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Analyst is delighted to announce the winner of our 2024 Emerging Investigator Lectureship, Ashley Ross. This Lectureship was launched to be a platform for an early career analytical scientist to raise the profile of the analytical sciences to the wider scientific community and general public.

Ashley is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at the University of Cincinnati and faculty in the Neuroscience Graduate Program and Center for Pediatric Neuroscience. She earned her PhD in 2014 and completed her post-doctoral training at the University of Virginia where she was an American Association of Immunology Careers in Immunology Fellow.

She began her independent career in 2017. Her diverse research interests include fundamental investigations into how neurochemicals interact at electrode surfaces, investigating neuroprotection during ischemia, and studying neuro-immune signaling along the gut-brain-immune axis.

Professor Ross was featured in the Analytical Scientist’s 2022 “Top 40 under 40”, was named an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow in 2022, and has been recognized as an emerging investigator in several journals including Analyst, Lab on a Chip, and Chemical Communications.

Her lab has received funding from the NSF CAREER, the NIH, and from the RCSA. She currently serves on the Advisory Boards of Analyst, Chemical Society Reviews and ACS Electrochemistry, and is on the Board of Directors for the Society of Electroanalytical Chemistry.

Read some of Professor Ross’ Analyst articles:

Plasma-treated gold microelectrodes for subsecond detection of Zn(ii) with fast-scan cyclic voltammetry Analyst, 2024, Advance Article

Plasma-treated carbon-fiber microelectrodes for improved purine detection with fast-scan cyclic voltammetry Analyst, 2020,145, 805-815

Subsecond detection of guanosine using fast-scan cyclic voltammetry Analyst, 2019,144, 249-257

Analyst Emerging Investigator Lectureship 2024

We are delighted to announce that the Analyst Emerging Investigator Lectureship is now open for nominations.

The Analyst Emerging Investigator Lectureship is a platform for an early career analytical scientist to raise the profile of the analytical sciences to the wider scientific community and general public.

Lectureship details

• The recipient will receive up to £2000 contribution towards travel and accommodation costs to attend and present a lecture based on their research at a leading international meeting.
• Recipients will be invited to contribute a review to Analyst in the following year.

How to nominate

Nominators must send the following to the editorial team (at analyst-rsc@rsc.org) by 19th July 2024.

• A recommendation letter, including the name, contact details and website URL of the nominee.
• A one-page CV for the nominee, including their date of birth, summary of education and career, a list of up to five of their top independent publications, total numbers of publications.
• A one-page statement of achievement with a lay summary, written by the nominee describing their best accomplishments.
• A supporting letter of recommendation from an independent referee. This could be, for example, the nominee’s post doc or PhD supervisor.

The nominator and independent referee should comment on the candidate’s presenting skills.

Self-nomination is not permitted. Incomplete nominations or those not adhering to the above requirements can not be considered.

Particulars and selection criteria

• Have completed their PhD
• Have published in Analyst
• Be working in a research area within the scope of Analyst
• Be at an early stage of their independent career (typically this will be within 10 years of completing their PhD, but appropriate consideration will be given to those who have taken a career break or followed a different study path).
• The editorial team will screen each nomination for eligibility and draw up a shortlist of candidates based on the nomination documents provided.
• The recipient of the Lectureship will then be selected by the Analyst Editorial Board.

For any queries, please contact the editorial team at analyst-rsc@rsc.org.

Previous winners

2023 – Jeffrey E. Dick

2022 – Maria Cuartero

2021 – Debbie Silvester

2020 – Yi-Lun Ying

2018 – Wei Min

2016 – Patrick L. Hayes

Analyst Emerging Investigator Lectureship 2023

We are delighted to announce the Analyst Emerging Investigator Lectureship is open for nominations.

The Analyst Emerging Investigator Lectureship is a platform for an early career analytical scientist to raise the profile of the analytical sciences to the wider scientific community and general public.

Lectureship details

• • The recipient will receive up to £2000 contribution towards travel and accommodation costs to attend and present a lecture based on their research at a leading international meeting.*
  • Recipients will be invited to contribute a review to Analyst in the following year.

How to nominate

Self-nomination is not permitted.

Nominators must send the following to the editorial team (at analyst-rsc@rsc.org) by 15th September 2023.

• A recommendation letter, including the name, contact details and website URL of the nominee.
• A one-page CV for the nominee, including their date of birth, summary of education and career, a list of up to five of their top independent publications, total numbers of publications.
• A one-page statement of achievement with a lay summary, written by the nominee describing their best accomplishments.
• A supporting letter of recommendation from an independent referee. Ideally this could be for example the nominee’s post doc or PhD supervisor.

The nominator and independent referee should comment on the candidate’s presenting skills.

Incomplete nominations or those not adhering to the above requirements will not be considered.

