Joe CarusoJoe Carusoholds a PhD from Michigan State University. After a one-year postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Texas-Austin, he joined the UC faculty and since then, he has authored or co-authored about 360 scientific publications and presented over 300 invited lectures at universities and at scientific meetings. He has more than 7000 citations to research papers and review articles since 1980. Caruso is a member of the American Chemical Society, Society for Applied Spectroscopy and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and former Editorial Board Chair ofJAAS.His research interests have long involved atomic mass spectrometry, which led to elemental speciation studies and ultimately metallomics research. Current interests involve using atomic and molecular mass spectrometry to better understand cell toxicity from the molecular point of view contemporaneously with major cell events. His research on metals, non-metals and their differing forms has implications for chemical warfare agent detection, environmental remediation, and health care.He has been honored by Eastern Michigan University with its 1990 Distinguished Alumni Award, by the American Chemical Society with the 1992 Cincinnati Chemist of the Year Award, the Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Society with the 1994 Anachem Award, and with the 2000 Spectrochemical Analysis Award given by the Analytical Division of the American Chemical Society. Recently he received the University of Cincinnati—Excellence in Doctoral Student Mentoring Award and the UC 2007 Rieveschl Excellence in Research Award.Ariel D. AnbarAriel D. Anbaris a biogeochemist in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the School of Earth & Space Exploration at Arizona State University. He received an AB in Geological Sciences and Chemistry from Harvard University in 1989, and a PhD in Geochemistry from the California Institute of Technology in 1996.Anbar’s research centers on the chemistry of transition elements in the environment. A major emphasis of this research is to determine how the abundances of bioessential elements such as Fe and Mo changed in the oceans during Earth history. The goal is to understand how these changes affected evolution.This research is pursued through the development and application of novel analytical approaches using ICP mass spectrometry, In particular, Anbar’s group pioneered the use of multiple-collector, magnetic sector ICP-MS to precisely measure mass-dependent variations in the isotopic abundances of transition elements that arise from mass fractionation. This work reveals that abundance variations of 0.01–0.1%/amu, once undetectable, are ubiquitous in nature. Such measurements in natural samples, informed by laboratory experiments and theoretical studies, provide insights into the environmental chemistry of metals and the metal-centered interactions between organisms and their surroundings. Applied to the geologic record, such “metal stable isotope” studies provide information about metal biogeochemical cycles on the ancient Earth, environmental changes that perturbed these cycles, and biological activity in the distant past.Hiroki HaraguchiHiroki Haraguchigraduated from the University of Tokyo (1965), from which he also received MSci and PhD degrees in 1967 and 1973, respectively. Since 1969, he served as assistant professor in the University of Tokyo, research chemist in the National Institute for Environmental Studies, and associate professor in the University of Tokyo. From 1975 to 1977, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Florida, where he worked with Prof. J. D. Winefordner. He was promoted to full professor of analytical chemistry laboratory in the Department of Applied Chemistry of Nagoya University in 1988, and retired from there in 2007. He is currently Emeritus Professor of Nagoya University as well as the program officer of the Ministry of Environment and the associate member of Science Council of Japan. His research interests are the development of highly-sensitive analytical methods for chemical speciation of trace elements in biological, environmental and geochemical systems. He proposed “metallomics as integrated biometal science” inJAASin 2004, which has been receiving great attention as a newly emerging scientific field in life science, complementary to genomics and proteomics. Furthermore, he has been attempting to establish the concept of “cell microcosm”, which indicates the existence of all elements in a single biological cell.Gary M. HieftjeGary M. Hieftjeis Distinguished Professor and Mann Chair of Chemistry at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. His research interests include the investigation of basic mechanisms in atomic emission, absorption, fluorescence and mass spectrometric analysis, and the development of instrumentation and techniques for atomic methods of analysis. He is interested also in the on-line computer control of chemical instrumentation and experiments, the use of time-resolved luminescence processes for analysis, the application of information theory to analytical chemistry, analytical mass spectrometry, near-infrared reflectance analysis, metallomics, and the use of stochastic