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The Analytical Scientist / Power List / 2015

The Power List 2015

The Top 100 most influential people

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?

Here, we celebrate 100 reasons to be proud of analytical science.

The Top 100 Most Influential People

Rudolf (Ruedi) Aebersold
1
Rudolf (Ruedi) Aebersold

Chair, Department of Biology, Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.

Robert (Bob) Kennedy
2
Robert (Bob) Kennedy

Hobart H. Willard Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry, Chair of Chemistry, College of LS&A; Professor of Pharmacology, Medical School, University of Michigan, USA.

Jonathan Sweedler
3
Jonathan Sweedler

Editor-in-Chief, Analytical Chemistry; James R. Eiszner Family Endowed Chair in Chemistry and Director of the School of Chemical Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.

Pat Sandra
4
Pat Sandra

Emeritus Professor, Organic Chemistry, Ghent University; Founder and President, Research Institute for Chromatography, Kortrijk, Belgium.

George Whitesides
5
George Whitesides

Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Professor, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA.

John Yates III
6
John Yates III

Ernest W. Hahn Professor, Chemical Physiology and Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology, The Scripps Research Institute, California, USA.

Peter Schoenmakers
7
Peter Schoenmakers

Education Director COAST; Editor, Journal of Chromatography A; Professor, Analytical Chemistry/Forensic Science, van't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Daniel Armstrong
8
Daniel Armstrong

Robert A. Welch Distinguished Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Texas at Arlington, USA.

James (Jim) Jorgenson
9
James (Jim) Jorgenson

W. R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA.

Richard Zare
10
Richard Zare

Marguerite Blake Wilbur Professor in Natural Science, Stanford University, California, USA.

Barry Karger
11
Barry Karger

Director, Barnett Institute; Distinguished Professor andJames L. Waters Chair in Analytical Chemistry, Northeastern University, Massachusetts, USA.

R. Graham Cooks
12
R. Graham Cooks

Henry B. Hass Distinguished Professor, Analytical Chemistry, Purdue University, Indiana, USA.

Paul Haddad
13
Paul Haddad

Emeritus Distinguished Professor, Australian Centre for Research on Separation Science, University of Tasmania, Tasmania, Australia.

Janusz Pawliszyn
14
Janusz Pawliszyn

Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

Alexander Makarov
15
Alexander Makarov

Director Global Research Life Science Mass Spectrometry, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Germany.

Jeremy Nicholson
16
Jeremy Nicholson

Chair in Biological Chemistry, Head of the Department of Surgery & Cancer, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, UK.

J. Michael Ramsey
17
J. Michael Ramsey

Scientific founder, 908 Devices; Goldby Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA.

Gert Desmet
18
Gert Desmet

Professor and Faculty of Sciences Vice-dean, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Belgium.

Wolfgang Lindner
19
Wolfgang Lindner

Professor Emeritus, Analytical Chemistry, University of Vienna, Austria.

Richard (Dick) Smith
20
Richard (Dick) Smith

Battelle Fellow and Chief Scientist, Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Washington, USA.

Yoshinobu Baba
Yoshinobu Baba

Professor of Physical Chemistry, Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Tokushima, Japan.

Allen Bard
Allen Bard

Professor, Faculty Director, Center for Electrochemistry, Norman Hackerman-Welch Regents Chair, The University of Texas at Austin, USA.

Perdita Barran
Perdita Barran

Professor of Mass Spectrometry, Director of the Michael Barber Centre for Collaborative Mass Spectrometry, University of Manchester, UK.

Paul Bohn
Paul Bohn

Arthur J. Schmitt Professor of Chemical Biomolecular Engineering, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Director - Advanced Diagnostics & Therapeutics Initiative, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA.

Lutgarde Buydens
Lutgarde Buydens

Professor and Head, Analytical Chemistry/Chemometrics, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

Marc Casper
Marc Casper

President and Chief Executive Officer Thermo Fisher Scientific, Massachusetts, USA.

Purnendu Dasgupta
Purnendu Dasgupta

Jenkins Garrett Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Texas at Arlington, USA.

Andrew DeMello
Andrew DeMello

Professor of Biochemical Engineering, Institute for Chemical and Bioengineering, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences ETH Zürich, Switzerland.

Monika Dittmann
Monika Dittmann

Principal Scientist, R&D, Agilent Technologies, Germany.

