EDITORIAL

Meet the contributors

Nicola Oberbeckmann-Winter1

Published online: 27 December 2017# Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2017

To celebrate its 16th anniversary, we proudly present this spe-cial paper collection of Analytical and BioanalyticalChemistry (ABC) that showcases current research fromABC’s diverse and exceptional Editorial Board.

In retrospect, the strong commitment and dedication of theABC Editors and members of the International AdvisoryBoard have been of enormous value in establishing ABC asan international journal for rapid publication and global visi-bility of analytical research. They also remain the cornerstoneof ABC’s success for the future. ABC also largely dependsupon the support and contributions from all of our authors,andwe verymuch hope that this anniversary issue serves as an

inspiration and a useful resource to our readers. We thereforewant to thank those who support us by selecting our journal asthe outlet for their outstanding work and we think thisEditorial Board Issue is a case in point.

In preparing this 16th Anniversary Issue (the BSweetSixteen Issue^), we would like to express our gratitude forthe overwhelming support we have received and thank allcontributors for generously providing excellent research arti-cles, Trends, and Critical Reviews from the forefront of theirresearch. Below, we invite you to meet those who contributedto this exceptional collection and will usher ABC into its fu-ture. We hope you enjoy their work as much as we do.

Antje J. Baeumneris Professor of AnalyticalChemistry and Director ofthe Institute of AnalyticalChemistry, Chemo- andBiosensors at the Universityof Regensburg, Germany.Before accepting the positionin Regensburg, she wasProfessor of BiologicalEngineering and Director ofGraduate Studies in theDepartment of Biological

and Environmental Engineering at Cornell University inIthaca, NY, USA. She is a member of the Extended

Executive Committee of the International Association ofEnvironmental Analytical Chemistry, was the 2010 Chair ofthe Gordon Research Conference on Bioanalytical Sensors,and has received numerous honors in recent years, includingbeing a finalist for the Blavatnik Award of the NYAcademy ofSciences and recipient of a Humboldt Research Fellowshipand a German National Science Foundation Mercator GuestProfessorship. Her research is focused on the development ofmicrototal analysis systems and smart-paper-based assays forthe detection of pathogens and toxins in food and the environ-ment and for medical diagnostics. Nanomaterials play an in-creasingly important role in her research, including nanopar-ticles and nanovesicles for signal amplification and nanofibersfor immobilization, detection, and mixing.

Published in the topical collection celebrating ABCs 16th Anniversary.

* Nicola Oberbeckmann-Winternicola.oberbeckmann-winter@springer.com

1 Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, Springer, Tiergartenstrasse17, 69121 Heidelberg, Germany

Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry (2018) 410:651–660https://doi.org/10.1007/s00216-017-0825-5

Damià Barcelóhas been Full ResearchProfessor at the Institute ofEnvironmental Assessmentand Water Studies IDAEA-CSIC (Barcelona, Spain),since 1999 and Director ofthe Catalan Institute ofWater Research (ICRA)(G i r ona , Spa i n ) s i n c eMay 2008. His scientific fo-cus is on method develop-ment; monitoring; and the

fate of priority, new, and emerging pollutants, in particular,in water quality assessment and management. In 2007, hewas awarded the King Jaime I Prize for the Protection ofNature by the Generalitat of Valencia, Spain, for his outstand-ing scientific work. In 2011, he received the Prince Sultan BinAbdulaziz International Prize for Water (PSIPW) 5th Award2012 on Water Management and Protection, Saudi Arabia;and in 2012, the Recipharm Environmental Award, Sweden.In 2014, he was awarded Doctor Honoris Causa by theUniversity of Ioannina, Greece. From 2013 to 2020, he willcoordinate two European Union funded projects,GLOBAQUA, on multiple stressors in European river basins,and JPI AWARE, on the fate of pesticides and waterbornecontaminants in agricultural crops and their environmentalrisks. Since November 2016, he has been Full Professor ofBiology at the King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia,under the Distinguished Scientist Fellowship Program.