processes to extract basic and kinetic chemical information. He has won numerous awards in the fields of analytical chemistry and spectroscopy, has held major offices in several scientific societies, and has served on the Editorial Boards of many major journals. He is the author of over 500 publications, 10 books, and 15 patents. More than 65 students have received doctorates under his direction.Ryszard LobinskiRyszard Lobinskiis research director at the CNRS (Laboratory of Analytical Bioinorganic and Environmental Chemistry in Pau) and professor of chemistry at the Warsaw University of Technology. He obtained his PhD (1989) and DSc (habilitation) (1994) degrees from the Warsaw University of Technology, Poland. He held postdoctoral positions at the Institute of Spectroscopy and Applied Spectrometry (ISAS) in Dortmund (1990) and at the University of Antwerp (UIA) (1991–1994) before joining the National Research Council of France (CNRS) in 1994. R. Lobinski is the author or co-author of over 200 articles in international journals, 3 books, 3 edited journal issues, and about 90 invited lectures at international meetings. He received the CNRS 2006 Silver Medal and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. He is also the co-director of UltraTrace Analyses Aquitaine (UT2A) (a startup company at the University of Pau) and Past-President of the Analytical Chemistry Division of IUPAC. His principal research interest is the development of analytical approaches to species-specific (speciation) analysis for trace and ultratrace metals in environmental and nutrition chemistry and in life sciences.Thomas V. O’HalloranThomas V. O’Halloranis Morrison Professor, Northwestern University, Department of Chemistry and Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Cell Biology. He completed his PhD at Columbia University, New York, with Professor S. J. Lippard and followed this with a post-doctoral position at MIT with Professor C. T. Walsh.Professor O’Halloran’s research interests include the chemistry and biology of transition metal receptors; transcriptional regulation mechanisms; metalloregulatory proteins; molecular and cell biology of copper, iron and zinc; metal ion chaperone proteins for Cu and Zn; mercury thiolate and protein chemistry; high-valent, iron-oxo chemistry; non-heme iron enzymes; design and development of inorganic-based antitumor drugs and protease inhibitors.Professor O’Halloran’s awards and recognitions include: Member, Advisory Board, US DOE Biological Sciences Directorate; NIH MERIT Award (Method to Extend Research in Time) for grant “Mechanistic Studies of the MerR and Fur Metalloregulatory Proteins”; Advisory Board, Center for Environmental Bioinorganic Chemistry Princeton University; Robert Lurie Cancer Center at Northwestern University—Director of Cancer Genes and Molecular Regulation Basic Research Program; Leadership Council; Co-Director of Molecular Oncogenesis Basic Research Group; Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science; Fellow, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation; Leroy Hall Award for Excellence in Teaching given by the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences; American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Scientific Achievement Award sponsored by Schering-Plough; Associated Student Government Faculty Honor Roll; Mortar Board—Faculty Honor Roll of Outstanding Teachers; The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation Teacher-Scholar Award; Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow; Presidential Young Investigator Award, NSF; National Searle Scholars Award, The Chicago Community Trust; The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation Distinguished New Faculty Award; Pegram Award, Columbia University.David E. SaltDavid E. Saltis a Professor at Purdue University in the Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA. His long term research interest is to understand the function of the genes and gene networks that regulate the plant ionome (elemental composition), along with the evolutionary forces that shape this regulation. To achieve this his research group couples high-throughput elemental profiling, with bioinformatics, genomics and genetics, in both genetic model species (yeast,Arabidopsisand rice) and “wild” plants (Astragalus,ThlaspiandPteris). He has been involved in such work since his PhD (Liverpool University, UK, 1985–1988) working on the mechanisms of copper tolerance inMimulus gutattus(yellow monkey flower). He also has a BSc in Biochemistry (University of North Wales, Bangor, UK, 1981–1984) and an MSc in Computer Science (Hallam University, UK, 1984–1985). He has published over 75 peer reviewed papers since 1989 with approximately 4000 citations. During his career, he has won competitive research funding from USDA, DOE, NSF and NIH. He is a member of the American Society of Plant Biologists and has sat on both the Education and Public Affairs committees. He is also a Monitoring Editor for Plant Physiology, and on the Editorial Boards of theBrazilian Journal of Plant Physiology,BMC Plant Biologyand theInternational Journal of Phytoremediation.Bibudhendra (Amu) SarkarBibudhendra (Amu) Sarkaris a leading authority in