Young Analytical Scientists – Rui Liu

Young Analytical Scientists


JAAS is excited to announce Rui Liu as the latest author of one of our Young Analytical Scientist authors.

Rui Liu is an associate professor of analytical chemistry in Sichuan University. He received his B. S. and Ph. D. degree from Sichuan University in 2004 and 2012, respectively. During the graduate study, he worked as a visiting scholar in National Research Council Canada in 2010-2011. As a postdoctoral researcher, he worked in the Department of Chemistry in Tsinghua University in 2013-2016. He joined the faculty of the College of Chemistry in Sichuan University in 2016. His current research interests are inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry-based immunoassay and its applications in clinical diagnosis.

Read Dr Liu’s paper on single nanoparticle analysis for homogeneous immunoassay of CA19-9 for serological evaluation


J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2021, 36, 279-284

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JAAS Desktop Seminar featuring Vassilia Zorba and George Donati

 

The Royal Society of Chemistry is delighted to announce our inaugural free, online-only RSC Desktop Seminar Lectureship Series, featuring virtual talks by our recent journal lectureship winners. Each session will include an introductory talk by a journal board member as well as the lectureship winner. The RSC Desktop Seminar Lectureship Series is an effort to not only replace in-person research seminars during the current pandemic situation but to also expand access for researchers around the world looking to connect to some of the leading minds in the chemical sciences.

This webinar will allow researchers to hear from the JAAS Emerging Investigator Lectureship 2020 winner.

JAAS desktop seminar: Register now!

18th February 2021; 10am US (EST); 3pm GMT

 

Speakers

 

Programme

10:00 EST    Introduction

10:05 EST    Ultrafast laser filaments for remote sensing of isotopes in solids – Vassilia Zorba

10:25 EST    Questions

10:30 EST    Multi-signal methods: a different perspective on calibration – George Donati

11:10 EST    Questions

11:25 EST    Closing remarks

 

Featuring:

 

Dr Vassilia Zorba

Dr Vassilia Zorba is the Group Leader for the Laser Technologies Group at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, CA. She is also an Associate Adjunct Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on the development of the next-generation of laser tools for advanced sensors and laser-based manufacturing. Her research interests include ultrafast laser-material interactions, non-linear optics, remote sensing, laser-induced plasma chemistry, and laser ablation-based chemical analysis in electrochemical energy storage, with emphasis on next-generation Li-ion batteries. Her work has also focused on femtosecond laser surface structuring technologies and biomimetic material functionalization.

Scientific talk: “Ultrafast laser filaments for remote sensing of isotopes in solids”

 

Dr George Donati

George L. Donati obtained his M.Sc. in Analytical Chemistry from the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar, Brazil, 2004), and his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Wake Forest University (WFU, USA, 2010), where he received The American Institute of Chemists’ Outstanding Graduate Student Award. During his postdoctoral fellowship at UFSCar, George contributed to the development of the interference standard method (IFS). He is currently an Associate Research Professor at the Department of Chemistry of Wake Forest University, in Winston-Salem, NC, where he developed the methods of multi-energy calibration (MEC), multi-isotope calibration (MICal), multispecies calibration (MSC) and multi-flow calibration (MFC), and contributed to developing the standard dilution analysis method (SDA). His research at WFU focus on the development of portable instrumentation and novel calibration methods for spectrochemical analysis, as well as the use of atomic spectrometry and advanced statistical tools to diagnose and understand diseases.

Scientific talk: “Multi-signal methods: a different perspective on calibration”

 

We hope that you can join us for this exciting event.

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21st National Conference on Molecular Spectroscopy poster prizes awarded

The 21st National Conference on Molecular Spectroscopy was held Oct 30-Nov 2, 2020, at Sichuan University, China.

Our journal, Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry (JAAS) was happy to award four poster awards at the conference, with prizes including a £100 RSC book e-voucher and a certificate.

Congratulations to the winners!

Aihua Gao, Northwest University

Aihua Gao, School of Physics, Northwest University
Title: Spectral analysis during the Dye Wastewater Safranine T Degradation by Atmospheric Glow Discharge

 

Lihua Wang, Shimadzu

Lihua Wang, Shimadzu CO. LTD
Title: Qualitative and quantitative analysis of plastic beads in personal care products

Zili Huang, Sichuan University

Zili Huang, College of Chemistry, Sichuan University
Title: Single Particle ICP-MS Based Combined-Biomarkers Strategy for Pancreatic Cancer Prognosis

Ziyan Li, Sichuan University

Ziyan Li, Analytical & Testing Center, Sichuan University
Title: Mass Spectrometric Assay of Alpha-Fetoprotein Isoforms for Accurate Serological Evaluation

 

 

 

 

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2020 Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry collection now published

The online themed collection from the 2020 Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry is now published!