Detlev Belderi s F u l l P r o f e s s o r o fAnalytical Chemistry at theUniversity of Leipzig. Hewas born in 1964 in Celleand studied chemistry at theTU Claus t ha l and th eUniversity of Marburg. Hereceived his Ph.D. in 1994from the Universi ty ofMarburg with experimentalwork performed at the Max-P l a n c k - I n s t i t u t f ü r

Kohlenforschung in Mülheim an der Ruhr. From 1995 to2006, he headed the Department of Separation Science at theMax-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung. In 2006, he wasappointed as Professor of Analytical Chemistry at theUniversity of Regensburg. In 2007, he accepted an offer ofChair of Analytical Chemistry at the University of Leipzig.In 2015, he received the Gerhard Hesse Prize. His current

major research interest is on lab-on-a-chip devices with jointapplications in analytical and synthetic chemistry. He is thespokesperson of the research unit BIntegrated Chemical MicroLaboratories^ (DFG-FOR 2177), which has been fundedsince 2015 by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.

Bogusław Buszewskii s F u l l P r o f e s s o r o fAnalytical Chemistry andHead o f t h e Cha i r o fEnvironmental Chemistryand Bioanalytics, Faculty ofC h em i s t r y , N i c o l a u sCopernicus Universi ty,Torun, Poland. His main sci-entific interests are con-cerned with environmentalanalysis, chromatographyand re la ted techniques

(HPLC, SPE, GC, CZE, adsorption, sample preparation),spectroscopy, utilization of waste and sludge, andchemometrics. In October 2007, he was awarded the prestigeaward Master (Mistrz) by the Foundation for Polish Science(FNP); in 2009, he was awarded the Polish Prime Ministeraward; in 2015, he was awarded the Knight’s Cross of theOrder of Polonia Restituta and received an award from theAlexander von Humboldt Foundation; and in 2017, he wasawarded by the Societas Humboldtiana Polonorum. He is amember of several editorial boards, including Analytical andBioanalytical Chemistry.

Rafael Celais Professor of AnalyticalChemistry at the Universityof Santiago de Compostela,Spain, leading the researchgroup on chromatographyand chemometrics in theLaboratory for AnalyticalChemistry at the ResearchInstitute of Food Analysis ofthat university. His researchhas focused on the analyticalapplication of separation sci-

ence and particularly on the development and optimization ofsample preparation microtechniques for chromatographicanalysis, including experimental design and the developmentof computer-assisted chromatographic methods and sample-handling strategies. He is the author of more than 300 scien-tific papers and several textbooks.

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Theodore Christopoulosis currently Professor ofAnalytical Chemistry at theUniversity of Patras, Greece,and a collaborating facultymember at the Institute ofChemica l Eng inee r ingSciences, Foundation forResearch and TechnologyHel las . He is a l so theCoordinator of the M.Sc.Program in Analy t ica l

Chemistry and Nanotechnology. He served as Head of theDepartment of Chemistry in 2011–2012 and was a memberof the Council of the University of Patras (2013–2017). Hisresearch activities cover diverse areas, such as nanoparticle-based biosensors; microanalytical devices; chemical instru-mentation; multianalyte methods; bio(chemi)luminescence;fluorescence/time-resolved fluorescence; electrochemistry;technology for the analysis of DNA, RNA, and proteins; andrecombinant DNA technology for the development of novelanalytical tools. The applications of his research focus on thehealth sector and the food sector and include diagnostics, path-ogen detection, pharmacogenomics, pharmaceutical analysis,and food authenticity testing. He obtained his BSc in pharmacyand Ph.D. in analytical chemistry from the University ofAthens, Greece, and a Postdoctoral Diploma in clinical chem-istry from the University of Toronto, Canada. He held aPostdoctoral Research Fellowship at the University ofToronto and then he worked as Professor of Chemistry andBiochemistry, University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Also,he has been a visiting professor at Harvard University. Amongother distinctions, he is the recipient of the Grannis award forExcellence in Research and Scientific Publication from theUSΑ National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry (1997).

Christopher J. Easleyi s C . H a r r y Know l e sAssocia te Professor ofChemistry and Biochemistryat Auburn University. Heearned his degrees in chemis-try at Mississippi StateUniversity (B.S.) and theUnivers i ty of Vi rg in ia(Ph.D.), with postdoctoraltraining at the VanderbiltUniversity Medical Center in

Molecular Physiology and Biophysics. He is a co-founder ofProximity Biosciences, LLC, and holds several US patentsbased on biosensing and microfluidics. He is currently a mem-ber of the International Advisory Board of Analytical and

Bioanalytical Chemistry (2016–present) and a member of theeditorial board at Analytical Methods (2017–present). He andthe members of his laboratory develop microfluidic methods tostudy dynamic function of small numbers of cells in intact,primary tissue frommouse models of disease. To accommodatebioanalysis at the microscale, his team also develops DNA-driven assays for highly sensitive protein quantification innanoliter volumes using both fluorescence and electrochemistry.

