New Editorial Board Members

Andrew J. deMello is a Senior Lecturer at Imperial College London. He obtained a First Class honours degree in Chemistry from Imperial College in 1991, and subsequently completed a doctorate in the field of molecular photophysics. He then moved to the University of California, Berkeley where he held a post-doctoral research fellowship in the Department of Chemistry. Between 1996 and 1997, Dr deMello held a lectureship in Physical Chemistry at the University of East Anglia.

Dr deMello′s current research programmes are centred on the areas of miniaturised chemical analysis systems and ultra-high sensitivity detection. Generally, studies focus on performing chemistry in picoliter volumes, high-efficiency manipulation of small liquid samples and investigating novel phenomena on the microscale. In particular he has an established track record in the development of microdevices for DNA analysis, microfluidic reactors for small molecule and nanomaterial synthesis, novel chip-based detection protocols and evanescent wave and single molecule spectroscopies. He was a member of the Genome Instrumentation Panel, DOE, USA (1998), and is currently a member of the Detection and Decontamination of Chemical and Biological Weapons Working Group of The Royal Society.

Dr. deMello has co-authored one book and in excess of 60 scientific publications in scientific journals. Since 1997, he has given over 70 oral presentations on various aspects of his research on microfluidic systems. Dr deMello was awarded the 2002 SAC Silver Medal by the Royal Society of Chemistry for his contributions to the Analytical Sciences.

Richard A. Mathies received his B. S. Degree in Chemistry in 1968 at the University of Washington. He earned the M. S. Degree in 1970 and the Ph. D. in 1973 in Physical Chemistry at Cornell University. Following two years of postdoctoral study as a Helen Hay Whitney Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale, he moved to the Chemistry Department at the University of California at Berkeley in 1976 where he is Professor of Chemistry and Director of the Center for Analytical Biotechnology. Mathies′ recent work in the area of biotechnology and the Human Genome Project has led to the development of new high-speed, high-throughput DNA analysis technologies such as capillary array electrophoresis and energy transfer fluorescent dye labels for DNA sequencing and analysis. He also pioneered the development of microfabricated capillary electrophoresis devices, capillary array electrophoresis microplates, and microfabricated integrated sample preparation and detection methods. He is author of over 300 publications and patents on photochemistry, photobiology, bioanalytical chemistry and genome analysis technology.

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