This online collection of papers from this year’s meeting, Guest Edited by Professor Ramon Barnes highlights work presented in Tucson.

These papers will be free to read* until 31 October, 2020.

We hope you enjoy the collection!

Why not submit your high impact research to JAAS today.

*Access is free through an RSC account (free to register)

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New JAAS Editorial Chair: A few words with Heidi Goenaga-Infante

The new Chair of JAAS has been announced as Heidi Goeanga-Infante, LGC, London, UK. We recently caught up with Heidi to find out a bit more about her.

What are you most looking forward to in your new role as chair?
I am delighted and feel honoured to be the new chair of JAAS. I am definitely looking forward to working more closely with a fantastic team of RSC editors and colleagues from the JAAS Editorial and Advisory boards.

What are you most looking forward to in your new role as Chair? What are your aims?
Taking up the role of JAAS Chair is a great opportunity to ensure that the journal further builds on its long-standing tradition of publishing innovative research at the forefront of atomic spectrometry. I will have big shoes to fill as the previous Chairs have done a fantastic job but I am willing to learn from their experience and do my very best to take the journal to exciting new areas.

What direction do you see this research field moving in and what do you imagine will be the next big breakthrough?
I envisage that key developments will be driven by needs in life sciences applications with regards to diagnostics and advanced therapeutics. The establishment of multidisciplinary platforms for multiple biomarker quantification and imaging of tissue down to single cells will be invaluable in supporting medical research into the diagnosis and treatment of chronic diseases like cancer, neurodegenerative diseases, and Wilson’s disease. Also multi-modal approaches developed so far for nanomaterials will be extended to anisotropic materials in more challenging environments and towards applications in nanomedicine.

How do we encourage the next generation of analytical chemists?
I would encourage them to get themselves out there, be proactive in pursuing their dream career, seize new opportunities and last but not least enjoy the journey. Passion and dedication are keys to success.

Whose work do you think is really exciting at the moment?
To mention a group or a few groups in particular will be unfair as I am amazed by the breadth of high quality work in our community. Having said that, I find the advances made in improving sample introduction and instrument calibration for challenging applications of single particle and single cell multi-tag analyses very exciting. This, of course, is nowadays supported by instrumentation developments towards higher sample transport efficiencies, better spatial resolution and speed and, micro-second, quasi-simultaneous multi-element and multi-isotope detection. Also, the increasing use of atomic spectrometry in parallel with techniques such as molecular mass spectrometry and microscopy in the areas of imaging, nanomaterial characterisation and speciation analysis keeps my full attention.

Once again, we’d like to warmly welcome Heidi. We’re looking forward to her term as Chair of the JAAS Editorial Board.

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JAAS Chair Heidi Goenaga-Infante wins Lester W. Strock Award

JAAS would like to congratulate our new Chair, Heidi Goenaga-Infante, on being awarded the 2020 Lester W. Strock Award.

The Lester W. Strock Award is given by the New England Section of the Society of Applied Spectroscopy in recognition of a selected publication of substantive research in/or application of analytical atomic spectrochemistry in the fields of earth science, life sciences, or stellar and cosmic sciences.

Heidi will recieve the award at the 2020 SciX conference, and will be giving a plenary talk on the Role of Reference Methods and Reference Materials to Support Use of Regulated Nanomaterials in the Manufacturing Industry, on Tuesday Oct 13th, 9:45am (Eastern Daylight Time).

Congratulations Heidi!

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2021 JAAS Emerging Investigator Lectureship – Open for Nominations

We are delighted to announce we are welcoming nominations for the next JAAS Emerging Investigator Lectureship. The lectureship is awarded to recognise and support an emerging scientist working in the area of atomic spectrometry in the early stages of their independent career. You can read about the previous winner here.

 


Lectureship details
The recipient of the lectureship will present their research at a relevant high-profile international meeting (to be agreed with the Editorial Office) and receive a contribution of £2000 to cover associated travel and accommodation costs. They will be awarded a certificate and asked to contribute a Primary Research or Review Article to JAAS.

Eligibility
The lectureship is open worldwide to researchers working in atomic spectrometry within the scope of JAAS who are at an early stage of their independent career. The nominee has to be under ten years* from gaining their PhD. (*Appropriate consideration will be given to those who have taken a career break or followed a different study path.) The nominee should also have a level of engagement with the journal JAAS and be a published author in it.