Inorganic Biochemistry. He graduated with a PhD degree in Biochemistry from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles in 1964. He joined the Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto and Research Institute of the Hospital for Sick Children with a Medical Research Council Scholar award. He was a Visiting Scientist in the Institute de Biologie Physico-Chimique, Université de Paris-Sorbonne, France where he worked on theab initiomolecular orbital calculations of metal-binding sites of proteins. He was a Visiting Scholar working on protein structure in the Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, UK with an award from the Nuffield Foundation. As the Head of Structural Biology and Biochemistry Department in the Hospital, he established a major research centre with a broad initiative in protein structure and function. He discovered the copper–histidine treatment of Menkes’ disease, a devastating neurodegenerative disease in children caused by genetic defect of copper transport. His pioneering research on the structure and function of metal-binding proteins led to the discovery of ATCUN motif, which can serve as a probe for protein structure determination by paramagnetic relaxation enhancement NMR spectroscopy and selective cleavage of DNA. His major research interests are in the area of metal-related genetic diseases with a special emphasis on Wilson’s and Menkes’ diseases and studying the effects of toxic metals in the environment and its impact on human health. Dr Sarkar is a Professor Emeritus in the University of Toronto and the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto.Hongzhe SunHongzhe Sunobtained his PhD from the University of London (with Peter J. Sadler) in 1996. After postdoctoral work at the University of Edinburgh, he joined the Department of Chemistry at the University of Hong Kong in 1998 where he is currently a professor. He is the recipient of the NSFC Outstanding Young Scholar Award in 2005, and serves on the Advisory Board of theJournal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry. His research interests are centered at metallodrugs and metalloproteins, inorganic structural biology and metallomics.Nigel RobinsonNigel Robinson, King Edwards foundation scholar, studied life sciences at theUniversity of Liverpool, specialising in Botany, graduating with a first in 1981 and completing a doctorate in 1984 with David Thurman on the mechanism of copper tolerance inMimulus guttatus. Supported by Fellowships from theNatural Environment Research Council, andDirectors-office of Los Alamos National Laboratory, he worked with Paul Jackson atLANL(1984–1987) then held aRoyal Society University Research Fellowshipat Durham University, UK (1987–1994) to gather genetic resources for metal-homeostasis. He was awarded the Presidents medal of theSociety for Experimental Biologyin 1993 in recognition of distinguished work on metalloproteins and metal interactions with plant and microbial cells. In 1994 he was appointed to the chair of Genetics in the Medical School atNewcastle University. He has trained two-dozen postgraduates, writtencircaone hundred papers, served as Editorial Advisor toMolecular Microbiologyand theBiochemical Journal, organised a dozen metals-related conferences, delivered more than a hundred invited lectures and co-instigated (with Dr Dennis Winge of the University of Utah) theGordon Research Conferenceseries on theCell Biology of Metals. With nearly a half of enzymes estimated to need metals he has contributed to understanding how cells assist proteins to acquire the correct metals.Marco Aurélio Zezzi ArrudaMarco Aurélio Zezzi Arrudawas born in Piracicaba, São Paulo state, Brazil in 1965. In 1996 he assumed the position of Assistant Professor at the University of Campinas-Unicamp, Department of Analytical Chemistry, becoming an Associate Professor in 2001. The main research lines of his research group include mass and atomic spectrometry, sample preparation, mechanization and bioanalytical with emphasis on metallomics. In the field of metallomics his current research interests include interdisciplinary work involving comparative metallomics of plants (i.e.soybean, sunflower) and human body fluids (i.e.blood serum, saliva, urine) to identify possible biomarkers for transgenic species and human diseases, as well as to evaluate reactive oxygen species production, and (metallo)proteins responses under metallic stress in a given system.Ivano BertiniIvano Bertiniis Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Florence and is Director of the Magnetic Resonance Center (CERM). He received several honors, among which three Laurea Honoris Causa (from the universities of Stockholm, Ioannina and Siena). He is a member of the Academia Europaea and the Italian Accademia dei Lincei, and is, or has been on the Editorial staff or Advisory Board of over 20 of the most authoritative journals in chemistry, biochemistry and inorganic chemistry.Since 1975 he has studied the structure–function relationship of metalloproteins through biophysical methods. In 1990, he transformed his lab into an NMR lab for structural biology of metalloproteins, and eventually pioneered the exploitation of genome data banks. He has pursued