The Analytical Scientist / Power List / 2017

The Power List 2017

The Magnificent Tens

After 2016’s celebration of women in analytical science, we return to the Top 100 for 2017.

But there’s a twist. This summer, we asked you to nominate scientists in ten categories – from the stars of separation science, to omics explorers, to the mentors training the next generation.

Giants of Nano

J. Michael Ramsey
1
J. Michael Ramsey

Goldby Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA; Scientific Founder, Caliper Life Sciences; Scientific Founder, 908 Devices Inc.; Scientific Founder, Genturi Inc.
Andreas Manz
2
Andreas Manz

Professor, Microfluidics for the Life Sciences, Systems Engineering Department, Saarland University; Senior Scientist, KIST Europe, Saarbrücken, Germany.
Shuming Nie
3
Shuming Nie

Grainger Distinguished Chair in Engineering, Professor of Bioengineering, Chemistry, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Member of the Beckman Institute, the Micro/Nanotechnology Lab, and the Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.
Mary Wirth
4
Mary Wirth

W. Brooks Fortune Distinguished Professor, Analytical Chemistry, Purdue University, USA.
George Whitesides
5
George Whitesides

Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Professor, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA.
Paul Alivisatos
6
Paul Alivisatos

Samsung Distinguished Professor of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology; Professor of Chemistry and Materials Science & Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, USA.
Adam T. Woolley
7
Adam T. Woolley

Professor, Brigham Young University, Utah, USA.
Christy Haynes
8
Christy Haynes

Elmore H. Northey Professor of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, USA.
Andrew deMello
9
Andrew deMello

Professor of Biochemical Engineering, Institute for Chemical and Bioengineering, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences ETH Zürich, Switzerland.
Chad Mirkin
10
Chad Mirkin

Director, International Institute for Nanotechnology; George B. Rathmann Professor, Chemistry; Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Materials Science & Engineering, and Medicine. Northwestern University, Illinois, USA.

Pharma Pioneers

Koen Sandra
1
Koen Sandra

Scientific Director, Research Institute for Chromatography, Kortrijk, Belgium; co-founder and R&D Director anaRIC biologics, Ghent, Belgium.
Neil Spooner
2
Neil Spooner

Spooner Bioanalytical Solutions Ltd and School of Life and Medical Sciences, University of Hertfordshire, Hertfordshire, UK.
Davy Guillarme
3
Davy Guillarme

Senior Lecturer in the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Geneva/University of Lausanne, Geneva, Switzerland.
Deirdre Cabooter
4
Deirdre Cabooter

Associate Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Sciences, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
Jean-Luc Veuthey
5
Jean-Luc Veuthey

Professor, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Geneva, Switzerland.
William Hancock
6
William Hancock

Founding Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Proteome Research (retired); Bradstreet Chair in Bioanalytical Chemistry, Northeastern University, Massachusetts, USA.
Melissa Hanna-Brown
7
Melissa Hanna-Brown

Technology & Innovation EU Lead, Pfizer Global R&D, Sandwich, UK and Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, UK and President Analytical Division, Royal Society Chemistry, UK.
Gérard Hopfgartner
8
Gérard Hopfgartner

Professor in Analytical Sciences and Mass Spectrometry, Department of Analytical and Inorganic Chemistry, University of Geneva, Switzerland.
H. Thomas Karnes
9
H. Thomas Karnes

Professor Emeritus, Editor of Journal of Chromatography B, School of Pharmacy, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA.
Ian Wilson
10
Ian Wilson

Professor, Chair in Drug Metabolism and Molecular Toxicology, Department of Surgery & Cancer, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, UK.

Omics Explorers

Gary Siuzdak
1
Gary Siuzdak

Professor and Director, Scripps Center for Metabolomics, The Scripps Research Institute, California, USA.
Ruedi Aebersold
2
Ruedi Aebersold

Professor of Molecular Systems Biology and Chair, Department of Biology, ETH Zurich and Faculty of Science, University of Zurich, Switzerland.
Jennifer Van Eyk
3
Jennifer Van Eyk

Director, Advanced Clinical Biosystems Research Institute, Director of Basic Science, The Barbra Streisand Women’s Heart Center, Co-Director, Cedars Sinai Precision Health, The Erika Glazer Endowed Chair in Women’s Heart Health, The Heart Institute, Department of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, California, USA.
Joshua D. Rabinowitz
4
Joshua D. Rabinowitz