Particulars and selection criteria

• Have completed their PhD
• Have published in Analyst in the past 3 years
• Be working in a research area within the scope of Analyst
• Be at an early stage of their independent career (typically this will be within 10 years of completing their PhD, but appropriate consideration will be given to those who have taken a career break or followed a different study path). Please contact the Editorial Office if you have any queries
• The editorial team will screen each nomination for eligibility and draw up a shortlist of candidates based on the nomination documents provided.
• The recipient of the Lectureship will then be selected by the Analyst Editorial Board.

For any queries, please contact the editorial team at analyst-rsc@rsc.org.

Previous winners

2022 – Maria Cuartero

2021 – Debbie Silvester

2020 – Yi-Lun Ying

2018 – Wei Min

2016 – Patrick L. Hayes

Analyst is delighted to announce the winner of our 2022 Emerging Investigator Lectureship, Maria Cuartero. This Lectureship was launched to be a platform for an early career analytical scientist to raise the profile of the analytical sciences to the wider scientific community and general public.

Professor Maria Cuartero received her PhD degree in 2014 in the University of Murcia (Spain). Later, she carried out a postdoctoral stay of 3 years in the University of Geneva (Switzerland). In 2018, she moved to KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm (Sweden) as a Marie Curie Fellow, becoming Assistant Professor and Docent in 2020. Recently, Professor Cuartero has been appointed to Full Professor in Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia (Spain), where she is leading a research unit focused on chemical sensors, the UCAM-SENS. In addition, she is Academic in the Young Academy of Spain and the next Chair Elect of the Division 1 of the International Society of Electrochemistry. She is co-author of ~100 peer-reviewed papers, mainly in journals related to Analytical Chemistry and Electrochemistry.

Professor Cuartero’s research is primarily focused on the development of new fundamental concepts in electroanalysis, being funded by several prestigious grants such as the ERC-Starting Grant (European Research Council). Other research interests comprise environmental water electroanalysis, enzymatic (bio)sensors, wearable sensors in the form of patches and microneedles for healthcare, nanotips for single cell measurements and spectroelectrochemistry with analytical purposes.

Professor Cuartero’s work has been recognized by several honours, including the Ramon y Cajal Program (2022), Early Career Analytical Electrochemistry Prize of the International Society of Electrochemistry (2018), and the Best PhD Thesis in Analytical Chemistry by the Spanish Society of Analytical Chemistry (2015).

Read Professor Cuartero’s recent articles in Analyst:

Why ammonium detection is particularly challenging but insightful with ionophore-based potentiometric sensors – an overview of the progress in the last 20 years Analyst, 2020,145, 3188-3210
A sustainable amperometric biosensor for the analysis of ascorbic, benzoic, gallic and kojic acids through catechol detection. Innovation and signal processing Analyst, 2020,145, 3645-3655

Analyst is delighted to announce the winner of our 2021 Emerging Investigator Lectureship, Debbie Silvester. This Lectureship was launched to be a platform for an early career analytical scientist to raise the profile of the analytical sciences to the wider scientific community and general public.

Associate Professor Silvester received her MSc in Chemistry from the University of Bristol, UK (2005), and PhD in Chemistry from the University of Oxford, UK (Dec 2008). She was an intern at Schlumberger Cambridge Research, before arriving at Curtin University in Perth, Australia in 2009. In 2012, she was awarded an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Early Career Research Award (DECRA) and in 2017, an ARC Future Fellowship. She has had multiple career breaks and worked part time since 2013 due to caring responsibilities. Professor Silvester’s research is focussed on developing a new class of sensors for toxic gases and explosives based on miniaturised electrodes and ionic liquid solvents. She aims to understand gas and explosive behaviour in ionic liquids and use this knowledge to inform innovative sensor designs that will push detection limits to analytically relevant levels.

Professor Silvester’s work has been recognised by several awards and honours, including the Le Fèvre medal from the Australian Academy of Science (2021), the Rennie Memorial Medal from the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI) (2019), a Western Australian Young Tall Poppy Award, named on the Analytical Scientist Power List (2020) and elected a Fellow of the RACI (2020). She is currently the secretary for the Electrochemistry Division of the RACI, and the Australia/New Zealand representative for the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE). She has also served as an editor for Scientific Reports and Frontiers in Chemistry.

We offer our warmest congratulations to Debbie on her achievement!

Read Professor Silvester’s recent Analyst paper: Thin films of poly(vinylidene fluoride-co-hexafluoropropylene)-ionic liquid mixtures as amperometric gas sensing materials for oxygen and ammonia. Analyst, 2020,145, 1915-1924

Analyst Emerging Investigator Lectureship 2021

Analyst is delighted to announce the fourth Analyst Emerging Investigator Lectureship is open for nominations.

The Analyst Emerging Investigator Lectureship is a platform for an early career analytical scientist to raise the profile of the analytical sciences to the wider scientific community and general public.

