EDITORIAL

Meet the contributors

Nicola Oberbeckmann-Winter

Published online: 12 December 2014# Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014

This special issue celebrates the 13th Anniversary of Analyt-ical and Bioanalytical Chemistry (ABC) by highlighting cur-rent research from the Editorial Board of ABC. The strongcommitment and dedication of the Editors and InternationalAdvisory Board have been of enormous value in establishingABC as an international journal for rapid publication andglobal visibility of analytical research.

In preparing this 13th Anniversary Issue, we aregrateful for the overwhelming support we have receivedand thank all contributors for generously providing ex-cellent research articles, critical reviews, and trend arti-cles from the forefront of their research. Below, weinvite you to meet those who contributed to this excep-tional issue.

Marco Aurélio Zezzi Arrudais Full Professor at the University ofCampinas—Unicamp (Campinas,Brazil), Department of AnalyticalChemistry; Head of the Departmentof Analytical Chemistry, Institute ofChemistry, Unicamp; Head of theSample Preparation, Spectrometryand Mechanization group—GEPAM; and a member of the ad-visory board of theNational Instituteof Science and Technology—INCT,for Bioanalytics. He is a member ofthe editorial staff or advisory boardof Analytical and Bioanalytical

Chemistry,Metallomics, Journal of Integrated Omics, and Brazilian Journalof Analytical Chemistry; a member of the advisory board of the BrazilianMass Spectrometry Society (BrMASS) and Brazilian Chemistry Associa-tion (ABQ); and he is a coordinator of the inorganic mass spectrometry areaof the BrMASS. His current research interests include trans-disciplinarywork, involving speciation analysis and comparative omics of plants (i.e.,soybean, sunflower, Arabidopsis Thaliana) and human bodily fluids (i.e.,blood serum, urine, saliva) to identify possible biomarkers for transgenicspecies and human diseases, aswell as to evaluate the production of reactiveoxygen species, and (metallo)proteins responses under stress in a givensystem. He is the author or co-author of over 170 research articles, 5 bookchapters, 5 patents, over 35 invited lectures at national/international meet-ings, and the editor of 1 book. Additionally, he has over 3100 citations inthe literature and an h index of 30.

Craig A. Aspinwallis an Associate Professor in the De-partment of Chemistry and Biochem-istry at the University of Arizona. Hisresearch focuses on the developmentand application of optical and electro-physiological sensors and microscaleseparations for the analysis of biolog-ical systems. He is a recipient of theACS Division of Analytical Chemis-try Award for Young Investigators inSeparation Science (2009) andwas aninaugural ACS GREET (Global Re-search Experiences, Exchanges, andTraining) Scholar (2011).

Antje Baeumneris Director and Professor of the In-stitute of Analytical Chemistry,Chemo and Biosensors at the Uni-versity of Regensburg. Until 2013shewas Professor of Biological En-gineering at Cornell University,where she started her tenure-trackcareer as Assistant Professor in1999 and, to date, remains activeon the faculty. Her research focuseson the development of lab-on-a-chip devices and paper-based bio-

sensors for the detection of pathogenic organisms and toxins. She hasreceived numerous awards for her teaching and research, including theState University of NYChancellor’s Award in Excellence in Teaching, anAlexander-von-Humboldt Research Fellowship, and a DFG MercatorVisiting Professorship, as well as being a finalist for the Blavanik Awardfor Young Scientists.

Published in the topical collection celebrating ABCs 13th Anniversary.

N. Oberbeckmann-Winter (*)Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, Springer, Tiergartenstrasse17, 69121 Heidelberg, Germanye-mail: abc@springer.com

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Damià Barceló Cullerésis Full Research Professor and Dep-uty Director at IDAEA-CSIC and,since 2008, Director of the CatalanInstitute for Water Research(ICRA). Since 2009, he has beenVisiting Professor at King SaudUniversity, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.Apart from receiving the renownedKing Jaime I Award from theGeneralitat of Valencia (Spain) forthe Protection of Nature in 2007, healso received the Prince Sultan BinAbdulaziz International Prize for

Water and the Recipharm Environmenal Award in 2012. His researchinterests are in environmental analysis and the fate and behavior oforganic pollutants in water, sediment, and biota, using mass spectrometrictechniques, immunoassay, toxic assays, and biosensors. In recent years,his interests have also included bridging environmental and health risks inthe field of emerging contaminants.