Professor, Chemistry and Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, New Jersey, USA.
Norman Dovichi
5
Norman Dovichi

Grace-Rupley Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA.
David Wishart
6
David Wishart

Professor, Departments of Biological Sciences and Computing Science, University of Alberta, Canada.
Oliver Fiehn
7
Oliver Fiehn

Director, NIH West Coast Metabolomics Center, Paul K & Ruth Stumpf Endowed Professor in Plant Biochemistry, UC Davis Genome Center, California, USA.
Jeremy Nicholson
8
Jeremy Nicholson

Professor of Biological Chemistry, Director of the MRC-NIHR National Phenome Centre, Head of the Department of Surgery and Cancer, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London.
David Muddiman
9
David Muddiman

Jacob and Betty Belin Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Founder and Director, W.M. Keck Fourier Transform Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, North Carolina State University, USA.
John Yates III
10
John Yates III

Ernest W. Hahn Professor, Departments of Molecular Medicine and Neurobiology, the Scripps Research Institute, California, USA.

Public Defenders

Julie Schappler
1
Julie Schappler

Lecturer, Group of Analytical Sciences, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Geneva, Switzerland.
Michael Breadmore
2
Michael Breadmore

Professor, Australian Centre for Research on Separation Science (ACROSS), School of Physical Science, University of Tasmania, Australia.
Steven Lehotay
3
Steven Lehotay

Lead Scientist, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Eastern Regional Research Center, Pennsylvania, USA.
Elena Ibanez
4
Elena Ibanez

Research Professor, Foodomics Laboratory, Bioactivity and Food Analysis Department, Institute of Food Science Research (CIAL, CSIC), Madrid, Spain.
Kim Prather
5
Kim Prather

Distinguished Chair in Atmospheric Chemistry, Director of the Center for Aerosol Impacts on Chemistry of the Environment, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, USA.
James P. Landers
6
James P. Landers

Commonwealth Professor, Departments of Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering and Pathology, University of Virginia, USA.
Lourdes Ramos
7
Lourdes Ramos

Research Scientist, Department of Instrumental Analysis and Environmental Chemistry, Institute of Organic Chemistry, Scientific Research Council (CSIC), Madrid, Spain.
Christopher Mulligan
8
Christopher Mulligan

Associate Professor, Analytical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Illinois State University, USA.
Eric Reiner
9
Eric Reiner

Senior Mass Spectrometry Research Scientist, Ontario Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change, Canada.
Mario Thevis
10
Mario Thevis

Professor for Preventive Doping Research, Director – Institute of Biochemistry/Center for Preventive Doping Research, German Sport University Cologne, Germany.

Leaders

John Yates III
1
John Yates III

Ernest W. Hahn Professor, Departments of Molecular Medicine and Neurobiology, The Scripps Research Institute, California, USA.
Peter Schoenmakers
2
Peter Schoenmakers

Professor and Scientific Director, Van ‘t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, The University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Robert (Bob) Kennedy
3
Robert (Bob) Kennedy

Hobart H Willard Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry; Professor of Chemistry, Chair-Chemistry, College of LS&A; Professor of Pharmacology, Medical School, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA.
Ruedi Aebersold
4
Ruedi Aebersold

Professor of Molecular Systems Biology and Chair, Department of Biology, ETH Zurich and Faculty of Science, University of Zurich, Switzerland.
Jonathan Sweedler
5
Jonathan Sweedler

Editor-in-Chief, Analytical Chemistry; James R. Eiszner Family Endowed Chair in Chemistry and Director of the School of Chemical Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.
Richard Zare
6
Richard Zare

Marguerite Blake Wilbur Professor in Natural Science, Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.
Pat Sandra
7
Pat Sandra

Emeritus Professor, Organic Chemistry, Ghent University; Founder and President, Research Institute for Chromatography, Kortrijk, Belgium.
Emily Hilder
8
Emily Hilder

Director, Future Industries Institute, University of South Australia, Australia.
George Whitesides
9
George Whitesides

Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Professor, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA.
Gert Desmet
10
Gert Desmet

Full Professor and Department Head, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium.

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