Analytical Methods editorial board members

B. Jill Venton, Editor-in-chief

University of Virginia, USA

ORCID: 0000-0002-5096-9309

B. Jill Venton is a Professor of Chemistry and Neuroscience at the University of Virginia.  She got her PhD from the University of North Carolina and was a postdoc at the University of Michigan before starting at the University of Virginia in 2005.  She was promoted to Associate Professor in 2011 and full Professor in 2016. Her research is in electrochemical sensors for making real-time measurements of neurotransmitters.  Her lab develops novel electrochemical sensors using carbon nanomaterials and is known for making real-time measurements of adenosine in rats and dopamine in the fruit fly brain. She has won many awards including the Society for Electroanalytical Chemistry Young Investigator Award, Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar, and Eli Lilly Young Analytical Investigator award.  She is also active in many outreach education programs to elementary teachers and students.  

Martina Catani, Associate editor

University of Ferrara, Italy

Martina Catani is Assistant Professor of Analytical Chemistry at the University of Ferrara (Dept. of Chemical, Pharmaceutical and Agricultural Sciences) and she received a PhD in Chemical Sciences in 2018 from the same University.

During her PhD, she has spent research periods at VUB Brussels (Belgium) and the University of Pécs (Hungary). Then, she worked at ETH Zurich (Switzerland) as a postdoctoral research fellow in 2019.

Martina works in the field of liquid chromatography for both analytical and preparative purposes. Her main research activities are focused on the purification of polypeptides, oligonucleotides, and proteins by means of single-column and continuous countercurrent multicolumn preparative LC; investigation of kinetic and thermodynamic phenomena in chiral and achiral HPLC and SFC and, more recently, she has also begun dedicating her work to analytical approaches applied to omics science.

She is the co-author of more than 70 papers published in peer reviewed journals and she has presented her research activities as an invited speaker at several national and international meetings.

She has been the recipient of many awards, including the “Csaba Horváth Young Scientist Award” conferred at HPLC2018 Washington (USA), the “2021 Young Researcher Award” conferred by the Analytical Chemistry Division of the Italian Chemical Society and the “Emerging Leader in Chromatography Award” conferred by LCGC in 2024.

Wendell Coltro, Associate editor

Federal University of Goiás, Brazil

Wendell K. T. Coltro obtained his BSc in Chemistry from the State University of Maringá (2002). He received his MSc (2004) and Ph.D. (2008) in Analytical Chemistry from the University of São Paulo (in the Institute of Chemistry at São Carlos under the supervision of Professor Emanuel Carrilho. In 2006, he was a visiting scholar at The University of Kansas (USA) under the supervision of Professor Sue Lunte. He is currently Associate Professor and Director of Chemistry at the Federal University of Goiás, Brazil. In the beginning of 2018, he was nominated as affiliate member of the Brazilian Academy of Science as a young researcher. His research interests involve the development of electrophoresis chips, electrochemical sensors, toner- and paper-based devices as well as 3D printed microfluidic chips for applications in bioanalytical and forensic chemistry.

Juan F García-Reyes, Associate editor

University of Jaén, Spain

ORCID: 0000-0001-9158-0271

Juan F. García-Reyes is currently Associate Professor of Analytical Chemistry at the University of Jaén (Spain) since 2010. He served as Associate Editor in Analytical Methods since October 2015. His current research interests includes the development and application of different UHPLC-HRMS methodologies for small-molecule applications such as environmental analysis, food quality and safety testing and forensics, and the use of new ambient and atmospheric pressure ionization methods based on dielectric barrier discharges for mass spectrometric small-molecule applications such as pesticide testing and explosive detection. He is co-author of ca. 100 peer reviewed articles, which have received over 2900 citations (h-index 31) and has presented over 150 contributions in analytical chemistry related conferences. 

Anthony Killard, Associate editor

University of West England, UK

ORCID: 0000-0001-6953-3655

Tony received his BA(Mod) Natural Sciences in Microbiology at Trinity College, Dublin in 1993 and his PhD in Biotechnology at Dublin City University (DCU) in 1998. He became Principal Investigator at the Biomedical Diagnostcs Institute, DCU in 2005. In 2011, he was appointed to the Chair in Biomedical Sciences at the University of the West of England and was made Adjunct Professor at the Biomedical Diagnostics Institute in October 2011. He is a Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry. His areas of interest are the development of chemical sensors, biosensors and biomedical diagnostic devices; application of novel electroactive materials (nanostructured conducting polymers and electrocatalysts) to electrochemical sensors and biosensors, while also making these amenable to low cost mass production using technologies such as screen printing, inkjet printing and polymer MEMS fabrication; Integration of these sensors into functional diagnostic devices and systems e.g. point of care diagnostics using novel techniques such as breath monitoring and printed electronics technology and development of novel approaches to blood coagulation monitoring.