advancements in technology for solution structure determination, particularly for paramagnetic metalloproteins, and developed specific software applications. He has also established a molecular biology department for high-throughput protein expression in structural genomics projects on metalloproteins. He has published over 600 research articles and has solved more than 100 protein structures.In 1999 he founded the present Magnetic Resonance Center (CERM) at the University of Florence in an independent and prestigious building hosting an impressive battery of NMR spectrometers. The Center constitutes a major NMR infrastructure in the Life Sciences.Jörg BettmerJörg Bettmerfinished his chemistry degree (University of Münster, Germany) in November 1992. Afterwards, he started at the Department of Analytical Chemistry at the same university under the supervision of Prof. K. Cammann his PhD which he finished in 1996. After several short-term post-doctoral stays he moved to the University of Mainz, Germany, in 2000, where he obtained his habilitation in summer 2004 under the supervision of Professor Klaus G. Heumann. After a visiting professorship for environmental and analytical chemistry at the Humboldt-University in Berlin in 2004/05 he moved back to Mainz, where he was appointed as assistant professor in analytical chemistry until 2007. In May 2007 he moved to the University of Oviedo, Spain (Professor Alfredo Sanz-Medel), where he is currently holding a position as “Ramón y Cajal researcher”.His research interests and experience are mainly centred in the field of elemental speciation with special emphasis on the development of hyphenated techniques. This includes labelling strategies for (quantitative) protein and metalloprotein determinations.Zhifang ChaiZhifang Chaiis a radiochemist working at Multidisciplinary Initiative Centre, Institute of High Energy Physics, the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was graduated from Fudan University, China, in 1964. As a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany, he worked at Cologne University from 1980 to 1982 in the field of nuclear technology and its applications. Later, he worked in France, USA, the Netherlands and Japan. He has long been involved in the methodology of nuclear analytical techniques and their multidisciplinary applications, especially in study of the chemical speciation of trace elements in environmental and biological systems. He authored or co-authored over 332 papers in peer-review journals, 6 Chinese books and 3 English books. He is a member of many domestic and international scientific societies. In 2005 he was awarded the George von Hevesy Award—the premier international award of excellence to honor outstanding achievements in radioanalytical and nuclear chemistry. In 2007 he was elected as a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. His present interest is to develop novel nuclear analytical methods for metallomics study.Heidi Goenaga-InfanteHeidi Goenaga-Infantegraduated from the University of Havana, Cuba and then was awarded a MUTIS fellowship from the Spanish International Cooperation Agency at the University of Oviedo, Spain from which she obtained her PhD in 1999. She was a research assistant at the Micro and Trace Analysis Centre (MiTAC), University of Antwerp from 1999–2003. In 2003, she joined LGC’s mass spectrometry team in Teddington, United Kingdom as a senior research and development scientist.Dr Heidi Goenaga-Infante is currently the lead scientist of speciation analysis and metallomics research at LGC. Her research interests concern the combined application of elemental and molecular mass spectrometry with chromatography for heteroatom speciation analysis of dietary substances, supplements and clinical samples and the high accuracy determination of heteroatom-containing species in these substances by IDMS approaches with the aim to characterise new “speciated” certified reference materials. She has undertaken and managed a wide variety of projects and studies including the coordination of CCQM (Consultative Committee on Amount of Substance) international intercomparisons on the speciation field.Jose Luis Gómez-ArizaJose Luis Gómez-Arizais full professor of Analytical Chemistry at the University of Huelva. He received his BSc (1973) and PhD (1976) from the University of Sevilla. He was temporary assistant professor (1973–77) and permanent assistant professor (1977–93) at the University of Sevilla. In 1993 he moved to the University of Huelva where he became a full professor. His research interests include the investigation of new analytical approaches for chemical species characterization using hyphenated techniques and the analysis of metal species involved in environmental, food and health issues. The study of metalloproteins and other metal-linking biomolecules using multidimensional analytical approaches (metallomics) is now under his attention considering the integration with other -omics such as proteomics and transcriptomics. He is the author or co-author of over 250 scientific publications, 2 books, and holds several patents. Over 25 students have received doctorates under his direction; many others have received MS degrees, and scores of undergraduates