Maria Carerihas been Full Professor of AnalyticalChemistry at Parma University since2001 and Head of the Chemistry De-partment at the sameUniversity since2012. She has also been Director ofthe University Master Course Chem-istry Laboratory Quality Systemssince 2002 and Director of the Na-tional School of “Analytical andBioanalytical Methodologies Basedon Mass Spectrometry” of the ItalianChemical Society from 2005. For thepast 10 years, her research activitieshave centered on the development of

novel materials for solvent-free extraction techniques for food safety andenvironmental monitoring and development of innovative methods forstructural and functional proteomics using mass spectrometry based tech-niques. Her current research interests include the development of novelmaterials for desorption electrospray ionization and matrix-assisted laserdesorption ionization mass spectrometry techniques and the developmentsof biosensors for diagnostic purposes. She is the author of more than 160scientific papers in international peer-reviewed journals and of more than250 communications at national and international symposia.

Rafael Celais Professor of Analytical Chemis-try at the University of Santiago deCompostela, Spain, leading a re-search group on chromatographyand chemometrics in the Laborato-ry for Analytical Chemistry at theResearch Institute of Food Analy-sis of that university. His researchhas focused on the analytical appli-cation of separation science andparticularly on the developmentand optimization of sample prepa-ration microtechniques for chro-matographic analysis, including

experimental design and the development of computer-assisted chro-matographic methods and sample handling strategies. He is the authorof more than 250 scientific papers and several textbooks.

Jörg Feldmann,a Feodor Lynen Fellow (Alexandervon Humboldt Foundation), is cur-rently Head of Chemistry at the Uni-versity of Aberdeen (UK), where hehas been the Chair in EnvironmentalAnalytical Chemistry and Directorof TESLA (Trace Element Specia-tion Laboratory) since 1997. He haspioneered the simultaneous hyphen-ation of ICPMS and ESI-MS toHPLC for the determination of labilemetal (mainly arsenic) biomoleculeinteractions, which are crucial forexplaining environmental and bio-

logical processes. In addition, he developed laser ablation ICPMS fordynamic bioimaging of elements in biological tissues from trace experi-ments. He is the author or co-author of more than 190 peer-reviewedpublications.

Günter Gauglitzis Senior Professor at the Eberhard-Karls-University of Tübingen work-ing in analytical and physical chem-istry. He was chairman of the GDChDivision of Analytical Chemistryand chaired the Europt(r)ode VIIImeeting. For more than 15 years,his main scientific interests havecentered on research and develop-ment in chemical and biochemicalsensors with a special focus on thecharacterization of interfaces ofpolymers and biomembrane sur-faces, spectroscopic techniques, the

use of spectral interferometry to monitor changes in the optical thicknessof thin layers, and the effects of Fresnel reflectivity at interfaces. He hasbeen an Editor of Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry (ABC) since2002.

Heidi Goenaga-Infantejoined LGC as a Senior Researcherin speciation analysis in 2003. Sheis currently Principal Scientist andTeam Leader of the Inorganic Anal-ysis team within the Science andInnovation Division. Her team ex-pertise lies in trace element specia-tion analysis, metallomics research,size-based element fractionation,high-accuracy bulk and spatial ele-mental and isotope ratio analysis,and the characterization of speciatedreference materials and standards.

She is the UK representative at the Inorganic Analysis Working Groupof the CCQM (the International Consultative Committee forMetrology inChemistry). She is also a member of the advisory board ofMetallomics, amember of the editorial board of JAAS, and a member of IUPAC. Shecurrently coordinates the EU project NanoChop (Chemical, Optical andPhysical Characterisation of Nanomaterials in Biological Samples) andleads work packages within the EU projects “Metrology forMetalloproteins” and “Traceability of Mercury Measurements in theEnvironment”.

