Analyst Editorial Board profiles

Duncan Graham

Duncan Graham is Research Professor of Chemistry and director of the centre for molecular nanometrology at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. He has been awarded numerous awards for his research including the RSC's SAC Silver medal (2004), Corday Morgan prize (2009), a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit award (2010) and was elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2008). He is also a co-founder and director of Renishaw Diagnostics Ltd (2007). He completed a PhD in organic chemistry at the University of Edinburgh (1996) and now his interests are in using synthetic chemistry to produce nanosensors that respond to a specific biological species or event as measured by surface enhanced Raman scattering. He has a research group of around 30, and over 170 publications to date.

Julia Chamot-Rooke

Julia Chamot-Rooke received her PhD from Pierre-et-Marie-Curie University in 1996. Following post-doctoral positions at the University of Copenhagen and the University of Amsterdam, she joined the CNRS as a junior scientist in the beginning of 1998. She worked in the Department of Chemistry at the École Polytechnique until 2012 where she mainly used FT-ICR (Fourier Transform Ion Cyclotron Resonance) Mass Spectrometry to study peptides and proteins. In September 2012 she moved to the Institut Pasteur Paris, as head of the newly created Structural Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics Unit. Her research focuses on the development of new methodologies, such as top-down mass spectrometry, for the structural analysis of proteins and protein complexes of high interest to human health. She is a past President of the French Society of Mass Spectrometry (2008–2009) and received the Prize of the Analytical Division of the Société Chimique de France in 2010. She was appointed a senior scientist by the CNRS in 2010.

Justin Gooding

Justin Gooding is the leader of the Biosensor and Biointerfaces Research Group at the University of New South Wales. He obtained a DPhil from Oxford University under the guidance of Prof. Richard Compton before becoming a Post-doctoral Research Associate at the Institute of Biotechnology at Cambridge University. In 1997 he returned to his native Australia as a Vice-Chancellor Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of New South Wales before taking up an academic position in 1998. He was promoted to full Professor in 2005 and is currently an Australian Research Council Professorial Fellow. His research interests lie in biosensors, biointerfaces and surface chemistry.

Takehiko Kitamori

Takehiko Kitamori is Vice President of the University of Tokyo, responsible for Human Resource Development and Internationalization after serving as Dean of Faculty and Graduate School of Engineering. He is also a Professor in the Department of Applied Chemistry. Prior to joining the University of Tokyo in 1989, he was a researcher at Hitachi's Energy Research Lab. Professor Kitamori was the recipient of the Japan Society for Analytical Chemistry Award in 2009, the IBM Faculty Award in 2008, and the Chemical Society of Japan Award for Creative Work in 2006, as well as various other awards. He served as a Senior Vice President of The Japan Society for Analytical Chemistry (2006–2008). His areas of research are Micro/Extended-Nano Fluidics, Integration of Chemical System on Microchips, Applied Laser Spectroscopy for Ultrasensitive Detection, Analytical Chemistry, and Extended-Nano Space Chemistry.

Lanqun Mao

Lanqun Mao is currently a Professor at Institute of Chemistry, the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He has been working at the interface between analytical chemistry and neuroscience including in vivo electrochemistry, biofuel cells, and in vivo microdialysis. He obtained his PhD in East China Normal University in 1998 and then worked in BAS Inc. Japan as a research scientist (1998–2000) and pursued post-doctoral studies at Department of Electronic Chemistry at Tokyo Institute of Technology (2000–2002). He has authored/co-authored more than 130 peer-reviewed publications. He is a recipient of the ‘Hundred Distinguished Young Scholars’ from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (2002) and the ‘National Distinguished Young Scholars’ from National Natural Science Foundation of China (2006).

Pavel Matousek

Pavel Matousek obtained his MSc and PhD degrees in physics from the Czech Technical University (Prague). For over 20 years, he has worked at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (Oxford, UK) in the area of vibrational spectroscopy. He pioneered the concepts of ps-Kerr gating in Raman spectroscopy for fluorescence rejection and Spatially Offset Raman Spectroscopy (SORS) for non-invasive probing of turbid media and introduced transmission Raman spectroscopy (TRS) into pharmaceutical analysis. Currently, he is developing novel analytical concepts for non-invasive disease diagnosis (cancer and bone), aviation security and pharmaceutical quality control. Pavel has published over 170 peer-reviewed articles, filed 10 patents and co-edited a book on Raman spectroscopy. His honours include the 2009 Charles Mann Award for Applied Raman Spectroscopy (FACSS), 2002 and 2006 Meggers Awards from the Society for Applied Spectroscopy (SAS) and the 2008 Measurement in Action Award (IET). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, a Fellow of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy, a Senior Fellow of the Science and Technology Facilities Council and a founding director of Cobalt Light Systems Ltd.