Norman Dovichi
Norman Dovichi

Grace-Rupley Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA.

Paola Dugo
Paola Dugo

Professor of Food Chemistry, University of Messina, Italy.

Salvatore Fanali
Salvatore Fanali

Head of the Capillary Electromigration and Chromatographic Methods Unit at the Institute of Chemical Methodologies, National Research Council (CNR), Monterotondo, Italy.

Attila Felinger
Attila Felinger

Professor, Department of Analytical and Environmental Chemistry University of Pécs, Hungary.

Catherine Fenselau
Catherine Fenselau

Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Maryland, USA.

Justin Gooding
Justin Gooding

ACS Sensors Editor-in-Chief; Scientia Professor, ARC Australian Laureate Fellow and founding Co-Director of The Australian Centre for NanoMedicine, University of New South Wales, Australia.

Christian Griesinger
Christian Griesinger

Director and Scientific Member, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany.

Davy Guillarme
Davy Guillarme

Senior lecturer, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Geneva, Switzerland.

Detlef Günther
Detlef Günther

Professor, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences; VP Research and Corporate Relations, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.

William Hancock
William Hancock

Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Proteome Research; Bradstreet Chair in Bioanalytical Chemistry, Northeastern University, Massachusetts, USA.

Albert Heck
Albert Heck

Chair, Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics Group, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Ron Heeren
Ron Heeren

Co-director of the Maastricht MultiModal Molecular Imaging (M4I) center, Maastricht University, the Netherlands.

Amy Herr
Amy Herr

Lester John & Lynne Dewar Lloyd Distinguished Professor of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, USA.

Gary Hieftje
Gary Hieftje

Emily Hilder
Emily Hilder

Director, ARC Training Centre for Portable Analytical Separation Technologies, University of Tasmania.

Michal Holcapek
Michal Holcapek

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

Elizabeth Holmes
Elizabeth Holmes

CEO and Founder, Theranos

Gerald Hopfgartner
Gerald Hopfgartner

Professor in Analytical Sciences and Mass Spectrometry and Head of the Mass Spectrometry Platform of the Sciences Faculty, University of Geneva, Switzerland.

Pavel Jandera
Pavel Jandera

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

Klavs Jensen
Klavs Jensen

Warren K. Lewis Professor of Chemical Engineering, and Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA.

Joseph Kirkland
Joseph Kirkland

Vice-President, Research and Development, Advanced Materials Technology (AMT), Delaware, USA.

Michael Laemmerhofer
Michael Laemmerhofer

Professor, Pharmaceutical Analysis and Bioanalysis, University of Tuebingen, Germany.

Frank Laukien
Frank Laukien

Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Bruker Corporation, Germany

Hian Kee Lee
Hian Kee Lee

Professor, Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore.

Milton Lee
Milton Lee

H. Tracy Hall Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. Brigham Young University, Utah, USA.

Alastair Lewis
Alastair Lewis

Professor, National Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of York, UK.

Susan Lunte
Susan Lunte

Ralph N. Adams Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Chemistry; Director, Adams Institute for Bioanalytical Chemistry, The University of Kansas, USA.

Mike MacCoss
Mike MacCoss

Michael MacCoss, Professor of Genome Sciences, Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, USA.

Fasha Mahjoor
Fasha Mahjoor

Founder, President, and Chief Executive Officer, Phenomenex, California, USA

Ron Majors
Ron Majors

Retired, former Senior Scientist Agilent Technologies, Delaware, USA.

Matthias Mann
Matthias Mann

Director, Department of Proteomics and Signal Transduction, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Munich, Germany

Andreas Manz
Andreas Manz

Head of Research, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany.

Alan Marshall
Alan Marshall

Professor of Chemistry and Director, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory ICR Program, Florida State University, USA.

Hans Maurer
Hans Maurer

Full professor, Toxicology and Pharmacology; Head, Department of Experimental & Clinical Toxicology, Saarland University, Homburg/Saar, Germany.

David McCalley
David McCalley

Professor in Bioanalytical Science, University of the West of England, UK.

Michael McMullen
Michael McMullen

President and Chief Executive Officer, Agilent Technologies

Chad Mirkin
Chad Mirkin

Director, International Institute for Nanotechnology; George B. Rathmann Professor, Chemistry; Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Materials Science & Engineering, and Medicine. Northwestern University, Illinois, USA.