Jörg Feldmannstudied chemistry at theUniversity of Essen and re-ceived his Dr. rer. nat. fromthe Institute of EnvironmentalAnalytical Chemistry in 1995.He spent more than 2 years atthe University of BritishColumbia (Canada) as aFeodor Lynen Fellow (AvH)and has been at the Universityof Aberdeen (UK) since 1997

and Professor for Chemistry and Director of TESLA (TraceElement Speciation Laboratory) since 2004. TESLA has around20 researchers, mainly Ph.D. students and postdoctoral fellows.His work on the analysis of arsenic metabolites was influential forthe introduction of a maximum contaminant level in rice by theWHO in 2015. His work has always been hypothesis-driven byunraveling environmental and biological problems and by devel-oping novel analytical systems, such as the simultaneous couplingof HPLC to ICP-MS as an element detector and ESI-MS as amolecular detector. At present, he has published more than 240peer-reviewed papers inmore than 70 journals, which have gainedmore than 12,000 citations, and given more than 130 invited/keynote and plenary lectures. He has been, among other editorialactivities, on the ABC International Advisory Board since 2005and has a visiting professorship at the Universidade Federal deSanta Catarina, Brazil. Recent prizes include the biennialEuropean Award for Plasma Spectrochemistry in 2015 and theRSC Interdisciplinary Award and Medal in 2016.

Günter Gauglitzis Senior Professor at theEberhard Karls University ofTübingen, working in analyt-ical and physical chemistry.He was chairman of theG D C h D i v i s i o n o fAnalytical Chemistry andchaired the Europt(r)ode VIIImeeting. For more than15 years, his main scientific

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interests have centered on research and development in chem-ical and biochemical sensors with special focus on the charac-terization of interfaces of polymers and biomembrane surfaces,spectroscopic techniques, the use of spectral interferometry tomonitor changes in optical thickness of thin layers, and effectsof Fresnel reflectivity at interfaces. He has been an editor ofAnalytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry (ABC) since 2002.

Heidi Goenaga Infantereceived her Ph.D. fromOviedo University in 1999.She is currently PrincipleScientist and Team Leaderof the Inorganic Analysisteam within the HealthScience and InnovationDivision of LGC Limited,where she has worked since2003. Her key expertise liesin trace element speciationanalysis, metallomics re-

search, combined use of elemental and molecular mass spec-trometry, size-based element fractionation, and the character-ization of Bspeciated^ reference materials and standards. Sheis the UK representative at the Inorganic Analysis WorkingGroup of the CCQM, the international ConsultativeCommittee for Metrology in Chemistry. She is also theGovernment Chemist representative on the NanomaterialsEnvironment and Health Government Group chaired byDEFRA. She is a member of the international advisory andeditorial boards of four international peer-reviewed journals.She is the leading author of over 90 scientific research papersand has recently been appointed a Science Fellow of LGCLimited. She has coordinated European Metrology Researchwork over the past 5 years.

Maciej Jaroszis Full Professor and Chairof Analytical Chemistry atthe Faculty of Chemistry,War saw Unive r s i t y o fTechnology, Poland; a mem-ber of the Board of theCommittee on AnalyticalChemistry Polish Academyof Sciences and its represen-tative in the Division of

Analytical Chemistry of EuCheMS; and an IUPAC Fellow.He is the author or co-author of about 110 originalpapers and chapters in monographs. His scientific inte-rests focus on cultural heritage preservation (identification

of natural products in art works), food and pharmaceuticalanalysis, and environmental speciation analysis. He wasawarded (among others) the Golden Cross on Merit, Prof.Andrzej Waksmundzki Medal–Committee on AnalyticalChemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences Award, and Prof.Wiktor Kemula Medal–Polish Chemical Society Award.

Rudolf Krskai s F u l l P r o f e s s o r f o r(Bio-)Analytics and OrganicTrace Ana ly s i s a t t heUn ive r s i t y o f Na tu r a lResources and Life Sciences,Vienna (BOKU), and Head ofthe Center for AnalyticalChemistry at the DepartmentIFA-Tulln. He has received10 scientific awards and is

the (co-)author of more than 300 SCI publications (h-index:52). Thomson Reuters (Web of Science) identified him as oneof the world’s most influential contemporary researchers due tohis ranking among the top 1% most cited authors. His currentresearch interests are in the area of plant–fungi metabolomics; IRspectroscopy; and novel mass spectrometric methods for thedetermination of multiple mycotoxins and their metabolites infood, feed, and other biological matrices. Currently, he acts as acoordinator of the European Commission funded projectMyToolBox and is also the Green Area Leader at the AustrianCompetence Centre for Feed and Food Quality, Safety andInnovation (FFOQSI) with 18 company partners.

