Janusz Pawliszyn and Xin Yan were presented with the 2023 Awards in Analytical Chemistry

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Janusz Pawliszyn and Xin Yan were presented with the 2023 Awards in Analytical Chemistry

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In 2020, the Analytical Chemistry Division (Division V) established two awards honoring excellence in analytical chemistry. The IUPAC Analytical Chemistry Medal honors significant lifetime contributions to the aims of the Analytical Chemistry Division of IUPAC and the Emerging Innovator Award in Analytical Chemistry recognizes outstanding work undertaken by an emerging analytical scientist that corresponds to the aims of the Analytical Chemistry Division of IUPAC. These awards recognizing outstanding analytical chemists are conferred and award lectures are presented during General Assemblies.

Janusz Pawliszyn

Xin Yan

In 2023 Janusz Pawliszyn received the IUPAC Analytical Chemistry Medal recognizing a lifetime of world leading, foundational research in analytical sample preparation and the invention of solid phase microextration. He is Canada Research Chair Professor, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

The primary focus of his research program is the design of highly automated and integrated instrumentation for the isolation of analytes from complex matrices and the subsequent separation, identification, and determination of these species using gas chromatography, liquid chromatography, and capillary electrophoresis coupled to variety of detections systems, including a range of mass spectrometry techniques. Currently his research is working to eliminate organic solvents from sample preparation to enable on-site monitoring and in-vivo analysis. His research also explores the application of the computational and modeling techniques to enhance performance of sample preparation, chromatographic separations, and detection.

Pawliszyn’s award lecture, “Significance of Fundamentals in Development and Optimization of Sustainable Sampling and Sample Preparation Technologies” is available on YOUTUBE.

In 2023 Xin Yan, Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University received the Emerging Innovator Award in Analytical Chemistry recognizing her ground-breaking work in electrochemical reactions in droplets using mass spectrometry.

Her research combines expertise in mass spectrometry, microdroplet chemistry, electrochemistry, and biology to develop novel approaches for disease diagnosis, structural lipidomics, and accelerated electrochemical reactions. In particular, the work is motivated by the possibility of enabling new technology for next-generation approaches to precision medicine, and sustainable synthesis. Her research interests span a range of topics; including structural lipidomics, metabolomics in brain research, interfacial electrochemical reactions, and novel electrogenerated cationic transition-metal electrocatalysis. Her research group is highly interdisciplinary, providing students the opportunity to obtain hands-on experience in analytical, biological and synthetic chemistry.

Yan’s award lecture “Microdroplet Mass Spectrometry for Lipid Isomer “Analysis and Accelerated Discovery of Transition Metal Catalysis” is available on YOUTUBE.

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