Lectureship details

• The recipient will receive up to £2000 contribution towards travel and accommodation costs to attend and present a lecture based on their research at a leading international meeting.*
• Recipients will be invited to contribute a review to Analyst in the following year.

How to nominate

Self-nomination is not permitted.

Nominators must send the following to the editorial team (at analyst-rsc@rsc.org) by 16th April 2021.

• A recommendation letter, including the name, contact details and website URL of the nominee.
• A one-page CV for the nominee, including their date of birth, summary of education and career, a list of up to five of their top independent publications, total numbers of publications.
• A one-page statement of achievement with a lay summary, written by the nominee describing their best accomplishments.
• A supporting letter of recommendation from an independent referee. Ideally this should not be someone from the same institution or the nominee’s post doc or PhD supervisor.

The nominator and independent referee should comment on the candidate’s presenting skills.

Incomplete nominations or those not adhering to the above requirements will not be considered.

Particulars and selection criteria

• To be eligible for the Lectureship, nominees typically will be within 10 years of completing their PhD, but appropriate consideration will be given to those who have taken a career break or followed a different study path.
• The editorial team will screen each nomination for eligibility and draw up a shortlist of candidates based on the nomination documents provided.
• The recipient of the Lectureship will then be selected by the Analyst Editorial Board.

For any queries, please contact the editorial team at analyst-rsc@rsc.org.

Previous winners

2020 – Yi-Lun Ying

2018 – Wei Min

2016 – Patrick L. Hayes

*Should the Covid-19 outbreak prevent travel to an international meeting, the recipient will still be eligible to receive the prize.

Analyst is delighted to announce the winner of our 2020 Emerging Investigator Lectureship, Yi-Lun Ying. This Lectureship was launched to be a platform for an early career analytical scientist to raise the profile of the analytical sciences to the wider scientific community and general public.

Yilun Ying

Dr. Yi-Lun Ying received her B.Sc in Fine Chemistry (2009), and Ph.D in Analytical Chemistry (2014) from East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST). After a doctoral exchange study in the University of Birmingham (2014), Dr. Ying carried out her postdoctoral research on nanopore single-molecule analysis and nanoscaled biosensors at ECUST. Since 2016, she started her independent work on the nanopore electrochemistry at ECUST. In 2019, she was promoted to professor at State Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Science in Nanjing University and also acted as a co-PI at the Chemistry and Biomedicine Innovation Center.

Dr. Ying currently focuses on developing electro-optical nanopore sensing modules for addressing peptide/protein sequencing and revealing the heterogeneous structure-activity relationship of the single biomolecules. To push the detection limit of the electrochemical measurement, her team is currently exploring the advanced artificial intelligence for nanopore arrays and innovating new sensing mechanisms to reserve the richest single molecule dynamics.

Dr. Ying’s work has been recognized by several awards and honors, including the L’Oreal-UNESCO International Rising Talents (2016), Excellent Young Scholars of National Natural Science Foundation of China (2019), National Ten Thousand Talent Program for Young Top-Notch Talent (2019). She has also served as an Editor for Results in Chemistry from its inception.

Once again, we offer our warmest congratulations to Yi-Lun on her acheivement!

Read some of Dr Ying’s most recent Analyst papers here*:

Analyst is delighted to announce the third Analyst Emerging Investigator Lectureship is open for nominations.

The Analyst Emerging Investigator Lectureship is a platform for an early career analytical scientist to raise the profile of the analytical sciences to the wider scientific community and general public.

Lectureship details

• The recipient will receive up to £2000 contribution towards travel and accommodation costs to attend and present a lecture based on their research at a leading international meeting.
• Recipients will be invited to contribute a review to Analyst in the following year.

How to nominate

Self-nomination is not permitted.

Nominators must send the following to the editorial team (at analyst-rsc@rsc.org) by 29th February 2020:

• A recommendation letter, including the name, contact details and website URL of the nominee.
• A one-page CV for the nominee, including their date of birth, summary of education and career, a list of up to five of their top independent publications, total numbers of publications.
• A one-page statement of achievement with a lay summary, written by the nominee describing their best accomplishments.
• A supporting letter of recommendation from an independent referee. Ideally this should not be someone from the same institution or the nominee’s post doc or PhD supervisor.

The nominator and independent referee should comment on the candidate’s presenting skills.

Incomplete nominations or those not adhering to the above requirements will not be considered.

Particulars and selection criteria

• To be eligible for the Lectureship, nominees typically will be within 10 years of completing their PhD, but appropriate consideration will be given to those who have taken a career break or followed a different study path.
• The editorial team will screen each nomination for eligibility and draw up a shortlist of candidates based on the nomination documents provided.
• The recipient of the Lectureship will then be selected by the Analyst Editorial Board.

For any queries, please contact the editorial team at analyst-rsc@rsc.org.

Previous winners

2018 – Wei Min

2016 – Patrick L. Hayes