0000-0002-6018-4564
Dr Jorge Pisonero is an Associate Professor of Physics (since 2012) at University of Oviedo (Spain), from which he obtained his PhD degree (November 2004) working on glow discharge spectroscopy. After his PhD, he was awarded a 2-year Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship for a postdoctoral stay at ETH (Switzerland) to work on laser ablation-based techniques. Afterwards, Jorge obtained the prestigious “Ramon and Cajal” research contract and went back to University of Oviedo, where in collaboration with Dr Nerea Bordel established the Laser and Plasma Spectroscopy Research Group (www.unioviedo.es/gelp). His current research interests are focused on fundamentals and applications of atmospheric and low pressure GD spectroscopies, LIBS and LA-ICP-MS. Moreover, Jorge is co-author of more than 60 scientific articles and several book chapters.
Frank Vanhaecke
Ghent University, Belgium
ORCID: 0000-0002-1884-3853
Frank Vanhaecke received a PhD from Ghent University in 1992. He carried out postdoctoral research at Ghent University and at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany. Currently, he is Senior Full Professor in Analytical Chemistry at Ghent University, where he also leads the ‘Atomic & Mass Spectrometry – A&MS’ research group that is specialized in the determination, speciation and isotopic analysis of (ultra)trace elements via ICP-mass spectrometry (ICP-MS). His group studies fundamentally-oriented aspects of the technique and develops methods for solving challenging scientific problems in interdisciplinary contexts. Specific topics of research include 2-D and 3-D elemental mapping by means of laser ablation (LA) – ICP-MS, high-precision isotopic analysis using multi-collector ICP-MS and single-event (single-particle and single-cell) ICP-MS. Frank is (co)author of more than 400 papers in peer-reviewed journals. In 2011, he received a ‘European Plasma Spectrochemistry Award’, in 2013, he was designated ‘Fellow of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy – SAS’ and in 2017, he received the ‘Lester Strock Award’ from SAS. Frank has been the chair of the editorial board of JAAS from June 2012 to June 2016 and has returned as a board member in 2020.
Lu Yang
National Research Council Canada, Canada
ORCID: 0000-0002-6896-8603
Lu Yang is a research officer at National Research Council of Canada (NRC, Ottawa, Canada), leading research in applications of inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) and multicollector (MC) ICP-MS. Her research focuses on the development of the most accurate and precise methodologies for the determination, speciation and isotopic analysis of trace elements using ICP-MS and MC-ICP-MS. The isotopic measurements for mercury, germanium and indium from her lab have been adopted by IUPAC as the best available isotopic composition measurements in the 2011 Table, and the 2011 atomic weights of mercury and germanium are based on her results. Dr Yang has published 100 peer reviewed papers. Dr Yang is a member of the IUPAC Subcommittee on Stable Isotope Reference Material Assessment under the Inorganic Division, and the Commission on Isotopic Abundances and Atomic Weights. She is a NRC’s representative at the Inorganic Analysis Working Group of CCQM (Consultative Committee for Amount of Substance) of the BIPM (International Bureau of Weights and Measures). She is an Editorial Board member of JAAS and currently serves as the director of Ottawa Valley for the Canadian Society for Analytical Sciences and Spectroscopy.
Vassilia Zorba
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory & University of California at Berkeley, USA
ORCID: 0000-0002-6018-4564
Dr Vassilia Zorba is the Group Leader for the Laser Technologies Group at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, CA. She is also an Associate Adjunct Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on the development of the next-generation of laser tools for advanced sensors and laser-based manufacturing. Her research interests include ultrafast laser-material interactions, non-linear optics, remote sensing, laser-induced plasma chemistry, and laser ablation-based chemical analysis in electrochemical energy storage, with emphasis on next-generation Li-ion batteries. Her work has also focused on femtosecond laser surface structuring technologies and biomimetic material functionalization. Dr. Zorba’s credits include 73 publications in peer-reviewed journals, more than 40 invited, keynote and plenary talks and a 2011 R&D 100 Technology Award.
