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In memory of Akbar Montaser

We were informed of the sad news of the death of Professor Akbar Montaser. He was a prominent member of the plasma spectroscopy community and passed away recently after a long illness.

Akbar Montaser got his basic scientific education in the Pahlevi University of Shiraz, Iran in 1969, then moved to Michigan State University for a PhD in chemistry in 1974, followed by a postdoctoral stay in Ames National Laboratories and Iowa State University. He became Professor at George Washington University in Washington DC where he retired after 32 years in 2012.

Professor Akbar Montaser

Professor Akbar Montaser

Professor Montaser made significant contributions on various methods and tools in inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry. Some of his most important contributions in the field concern sample introduction nebulization techniques and inductively coupled plasma ionization away from the conventional argon ICP source. Many of his papers on these subjects appeared in JAAS. He will be most vividly remembered for his role as writer and editor of a seminal handbook on the methodology. This 1000+ pages bestselling comprehensive handbook appeared in 1998 and is now, considering the fast evolution of the methodology, largely outdated. It remains, however, on the bookshelf of many users as a quick and still reliable source of information.

During the years after his retirement from GWU, Professor Montaser started the task of updating his book. Unfortunately, growing health concerns delayed this undertaking and he finally died before he could end the first volume of what he intended to become a trilogy on the subject as it is today.

Anyone who corresponded with Akbar Montaser will remember that he used to end his correspondence with a quote from the famous Persian poet and Soefi philosopher Jalal ad-Din Rumi (1207-1273). The following quote of Rumi fits well with Akbar’s passing away. “Death has nothing to do with going away. The sun sets and the moon sets, but they’re not gone. Death is a coming together”. This is a quote that is open-ended in its meaning and interpretation. We see it here as an open invitation to anyone to pick up the thread of Akbar’s intention for his new book and bring it to successful completion as a worthy sequel of his Magnum Opus of 1998.

The picture shows Professor Akbar Montaser during what may have been his last meeting with his scientific peers and colleagues at the European Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry, February 2019 in Pau, France.

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Outstanding Reviewers for JAAS in 2018

We would like to highlight the Outstanding Reviewers for JAAS 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 Cesar Alvarez-Llamas, ICB Laboratory ORCiD: 0000-0001-7793-7000

Dr Antonio Canals, Alicante University ORCiD: 0000-0001-7420-3976

Dr Gregory Eiden, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory ORCiD: 0000-0001-8182-7357

Professor Hisash Hayashi, Japan Women’s University ORCiD: 0000-0002-8504-4066

Professor Chris Jeynes, University of Surrey ORCiD: 0000-0002-6404-8957

Dr Jun-Ichi Kimura, JAMSTEC ORCiD: 0000-0002-2677-515X

Dr Joaquim Nobrega, Sao Carlos Federal University ORCiD: 0000-0001-9134-9547

Dr Dirce Pozebon, Rio Grande do Sul Federal university ORCiD: 0000-0003-0143-1753

Dr Jose-Luis Todoli Torro, Alicante University ORCiD: 0000-0002-9151-7050

Dr Alex Ulianov, University of Lausanne ORCiD: 0000-0001-7047-6862

We would also like to thank the JAAS 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 JAAS in 2017

We would like to highlight the Outstanding Reviewers for JAAS 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.

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.

 

Professor Pawel Pohl, Wroclaw University of Technology, ORCID: 0000-0003-1844-7188

Dr Dmitriy Malinovskiy, LGC limited, ORCID: 0000-0002-7055-2359

Dr Zhe Wang, Tsinghua University, ORCID: 0000-0001-6857-7672

Dr Joaquim Nobrega, Universidade Federal de Sao Carlos, ORCID: 0000-0001-9134-9547

Dr Erico Flores, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, ORCID: 0000-0001-9785-2477

Professor Jose-Luis Todoli, Universitat d’Alacant, ORCID: 0000-0002-9151-7050

Dr Gregory Eiden, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, ORCID: 0000-0001-8182-7357

Professor Michael Webb, University of North Carolina Wilmington, ORCID: 0000-0003-4762-2555

Dr Andreas Limbeck, Vienna University of Technology, ORCID: 0000-0001-5042-2445

Dr Gábor Galbács, University of Szeged, ORCID: 0000-0002-1799-5329

 

We would also like to thank the JAAS board and the atomic spectroscopy 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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In memory of Edward Steers

Professor Edward Steers

Professor Edward Steers

We are saddened to report that Professor Edward Steers of the London Metropolitan University has passed away. Edward was a major figure in glow discharge spectrometry and he was widely respected and admired for his keen scientific insight and encyclopaedic knowledge, and he was universally loved as a genuine and wonderful individual.

While this is indeed sad news, let us remember that Edward reached a fine age and worked for over 60 years on a topic that he loved. And he inspired many young researchers to concentrate on the field of Glow Discharge. He will be missed. – Pete Robinson.

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Gordon F. Kirkbright Bursary Award, 2018

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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Outstanding Reviewers for JAAS in 2016

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 JAAS 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.

