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The Analytical Scientist / Power List / 2020

The Power List 2020

Around the World in 60 Scientists

The Power List is back, and this time we’re taking you on a trip that circles the globe – one analytical scientist at a time!

From the Amazon Rainforest to the Great Wall of China, analytical scientists hide in every nook and cranny of our wonderful world – and each has a story to tell. This year’s Power List tells a handful of those stories (10 per continent, to be precise). As usual, winners were nominated by our readers and whittled down by a panel of independent judges. The result? A celebration of analytical talent from around the globe. And for those of you upset by the omission of Antarctica, we feel your pain – but we did give it a go!

Africa

André de Villiers

Professor, Stellenbosch University, South Africa

Anthony Gachanja

Professor of Analytical and Environmental Chemistry, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Nairobi, Kenya

Catherine Ngila

Deputy Vice Chancellor, Riara University (on leave of absence) and Ag. Executive Director, The African Academy of Sciences, Nairobi, Kenya

Egmont Rohwer

Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Pretoria, South Africa

Harald Pasch

Professor and SASOL Chair in Analytical Polymer Science, Department of Chemistry and Polymer Science, Stellenbosch University, South Africa

Lucky Mokwena

Divisional Manager, Central Analytical Facilities, Stellenbosch University, South Africa

Luke Chimuka

Professor of Environmental Analytical Chemistry, School of Chemistry, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

Madelien Wooding

UPLC-IMS-HDMS Facility Manager, Department of Chemistry, University of Pretoria, South Africa

Marian Asantewah Nkansah

Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

Nelson Torto

Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Tertiary Education, Research Science and Technology, Government of the Republic of Botswana

Asia

Baohong Liu

Professor, Department of Chemistry, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Guowang Xu

Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian, China

Koji Otsuka

Professor, Department of Material Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Japan

Kenzo Hiraoka

Professor, University of Yamanashi, Japan

Myeong Hee Moon

Professor, Department of Chemistry, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea

Shaoping Li

Distinguished Professor and Deputy Director, State Key Laboratory of Quality Research in Chinese Medicine, University of Macau, Macao, China

Tasneem Kazi

Meritorious Professor, National Center of Excellence in Analytical Chemistry, Sindh University, Jamshoro, Pakistan

Yi Chen

CAS Key Lab of Analytical Chemistry for Living Biosystems, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Yi-Tao Long

Chang Jiang Scholar, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Analytical Science for Life Science, Nanjing University, China

Zongwei Cai

Kwok Yat-Wai Endowed Chair in Environmental & Biological Analysis, Chair Professor of Chemistry, and Director of the State Key Laboratory of Environmental & Biological Analysis of Hong Kong Baptist University, China

Australia

Anthony Purcell

Head of the Immunoproteomics Laboratory and Deputy Head of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, and Vice-President of the Australian Proteomics Society, Australia, and Councillor of the Human Proteome Organization, Canada

Emily Hilder

Director, Future Industries Institute, University of South Australia

Debbie Silvester-Dean

Associate Professor, School of Molecular and Life Sciences, Curtin University, Perth, Australia

Gavin Reid

Professor of Bioanalytical Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Melbourne, Australia

Jeremy Nicholson

Director of the Australian National Phenome Centre and Pro-Vice Chancellor of Health Sciences, Professor of Medicine, Murdoch University, Australia, and Emeritus Professor of Biological Chemistry, Imperial College London, UK

Jessica Pandohee

Research Fellow, Centre for Crop and Disease Management, School of Molecular and Life Sciences, Curtin University, Australia

Michael Breadmore

Director of the Australian Centre for Research on Separation Science, University of Tasmania, Australia

Philip Marriott

Professor, School of Chemistry, Monash University, Victoria, Australia

Simon Lewis

Professor of Forensic and Analytical Chemistry, Curtin University, Australia

William Alexander Donald

Associate Professor and Australian Research Council Future Fellow, School of Chemistry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Europe

Andrew deMello

Professor of Biochemical Engineering, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

Caroline West

Professor, Institute of Organic and Analytical Chemistry, University of Orléans, France

Davy Guillarme

Senior Lecturer and Research Associate, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Geneva, Switzerland

Duncan Graham

Distinguished Professor and Head of Department, Pure and Applied Chemistry, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK

Ian Wilson

Professor of Drug Metabolism and Molecular Toxicology, Imperial College London, UK

Karen Faulds

Professor, Head of Bionanotechnology and Analytical Chemistry, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK

Luigi Mondello

Full Professor of Analytical Chemistry, University of Messina, Italy

Michal Holčapek

Professor, Department of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemical Technology, University of Pardubice, Czech Republic

Philippe Schmitt-Kopplin

Director of the Research Unit Analytical BioGeoChemistry at Helmholtz Zentreum Muenchen, Germany and Director of the Foodomics Platform at the Institute of Analytical Food Chemistry, Technical University of Munich, Germany

Roy Goodacre

Professor of Biological Chemistry, Department of Biochemistry, University of Liverpool, UK

North America

James Jorgenson

Kenan Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus, Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA (retired)

Jennifer van Eyk

Professor of Cardiology and Pathology, Erika Glazer Endowed Chair in Women’s Heart Health, and Director of the Advanced Clinical Biosystems Research Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Jim Luong

Fellow, Analytical Science, Core R&D, Dow Chemical, MI, USA

Joseph Loo

Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California-Los Angeles, USA

Michael Ramsey

Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Professor of Applied Physical Sciences and Minnie N. Goldby Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

Raoul Kopelman

Richard Smalley Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry, Physics, Applied Physics, Biophysics, Biomedical Engineering and Chemical Biology, and Member of The Michigan Nanotechnology Institute for Medicine and Biological Sciences, The Michigan Biointerfaces Institute, The Rogel Cancer Center, University of Michigan Hospital, USA

Richard van Breemen

Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Linus Pauling Institute and College of Pharmacy, Oregon State University, USA

Robert Kennedy

Hobart Willard Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Chair of the Chemistry Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

Rohit Bhargava

Founder Professor of Engineering and Chemistry and Director of the Cancer Center, University of Illinois, USA

Ying Ge

Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

South America

Claudia Alcaraz Zini

Full professor, The Chemistry Institute, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Elina Bastos Caramão

Professor, Tiradentes University, Sergipe, Brazil; Researcher, Institute of Technology and Research, Tiradentes University, Sergipe, Brazil

Elena Stashenko

Director, Research Center for Biomolecules (CIBIMOL), Research Center of Excellence (CENIVAM), Universidad Industrial de Santander Bucaramanga, Colombia

Fabián Parada Alfonso

Associate Professor, High Pressure Laboratory, Food Chemistry Research Group, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, National University of Colombia

Fernando M Lanças

Professor of Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry at São Carlos, University of São Paulo, Brazil

Francisco Radler de Aquino Neto

Head of the Brazilian Doping Control Laboratory, Coordinator of the Laboratory for the Support of Technological Development and Emeritus Professor, Organic Chemistry Department, Institute of Chemistry, Federal University of Rio De Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil

Jorge C Masini

Associate Professor, Institute of Chemistry, University of São Paulo, Brazil

Marcos Nogueira Eberlin

MackMass Laboratory, School of Engineering, Mackenzie Presbyterian University, São Paulo, Brazil

Maíra Fasciotti

Researcher, Organic Analysis Laboratory, the National Institute of Metrology, Quality and Technology (INMETRO), Brazil

Norberto Peporine Lopes

Professor, Research Center for Natural and Synthetic Products, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo, Brazil