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Yukui Zhang

Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Research professor of Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, CAS, China.

Most important lesson If your research cannot meet practical needs, you will be kicked out of the game.

Funniest/most unexpected moment To obtain the life-time achievement award at HPLC 2015 in Beijing. To be honest, I think without the support of my friends, colleagues, and students, I could not win this award.

Eye on the horizon For my group, I hope to develop novel analytical methods for proteome analysis, see the growth of the younger generation, and see our methods being applied by more and more biologists. Besides the qualitative and quantitative methods for proteome analysis, we will further devote time to new methods for the analysis of protein-complex and protein-protein interaction. More generally, in analytical science, we need improved speed, accuracy, sensitivity – and automation.

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Part of the Power List 2015

100 reasons to be proud

Welcome to The Power List 2015 – our second foray into the Top 100 most influential people in the world of analytical science. Though we realize our list can (and should) never be definitive, who can argue that the faces within – both familiar and new – do not beautifully highlight the brilliance and diversity found within our sometimes undervalued field?

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