Harold McNair Professor Emeritus, Analytical Chemistry, Virginia Tech, Virginia, USA. 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. Peter Carr Distinguished University Teaching Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, USA. Daniel W. Armstrong Robert A. Welch Distinguished Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Texas at Arlington, USA. Isiah M. Warner Vice President for Strategic Initiatives, Boyd Professor and Philip W. West Professor Analytical & Environmental Chemistry, Professor Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Louisiana State University, USA. Gert Desmet Full Professor and Department Head, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium. Wolfgang Lindner Professor Emeritus, Analytical Chemistry, University of Vienna, Austria. Oliver Fiehn Director, NIH West Coast Metabolomics Center, Paul K & Ruth Stumpf Endowed Professor in Plant Biochemistry, UC Davis Genome Center, California, USA. Anthony Gachanja Professor, Department of Chemistry, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT), Kenya. Susan Olesik Dow Professor and Chair, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University, USA.