Editorial Board profiles

Paul Bohn

Paul Bohn received his B.S. from Notre Dame in 1977 and his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Wisconsin–Madison in 1981. After a two-year stint at Bell Laboratories, he joined the faculty at the University of Illinois. In August 2006, he joined the faculty at the University of Notre Dame as the Arthur J. Schmitt Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry. Professor Bohn's research interests include: molecular transport on the nanometer length scale, developing new optical spectroscopic measurement strategies for surface and interfacial structure–function studies, optoelectronic materials and devices and chemical sensors, and molecular approaches to nanotechnology.

Pavel Matousek

Pavel obtained his MSc. and Ph.D. degrees in physics from the Czech Technical University, Prague. For over 20 years, he has worked at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (Oxford, UK) in the area of vibrational spectroscopy. He pioneered the concepts of ps-Kerr gating in Raman spectroscopy for fluorescence rejection, developed Spatially Offset Raman Spectroscopy (SORS) for noninvasive probing of turbid media and introduced transmission Raman spectroscopy (TRS) into pharmaceutical analysis. Currently, he is developing novel analytical concepts for non-invasive disease diagnosis (cancer and bone), aviation security and pharmaceutical quality control. Pavel has published over 170 peer review articles, filed 10 patents and co-edited a book on Raman spectroscopy. His honours include 2009 Charles Mann Award for Applied Raman Spectroscopy (FACSS), 2002 and 2006 Meggers Awards from the Society for Applied Spectroscopy (SAS) and 2008 Measurement in Action Award (IET). He acted as the Program Chair of FACSS 2011 (Reno, NV) and the Chair of SAS Meggers Award Selection Committee. Currently, he is the Chair of Coblentz Award Selection Committee, the Chair of FACSS Charles Mann Award Selection Committee, the Chair-Elect of SAS Publications Committee and the Chair of the UK's Regional Section of SAS. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, a Fellow of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy, a Fellow of the Science and Technology Facilities Council, a visiting professor at the University College London and a founding director of Cobalt Light Systems Ltd.

Justin Gooding

Justin Gooding is the leader of the Biosensor and Biointerfaces Research Group at the University of New South Wales. He obtained a DPhil from Oxford University under the guidance of Prof. Richard Compton before becoming a post-doctoral research associate at the Institute of Biotechnology at Cambridge University. In 1997 he returned to his native Australia as a Vice-Chancellor Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of New South Wales before taking up an academic position in 1998. He was promoted to full Professor in 2005 and is currently an Australian Research Council Professorial Fellow. His research interests lie in biosensors, biointerfaces and surface chemistry.

Duncan Graham

Duncan Graham is Research Professor of Chemistry and director of the centre for molecular nanometrology at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. He has been awarded numerous awards for his research including the RSCs SAC Silver medal (2004), Corday Morgan prize (2009), a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit award (2010) and was elected to the fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2008). He is also a cofounder and director of Renishaw Diagnostics Ltd (2007). He completed a Ph.D. in organic chemistry at the University of Edinburgh (1996) and now his interests are in using synthetic chemistry to produce nanosensors that respond to a specific biological species or event as measured by surface enhanced Raman scattering. He has a research group of around 30, and over 170 publications to date.

Takehiko Kitamori

Professor Kitamori is Vice President of the University of Tokyo, responsible for Human Resource Development and Internationalization after serving as Dean of Faculty and Graduate School of Engineering. He is also a Professor in the Department of Applied Chemistry. Prior to joining the University of Tokyo in 1989, he was a researcher at Hitachi's Energy Research Lab. Professor Kitamori was the recipient of the Japan Society for Analytical Chemistry Award in 2009, the IBM Faculty Award in 2008, and the Chemical Society of Japan Award for Creative Work in 2006, as well as various other awards. He served as a senior vice president of The Japan Society for Analytical Chemistry (2006–2008). His areas of research are Micro/Extended-Nano Fluidics, Integration of Chemical System on Microchips, Applied Laser Spectroscopy for Ultrasensitive Detection, Analytical Chemistry, and Extended-Nano Space Chemistry.

