At ABC, we recently had the opportunity to bring three new Editors onto our team: Antje Baeumner, Maria Moreno-Bondi, and Luigi Mondello. These new Editors are based in the key… Click to show full abstract
At ABC, we recently had the opportunity to bring three new Editors onto our team: Antje Baeumner, Maria Moreno-Bondi, and Luigi Mondello. These new Editors are based in the key ABC co-owner-society countries of Germany, Italy, and Spain. Importantly, our new Editors also bring with them strong worldwide connections beyond Europe, in Asia, North America, and Latin America. Indeed, our new Editors’ European roots with international ties might be considered indicative of ABC’s trajectory from its European foundation to an increasingly global presence. To help you get to know our new Editors better, we introduce them here: Antje J. Baeumner is Director of the Institute of Analytical Chemistry, Chemoand Biosensors at the Universi ty of Regensburg. Prior to returning to Germany, she was Professor and Director of Graduate S tud i e s i n t he Depa r tmen t o f B io log i c a l and Environmental Engineering at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, USA, where she had spent all of her professional career until 2013. Currently, she serves as President of the International Association of Environmental Analytical Chemistry (IAEAC); she serves in the leadership team of the biosensor section of the German Chemical Society and is Chair of the 2020 Gordon Research Conference on Nanotechnology for Agriculture and Food Systems. Her research is focused on the development of biosensors and microTotal Analysis Systems for the detection of pathogens and toxins in food, for the environment, and for clinical diagnostics. Her research includes the development of novel nanomaterials such as liposomes, nanofibers, and nanoparticles, and platform technologies for microfluidic biosensors, sample preparation strategies, and point-of-care devices. Challenges associated with bioanalytical chemistry in resource-limited settings drive much of the efforts. She has published over 110 papers in high-ranking analytical journals, has been awarded 7 patents, and has received extensive funding supporting her research activities. Previously, she chaired the Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Bioanalytical Sensors in 2010 and organized and chaired the international biosensor conference BBMEC in 2001 and 2015. She has received numerous awards for her research including being a finalist of the Blavatnik Award, a senior fellow of the Alexandervon-Humboldt Foundation, and Mercator Professor of the German Science Foundation and has received numerous teaching awards (Fig. 1). Maria C. Moreno-Bondi received her Ph.D. (1990) from Complutense University of Madrid. She has carried out research stages at Columbia University (NY), the Oak Ridge National Lab (TN, USA), and the Naval Research Laboratory (DC, USA) focused on the development of luminescent methods, optical fiber sensors, and microarrays for environmental, food, and clinical applications. She got tenure in 1991, and since 2008, * Adam T. Woolley [email protected]
               
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