Boris Mizaikoff

Boris Mizaikoff received his PhD in Analytical Chemistry at the Vienna University of Technology in 1996. Heading the Chemical Sensor Laboratory (CSL) he has been responsible for numerous research projects in the field of chemical IR sensors, including 4 multinational projects funded by the European Union. In 1997, he joined the University of Texas, Austin, USA as a Post-doctoral Fellow. In October 2000, he finalized his Habilitation at the Vienna University of Technology. In 2000, he became a faculty member at the Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, heading the Applied Sensors Laboratory (ASL). In 2004, he became the Director of the Focused Ion Beam Center (FIB2 Center) at Georgia Tech, and has been a member of the Center for Cell and Molecular Signaling at Emory University, School of Physiology. In the autumn of 2007, he joined the faculty at the University of Ulm, Germany, as a Chaired Professor heading the Institute of Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry. His research interests focus on optical sensors, biosensors and biomimetic sensors operating in the mid-infrared spectral range, applications of novel IR light sources (e.g. quantum cascade lasers, system miniaturization and integration based on micro- and nano-fabrication, multifunctional scanning nanoprobes, scanning probe tip integrated nano(bio)sensors, focused ion beam (FIB) microscopy, development of chemical recognition interfaces for separation and sensing applications, chemometric data evaluation, advanced vibrational spectroscopic techniques, environmental analytical chemistry, process analytical chemistry and biomedical diagnostics. Dr Mizaikoff is an author/co-author of over 130 peer-reviewed publications, 14 patents and numerous invited contributions at scientific conferences.

Steven Soper

Steven A. Soper graduated with a PhD from the University of Kansas in 1989 and then served as a Post-doctoral Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He joined the faculty at Louisiana State University (LSU) in 1991 and was named the William L. & Patricia Senn Professor in 2002, alongside positions as Professor of Mechanical Engineering and an adjunct Professor of Biological Sciences. In June 2011 he joined the University of North Carolina's Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering as a tenured Professor. Professor Soper's research focuses on BioMEMS/BioNEMS, single-molecule detection, and new bioassay developments. He has received various awards, such as the R&D 100 Award (1993), the Charles E. Coates Award for Contributions to Chemical/Engineering Research in Louisiana (2001), the A.A. Benedetti-Pinchler Microchemical Award (2006) and an LSU Distinguished Research Award (2008). He has accumulated over 225 peer-reviewed research publications and has mentored 30 PhD students.

Evan Williams

Evan Williams received his PhD from Cornell University in 1990 and completed a Post-doctoral Fellowship at Stanford University before joining the faculty at the University of California at Berkeley, where he also serves as the Associate Director of the Center for Analytical Biotechnology and the Faculty Director of the QB3/Chemistry Mass Spectrometry Center. He also holds a joint appointment in the Earth Sciences Division at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Professor Williams's research group is developing and applying novel instrumental and computational techniques in mass spectrometry, tandem mass spectrometry, separations, and laser spectroscopy for improved molecular structure elucidation, and to solve problems of fundamental interest in chemistry and biophysics. A number of different types of state-of-the-art mass spectrometers and lasers are used in these studies. He has received a number of awards including the American Chemical Society Field and Franklin Award in 2014 and the Alexander von Humboldt Senior Scientist Award in 1999.

Vicki Wysocki

Vicki Wysocki received her PhD from Purdue University and, following post-doctoral positions at Purdue and the US Naval Research Laboratory, became an Assistant Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University. She joined the University of Arizona in 1996 and served as Chair of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and then in 2012 moved to Ohio State University where she is Ohio Eminent Scholar of Macromolecular Structure and Function and Director of the Campus Chemical Instrument Center. In 2009, she received the Distinguished Contribution to Mass Spectrometry Award from the American Society for Mass Spectrometry. Professor Wysocki's research interests include bioanalytical mass spectrometry, peptide fragmentation mechanisms, ion-surface collisions for surface characterization of organic thin films, proteomics biomarker discovery and disease diagnosis using proteomics methods, and instrument development for improved dissociation of non-covalent protein complexes.

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