Aldo Laganàis Full Professor of AnalyticalChemistry at the University ofRome BLa Sapienza^ andHead of the Department ofChemistry. His research fieldsare the development and vali-dation of novel analyticalmethods based on LC coupledwith advanced mass spectro-metric instrumentation (for ex-ample, UHPLC-MS-MS and

nanoLC-HRMS with Orbitrap technology) for the characteriza-tion and quantification of natural and anthropogenic substances(e.g., flame retardants, pesticides, mycotoxins, polyphenols,phytoestrogens, and estrogens) in environmental, food, plant,and biological samples. His scientific interests also include pro-teomic studies (in particular, differential proteome analysis) andthe study of interactions between biomolecules and nanoparticlesfor nanomedicine applications.

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Steven J. Lehotayis Lead Scientist with theU S D A A g r i c u l t u r a lResearch Service at theEastern Regional ResearchCenter in Wyndmoor, PA,USA. His research is devisedto improve the monitoring ofchemical contaminants infoods by developing novelapproaches applied in useful

ways. He has (co-)authored > 150 scientific articles and > 200meeting abstracts. His honors include a USDA Secretary’sHonor Award, Clarivate Analytics (Thomson Reuters)Highly Cited Researcher, ACS Division of AgrochemicalsAward for Innovation in Chemistry of Agriculture, andAOAC International Harvey W. Wiley Award.

Lingjun Lii s Vi las Dis t inguishedAchievement Professor andJanis Apinis Professor ofPharmaceutical Sciencesa nd Chem i s t r y a t t h eUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. Her researchinterests include the develop-ment of novel mass spec-trometry (MS)-based tools,

such as new chemical tags that enable multiplex quantitativeproteomics, microscale separations, in vivo microdialysis, andimagingMS for the functional discovery of neuropeptides andprotein biomarkers in neurodegenerative diseases. Her labora-tory also explores the novel use of ion mobility MS to addresstechnical challenges in peptidomic research, including site-specific peptide epimer analysis and improvement of isobarictandem MS quantitation. She has received numerous awards,including an ASMS Research Award, a NSF CAREERAward, a Sloan Fellowship, a PittCon Achievement Award,and the 2014 ASMS Biemann Medal, and was named one ofthe top 50 most influential women in analytical sciences andwas included in the 2016 Analytical Scientist Power List. Sheserved as Associate Editor for Analytical Methods (2013–2016) and is currently serving as Associate Editor for theJournal of The American Society for Mass Spectrometry.

Peter A. Lieberzeitis a chemist and received hisPh.D. from the University ofVienna in 1999 . FromOctober 2011, he has beenProfessor of AnalyticalChemistry at the Universityo f Vi e n n a a n d s i n c eFebruary 2016 Professor ofPhysical Chemistry. He is es-pecially interested in devel-

oping chemical sensors for real-life environments, includingcomplex mixtures based on artificial, biomimetic materials.To date, he has published about 105 articles in peer-reviewed journals.

Huwei Liui s Professor a t PekingUniversity, and his researchi n t e r e s t s f o c u s o nbioseparation and detection,including chromatographicand electromigration tech-niques, as well as their onlinecoupling to mass spectrom-etry and applications inlipidomics and pharmaceu-tical analysis. To date, heh a s a u t ho r e d and co -

authored more than 260 publications, including 15 reviewsand 6 book chapters. He received CAIA awards in 2001and 2015.

Maili Liureceived his Ph.D. from theDepartment of Chemistry,B i r k b e c k C o l l e g e ,University of London. He isthe current Director ofWuhan Institute of Physicsand Mathematics, ChineseAcademy Sciences. His re-search interests are in devel-oping new NMR methodolo-

gy and applications in biomedicine. He has published over210 papers in peer-reviewed international journals and severalbook chapters on these topics.