Boris Mizaikoff

Boris Mizaikoff received his Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry at the Vienna University of Technology, Austria, in 1996 and was heading the Chemical Sensors Laboratory (CSL) until 2000. During 1997, he was with the University of Texas, Austin, USA. In October 2000, he became a faculty member at the Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Atlanta, USA, heading the Applied Sensors Laboratory (ASL). Since 2004 he was also Director of the Focused Ion Beam Center at Georgia Tech. In Fall 2007, he joined the faculty at the University of Ulm, Germany, as a Chaired Professor and Director of the Institute of Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry. Today, his research interests focus on optical sensors, biosensors, and biomimetic sensors operating in the mid-infrared spectral range, applications of novel IR light sources, system miniaturization and integration based on micro- and nanofabrication, multifunctional scanning nanoprobes and nano(bio)sensors, focused ion beam (FIB) microscopy, development of chemical recognition interfaces for separations and sensing applications, environmental analytical chemistry, process analytical chemistry, and biomedical diagnostics. He is author/co-author of over 170 peer-reviewed publications and 15 patents.

Steven Soper

Steven A. Soper graduated with a Ph.D. from the University of Kansas in 1989 and then served as a Post-doctoral Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He joined the faculty at Louisiana State University (LSU) in 1991 and was named the William L. and Patricia Senn Professor in 2002, alongside positions as Professor of Mechanical Engineering and an adjunct Professor of Biological Sciences. In June 2011 he joined the University of North Carolina's Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering as a tenured Professor. Professor Soper's research focuses on BioMEMS/BioNEMS, single molecule detection, and new bioassay developments. He has received various awards, such as the R&D 100 Award (1993), the Charles E. Coates Award for Contributions to Chemical/Engineering Research in Louisiana (2001), the A.A. Benedetti-Pinchler Microchemical Award (2006) and an LSU Distinguished Research Award (2008). He has accumulated over 225 peer-reviewed research publications and has mentored 30 Ph.D. students.

Evan Williams

Evan Williams received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1990 and completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Stanford University before joining the faculty at the University of California at Berkeley, where he also serves as the Associate Director of the Center for Analytical Biotechnology and the Faculty Director of the QB3/Chemistry Mass Spectrometry Center. He also holds a joint appointment in the Physical Biosciences Division at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Professor Williams' research group is developing and applying novel instrumental and computational techniques in mass spectrometry, tandem mass spectrometry, separations, and laser spectroscopy for improved molecular structure elucidation, and to solve problems of fundamental interest in chemistry and biophysics. A number of different types of state-of-the-art mass spectrometers and lasers are used in these studies. He has received a number of awards including the American Society for Mass Spectrometry Research Award in 1994 and the Alexander von Humboldt Senior Scientist Award in 1999.

Vicki Wysocki

Vicki Wysocki received her Ph.D. from Purdue University and, following postdoctoral positions at Purdue and the US Naval Research Laboratory, became an Assistant Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University. She joined the University of Arizona in 1996 and served as Chair of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and then in 2012 moved to Ohio State University where she is Ohio Eminent Scholar of Macromolecular Structure and Function and Director of the Campus Chemical Instrument Center. In 2009, she received the Distinguished Contribution to Mass Spectrometry Award from the American Society for Mass Spectrometry. Professor Wysocki's research interests include bioanalytical mass spectrometry, peptide fragmentation mechanisms, ion-surface collisions for surface characterization of organic thin films, proteomics of biothreat microorganisms, and instrument development for improved dissociation of non-covalent protein complexes. Webpage: http://chemistry.osu.edu/%E2%88%BCwysocki.11/index.htm.

Xinrong Zhang

Xinrong Zhang was born in Xian, China, received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Chemistry from Shaanxi Normal University, China, and his Ph.D. degree in analytical chemistry from the University of Ghent, Belgium. He received a professorial position in the Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, China, in June 1998. His current research interests are focused on developing optical and mass spectrometric techniques for biomedical and environmental analysis, including nanomaterial-based luminescent analysis, ICPMS-based immunoassays and ambient ion sources for mass spectrometry. He has published over 170 papers in international journals and several book chapters on these topics. He received an Analytical Chemistry Award from the Chinese Chemical Society in 2009 and he is now a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Julia Charmot-Rooke

Julia Chamot-Rooke received her Ph.D. from Pierre et Marie Curie University in 1996. Following post-doctoral positions at the University of Copenhagen and the University of Amsterdam, she joined the CNRS as a junior scientist in the beginning of 1998. She worked in the Department of Chemistry at the Ecole Polytechnique until 2012 where she mainly used FT-ICR (Fourier Transform Ion Cyclotron Resonance) Mass Spectrometry to study peptides and proteins. In September 2012 she moved to the Institut Pasteur Paris, as head of the newly created Structural Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics Unit. Her research focuses on the development of new methodologies, such as top-down mass spectrometry, for the structural analysis of proteins and protein complexes of high interest to human health. She is a past president of the French Society of Mass Spectrometry (2008-09) and received the Prize of the Analytical Division of the Société Chimique de France in 2010. She was appointed a senior scientist by the CNRS in 2010.

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