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Michal Holčapekis Full Professor of Analytical Chem-istry at the Department of AnalyticalChemistry, University of Pardubice,CzechRepublic. His research interestsare mass spectrometry and LC/MSwith applications in the lipidomicanalysis of various types of lipid iso-mers, the lipidomic quantitation of bi-ological samples, and the search forlipid biomarkers of serious human dis-eases. He is the co-author of 106 pa-pers with an h index of 30. He is alsoeditor of the book ‘Extreme Chroma-

tography: Faster, Hotter, Smaller’ and of specialmass spectrometry volumes inJournal of Chromatography A, as well as of the lipidomics virtual issue inAnalytical Chemistry. He is also on the Power List of the 100 most influentialpeople in the analytical sciences presented by The Analytical Scientist.

Marilyn A. Huestisis Chief of Chemistry and Drug Me-

tabolism, National Institute on Drug

Abuse, National Institutes of Health.

Her main research interests are the

pharmacology of cannabinoid ago-

nists and antagonists, in utero drug

exposure, and the many new psy-

choactive substances that are the

current face of drug abuse. She has

published 348 peer-reviewed manu-

scripts, and more than 500 abstracts.

She has received many awards, including the Distinguished Fellow of the

American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS), Australian Distin-

guished Visiting Scholar, Inspiring Minds in Clinical Chemistry, Alan

Curry Lifetime TIAFTAchievement Award, Doctor Honoris cause from

University of Helsinki Faculty ofMedicine, Outstanding Contributions in

Research from AACC, Irving Sunshine Award from IATDMCT, and the

Rolla N. Harger Forensic Toxicology Award from AAFS.

Maciej Jaroszis Chair of Analytical Chemistry, Fac-ulty of Chemistry, Warsaw Universityof Technology, Poland; a former VicePresident and Treasurer of the PolishChemical Society; a member of theboard of the Committee on AnalyticalChemistry, Polish Academy of Sci-ences; a national representative in theDivision of Analytical Chemistry ofIUPAC; and amember of the SteeringCommittee of the Division of Analyt-ical Chemistry of EuCheMS.He is theauthor or co-author of about 100 orig-inal papers and chapters in mono-

graphs, and has given more than 200 lectures and made other contributionsto scientific conferences. His scientific interests focus on cultural heritagepreservation (identification of natural products in art works), food and phar-maceutical analysis, and environmental speciation analysis. He was awarded(among others) with an Honored Award of the Polish Chemical Society andthe Prof. Andrzej Waksmundzki Medal from the Committee on AnalyticalChemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences Award.

Kiyokatsu Jinnois currently Professor Emeritus andGuest Professor at the Departmentof Environmental and Life Sciences,Toyohashi University of Technolo-gy, Japan. His research interests fo-cus on the miniaturization of analyt-ical separation systems and samplepreparation. He has received variousawards, such as the Golay medal.

Uwe Karstobtained his Ph.D. in AnalyticalChemistry from the University ofMünster, Germany, in 1993, andwas a Postdoctoral Research Asso-ciate at the University of Coloradoin Boulder, CO, USA. After hisreturn to the University ofMünster, he finished his Habilita-tion in 1998. In 2001, he tookover a position as Full Professorof Chemical Analysis at the Uni-versity of Twente, The Nether-lands. He accepted his current po-

sition as Chair of Analytical Chemistry at the University of Münsterin 2005. His research interests focus on hyphenated analytical tech-niques and their (bio)medical and pharmaceutical applications, includ-ing elemental speciation analysis, metallomics, mass spectrometricimaging, and electrochemistry/MS.

David A. Keireis a Research Chemist in the Di-vision of Pharmaceutical Analy-sis within the Center for DrugEvaluation and Research at theUS Food and Drug Administra-tion. He is an analytical chemistwith expertise in NMR spectros-copy. His focus at the US FDAis on the application of modernanalytical methods to the assess-ment of drug quality. His currentwork includes studies on thecomparison and characterization

of complex carbohydrate drugs, protein therapeutics, and mono-clonal antibodies.

