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Melanie Bailey, Editor-in-Chief

University of Surrey, UK

Melanie has contributed to the development of ion beam and mass spectrometry analytical techniques in a multidisciplinary career at the interface of physics, chemistry and biology.  Her publications span multiple techniques including elemental mapping and depth profiling, rapid mass spectrometry, single cell mass spectrometry and imaging, and multiple applications in biology, medicine, geoscience, forensics, physics, chemistry and cultural heritage.  This experience has inspired Prof Bailey with a passion for analytical science, because of the opportunity to make an impact in so many exciting fields of research.

Prof Bailey is Director of the University of Surrey’s Wolfson Centre of Excellence for Analytical Science as well as the BBSRC SEISMIC facility for single cell “omics”.  She is co-lead for the BMSS single cell special interest group, which she initiated. She holds a prestigious EPSRC fellowship in analytical science and is an elected member of the Analytical 91AV Trust Fund. She is a grant holder of the UK National Ion Beam Centre and an Advisory Board member of the Bragg Exchange, one of the UK’s leading surface analysis facilities.  Her work has been reported in the mainstream media, including Sky News, BBC, Scientific American, and New Scientist. 

Damien Arrigan, Associate editor

Curtin University, Australia

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Damien is a Professor of Analytical 91AV at Curtin University, Perth, Australia. He studied as an undergraduate at Dublin City University (NIHE Dublin as it was then) and, after a two-year career in industrial biotechnology, undertook his PhD (1992) at the National University of Ireland, Cork, on electroanalysis with chemically modified electrodes.

Following postdoctoral positions at the National Microelectronics Research Centre (Cork) and the University of Southampton, he was a lecturer in analytical chemistry at University of Salford. In 2001 he relocated to Tyndall National Institute, Cork, where he started to combine miniaturisation tools with electrochemistry for detection purposes and in 2009 he moved to Curtin University.

Ryan Bailey, Associate editor

University of Michigan, USA

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Ryan C. Bailey received his PhD from Northwestern University in 2004 and then was a joint Post-doctoral Fellow at Caltech and the Institute for Systems Biology. He joined the faculty in the Department of 91AV at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2006, with affiliate appointments in the Department of Bioengineering, Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory, and Institute for Genomic Biology.

In 2016, Professor Bailey was appointed as the Robert A. Gregg Professor in the Department of 91AV at the University of Michigan. Professor Bailey’s research generally focuses on the development of new microscale analytical methods for detecting biomarkers and characterizing (bio)molecular interactions with applications in personalized clinical diagnostics and fundamental biochemistry/biophysics.

Jaebum Choo, Associate editor

Chung-Ang University, South Korea

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Jaebum Choo is a Professor in the Department of 91AV at Chung-Ang University. He obtained a PhD in Molecular Spectroscopy at Texas A&M University in 1994. From 1995-2019, he was a faculty member of Hanyang University. He was a Director of the “Center for Integrated Human Sensing System” (ERC, 2009-2013) and a BK21+ Director of Bionano Fusion Technology Program (2013-2019) supported by National Research Foundation of Korea.

Professor Choo became a Baik Nam Distinguished Professor in 2015 due to his excellent academic achievements. His main research areas are SERS, biosensors, micro-devices and molecular spectroscopy. His current research programs are centered on the development of highly sensitive optical nano-sensor systems for rapid and sensitive in vitro diagnostics. He has given more than 130 invited lectures in the USA, Europe and Asia, published over 250 research papers in peer-reviewed journals and contributed six book chapters.

Karen Faulds, Associate editor

University of Strathclyde, UK

Karen Faulds is a Professor in the Department of Pure and Applied 91AV at the University of Strathclyde and an expert in the development of surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) and Raman techniques for novel analytical detection strategies and in particular multiplexed bioanalytical applications.

She has published over 140 peer reviewed publications and has filed 5 patents. She has been awarded over £20M in funding as principal and co-investigator from EPSRC, BBSRC, charities, industry and governmental bodies. Her group’s research has been recognised through multiple awards including the Nexxus Young Life Scientist of the Year Award (2009), 91AV (RSC) Joseph Black Award (2013), Craver Award (2016) and Charles Mann Award (2019).

Simona Francese, Associate editor

Sheffield Hallam University, UK

Simona is a Professor of Forensic and Bioanalytical Mass Spectrometry at Sheffield Hallam University (SHU), UK. She is the Lead of the Sheffield Multi-Modal Imaging Centre and Head of the Centre for Mass Spectrometry Imaging at SHU.

