Microchimica Acta - Meet the Associate Editors of Microchimica Acta
Prof. Jonathan Claussen
Iowa State University
e-mail: jcclauss@iastate.edu (this opens in a new tab)
Jonathan Claussen is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Iowa State University. His research interests focus on the fabrication of nanomaterials and nanostructured devices for a wide variety of applications including biosensors, energy harvesters, and cellular interface materials. His laboratory specializes in developing printed, flexible graphene-based circuits. Biosensing research interests include pesticide, fertilizer, cancer biomarker, foodborne pathogen, and electrolyte monitoring.
Prof. Gennady Evtugyn
Kazan Federal University
e-mail: Gennady.Evtugyn@kpfu.ru (this opens in a new tab)
Gennady Evtugyn is a head of analytical chemistry department of the Alexander Butlerov Institute of Chemistry of Kazan Federal University. His research interests cover development of electrochemical sensors and biosensors based on carbon electrodes modified with electropolymerized coatings and self-assembled polyelectrolyte complexes, including voltammetric and impedimetric DNA- and aptasensors for determination of toxins, DNA damaging factors, detection of specific DNA interactions and anticancer drugs; enzyme sensors for the determination of environmental pollutants and anti-dementia drugs; thin-film solid-contact potentiometric sensors and sensor arrays for food quality assessment.
Prof. Dimosthenis L. Giokas (PhD)
University of Ioannina
e-mail: dgiokas@uoi.gr (this opens in a new tab)
Dimosthenis (Dimos) Giokas is an Associate Professor of Analytical Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry of the University of Ioannina, Greece. His research interests are focused on sample preparation, nanomaterial-based chemical (optical) probes, instrumental-free analytical assays, paper-based analytical devices and point-of-need assays.
Associate Professor Thomas Hirsch
University of Regensburg
e-mail: thomas.hirsch@ur.de (this opens in a new tab)
Thomas Hirsch is a senior scientist and sensor expert. His research is dedicated to the chemical engineering at the nanoscale for the development of sensing applications. He and his team synthesize, functionalize and characterize nanomaterials ranging from photon upconverting nanoparticles, photonic crystals, to 2D materials. His interests cover sensor principles based on luminescence, surface plasmon resonance, photonics as well as electrochemistry. Thomas Hirsch graduated from the University of Regensburg, Germany and received his PhD under the supervision of Prof. Otto Wolfbeis.
Prof. Xiliang Luo
Qingdao University of Science and Technology
e-mail: xiliangluo@qust.edu.cn (this opens in a new tab)
Xiliang Luo is a full Professor of Analytical Chemistry in the College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of the Qingdao University of Science and Technology, China. His research interests are focused on biochemical analysis and bio-sensing, especially the development of electrochemical sensors and biosensors, the generation of antifouling sensing systems, and the development of wearable devices based on conducting polymers.
Prof. Shalini Prasad
The University of Texas at Dallas
e-mail: shalini.prasad@utdallas.edu (this opens in a new tab)
Shalini Prasad is Cecil H. and Ida A. Green Professor of Systems Biology Science and Department Head of Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering graduate program at The University of Texas at Dallas. She is a bioengineer, an innovator, an educator and an entrepreneur. She received her Bachelor's degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the University of Madras, India in 2000 and obtained her Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from University of California, Riverside in 2004. Prior to UT Dallas, she worked as Assistant Professor in Portland State University, Arizona State University and Associate Professor at Wichita State University, and held adjunct appointments at Oregon Health Sciences University. Dr. Prasad has published over 250 peer reviewed publications. She is fellow of American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering, Biomedical Engineering Society, Royal Society of Chemistry , International Association of Advanced Materials and the Society of Laboratory Automation and Screening. She is the recipient of the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime achievement award for her contributions to higher education and entrepreneurship. Dr. Prasad is currently the Director of Biomedical Micro devices and Nanotechnology Laboratory, which develops novel sensor technologies ranging from wearable technologies, portable diagnostics to defense and environmental monitors.
Prof. Petr Skládal
Masaryk University
e-mail: skladal@chemi.muni.cz (this opens in a new tab)
Petr Skládal is an Associated Professor in the Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University (from 1999). He received the Ph.D. degree in the field of amperometric enzyme biosensors in 1992. After completing research stays (1991, 1993) at the University of Florence, Italy, with Marco Mascini, he continued to investigate biosensors at Masaryk University. He currently heads the Nanobiotechnology Laboratory at the Central European Institute of Technology in Brno (since 2011). His research is focused on enzyme and immunochemical biosensors using electrochemical and piezoelectric transducers, affinity kinetics with surface plasmon resonance systems, conjugation of biomolecules with nanomaterials, and applications of atomic force microscopy in life sciences.
Prof. Constantine Stalikas
University of Ioannina
e-mail: cstalika@uoi.gr
Constantine Stalikas is a full Professor of Analytical Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry, University of Ioannina, Greece. His research focuses on sample preparation, chromatographic separations, carbon dot-based fluorescent probes and metabolomic studies. He has co-authored more than 130 articles, reviews, book chapters. Since 1919, he is Associate Editor in Microchimica Acta.
Prof. Jayne Wu
The University of Tennessee
e-mail: jwu10@tennessee.edu
Prof. Jayne Wu received the Ph.D. degree in applied physics from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, in 1999, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA, in 2003. From August 2003 to July 2004, she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Center for Microfluidics and Medical Diagnostics, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Notre Dame. She is currently a full Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA. Her research interests include bio-micro-electro- mechanical systems, sensors, microfluidics, and lab-on-a-chip. She has extensive experience and expertise in developing microfluidic biosensors and biomedical diagnostic microsystems, especially in AC electrokinetics-based labs-on-a-chip and impedimetric biosensing. She has over 100 peer-reviewed journal papers based on the technologies that she developed, and her work led to several issued patents and awards for creativity and innovation such as NSF CAREER Award. Dr. Wu serves in many professional capacities including the editorial board of several journals, the Technical Committee on Wearable Biomedical Sensors and Systems, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Her research has been funded by NSF, USDA, DHS and industries.
Prof. Lei Ye
Lund University
e-mail: lei.ye@tbiokem.lth.se (this opens in a new tab)
Lei Ye is full Professor in Pure and Applied Biochemistry, Department of Chemistry, Lund University, Sweden. His research interests cover molecular recognition, molecular imprinting, functional polymers and composite materials, protein-polymer conjugates, dynamic and responsive materials. The main focus is to develop micro- and nanomaterials for chemical and biochemical analyses, in particular based on affinity separation and optical sensing.
Prof. Yong Zhang
National University of Singapore
e-mail:biezy@nus.edu.sg (this opens in a new tab)
Yong Zhang is a Provost’s Chair Professor of Department of Biomedical Engineering, National University of Singapore (NUS), a senior Faculty member of NUS Nanoscience & Nanotechnology Initiative (NUSNNI / NanoCore) and NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering (NGS). His research interests include nanomaterials and microfluidic devices and his research work is focused on development of functional nanomaterials for imaging, detection, drug/gene delivery, and phototherapy.