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New Associate Editor: Karen Faulds

19 Aug 2020

Analyst welcomes Professor Karen Faulds (University of Strathclyde, UK) as our newest Associate Editor.

Karen Faulds is a Professor in the Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry at the University of Strathclyde and an expert in the development of surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) and Raman techniques for novel analytical detection strategies and in particular multiplexed bioanalytical applications. She has published over 140 peer reviewed publications and has filed 5 patents. She has been awarded over £20M in funding as principal and co-investigator from EPSRC, BBSRC, charities, industry and governmental bodies. Her Groups research has been recognised through multiple awards including the Nexxus Young Life Scientist of the Year Award (2009), Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Joseph Black Award (2013), Craver Award (2016) and Charles Mann Award (2019). She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2012), the Society for Applied Spectroscopy (2017) and the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2018). She has been named as one of the Top 50 Women in Analytical Science (2016), Top 10 Spectroscopist (2017) and Top 100 Influential Analytical Scientists (2019) by The Analytical Scientist. She has given over 90 invited talks at national and international conferences.

She was elected as the first female and youngest Chair of the Infrared and Raman Discussion Group (IRDG) in 2014 which is the oldest spectroscopic discussion society in the UK. She is an appointed member of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Chemical Biology Interface Division Council and a member of the Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies (FACSS) Governing Board and a member of the International Steering Committee of the International Conference on Raman Spectroscopy (ICORS). She is the Strathclyde Director of the EPSRC and MRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Optical Medical Imaging joint between the Universities of Edinburgh and Strathclyde, serves on the editorial board of RSC Advances and the editorial advisory board for Analyst, Chemical Society Reviews and Analytical Chemistry.

Read some of Karen’s recent Analyst papers here:

DNA detection by SERS: Hybridisation parameters and the potential for asymmetric PCR

DOI: 10.1039/c9an01732a

Detection of cardiovascular disease associated miR-29a using paper-based microfluidics and surface enhanced Raman scattering

DOI: 10.1039/c9an01748h

Surface enhanced resonance Raman spectroscopy (SERRS) for probing through plastic and tissue barriers using a handheld spectrometer

DOI: 10.1039/c8an01249k

Development of a label-free Raman imaging technique for differentiation of malaria parasite infected from non-infected tissue

DOI: 10.1039/c7an01760j

Karen also served as a Guest Editor for Analyst‘s recent Analytical Nanoscience themed collection. You can read the collection here.

Submit your best work to Karen now!

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New Editor-in-Chief of Analyst – Norm Dovichi

14 Jul 2020

Analyst is delighted to welcome a new Editor-in-Chief, Norm Dovichi.

Norman Dovichi is an emeritus professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Notre Dame. He received his BSc with a dual major in Chemistry and Mathematics from Northern Illinois University and his PhD in Physical Analytical Chemistry from the University of Utah, where he was Joel Harris’s first PhD student. He spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory with Dick Keller. Since then he has held faculty positions at the Universities of Wyoming, Alberta, and Washington before moving to Notre Dame. Dovichi has graduated 69 PhD students, has published over 300 papers, holds seven US patents, and has given over 350 invited talks. He has served on the editorial advisory boards of 16 journals and served as Associate Editor for Analytical Chemistry for 17 years. He also has been named as an honorary professor at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

His group played a pioneering role in a range of research topics in analytical chemistry. In the 1980s, he introduced the concept of single molecule detection to the chemical literature; in recognition for this work, he was invited as a plenary lecturer at the Nobel Conference on Single Molecule Spectroscopy held in 1999. In the 1990s, his group developed capillary array electrophoresis instruments for high-throughput DNA sequencing. He was recognized for this work by the journal Science as an “Unsung Hero of the Human Genome Project” and he was a plenary lecturer at the symposium on the Evolution of DNA Sequencing Technology, held at Cold Springs Harbor in 2015. Over the last decade, his group has focused its attention on coupling capillary electrophoresis with tandem mass spectrometry as a tool for high throughput and high sensitivity proteomic analysis. This instrumentation has been patented and is now marked by CMP Scientific and Agilent. Finally, his group has recently coupled capillary electrophoresis with next-generation DNA sequencing for the comprehensive metagenomic analysis of complex environmental microbiomes.

Analyst would also like to take this opportunity to thank our previous Editor-in-Chief, Professor Duncan Graham, for his service to the journal.

Submit your best work to Norm and our team of Associate Editors now!

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Outstanding Reviewers for Analyst in 2018

18 Mar 2019

We would like to highlight the Outstanding Reviewers for Analyst in 2018, as selected by the editorial team, for their significant contribution to the journal. The reviewers have been chosen based on the number, timeliness and quality of the reports completed over the last 12 months.

