Editorial Board profiles

Brett Paull

Brett Paull was awarded his Ph.D. from Plymouth University, U.K., in 1994, after which he immediately began his academic career in earnest as an Associate Lecturer within the School of Chemistry, University of Tasmania, Australia. In 1998, after a number of years down under, Brett moved to back to Europe to join Dublin City University, where he moved through the academic ranks from Lecturer to Associate Professor of Analytical Science, Head of School, and most recently as Director of the Irish Separation Science Cluster (ISSC). In 2011, Brett returned to the University of Tasmania to take up a new position as Professor of Analytical Chemistry, based within the Australian Centre for Research on Separation Science. Dr Paull's research interests are based within the fields of analytical, bioanalytical and environmental chemistry, particularly fundamental and applied aspects of separation science, including new materials and technologies for application within high-performance liquid and gas chromatography, ion chromatography and capillary electrophoretic based methods, coupled techniques and micro-fluidic platforms. Dr Paull is author and co-author of more than 150 published papers, reviews and book chapters in the above fields, and recipient of a number of scientific awards, including the RSC SAC Silver Medal in 2005. Prior to his current role as Editor-in-Chief for Analytical Methods, Dr Paull held a position on the Editorial board of the Journal of Chromatography A.

Melissa Hanna-Brown

Melissa Hanna-Brown is an Associate Research Fellow within the Analytical R & D function of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Pfizer Global R & D Labs in Sandwich, Kent UK, a visiting Professor at the University of Warwick where she contributes to teaching of Separation Science and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Melissa's research interests are in separation science technology development, chromatographic and electrophoretic method development strategies, high resolution and chemometric approaches for pharmaceuticals or complex biofluid profiling (especially metabolomics) and predictive modelling of separations. At Pfizer, Sandwich, Melissa leads separation science experts and generalised analytical science support for late stage drug development through to new drug regulatory applications. She also represents Pfizer in the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA) cross-industry topic team on Quality by Design for Analytical Methods. Melissa's previous position was Senior Lecturer in Separation Science at King's College London. Her Ph.D. studies were carried out between King's College London and SmithKline Beecham on the application of separation (chromatographic and electrophoretic) technologies as models for rapid prediction of drug–biomembrane partitioning. Her postdoctoral research involved developing novel triple-column electrophoretic technology allowing sensitive detection of trace components in complex matrices via 2D-CE for which she won the Desty Memorial Prize for Contribution to Separation Science in 2000. Melissa has been an invited presenter at over 50 national and international conferences since the start of her Ph.D. studies. Melissa is also an associate editor for the Bioanalysis journal. Melissa has served as the Vice President on the RSC Analytical Division Council recently and now has joint chairs on this council and the Industry and Technology Forum. She is also a long-serving member of the RSC Separation Sciences Executive Committee.

Susan Lunte

Susan M. Lunte is the Ralph N. Adams Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS. She received a B.S. degree in chemistry from Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, MI, in 1980, and a Ph.D. in analytical chemistry in 1984 from Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN. She was a research scientist at Bioanalytical Systems, West Lafayette, IN (1984) and Procter & Gamble, Cincinnati, OH (1984–1987) before coming to the University of Kansas. Dr Lunte began her academic career at the Center for Bioanalytical Research (CBAR) in 1987 as a non-tenure track scientist. She was appointed its Associate Director in 1993 and was Director from 1994 to 1997. In 1995, Dr Lunte joined the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry as an Associate Professor and was promoted to Professor in 2000. In 2006, she was named the Ralph N. Adams Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Chemistry. Dr Lunte has been the recipient of a NSF CAREER Award; the Agnes Fay Morgan Research Award, and the University of Kansas Graduate Student Mentoring Award. In 2002 she was recognized by the undergraduate students as a Center for Teaching Excellence Outstanding Teacher at KU and named an American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy Teacher of the Year. She is a fellow of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists. In 2004, Dr Lunte was the recipient of the AAPS Research Achievement Award in Analysis and Pharmaceutical Quality, and in 2007 received the AAPS Analysis and Pharmaceutical Quality (APQ) Outstanding Manuscript Award. She is also the director of the Ralph N. Adams Institute for Bioanalytical Chemistry at the University of Kansas (starting in 2006) and was recently awarded a grant to establish the Center for Molecular Analysis of Disease Pathways by the National Institutes of Health (2012). She has been an associate editor of Pharm. Sci. and has served on a number of editorial boards including Pharmaceutical Research, Analytical Chemistry, Electrophoresis and Analyst. Her research interests include new methodologies for separation and detection of peptides, amino acids, neurotransmitters and pharmaceuticals in biological fluids.

