Andrew deMello

Meet Andrew deMello

Most exciting development or trend??The analytical chemistry community has excelled at generating new tools that allow us to generate high-quality chemical and biological information on very short time scales. Microfluidics is an excellent example.

Missing from the toolbox? I don’t think we have yet developed a complete suite of downstream tools that are able to fully extract information. We’re not far off, and I hope that we will soon have a range of ultra-sensitive, fast and information-rich detectors able to detect complex samples at sub-nM concentrations.

Book for scientists? The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward Tufte. Even though it was first published 40 years ago, it is still just as relevant today. Tufte beautifully shows that complex information and ideas can be represented visually if you follow simple rules. Spoiler: “less is more”.