Luigi Mondello
Luigi Mondello

Full professor of Analytical Chemistry Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical, Environmental Sciences Department, University of Messina, Italy.

Royce Murray
Royce Murray

Kenan Professor, Chemistry The University of North Carolina, USA

Michel Nielen
Michel Nielen

Professor, Special Chair on Analytical Chemistry at Wageningen University; Principal scientist, RIKILT Wageningen UR, Scientific director of COAST, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Milos Novotny
Milos Novotny

Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Adjunct Professor of Medicine, Director of the Institute for Pheromone Research, Director of the Novotny Glycoscience Laboratory, Indiana University Bloomington, USA.

Christopher O’Connell
Christopher O’Connell

President and Chief Executive Officer, Waters Corporation, Massachusetts, USA.

Susan Olesik
Susan Olesik

Dow Professor and Chair, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Ohio State University, USA.

Jeanne Pemberton
Jeanne Pemberton

Professor, Chemistry, The University of Arizona, USA.

Colin Poole
Colin Poole

Professor, Department of Chemistry Wayne State University, Michigan, USA.

Michael Quilliam
Michael Quilliam

Principal Research Officer, Biotoxin Metrology, Measurement Science and Standards, National Research Council, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Fred Regnier
Fred Regnier

John H. Law Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, Purdue University, Indiana, USA.

Marja-Liisa Riekkola
Marja-Liisa Riekkola

Professor of Analytical Chemistry, Head of the Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Helsinki, Finland.

Pier Giorgio Righetti
Pier Giorgio Righetti

Full professor, Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy.

Alison Rodger
Alison Rodger

Professor, Head of Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, UK.

Peter Roepstorff
Peter Roepstorff

Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark.

Gerard Rozing
Gerard Rozing

Technical Consultant, Rozing.com; Scientific Advisory Board member, Advanced Electrophoresis Solutions, Germany.

Wilhelm Schaenzer
Wilhelm Schaenzer

Head, Institute for Biochemistry, German Sport University Cologne, Germany.

Hamish Small
Hamish Small

Retired Chemist/Research Scientist, Dow Chemical, Oregon, USA.

Frantisek Svec
Frantisek Svec

Lead Scientist; Facility director at the Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California, USA; Short-term Principal Researcher, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, International Research Center for Soft Matter, China.

Zoltan Takats
Zoltan Takats

Professor of Analytical Chemistry, Department of Surgery & Cancer, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, UK.

Koichi Tanaka
Koichi Tanaka

Core Researcher/General Manager, Koichi Tanaka Laboratory of Advanced Science and Technology, Shimadzu Corporation, Japan.

Nobuo Tanaka
Nobuo Tanaka

Professor Emeritus, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan.

Sarah Trimpin
Sarah Trimpin

Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Wayne State University, Michigan, USA.

Teruhisa Ueda
Teruhisa Ueda

President & CEO, Shimadzu Corporation, Japan

Albert van der Berg
Albert van der Berg

Professor, MIRA and MESA+ Institute, University of Twente, The Netherlands.

Jean-Luc Veuthey
Jean-Luc Veuthey

Professor, School of pharmaceutical sciences, University of Geneva, Switzerland.

Joseph Wang
Joseph Wang

SAIC Endowed Chair, Distinguished Professor, Chair of Nanoengineering, University California San Diego, USA.

Ian Wilson
Ian Wilson

Professor, Chair in Drug Metabolism and Molecular Toxicology, Department of Surgery & Cancer, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, UK.

Nicholas Winograd
Nicholas Winograd

Evan Pugh Professor of Chemistry. Department of Chemistry. Penn State University, USA

Mary Wirth
Mary Wirth

W. Brooks Fortune Distinguished Professor, Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, Indiana, USA.

Kurt Wuthrich
Kurt Wuthrich

Professor of Biophysics, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biophysics, Zürich, Switzerland; Cecil H. and Ida M. Green Professor of Structural Biology, Scripps Research Institute, California, USA.

Guowang Xu
Guowang Xu

Director for Metabonomics Research Center, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.

Ed Yeung
Ed Yeung

Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Iowa State University, USA.

Yukui Zhang
Yukui Zhang

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

Hanfa Zou
Hanfa Zou

Professor, Vice Director of Biotechnology Division, and Vice Director of Education Committee, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.

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