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Rudolf Krskais Full Professor for (Bio-) Analyticsand Organic Trace Analysis and isHead of the Department forAgrobiotechnology, IFA Tulln, withmore than 170 co-workers at the Uni-versity of Natural Resources and LifeSciences, Vienna (BOKU). In2009/2010, he worked for 1 year asChief of Health Canada’s Food Re-search Division in Ottawa. He hasreceived 6 scientific awards and is(co-)author ofmore than 200 SCI pub-lications (h index of 39). His cur-

rent research interests are in the area of plant–fungi metabolomics andmycotoxin determination by novel mass spectrometric and infrared basedtechniques.

Aldo Laganàhas been Full Professor of Analyti-cal Chemistry at the Faculty of Sci-ences of Sapienza University ofRome since 2002 and Head of theChemistry Department since 2003.His research activities are focusedon the development and validationof novel analytical methods bymeans of advanced mass spectro-metric instrumentation (such asLC–MS/MS and nanoLC-HRMSwith Orbitrap technology) for char-acterization and quantification ofnatural and anthropogenic sub-

stances (e.g., flame retardants, pesticides, mycotoxins, polyphenols,phytoestrogens, estrogens, and other endocrine disrupter compounds) inenvironmental, food, plant, and biological matrices. In recent years, hehas also turned his attention to proteomics and metabolomic studies, aswell as to the interactions between biomolecules and nanoparticles forgene/drug delivery.

Frances S. Ligler,Dr.Phil., Dr.Sc., is the Lampe Dis-tinguished Professor of BiomedicalEngineering at the University ofNorth Carolina at Chapel Hill andNorth Carolina State University, Se-nior Scientist Emerita at the US Na-val Research Laboratory, and aMember and Councilor of the USNational Academy of Engineering.Currently working in the fields ofbiosensors and microfluidics, shehas also performed research in bio-chemistry, immunology, and tissue

engineering. She has over 375 full-length publications and patents, whichhave led to 11 commercial biosensor products, and she has been citedover 12,000 times (h index of 64). Her major awards include the 2003Homeland Security Award from the Christopher Columbus Foundation;the 2003 Presidential Rank of Distinguished Senior Professional fromPresident Bush; the 2012 Presidential Rank of Meritorious Senior Pro-fessional from President Obama; and an honorary doctorate from theAgricultural University of Athens, Greece, in 2014.

Wolfgang Lindneris an expert in separation technolo-gies with a focus on molecular rec-ognition phenomena in separationsciences, life-science analysis, andmaterials science, as well as devel-oping diverse stationary phases withdedicated selectivity properties.Among these stationary phases, thechiral stationary phases (CSPs) havebecome the most widely known. Heis the author and co-author of morethan 440 publications, leading to>10,000 citations. Among other

prizes, he has received the ChiralityMedal, the A.J.P. Martin GoldMedal,the Halasz Medal, the ACS Award for Chromatography, the CaSSSAward for outstanding achievements in separation science, and veryrecently the Nernst-Tswett Award from the European Society of Separa-tion Sciences (EuSSS).

R. Kenneth Marcusis Professor of Chemistry atClemson University, where he hasserved on the faculty since 1986.His research interests are diverse,including the development ofcapillary-channeled polymers(C-CP) for applications in proteinanalytics and downstream process-ing, and the implementation of liq-uid sampling–atmospheric pressureg low discharge (LS-APGD)microplasmas as sources for atomicemission and mass spectrometric

analyses. His research has resulted in over 170 peer-reviewed publica-tions and yielded 30 Ph.D. graduates. He has been elected as a Fellow ofthe Royal Society of Chemistry and the American Association for theAdvancement of Science.

Hans H. Maurerhas been Full Professor of Pharma-cology & Toxicology at the Facultyof Medicine and Pharmacy,Saarland University, since 1992,and Head of the Department of Ex-perimental and Clinical Toxicologyin Homburg, Germany. He has pub-lished over 260 original papers andbeen invited to write reviews on histwo main areas of research: analyti-cal toxicology (GC-MS, LC-(HR)-MS), and the toxicokinetics andmetabolism of xenobiotics. He isa member of the editorial board

of various international journals and a member of the executiveboards of scientific societies in his field. He has received severalinternational scientific awards, including the title of DoctorHonoris Causa (honorary doctorate) in 2007 from the Universityof Ghent, Belgium.