We would like to say a big thank you to those individuals listed here as well as to all of the reviewers that have supported the journal. Each Outstanding Reviewer will receive a certificate to give recognition for their significant contribution.

Dr Hugh Byrne, Focas Institute, Dublin Institute of Technology ORCiD: 0000-0002-1735-8610

Professor Lingxin Chen, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research ORCiD: 0000-0002-3764-3515

Professor Jeremy Driskell, Illinois State University ORCiD: 0000-0001-5082-898X

Professor Ning Gan, Ningbo University ORCiD: 0000-0001-9772-2437

Professor Hideaki Hisamoto, Osaka Prefecture University ORCiD: 0000-0003-1067-4116

Professor Young-Pil Kim, Hanyang University ORCiD: 0000-0001-7234-1320

Professor Feng Li, Qingdao Agricultural University ORCiD: 0000-0002-3894-6139

Professor Yi-Tao Long, East China University of Science and Technology ORCiD: 0000-0003-2571-7457

Professor Zachary Schultz, The Ohio State University ORCiD: 0000-0003-1741-8801

Dr Bhavya Sharma, University of Tennessee ORCiD: 0000-0003-4388-5702

Dr Muhammad Shiddiky, Griffith University ORCiD: 0000-0003-4526-4109

Dr James Wade, Dow Chemical ORCiD: 0000-0002-9740-1905

We would also like to thank the Analyst board and the analytical chemistry community for their continued support of the journal, as authors, reviewers and readers.

If you would like to become a reviewer for our journal, just email us with details of your research interests and an up-to-date CV or résumé. You can find more details in our author and reviewer resource centre

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Outstanding Reviewers for Analyst in 2017

22 Mar 2018

We would like to highlight the Outstanding Reviewers for Analyst in 2017, as selected by the editorial team, for their significant contribution to the journal. The reviewers have been chosen based on the number, timeliness and quality of the reports completed over the last 12 months.

Dr. Lingxin Chen, Chinese Academy of Sciences, ORCID: 0000-0002-3764-3515

Dr. Jaebum Choo, Hanyang University, ORCID: 0000-0003-3864-6459

Dr. Shijia Ding, Chongqing Medical University, ORCID: 0000-0002-9183-1656

Dr. Hugh Byrne, Dublin Institute of Technology, ORCID: 0000-0002-1735-8610

Prof. Dr. YiTao Long, East China University of Science and Technology, ORCID: 0000-0003-2571-7457

Dr. Ruo Yuan, Southwest University, ORCID: 0000-0003-3664-6236

Dr. Kazuma Mawatari, The University of Tokyo, ORCID: 0000-0001-7232-5531

Dr. Meining Zhang, Renmin Univerisity, ORCID: 0000-0002-7061-6025

Professor Hideaki Hisamoto, Osaka Prefecture University, ORCID: 0000-0003-1067-4116

Dr. Juewen Liu, University of Waterloo, ORCID: 0000-0001-5918-9336

We would also like to thank the Analyst board and the analytical chemistry community for their continued support of the journal, as authors, reviewers and readers.

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Gordon F. Kirkbright Bursary Award, 2018

22 May 2017

The Gordon F. Kirkbright bursary award is a prestigious annual award that enables a promising student/non-tenured young 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. Although the fund is administered by the Association of British Spectroscopists (ABS) Trust, the award is not restricted to spectroscopists.

Applications are invited for the 2018 Gordon Kirkbright Bursary.

To download an Application Form or for further information visit, http://www.abstrust.org/, or contact abstrustuk@gmail.com

The closing date for entries is 31 December 2018.

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Simple polymer tongue can taste the difference

28 Feb 2017

Scientists in Germany have designed a simple polymer that can be used in a sensor to distinguish between similar fruit juices.

Sensors that analyse food, drink and drugs are important for quality control and preventing fraud. Chemo-optical sensors, or tongues, already exist for testing wine, coffee, whiskey and other beverages. Due to the complex nature of these samples, the tongues comprise a number of sensors, which undergo structural changes to provide a colour or fluorescence pattern in the presence of various analytes. Chemometric techniques then analyse the pattern, reporting the distinct ‘taste’ for each product.

Read the full article in Chemistry World >>>

This paper is free to access until 5th April, 2017:

Poly(p-phenyleneethynylene)-based tongues discriminate fruit juices
Jinsong Han, Benhua Wang, Markus Bender, Kai Seehafera and Uwe H.F. Bunz
Analyst, 2017,142, 537-543
DOI: 10.1039/C6AN02387H

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Outstanding Reviewers for Analyst in 2016

24 Feb 2017

Following the success of Peer Review Week in September 2016 (dedicated to reviewer recognition) during which we published a list of our top reviewers, we are delighted to announce that we will continue to recognise the contribution that our reviewers make to the journal by announcing our Outstanding Reviewers each year.