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Ma r í a J e s ú s L o b o -Castañónis Professor at the Universityof Oviedo, Department ofPhysical and AnalyticalChemistry, Spain, where sheleads the electroanalysis re-search group. Her researchinterests focus on the devel-opment of electrochemicalsensors for clinical diagnosisand food analysis, using dif-

ferent molecular recognition elements, such as enzymes,DNA, aptamers, and molecularly imprinted polymers. She isthe author or co-author of over 100 scientific articles andseveral book chapters in the field.

Hans Maurerwas Fu l l P ro f e s so r o fP h a r m a c o l o g y a n dToxicology at the Faculty ofMedicine and Faculty ofP h a r m a c y , S a a r l a n dUniversity, from 1992 until2016. He was Head of theDepartment of Experimentaland Clinical Toxicology inHomburg, Germany, and iss t i l l a c t i v e a s S en i o rProfessor in the same depart-ment. He has published, inaddition to three mass spec-

tral databases, over 270 original papers and over 30 invitedreviews on his main two areas of research: analytical toxicol-ogy (GC-MS, LC-(HR)-MS) and toxicokinetics and metabo-lism of xenobiotics. He is an editorial board member of vari-ous international journals and a guest editor of several specialissues within them. He was and is a member of the executiveboards of various scientific societies in his field. He receivedseveral international scientific awards for his outstanding sci-entific work, and in 2007, he was awarded the title of DoctorHonoris Causa (honorary doctorate) by the University ofGhent, Belgium.

Juris Meijais Research Officer at theNational Research CouncilCanada working in the areaof chemical metrology andcertified reference materialdevelopment. His expertiselies in theoretical analyticalchemistry, isotope ratio mea-surements, and data analysis.

Since 2014, he has served as Chair of the IUPAC Commissionon Isotopic Abundances and AtomicWeights and since 2012 asTitular Member on the IUPAC Interdivisional Committee onTerminology, Nomenclature, and Symbols. He is also anIUPAC delegate to the Joint Committee for Guides inMetrology, Working Group 1: Guide to the Expression ofUncertainty in Measurement (GUM); a member of the UnitedStates Pharmacopeia Expert Panel on Statistics; and a memberof the Statistics and Uncertainty working group of the RegionalMetrology Organization for the Americas (SIM). He is a col-umn editor and member of the international advisory board ofAnalytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry and has been activelyinvolved in many recent international activities, such as theredefinition of the mole, naming of the new chemical elements,and revisions of the GUM.

Maria C. Moreno-Bondireceived her Ph.D. (1990)f r o m C o m p l u t e n s eUniversity of Madrid. Shehas carried out research workat Columbia University(New York), the Oak RidgeN a t i o n a l L a b o r a t o r y(Tennessee, USA), and theNaval Research Laboratory

(Washington, USA) focused on the development of lumines-cent methods; optical fiber sensors; and microarrays for envi-ronmental, food, and clinical applications. She received tenurein 1991 and, since 2008, she has been Full Professor ofAnalytical Chemistry at the Complutense University ofMadrid. She received the Young Researcher’s Award fromthe Spanish Society of Analytical Chemistry in 1993 and theResearch Award in Analytical Chemistry from the RoyalSpanish Society of Chemistry in 2010. She is currentlyDepartment Chair at the Analytical Chemistry Department atUCM, President of the Society of Applied Spectroscopy, andco-leader of the Chemical Optosensors and AppliedPhotochemistry Group (GSOLFA). Her research interests in-clude the development of optical sensors and biosensors andof molecular recognition (nano)materials for food, clinical,and environmental analysis.

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David C. Muddimanis Jacob and Betty BelinDistinguished Professor ofChemistry and Director ofthe Molecular Education,Technology, and ResearchI n n o v a t i o n C e n t e r( M E T R I C ) a t N o r t hCarolina State University inRaleigh, NC, USA. He is aneditor of Analytical andBiological Chemistry and ison the Editorial AdvisoryBoard of Mass Spectrometry

Reviews, Molecular and Cellular Proteomics, RapidCommunications in Mass Spectrometry, and the Journal ofChromatography B. He also serves on the Advisory Boardof the NIH-funded Complex Carbohydrate Research Center,University of Georgia, and the Yale/NIDA NeuroproteomicsCenter, Yale University. He is currently President of theUnited States Human Proteome Organization (US-HUPO).His group has published over 250 peer-reviewed papers andreceived four US patents. He is the recipient of the 2015 ACSAward in Chemical Instrumentation; the 2010 BiemannMedal from the American Society for Mass Spectrometry;the 2009 NCSU Alumni Outstanding Research Award; the2004 ACS Arthur F. Findeis Award; the 1999 AmericanSociety for Mass Spectrometry Research Award; and the1990–1991 Safford Award, University of Pittsburgh, forExcellence in Teaching.