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Juris Meijais a Research Officer at the NationalResearch Council, Canada. Hisresearch interests encompass the-oretical analytical chemistry,isotope-ratio measurements, andthe history of chemistry. He servesas Column Editor for the analyticalchallenge series in Analytical andBioanalytical Chemistry and is theChairman of the IUPAC Commis-sion on Isotopic Abundances andAtomic Weights.

Boris Mizaikoffis a Chaired Professor at the Uni-versity of Ulm and Director ofthe Institute of Analytical andBioanalytical Chemistry (IABC),Ulm, Germany. His research in-terests include optical chemo-/bio-sensors, infrared spectroscopy andsensing technologies, quantumcascade lasers, multifunctional(nano-)analytical systems, sensorminiaturization, on-chip sensingplatforms, integration and micro-/nanofabrication, focused ion

beam based nanofabrication, (bio)chemical molecular recognitionschemes for separation and sensing applications, molecularly imprintedmaterials, environmental analytical chemistry, process analytical chem-istry, and biomedical diagnostics.

Maria C. Moreno-Bondihas been Full Professor at the De-partment of Analytical Chemistryof Complutense University since2008 after receiving her Ph.D. inanalytical chemistry from theComplutense University of Madrid(Spain) in 1990. She received theYoung Researcher’s Award fromthe Spanish Society of AnalyticalChemistry in 1993 and a ResearchAward in Analytical Chemistryfrom the Royal Spanish Society ofChemistry in 2010. Her research

interests lie in the development of optical chemical sensors and biosen-sors and their applications to environmental and food analysis, as well asin the development of biomimetic recognition elements for sensing andseparation purposes.

David C. Muddimanis currently Distinguished Professorof Chemistry and Founder and Di-rector of the W.M. Keck FourierTransformMass Spectrometry Lab-oratory at North Carolina State Uni-versity in Raleigh, NC, USA. Hisresearch interests include the devel-opment and application of novelchemistries, advanced separations,ionization sources, and mass spec-trometry directed at ovarian cancerresearch. His group has presentedover 500 invited lectures and pre-

sentations at national and international meetings, has published over 200peer-reviewed papers and reviews, and has been awarded 4 US patents.He is the recipient of the 2010 Biemann Medal, American Society forMass Spectrometry; the 2009 NCSU Alumni Outstanding ResearchAward; the 2004 ACS Arthur F. Findeis Award; the 1999 AmericanSociety for Mass Spectrometry Research Award; and the Safford Award,University of Pittsburgh, for Excellence in Teaching.

Valérie Pichonis Full Professor at the UPMC. Since2009, she has been leading the De-partment of Analytical, BioanalyticalSciences and Miniaturization, whichis part of the UMR Chimie BiologieInnovation. It comprises a team of 30researchers (permanent staff, postdoc-toral researchers, and PhD students)and is located at the ESPCIParisTech. She also co-leads theUMR CBI (more than 100 re-searchers). Her major research inter-ests include developing stationaryphases based on antibodies or

aptamers and molecularly imprinted polymers to selectively extract organicmolecules from complex samples, and is always trying to miniaturize thesetools. She is the author of more than 90 publications (h index of 32), 5 bookchapters, and holds a patent. In 2001, she was awarded the Chemistry Prizeof the Analytical Chemistry Department of the French Society of Chemistry.Furthermore, she is currently Vice President of AfSep (Association Françaisedes Sciences Séparatives), the French Association of Separations Sciences.