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 Dmitry Bandura, Fluidigm Canada

Professor Edenir Filho, Universidade Federal de Sao Carlos

Dr Erico Flores, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria

Professor Gábor Galbács, University of Szeged

Dr Heidi Goenaga-Infante, LGC

Professor Takafumi Hirata, University of Tokyo

Professor Zhaochu Hu, China University of Geosciences

Dr Dmitriy Malinovskiy, LGC

Dr Pawel Pohl, Wroclaw University of Technology

Dr Jose Vadillo, Universidad de Malaga

We would also like to thank the JAAS 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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JAAS Emerging Investigator Lectureship recipient

We are delighted to announce Sohail Mushtaq as the recipent of the 2016 JAAS Emerging Investigator Lectureship. This Lectureship was launched to recognise and support an emerging scientist working in the area of atomic spectrometry in the early stages of their independent career.

Sohail Mushtaq

Sohail Mushtaq

Introducing Sohail Mushtaq, London Metropolitan University:

Sohail Mushtaq received his M.Sc degree in 2005 and his M.Phil in 2007, both from the Government College University Lahore (GCUL), Pakistan. During his M.Phil research project, he was awarded a scholarship by the ICSC-World Laboratory and also appointed as M.Phil Research Fellow at Salam Chair, Physics Department, GCUL. After his M.Phil degree he was selected as the Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher at Imperial College London to work with Prof. J. C. Pickering in the EC Research Training Network on Analytical Glow Discharges (GLADNET). After his PhD in 2011 at Imperial College on the effects of small amounts of molecular gases in analytical glow discharges, he took up a postdoctoral position with Prof. Edward Steers at London Metropolitan University. He has extensive experience of using the Imperial Fourier Transform spectrometer and glow discharge sources, and has carried out experimental work at EAG (Syracuse, USA), EMPA (Thun, Switzerland), BAM (Berlin) and IFW Dresden (Germany). He has made a significant impact in the field with 17 publications; including three papers with work featured on the front cover of JAAS and is internationally known for his work on molecular gases in glow discharges. He was awarded the Payling prize for the best contribution by a young scientist at the 2nd IGDSS (Internl. GDS Symposium), Prague. His main research interest is in the fundamental processes in glow discharges and their dependence on the plasma constituents.

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Congratulation to the ISEAC 39 poster prize winner

Congratulations to our JAAS Poster Prize winner at the recent ISEAC 39 (39th International Symposium on Environmental Analytical Chemistry) meeting in Hamburg, Germany.  The central subject of the ISEAC-39 conference that took place at the University of Hamburg, from July 19th – 22nd 2016 was the innovative use of analytical methods for the investigation of environmentally and food relevant questions.

The winner was Anja Brandt with her poster on the direct detection of metal nanoparticles by high resolution continuum source GFAAS.

Well done Anja!

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Open Access articles in JAAS

We are very pleased to share with you below some of the latest Open Access papers published in JAAS that may be of interest to you. These research papers are free to access for all – we hope you enjoy reading them.

Stijn J. M. Van Malderen, Amy J. Managh, Barry L. Sharp and Frank Vanhaecke
J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2016, 31, 423-439
DOI: 10.1039/C5JA00430F, Critical Review

Alexandra Sixto, Marta Fiedoruk-Pogrebniak, María Rosende, David Cocovi-Solberg, Moisés Knochen and Manuel Miró
J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2016, 31, 473-481
DOI: 10.1039/C5JA00387C, Paper

Alexander Nyrow, Christian Sternemann, John S. Tse, Christopher Weis, Christoph J. Sahle, Kolja Mende, D. C. Florian Wieland, Valerio Cerantola, Robert A. Gordon, Georg Spiekermann, Tom Regier, Max Wilke and Metin Tolan
J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2016, 31, 815-820
DOI: 10.1039/C5JA00261C, Technical Note
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ISEAC 39 – University of Hamburg

The ISEAC 39 Conference will take place at the University of Hamburg from July 19th – July 22nd 2016.

The central subject of the conference is the innovative use of analytical methods for the investigation of environmentally and food relevant questions.

Topics for discussion:

  • Sampling
  • Non-targeted approaches (screening, fingerprinting, profiling, barcoding, omicstechnologies)
  • Targeted approaches (detection, identification and quantification of organic compounds)
  • Rapid testing and on-site applications (sensors, biosensors)
  • Bioinformatics (processing, recycling, sharing, storage)
  • Risk assessment

‘The Symposium will bring together both established and young researchers in academia, public and industrial laboratories involved in the field of environmental and food analytics and hard ware  manufacturers involved in the development and distribution of analytical instrumentation relevant for this interdisciplinary field.’

The meeting will include lectures, poster sessions, an exhibition and will provide plenty of time for the distribution of knowledge on the latest developments in analytical methods for environmental and food analysis.

For more information please contact Prof. Dr. Jose Broekaert or Prof. Dr. Markus Fischer

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