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Parisa Ariya
Neal R. Armstrong
Three new members have been selected to serve three-year terms on Analytical Chemistry’s Editorial Advisory Board. Established in the 1940s, the board is a vital link between the journal editors and the analytical chemistry community, providing guidance and advice on editorial content and policy. Parisa Ariya, a professor of chemistry and atmospheric sciences at McGill University (Canada), received her Ph.D. in
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chemistry at York University, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry (Germany). Through kinetic, theoretical, and mechanistic studies, as well as the development of methodology for environmental trace compound analysis, her research aims at understanding the chemical transformations of trace metals and (bio)organic compounds in the atmosphere and at air–snow–ice interfaces.
Neal R. Armstrong, a professor of chemistry at the University of Arizona since 1978, received his Ph.D. degree from the University of New Mexico/ Sandia National Laboratories. His interests lie in the development of surface and interface characterization of emerging molecular electronic and energy conversion materials as well as the development of new chemical sensor platforms. Yoshinobu Baba, a professor of chemistry at Nagoya University (Japan) and director for nanobiotechnology research at the Health Technology Research Center of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (Japan), received his Ph.D. in chemistry from Kyushu University. His major area of interest is to develop nanobiotechnologies for genomics, proteomics, glycomics, systems biology, single-molecule manipulation, drug discovery, and personalized medicine.
Incoming News and Features Advisory Panel members
From left to right: Ingrid Fritsch, Gerald Gübitz, Liang Li, Robin L. McCarley, Keith J. Stevenson, Tom van de Goor, Roman Zubarev
Analytical Chemistry has also chosen seven new members for its News and Features Advisory Panel. The panel provides feedback on the News and Features (formerly called the A-pages) content and proposes topics and authors for feature articles. Ingrid Fritsch, a professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, received her B.S. from the University of Utah and her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. She works on miniaturized analytical devices and chemical sensors with integrated components on a single substrate, interfacing micro- and nanoscale electrochemistry with immuno8
and DNA-hybridization assays, magnetohydrodynamic microfluidics, and scanning electrochemical microscopy. Gerald Gübitz, an associate professor for pharmaceutical analysis at the Karl Franzens University of Graz (Austria), received his Ph.D. at the University of Graz. His research interests include the development of methods for chiral separation by HPLC, CE, and
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capillary electrochromatography, as well as flow-analysis techniques, immunoassays, and luminescence methods. Liang Li, a professor of chemistry at the University of Alberta (Canada) and a Canada Research Chair in Analytical Chemistry, received his B.S. from Zhejiang (Hangzhou) University (People’s Republic of China) and his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. His research
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is in the area of developing new MS techniques and strategies, including multidimensional LC/MALDI and LC/ESI-MS for proteomics and metabolomics applications. Robin L. McCarley, a professor of chemistry at Louisiana State University and director of materials initiatives at the Center for BioModular Multi-Scale Systems, received his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina, and was a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow at the University of Texas. His current research interests include stimuli-responsive host–guest systems for reagent delivery, modified surfaces used in lab-on-a-chip diagnostic technologies, template-assisted synthesis of nanoparticles for environmental catalysis, and amyloid protein aggregation on surfaces.
Keith J. Stevenson, a professor of chemistry at the University of Texas at Austin, received his Ph.D. in physical/ analytical chemistry from the University of Utah. His research focuses on the creation of new functional electrode materials for chemical sensing and energy storage/conversion applications as well as on the development of advanced spectroscopic imaging and scanning probe microscopy methods for the study of interfacial phenomena. Tom van de Goor, an LC/MS application manager in the Integrated Biology Solutions Unit at Agilent Technologies, received an M.S. degree in chemical engineering and a Ph.D. in analytical chemistry, both from Eindhoven University of Technology (The Netherlands). His research interests include microscale sepa-
ration methods, in particular, chip-based systems coupled to MS for proteomic and metabolomic applications. Roman Zubarev, a professor of ion physics and biological MS at Uppsala University (Sweden), completed his undergraduate studies in microelectronics at the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (Russia) and received his Ph.D. in ion physics from Uppsala University. His research focuses on developing new MS methods and technologies for the analysis of biomolecules, particularly polypeptides. He was involved in the discovery of electron capture dissociation and other ion–electron reactions and is currently developing high-throughput technologies for mapping posttranslational modifications in proteins and de novo sequencing of peptides.
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