Jürgen Poppstudied chemistry at the universitiesof Erlangen and Würzburg. Afterreceiving his Ph.D. in chemistry,he joined Yale University for post-doctoral work. He subsequentlyreturned to Würzburg University,where he finished his Habilita-tion in 2002. Since 2002, he hasheld the Chair for PhysicalChemistry at the Friedrich-Schiller University Jena. Further-more, since 2006, he has beenthe Scientific Director of theLeibniz Institute of Photonic

Technology, Jena. His research interests are mainly concerned withbiophotonics, in particular, the development and application of

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innovative Raman techniques for biomedical diagnostics, as well asenvironmental and food analysis. He has published more than 450papers in journals and is a fellow of SAS and SPIE. In 2012, hereceived an honorary doctorate from Babes-Bolyai University Cluj,Napoca, Romania, and in 2013 the Robert-Kellner Lecture Award.

Luigia Sabbatiniis Full Professor of AnalyticalChemistry at the University of BariAldo Moro. She has been Head ofthe Chemistry Department (2005–2010), President of the Laboratoryfor Diagnostics in Cultural Heritage,President of the Analytical Chemis-try Division of the Italian ChemicalSociety (1997–2000), and ItalianRepresentative in the Division ofAnalytical Chemistry of EuCheMS.She is also on the Editorial Staff orAdvisory Board of internationaljournals, and is the co-author of

about 170 ISI papers, co-inventor of several international patents, andeditor or co-editor of books on surface analysis of polymer materials. Hermain scientific interests focus on the development of application-orientedinnovative (nano)materials, and on the design of surface architectures forbiomedical devices and sensors and their characterization by X-ray pho-toelectron spectroscopy. Recently, she has devoted her attention to thedevelopment of nondestructive and noninvasive analytical methodologiesfor the characterization of samples in the field of cultural heritage.

Yoshihiro Saitohas been Associate Professor at theDepartment of Environmental andLife Sciences, Toyohashi Universityof Technology, Japan, since 2008.He received his Ph.D. in 1996 fromthe same university. After 2 years asa Postdoctoral Researcher in theUSA, he returned to Toyohashi as aResearch Associate, and was thenpromoted to Assistant Professor(2000) and Associate Professor(2008). He received the Young Sci-entist Award from The Society forChromatographic Sciences (Japan)

in 2002 and the Tokai Chemical Industry Award (Japan) in 2004. Hehas served as Secretary General of The Society of ChromatographicSciences since 2012 and as Associate Editor of Analytical Sciences(2009–2014). His research interests include the development of micro-scale analytical systems, such as microextraction and microcolumn sep-aration techniques, hyphenated systems based on these techniques, newstationary phase design and synthesis, and the application of fibrousmaterials to microscale extraction/separation methods. He is the authoror co-author of over 130 research papers in separation science.

Renato Seeberis Professor of Analytical Chem-istry at the University of Mode-na and Reggio Emilia, Italy. Heis the co-author of about 190scientific publications and chap-ters of books, and has also beeneditor or co-editor of special is-sues for various journals, such asS e n s o r s , A n a l y t i c a l a n dBioanalytical Chemistry, andElectrochimica Acta. His current in-terests are in the field of electro-chemical sensing, from the design,

realization, and characterization of new materials, devices, and measure-ment procedures, to elaboration of the relevant responses. Previously, hewas interested in molecular electrochemistry, in the definition of novelalgorithms for simulation and analysis of electrode mechanisms, and inexperimental and theoretical studies of equilibria and kinetics of interestin food and soil chemistry.

Torsten C. Schmidtis Head of the Department of Instru-mental Analytical Chemistry and theCenter for Water and EnvironmentalResearch (ZWU) at the University ofDuisburg-Essen, and Scientific Di-rector at the IWW Water Centre inMülheim an der Ruhr. He is currentlyPresident of the German WaterChemistry Society. In 2013, he re-ceived the Fresenius Award fromthe German Chemical Society. Hismain research interests include thedevelopment and application of ana-

lytical methods with a focus on separation techniques (GC, LC), samplepreparation, compound-specific stable isotope analysis, process-orientedenvironmental chemistry, and oxidation processes in water technology.

