The Power List 2025

Each year, we ask the individuals on our Power List about the biggest challenges facing analytical science – visibility, talent, and data overload often come up. In 2025, add to the list economic and political turmoil – especially around research funding – which present their own serious difficulties while also amplifying those existing challenges. 

That’s why we believe the time is right for sober reflection, fresh thinking, and new solutions. So, for 2025, we’ve turned the Power List on its head. Instead of the usual nominations process, we invited entrants to respond to one of three crucial questions for the field.

Here, we present the 30 most original thoughts and compelling arguments – selected blind by our expert panel – and, as always, celebrate the thinkers behind them.