Antonio Molina Díaz

Antonio Molina Díaz received his B.Sc. in 1975 and Ph.D. degree in chemistry from the University of Granada (Spain) in 1982. He was appointed as Associate Professor (1985) and then Professor (2003) at the University of Jaén (Spain). His current research interests include the study of new sample treatment/extraction methodologies for the determination of pesticides and other contaminants in foodstuffs by chromatographic techniques hyphenated with mass spectrometry, the development of automated methods based on flow analysis using multicommutation and solid-phase spectroscopic detection (flow-through optosensors), the characterization and evaluation of the performance of advanced wastewater treatment technologies for sustainable water reuse, and the application of methodologies based on LC-TOFMS for forensics/toxicology/doping control applications. He is (co)-author of more than 180 publications in peer reviewed international journals, 15 book chapters and holds a patent. He has supervised 15 Ph.D. theses and is the head of the Analytical Chemistry Research Group at the University of Jaén.

Xiu-Ping Yang

Xiu-Ping Yan is Cheung Kong Distinguished Professor at Nankai University, China. He received his M.S. in Analytical Chemistry at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Academy of Sciences of China (1987), and Ph.D. in Environmental Chemistry at the Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Academy of Sciences of China (1993). He held post-doctoral positions in the Department of Chemistry at Peking University, China (1993–1994), Department of Applied Research at Bodenseewerk Perkin-Elmer GmbH, Germany (1995), Micro- and Trace Analysis Center at the University of Antwerp (UIA), Belgium (1996), and Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada (1997–1999). He was awarded the NSFC National Distinguished Young Scholars Foundation (2000), and CCS Shu-Quan Liang Prize for Fundamental Research in Analytical Chemistry (2006). He has approximately 170 publications in international journals and holds 13 patents. In addition to his current role of Associate Editor for Analytical Methods, Professor Yan serves on a number of editorial (advisory) boards including Talanta, Analytica Chimica Acta, Electrophoresis, and Cancer Nanotechnology. His research interests include analytical atomic (mass) spectrometry and its combination with flow injection, chromatography and capillary electrophoresis, green methodologies for sample pre-treatment, and advanced functional materials for environmental analysis, bioanalysis and bioimaging.

Yi Chen

Dr Yi Chen works at the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science (CAS), as a professor and chair of CAS' Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Living Biosystems, mainly on CE (since 1984) and SPR imaging (since 1997), with 18 patents, 3 books and more than 200 publications.

Milton Lee

Milton L. Lee received a B.A. Degree in Chemistry from the University of Utah in 1971 and a Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from Indiana University in 1975. Dr Lee spent one year (1975–76) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a Postdoctoral Research Associate before accepting a faculty position in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Brigham Young University, where he is the H. Tracy Hall Professor of Chemistry. Dr Lee is best known for his research in capillary separation techniques and mass spectrometry detection. He is an author or co-author of over 550 scientific publications, and has given over 500 technical presentations on various aspects of his research. He has received a number of national and international awards including the American Chemical Society Award in Chromatography (1988), Martin Gold Medal (1996), American Chemical Society Award in Chemical Instrumentation (1998), Eastern Analytical Symposium Award for Outstanding Achievements in Fields of Analytical Chemistry (2008), Pittsburgh Analytical Chemistry Award, (2008), and the American Chemical Society Award in Separations Science and Technology (2012). Dr Lee has mentored over 65 M.S. and Ph.D. students. Professor Lee is also an entrepreneur and has been involved in transferring technology from his university research laboratory to the private sector. He co-founded three analytical instrument companies, the most recent of which is Torion Technologies, which markets hand-portable gas chromatography-mass spectrometry detection systems for first responders. He is listed as a co-inventor on 20 issued patents.

Craig Banks

Craig E. Banks is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at Manchester Metropolitan University and has published over 220 papers with a h-index over 38 (Web of Science, Nov 2012). He has written 4 books, contributed 10 book chapters and is an inventor of 13 patents. Craig has also spun out two companies from his research. Craig was awarded the Harrison–Meldola Memorial Prize in 2011 for his contributions to the understanding of carbon materials, in particular graphene and its application as an electrode material. His current research is directed towards the pursuit of studying the fundamental understanding and applications of nano-electrochemical systems such as graphene, carbon nanotube and nanoparticle derived sensors and developing novel electrochemical sensors via screen printing and related techniques.

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