Toshimasa Toyo'okais Full Professor at the School ofPharmaceutical Sciences and theGraduate School of PharmaceuticalSciences, University of Shizuoka,Japan. He is also Dean of the Gradu-ate School of Pharmaceutical Sci-ences. His major research interestsare the development of new chiralderivatization reagents for variousfunctional groups, new analyticalmethods including high-throughputseparations (UPLC and SFC, etc.),highly sensitive detections (FL andMS, etc.) of biomolecules, and bio-

marker discovery in noninvasive samples (saliva and hair, etc.) for thediagnosis of disease. He is the author and co-author of over 230 originalscientific papers, 20 review papers, and 25 book chapters. In 2011, hereceived the Society Award from the Japan Society for ChromatographicSciences.

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Miguel Valcárcelhas been Full Professor of Analyti-cal Chemistry at the University ofCórdoba since 1976. His master re-search lines have focused on analyt-ical nanoscience and nanotechnolo-gy, and the automatization/minia-turization/quality of (bio-)chemicalmeasurement processes. He is theauthor and co-author of more than900 scientific articles, 8 mono-graphs, 10 textbooks, and 20 bookchapters. He has been the coordina-

tor of 25 Spanish scientific research projects, 14 of which were interna-tional in nature, and of 12 contracts with private firms, and has promoteda spin-off company devoted to nanotechnology. He has been co-supervisor of 75 doctoral theses and invited lecturer at 70 internationalmeetings. He is the recipient of national (e.g., Award in Chemistry inSpain, 2005) and international (e.g., Robert Boyle Medal from the RSC,2004) scientific prizes, as well as having received the Doctor HonorisCausa from the University of Valencia (Spain).

Frank Vanhaeckeis Senior Full Professor of Ana-lytical Chemistry at Ghent Uni-versity (Belgium) and has a pas-sion for the determination, speci-ation, and isotopic analysis of(trace) elements by inductivelycoupled plasma mass spectrome-try (ICP-MS). He leads theAtomic & Mass Spectrometry(A&MS) research group, whichstudies fundamentally orientedaspects of the technique and de-

velops methods for solving challenging scientific problems in aninterdisciplinary context. So far, his scientific research has result-ed in more than 250 publications in peer-reviewed journals. In2011, he received a European Award for Plasma Spectrochemistryfor his contributions to the field. He is a Fellow of the RoyalSociety of Chemistry (RSC) and the Society for Applied Spec-troscopy (SAS). Picture © Cédric Verhelst.

Adam T. Woolleyis Professor and Associate Chair inthe Department of Chemistry andBiochemistry at Brigham YoungUniversity in Provo, UT, USA. Heis the recipient of a Presidential EarlyCareer Award for Scientists and En-gineers (2006) and the ACSDivisionof Analytical Chemistry Award forYoung Investigators in SeparationScience (2007). His current researchfocuses on three general topics: thedevelopment of novel and sophisti-cated integrated microfluidic sys-tems for preterm birth biomarker

quantitation, the design of simple miniaturized biomolecular assays, andbiotemplated fabrication of nanoelectronic systems.

Guowang Xuis the Director of the MetabonomicsResearch Center in the Dalian Insti-tute of Chemical Physics, ChineseAcademy of Sciences. In 2004, heobtained the Distinguished YoungScientists award from the NationalNatural Science Foundation ofChina. He was the co-chairman ofthe 30th ISCC in China, 33rd HPLCin Japan, and 37th HPLC in China,and is a member of the permanentscientific committee of HPLC. Hismain research interests are in chroma-tography, mass spectrometry, and

metabolomics applications in disease biomarker discovery, traditionalChinese medicines, and food safety.

Xiangmin Zhangis Professor of Analytical Chemis-try in the Department of Chemistryat Fudan University with a second-ary appointment at the Institutes ofBiomedical Sciences in Shanghai,China. He is also a member of theeditorial board of Proteomics andthe Chinese Journal of Chromatog-raphy. His major research interestsinclude chromatographic separa-tion; developing nanomaterials forthe enrichment of proteins/peptides; and the development ofchromatographic techniques, mass

spectrometric methods, and hyphenated technologies for proteomic anal-ysis and disease biomarker discovery. He is the author or co-author ofover 200 peer-reviewed papers, books, and book chapters.

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