Reinhard Niessner,Full Professor for AnalyticalChemistry at the TechnicalUnivers i ty of Munich ,Germany, was born in 1951.After becoming a lecturer in1985, he served from 1986 to1989 as P ro f e s so r fo rInorganic and AnalyticalChemistry at the Universityof Dortmund. After refusingseveral calls to different aca-demic and industrial posi-

tions, in 1989, he finally accepted a call for his position asHead of the Institute and Chair holder in Munich. He retiredon March 31, 2017. His research interests are within environ-mental analytical chemistry, especially devoted to applicationsof laser spectroscopy, nanoparticle characterization, andmicroarray technologies. The main subjects of interest areaerosols, hydrocolloids, and biofilms within hydro- and atmo-spheres. He received several international and highly

prestigious awards, such as the Emanuel Merck Prize forAnalytical Chemistry (1990), the Smoluchowski Award forAerosol Research of the Association for Aerosol Research(1991), the Fritz Pregl Medal of the Austrian Society forAnalytical Chemistry (1996), and the Fresenius Award forAnalytical Chemistry of the German Chemical Society(2000). He served inmany national and international scientificorganizations, such as within IUPAC as a Titular Member andthe European Science Foundation. He was also on the Boardof Directors of the Clean Air Commission of the GermanEngineers Association (VDI/DIN), the HydrochemicalDivision of the German Chemical Society, Association forAerosol Research, and a member of the Senate Commissionfor Water Research of the German Research Society.

Joaquim A. Nóbregais Full Professor at theDepartment of Chemistry,Federal University of SãoCarlos (São Carlos, SP,Brazil). He is a member ofthe Group for Appl iedInstrumental Analysis. Hismain research interests aremicrowave-assisted samplepreparation for inorganicanalysis and inductively

coupled plasmas associated with optical emission and massspectrometry. He is a member of the Brazilian Academy ofSciences, São Paulo State Academy of Sciences, and Fellowof the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Valérie Pichonhas been Full Professor at theU P M C ( S o r b o n n eUniversity, Paris) since2 0 1 0 . S h e l e a d s t h eDepartment of Analytical,Bioanalytical Sciences andMiniaturization, part of theIns t i tu te of Chemis t ryBiology and Innovation(CBI) located at the ESPCIParis. She has also co-ledthe CBI since January 2014(more than 120 researchers).

Her major research interests include the synthesis, characteri-zation, and miniaturization of stationary phases based on an-tibodies or aptamers and molecularly imprinted polymers. Sheis the author of more than 110 publications and five bookchapters. In 2001, she was rewarded with a prize from the

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Analytical Chemistry Department of the French Society ofChemistry. She is currently Vice President of AfSep (FrenchAssociation of Separation Sciences). In 2016, she was includ-ed in the list of the top 50 most influential women in theanalytical sciences by The Analytical Scientist.

Juergen Poppholds a chair for PhysicalChemistry at the Friedrich-Schiller University Jena andis also Scientific Director ofthe Leibniz Institute ofPhotonic Technology, Jena.His research interests aremainly concerned withbiophotonics. In particular,his expertise in the develop-ment and application of inno-vative Raman techniques for

biomedical diagnosis should be emphasized. He has publishedmore than 700 journal papers and has been named as an inven-tor on 12 patents in the field of spectroscopic instrumentation.In 2012, he received an honorary doctoral degree from Babeş-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. He is the recipientof the prestigious 2016 Pittsburgh Spectroscopy Award. In2016, he was elected to the American Institute for Medicaland Biological Engineering (AIMBE) College of Fellows.

Aldo Rodais Professor of AnalyticalChemistry in the Departmentof Chemistry of Alma MaterStudiorum, University ofBologna, Italy. He is Past-President of the InternationalSociety for Bioluminescenceand Chemiluminescence andVice President of INBB:Biostructures and BiosystemsNational Institute. He is an ed-i to r of Analy t i ca l and

Bioanalytical Chemistry and Associate Editor-in-Chief ofLuminescence: The Journal of Biological and ChemicalLuminescence. He is Secretary of the Academy of Science ofBologna and President of the Chemistry Doctoral School at theUniversity of Bologna. His main research activity focuseson the development of sensitive miniaturized bioassays,immunoassays, biosensors, and imaging based onbiochemiluminescence, electrogenerated luminescence,and thermo-chemiluminescence. Analytical mass spectrometryusing matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization and

high-performance liquid chromatography–electrospray tandemmass spectrometry is also part of his scientific activity. He haspublished more than 500 articles, is a co-author of many inter-national patents, and has presented up to 200 invited lecturesand oral presentations at international conferences.