We would like to highlight the Outstanding Reviewers for Analyst in 2016, as selected by the editorial team, for their significant contribution to the journal. The reviewers have been chosen based on the number, timeliness and quality of the reports completed over the last 12 months.

Professor Hugh J. Byrne, Focas Research Institute

Dr Colin Campbell, University of Edinburgh

Dr Lingxin Chen, Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry

Dr Jaebum Choo, Hanyang University

Professor Karen Faulds, University of Strathclyde

Professor Ning Gan, Ningbo University

Dr Takeaki Ozawa, University of Tokyo

Professor Martin Pumera, Nanyang Technological University

Professor Zachary Schultz, University of Notre Dame

Professor Chaoyong Yang, Xiamen University

We would also like to thank the Analyst board and the analytical science community for their continued support of the journal, as authors, reviewers and readers.

If you would like to become a reviewer for our journal, just email us with details of your research interests and an up-to-date CV or résumé. You can find more details in our author and reviewer resource centre

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Congratulations to the RSC Award winners at SciX2016!

20 Sep 2016

Congratulations to the RSC award winners who received their prizes at the RSC Awards Symposium, held on Monday 19 September at SciX2016, Minneapolis, USA.

Patrick Hayes was awarded the Analyst Emerging Investigators Lectureship, presented by the Executive Editor of Analyst, Philippa Hughes.

Patrick Hayes awarded the Emerging Investigator Lectureship

This lectureship was launched as a platform for an early career analytical scientist to raise the profile of the analytical sciences to the wider scientific community and general public. The candidates were asked to submit an original essay of no more than 1000 words highlighting the significant and wide-reaching impact on scientific and societal issues related to this year’s theme of health in the analytical sciences. The awardee receives up to £2000 contribution towards travel and accommodation costs to attend and present a lecture based on their research at a leading international meeting. Their essay will also be published as a Perspective article in Analyst.

The Chair of Analyst, Professor Duncan Graham (University of Strathclyde), was also awarded the RSC Theophilus Redwood Award 2016. The Theophilus Redwood Award is given to a leading analytical scientist who is also an outstanding communicator and is awarded to Duncan for innovation and leadership in exploiting surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy in the analytical community.

Philippa Hughes presenting Duncan Graham with the RSC Theophilus Redwood Award

Congratulations to both Patrick and Duncan for their achievements!

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What we do in the shadows…

19 Aug 2016

What goes up, must come down...

We are all passionate scientists, but we all have a “dark” side. I know for example that Professor Pat Unwin at Warwick University is an accomplished musician, likewise, Professor Dermot Diamond at Dublin City University. And myself? I run. I run trail races. I run ultra trail races.

What’s the meaning of “ultra”? Well, anything beyond a marathon: 45k… 50k… 70k… 100k… 160k… and beyond! I just ran across the beautiful island of Corsica – 5 days, a whopping 185k, 12,000m of altitude up and all the way down again. Tough? Yes… but doable! Admittedly, you go through 10 “runners highs” and 25+ “runners lows”. But in the end – doable! And after that adventure, I asked myself, how different are profession and passion actually? Maybe we should explore this a little further…

Let’s consider an example – writing an EU proposal or an ERC grant? Tough? Yes… but doable! And honestly, there are at least 10 “proposal highs” and 25+ “proposal lows” you go through. So, how different are profession and passion? Let’s see by comparing writing a major proposal versus preparing for an ultra trail race!

1. It’s all about preparation – A clear “yes” for both!

2. You need to focus – True, relevant in both cases!

3. Preliminary results are important – It’s all about knowing what you are up to… tick the box for both!

4. Step outside your comfort zone – No new achievements without breaking new ground. Ticked!

5. Physical and mental fitness – A prerequisite, right?

6. You never know whether you will be successful, unless you try – Guess we agree! Ticked!

7. If you fail, try again, fail better – Ticked for both!

8. Never give up – Who would ever do that?

After all, not so different right? Seems there is a lot of analogy between preparing a proposal and preparing for an ultra trail race! Whether you are a musician, an ultra trail runner, a scientist or an interdisciplinary combination, if you do it with passion, it may be tough, but it is doable!

See you on the next (ultra) trail! And don’t forget 9. Any step is a step closer to the finish line 😉 Cheers, Boris

More stories on Europe’s toughest trek: Corsica GR20 can be found here

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ASASS 2

18 Jul 2016

ASASS (ACROSS International Symposium on Advances in Separation Science) is an International Symposium dedicated to showcasing the latest and greatest achievements in the field of separation science and related techniques, bringing together the leading scientists and practitioners within Australia, with invited international experts of world renown.

ASASS will be taking place from November 30 to December 2 in Hobart, Tasmania.

To find out more details about ASASS 2016, please click here. You can also see here for registration information.

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