Zhen Liu, Associate editor

Nanjing University, China

ORCID: 0000-0002-8440-2554

Zhen Liu is a Distinguished Professor at Nanjing University, China. He obtained his PhD from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Academy of Sciences of China in 1998. After post-doctoral training at Hyogo University (former Himeji Institute of Technology) in Japan as a JPSP scholar (2000-2002) and at the University of Waterloo in Canada (2002-2005), he joined Nanjing University as a Full Professor in 2005. He was appointed as Adjunct Professor at the University of Waterloo (2011-2014). He was awarded the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (2014). His research interests include separation science, affinity materials, molecular imprinting, bioassays, single-cell analysis, hyphenated analytical approaches, and nanomaterials for cancer therapy. He is particularly interested in integrating multidisciplinary knowledge, expertise and skills to overcome challenges in life science, such as disease diagnosis and cancer therapy. He holds 12 patents and has authored and co-authored more than 130 peer-reviewed papers, 2 books and 7 book chapters. His h-index is 40 (Google Scholar). He is an Editorial Board member of Analytical Methods and an Advisory Board member of Analytica Chimica Acta, Electrophoresis, Separation Science Plus, Chinese Science Bulletin, Chinese Journal of Mass Spectrometry and Chinese Journal of Chromatography. He also serves as an executive council member of the Chinese Mass Spectrometry Society and a board member of the Society for Molecular Imprinting.

Matthew R Lockett, Associate editor

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

ORCID: 0000-0003-4851-7757

Matthew obtained his B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Pittsburgh, where he performed undergraduate research in the laboratory of Stéphane Petoud. He received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Wisconsin at Madison under the supervision of Lloyd M. Smith. From 2010-2013, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University, working in the laboratory of George M. Whitesides. Matthew is an Associate Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His laboratory focuses on two distinct research areas, developing new tools and methods to better understand the chemistry occurring in complex environments and interfaces. (1) Bioanalysis techniques focused on probing cellular responses to oxygen and extracellular signaling gradients in 3D tissue- and tumor-like structures. These studies focus on estrogen signaling in healthy and tumorigenic breast models, drug resistance mechanisms in breast and colorectal tumor models, the regulation of drug-metabolizing enzymes along the liver sinusoid, and the altered cellular biochemistry that results from exposure to per- and poly-fluorinated substances (PFAS). (2) Surface analysis of chemically modified photoelectrodes, focusing on carbon- and silicon-based materials. These studies work to elucidate structure-function relationships in materials whose surfaces cannot undergo self-assembly and, thus are intrinsically disordered.

Chao Lu, Associate editor

Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China

ORCID: 0000-0002-7841-7477

Chao Lu is currently a Full Professor of State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology. He received his Ph.D. degree in Analytical Chemistry from Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2004. He has been a visiting scholar in Kanazawa University from 2004 to 2005, Hong Kong University from 2005 to 2007, and University of Texas at Arlington from 2007 to 2009. He holds 15 patents, and has published more than 100 peer reviewed articles. His current research interests include the synthesis and characterization of advanced functional nanomaterials for chemiluminescence, electrochemiluminescence, fluoresecence, biosensors, and bioimaging.

Fiona Regan, Associate editor

Dublin City University, Ireland

ORCID: 0000-0002-8273-9970

Fiona Regan is Professor in Chemical Science at Dublin City University and Director of the DCU Water Institute. Fiona studied Environmental Science and Technology and later completed a PhD in analytical chemisty in 1994. Following postdoctoral research in optical sensing in DCU, in 1996 she took up a lecturing position at Limerick Institute of Technology. In 2002 Fiona joined the School of Chemical Sciences at DCU as a lecturer in analytical chemistry, in 2008 she became senior lecturer and in 2009 became the Beaufort Principal Investigator in Marine and Environmental Sensing. Fiona’s research focuses on environmental monitoring and she has special interest in priority and emerging contaminants as well as the establishment of decision support tools for environmental monitoring using novel technologies and data management tools. Her work includes the areas of separations and sensors (including microfluidics), materials for sensing and antifouling applications on aquatic deployed systems.