Luigia Sabbatinihas been Full Professor ofAnalytical Chemistry at theUniversity of Bari (Italy)since 1986, Director of theR e s e a r c h C e n t e rBLaboratory for Diagnosticsin Cul tu ra l Her i t age ,^University of Bari, and a rep-resentative of the Italian

Chemical Society in the Analytical Chemistry Division(DAC) of EuCheMS. She is on the Advisory Board ofAnalytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry and Associate Editorof Vacuum. She is a co-author of about 190 ISI papers, co-inventor of several international patents, and editor and co-editor of books on surface analysis of polymer materials.She has been an invited speaker at international and nationalconferences. She was also awarded the Canneri Medal fromthe Analytical Chemistry Division of the Italian ChemicalSociety. Her scientific interests include the development ofinnovative, nanostructured materials for the cleaning of andbiofouling prevention of stone surfaces, as well as the devel-opment of analytical methods for the study of materials inartworks (ceramics, glasses, paintings, coatings, and decora-tions). In recent years, she has focused on the study of thecomposition and chemical aging of surface decoration byXPS, lipids and proteins in paintings by MALDI-TOF, pig-ments by micro-Raman spectroscopy, and synthetic materials(acrylic-, alchidic-, and vinylic-based polymers/copolymers)used in modern paintings as well in restoration by MALDI-TOF and Py-GC/MS.

Alfredo Sanz-Medelhas been Professor in theDepartment of Physical andAnalytical Chemistry ofOviedo University, Spain,since 1982. After completinghis Ph.D. in 1973, he carriedout postdoctoral work onatomic fluorescence at theImperial College of Scienceand Technology in London.

Back in Spain, he became Assistant Professor of AnalyticalChemistry at Complutense University (Madrid) in 1975, and

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in 1978, he moved to Oviedo as Associate Professor. Hispresent research interests include the development of newatomic detectors and analytical methodologies for ultratraceelemental analysis using spectrochemical plasmas (GD-OES,ICP-MS, GD-MS); new molecular sensors, particularly thosebased on the use of quantum dots for bio-nanoapplicationsusing molecular and elemental detection (luminescence andICP-MS); hybrid technique development, coupling a separa-tion unit and an atomic detector, for ultratrace and trace metalanalysis and their speciation to solve biological, biomedical,and environmental problems; and speciation for proteomics,integrating MS Bmolecular^ (MALDI-TOF and electrospray-Q-TOF) and Batomic^ (ICP-MS) metal and semimetal bio-molecules, promoting the extensive use of Bheteroatom-tagged proteomics^ and bio-nanotagging approaches forearly-warning disease biomarkers. He is the author and co-author of around 650 scientific publications in internationaljournals, several patents, and a number of books. He has re-ceived international prizes and awards including the BRobertKellner Lecture^ (2007); the European Winter ConferenceAward on Plasma Spectrochemistry (2011); a ChemistryEuCheMS Award, Belgrade (2011); and ColloquiumSpectroscopicum Internationale Award, CSI Award,Coimbra (2015). He has been an editor of Analytical andBioanalytical Chemistry since 2003.

Marcela Segundois Professor at the Faculty ofPharmacy, University ofP o r t o , a n d S e n i o rResearcher at REQUIMTE–PT Government AssociateLaboratory. She received theFIA award for Science(2016) and she is a memberof the Steering Committee ofthe Division of AnalyticalChemistry in EuCheMS

(2018). She is the author or co-author of more than 100peer-reviewed publications. Her scientific interests are fo-cused on sample treatment, miniaturization of analytical de-vices, and hyphenation of flow techniques for high-throughput analysis.