Nominations
Nominations must be received by the Editorial Office by January 31st 2021; researchers cannot nominate themselves and members of the Editorial Board judging panel are not eligible to receive the lectureship.
Nominations must include:
• A letter of recommendation (max. 2 pages), including achievements and evidence of research independence of the nominee. Please indicate if the nomination is for a series of contributions to the field or a single key piece of high impact work
• A completed JAAS Emerging Investigator nomination form (please request a form from the office.)

Selection

The Editorial Office will screen each nomination for eligibility and draw up a shortlist of candidates based on the nomination documents provided. The lectureship winner will be selected by the JAAS Editorial Board based on the originality, quality, impact and significance of the candidate’s research, as highlighted in their nomination.

Submit a nomination
To make a nomination please send the Editorial Office a letter of recommendation, and a completed nomination form no later than January 31st 2021.


For any queries, please contact the Editorial Office at jaas-rsc@rsc.org.

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Community Leaders: Gary Hieftje – themed collection now published

Gary HieftjeThe new themed collection for JAAS titled “Community Leaders: Gary Hieftje” is now published.

This is a collection of papers in celebration of Gary M. Hieftje’s career in analytical atomic spectrometry. Professor Hieftje’s work and impact in the community hardly need any introduction. He has been involved with JAAS in a number of ways (author, referee, guest editor, Editorial and Advisory Board Member) since the journal launched in 1986 and he was the Editorial Board Chair from 2004 – 2006. Gary has contributed over 70 articles to this journal alone and has also served on the Editorial Board of Metallomics.

Guest Edited by Steven J. Ray and Carsten Engelhard. New articles will be added to this collection as they are published.

These papers will be free to read* until 13th Oct, 2020.

We hope you enjoy the collection!

Why not submit your high impact research to JAAS today.

*Access is free through an RSC account (free to register)

 

 

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Gordon F. Kirkbright and Edward Steers Bursary Awards, 2021

Thermo-Hilger Award – Call for nominationsThe Gordon F. Kirkbright bursary award is a prestigious annual award that assists a promising early career scientist of any nation to attend a recognised scientific meeting or visit a place of learning. The fund for this bursary was established in 1985 as a memorial to Professor Gordon Kirkbright in recognition of his contributions to analytical spectroscopy and to science in general.

Owing to the generosity of one of our former trustees, an eminent atomic spectroscopist, Professor Edward B.M. Steers, we are now, from 2020, in the position of being able to award an annual Edward Steers bursary, in addition to the long standing Gordon Kirkbright bursary, to similarly assist a promising early scientist engaged in or utilising analytical spectroscopic techniques.

The ABS Trust defines early career as being either a student, or an employee in a non-tenured academic post or in industry, within 7 years of award of PhD excluding career breaks. The same conditions apply to each bursary.

Applications are invited for both the 2021 Gordon Kirkbright Bursary and the 2021 Edward Steers Bursary. Although both funds are administered by the ABS Trust, the Kirkbright award is not restricted to spectroscopists, but is open to all involved with or utilising analytical science-based techniques.

Application Forms can be downloaded via:

http://www.abstrust.org/kirkbright-and-steers-bursary-awards

or for further information visit:

http://www.abstrust.org/ or contact abstrustuk@gmail.com

The closing date for entries is 30 November 2020.

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JAAS Emerging Investigator Lectureship 2020 Recipient

We are delighted to announce George L. Donati as the recipient of the JAAS Emerging Investigator Lectureship 2020. This Lectureship aims to recognise and support an emerging scientist working in the area of atomic spectrometry in the early stages of their independent career.

 

Introducing George L. Donati, Wake Forest University, USA:

George L. Donati obtained his M.Sc. in Analytical Chemistry from the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar, Brazil, 2004), and his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Wake Forest University (WFU, USA, 2010), where he received The American Institute of Chemists’ Outstanding Graduate Student Award. During his postdoctoral fellowship at UFSCar, George contributed to the development of the interference standard method (IFS). He is currently an Associate Research Professor at the Department of Chemistry of Wake Forest University, in Winston-Salem, NC, where he developed the methods of multi-energy calibration (MEC), multi-isotope calibration (MICal), multispecies calibration (MSC) and multi-flow calibration (MFC), and contributed to developing the standard dilution analysis method (SDA). George has supervised three Ph.D. students and several undergraduate students at WFU. He is a member of the editorial advisory board of the Microchemical Journal, has published more than 80 peer-review papers and 3 book chapters, and has given more than 10 talks in international conferences. His research at WFU focus on the development of portable instrumentation and novel calibration methods for spectrochemical analysis, as well as the use of atomic spectrometry and advanced statistical tools to diagnose and understand diseases.

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