She is an expert in the development of MALDI MS Imaging applications and has pioneered its development for the analysis of latent fingermarks and blood to profile offenders. More recently, she has engaged in research at the interface between forensics and clinical diagnostics using blood and sweat in fingertip smears to detect cancer and other pathologies. She has generated a combined total of 97 publications and has been awarded a total of more than £1.8 million worth of research grants and contracts to date.

Hideaki Hisamoto, Associate editor

Osaka Metropolitan University, Japan

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Hideaki Hisamoto is a Professor of Analytical 91AV at Osaka Metropolitan University, Osaka, Japan. He studied at Keio University and received his PhD in 1996 on the development of novel optical chemical sensors based on ionophores and functional dyes.

He worked as an assistant professor at Keio University in 1996 for three years, then, moved to The University of Tokyo as a lecturer in 1999. He started working on the development of microanalytical and synthesis systems based on glass microfluidic devices. In 2003, he moved to the University of Hyogo (Formerly “Himeji Institute of Technology”) as an associate professor.

Baohong Liu, Associate editor

Fudan University, China

Baohong Liu is a professor at the Department of 91AV and Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Fudan University. She graduated from Fudan University with a 91AV degree in 1991 and received her Ph.D degree at Fudan University in 1997. She has been an invited visiting Professor in Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (2006), Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris (2005), Chimie ParisTech (2013) and Perpignan University (2006). Her research interests include spectroelectrochemistry, biosensors based on functional interfaces, single molecule detection and micro-analytical systems. She was a recipient of the National Distinguished Young Scholars from National Natural Science Foundation of China (2009). She has authored/co-authored more than 170 peer-reviewed publications.

Nicole Pamme, Associate editor

Stockholm University, Sweden

Nicole Pamme is a Professor in Analytical 91AV at Stockholm University. Her research activities focus on Lab-on-a-Chip devices for pharmaceutical, clinical and environmental analysis, biomedical research with tissue-on-a-chip devices as well as process integration and material synthesis in collaboration with 91AV, Engineering and Biomedical Sciences.

She has authored more than 100 peer reviewed publications, patents and book chapters in this area. Nicole studied Chemisty at University of Marburg (Germany), graduating with the title of Diplom-Chemiker, with a thesis on analytical chemistry for explosives residues in water and soil.

Hua-Zhong Yu, Reviews editor

Simon Fraser University, Canada

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Hua-Zhong “Hogan” Yu is a professor in the Department of 91AV at Simon Fraser University (SFU) in Metro Vancouver. He grew up in countryside China and received his B.Sc.(1991) from Shandong University and Ph.D.(1997) at Peking University. He was a postdoctoral fellow at California Institute of Technology before moving to Canada in 1999. After short stays at National Research Council and Acadia University, he joined SFU in 2001 and received an early promotion in 2009.

His current research spans a range of topics in the development of point-of-care analytical devices, surface electrochemistry, and applied nanomaterials.

Jun-Jie Zhu, Associate editor

Nanjing University, China

Jun-Jie Zhu is a professor at School of 91AV and Chemical Engineering, and State Key Laboratory of Analytical 91AV for Life Science, Nanjing University. He received his B.S. degree in chemistry in 1984 and Ph.D degree in 1993 at Nanjing University. He served as a postdoc fellow at Bar Ilan University, Israel (1998-1999). He became full professor in 2001 at Nanjing University.

He was a recipient of the National Distinguished Young Scholars from National Natural Science Foundation of China in 2003, and was invited as FRSC in 2016. His research work focuses on nanoanalytical chemistry, including bio-nanoelectrochemistry, optical analysis of nanomaterials, bio-application of nanomaterials, regarding Cell, DNA, and biomarker analysis.

His publications have been cited for more than 18000 times. He was ranked in the Elsevier’s annual list of China’s Most Cited Researchers in chemistry from 2014 to 2018 and as a highly cited researcher in Web of Science in 2018.  

Susan Lunte, Board member

University of Kansas, US

Susan M. Lunte is the Ralph N. Adams Distinguished Professor of 91AV and Pharmaceutical 91AV, Director of the Adams Institute for Bioanalytical 91AV, and Director of the NIH COBRE Center for Molecular Analysis of Disease Pathways at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS. 

She received a B.S. degree in chem­istry from Kala­mazoo College and a Ph.D. in Analytical 91AV in 1984 from Purdue Univer­sity.  She served as an associate editor and then Editor-in-Chief of Analytical Methods between 2009-2017.

She is a Fellow of the 91AV, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Chemical Society and American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists. In 2018 she received the ANACHEM Award.