Stephen A. Wiserecently retired from theN a t i o n a l I n s t i t u t e o fStandards and Technology(NIST) in Gaithersburg,Maryland, where he was in-volved in the development ofanalytical methods andS t a n d a r d R e f e r e n c eMaterials (SRMs) for the de-termination of trace organicconstituents in environmen-tal, clinical, food, and dietarysupplement matrices. He is

currently a Scientific Consultant for the Office of DietarySupplements at the National Institutes of Health (NIH-ODS)in Bethesda, Maryland, where he supports the AnalyticalMethods and Reference Materials (AMRM) Program. Hecontinues to have research interests in chromatographicmethods for polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) andinvestigations of chromatographic separation mechanismsand chromatographic selectivity for PAHs and related com-pounds.

Adam T. Woolleyis Chair Editor of Analyticaland Bioanalytical Chemistryand University Professor int h e D e p a r t m e n t o fChemistry and Biochemistrya t B r i g h a m Yo u n gUniversity in Provo, UT,USA. His current researchfocuses on 3D-printed inte-grated microfluidics for bio-marker measurement, analyt-

ical systems for the identification of bacteria and antibioticresistance genes in sepsis, and biotemplated fabrication ofnanoelectronics.

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Guowang Xuis Professor and Director ofthe CAS Key Laboratory ofSeparat ion Science forAna ly t i ca l Chemi s t r y,Dalian Institute of ChemicalPhysics (DICP), ChineseAcademy of Sciences. He isa l s o D i r e c t o r o f t h eMetabolomics ResearchCenter and administrativeVi c e D i r e c t o r o f t h e

Biotechnology Division at DICP. He has co-written five booksand published more than 360 peer-reviewed papers in theBWeb of Science Core Collection^ indexed journals and holdsmore than 40 China patents. He is Deputy President of theChromatography Committee and Mass SpectrometryCommittee of Chinese Society of Chemistry and is a memberof the permanent scientific committee of HPLC. He receivedsecond prize of the national science and technology progressaward and second prize of the Liaoning Province science andtechnology invention award. His main research fields are inchromatography-mass spectrometry related research andmetabolomics applications in disease biomarker discovery,traditional Chinese medicines, and food safety.

Chaoyong Yangreceived his Ph.D. in chemis-try from the University ofFlorida. After postdoctoraltraining at the University ofCalifornia, Berkeley, hem o v e d t o X i a m e nUniversity, where he is nowLu J i ax i P ro f e s so r o fC h e m i s t r y i n t h eDepartment of ChemicalBiology. His current researchis particularly focused onmolecular engineering, mo-

lecular recognition, high-throughput evolution, single-cellanalysis, and microfluidics. He has published more than 130papers, which have collected over 6000 citations. He sits onthe advisory boards of six journals and was the recipient of theCAPA Distinguished Faculty Award in 2012, the NationalOutstanding Young Investigator Award in 2013, the ChineseYoung Analyst Award in 2015, and the Chinese ChemicalSociety-Royal Society of Chemistry Young Chemist Awardin 2016.

Lihua Zhangis Full Professor and groupleader a t the Nat iona lChromatographic R. & A.Center, Dalian Institute ofChemical Physics, ChineseAcademy o f Sc i en c e s(CAS). She was selected toj o i n t h e B100 Ta l en t sProject^ of CAS and BYoungand Middle-Aged LeadingScientists, Engineers and

Innovators Project^ of the Ministry of Science andTechnology. Her research interests are focused on the develop-ment of new materials, methods, and platforms for the qualita-tive and quantitative analysis of proteomes and protein–proteininteractions. She has published over 200 SCI papers.

Xiangmin Zhangis Professor of AnalyticalChemis t ry in both theDepartment of Chemistry andthe Institutes of BiomedicalSciences at Fudan Universityin Shanghai. He is also Headof the Chemical BiologyDivision. His major researchinterests include multidimen-sional chromatography, instru-mentations, proteomic analy-sis, nanomaterial develop-

ments for protein/peptide enrichments/separations, biomassspectrometric techniques for ultrasensitive detection, and hy-phenated technologies for disease biomarker discovery. He isauthor or co-author of over 260 peer-reviewed papers.

Wenwan Zhongis Professor of AnalyticalChemistry at the University ofCalifornia, Riverside. Her re-search focuses on the develop-ment and application of micro-scale separation and sensors forbiomarker discovery, functionalstudy, and detection. Her currentwork covers three distinct areas:the useofmicrofluidics and flowfield flow fractionation for anal-ysis of circulating biomarkers;

the use of capillary electrophoresis, mass spectrometry, and opticalspectroscopy for the assessmentof the interactionbetweenengineerednanomaterials and biomolecules; and the use of synthetic receptorsfor the exploration of post-translational modifications in proteins.

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