and visiting scientists have performed research in his laboratory.J. L. Gómez-Ariza is a member of the Spanish Society for Analytical Chemistry (SEQA), Royal Society of Chemistry, American Chemical Society and American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. He was honoured with the Andalusia Research Award in 2003 and the Huelva Industry Excellence Research Award also in 2003. He was president of Speciation Group of SEQA and the Andalusia Group of the Spanish Society for Analytical Chemistry (GRASEQA). In 2003 was appointed as an academic of the Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters of Huelva.Rudi GrimmRudi Grimmreceived his PhD in Biology at the University of Munich in 1987. After completing a post-doc at the University of Freiburg, Germany and the Riken Institute in Tokyo, Japan he joined Hewlett-Packard as a senior life science application chemist in 1991. In 1998 he left the company and became the head of protein chemistry at the Munich based proteomics company Toplab. In June 1999 he joined Hexal Pharma to establish the biotech laboratories for the development of generic recombinant protein drugs. In September 2002 he rejoined Agilent Technologies as the worldwide proteomics and metabolomics market development manager. Since May 2006 he is working at the Agilent Technologies headquarter in Santa Clara, California.Norbert JakubowskiNorbert Jakubowskistudied physics at the University of Duisburg, Essen and completed his PhD in physics at the University of Hohenheim. He was a senior scientist at the Institute for Analytical Sciences, Dortmund and Berlin (from 1983 to 2009) and is now Head of BAM's Division I.1 Inorganic Chemical Analysis and Reference Materials (since July 2009). His research interests include inorganic trace and ultra trace analysis of liquids and solids by use of ICP-MS and GD-MS, elemental speciation analysis and development of elemental tags for quantitative detection of biomolecules. He has received awards including the Alan Date Memorial Award from VG Elemental, Surrey, GB (1990), Zimmer International Scholar from University of Cincinnati, USA (2005) and a Waters Symposium Award for Pioneers in ICP-MS (2006). Dr Jakubowski is a member of the Editorial Board ofJAAS(Reviews Editor since 2006) and of the Advisory Boards of the journals:Analytical and Bioanalytical ChemistryandAnalyst.David W. KoppenaalDavid W. Koppenaalis a Laboratory Fellow, Associate Director of the Biological Sciences Division, and Chief Technology Officer of EMSL at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Before joining the Advisory Board ofMetallomics, he has been a member of the Editorial Board ofJAASand is currently an Advisory Board member. Dr Koppenaal’s research interests include atomic mass spectrometry instrumentation and applications, with special interests in metallomic applications of ICP-MS, and collision/reaction cell, high-resolution MS, and new generation MS detection techniques. Dr Koppenaal is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).Peter M. H. KroneckPeter M. H. Kroneckholds a Diploma in Chemistry from Universität Basel, Switzerland, and completed his Dr rer. nat. studies at Universität Konstanz, Germany. He undertook postdoctoral studies at Utah State University, USA and his habilitation at Universität Konstanz, Germany.He is currently Professor of Biochemistry, Universität Konstanz (since 1986) and his professional experience includes Visiting Scientist, Natl. Biomed. ESR Center, Milwaukee, USA (1988–1994), Head Bioinorganic Research Group, Universität Konstanz (1980–1986), Visiting Scientist, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel (1977), Visiting Scientist, University of Wisconsin Madison, USA (1976)His achievements include: Chair of the “Metals in Biology” GRC (2009); Organizer DAAD Summer SchoolMetals in Biology—Key Elements of Life, Cuernavaca, Mexico (2008); Member Natl. Org. Committee, EUROBIC 4, Garmisch-Partenkirchen (2004); Organizer/Chair, Intern. SymposiumCopper 2003, Konstanz (2003); LecturerMetals in Biological Systems, Center for Intern. Studies, Grinnell College, USA (2003); LecturerCu Enzymes and Proteins, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium (1985–2003); Medal of the European Society for Bioinorganic Chemistry, received at EUROBIC 6, Lund, Sweden (2002); Organizer/Co-Chair, 13th Intern. ConferenceFlavins and Flavoproteins, Konstanz (1999); Organizer/Co-chair, Intern. Volkswagen-SymposiumElectron Transfer, Konstanz (1999); Natl. Org. Committee of ICBIC 7, Lübeck (September 1995); Organizer/Chair, Intern. SymposiumFeS Proteins, Konstanz (1994); Organizer/Chair, Intern. MeetingRedox Cofactors and Metals in Proteins, Konstanz (1991).Maria Montes BayónMaria Montes Bayónis Associate Professor at the Department of Physical and Analytical Chemistry of Oviedo′s University since 2007. After completing her chemistry degree at the University of Oviedo (1993), she performed her MSc Studies at the University of Plymouth (UK) under the supervision of Dr Hywel Evans and Prof. Les Ebdon. Once back in Oviedo, she started her PhD studies Oviedo University under the supervision of Dr J. I. Garcia Alonso and Prof. A. Sanz Medel that concluded in 1999. The thesis was awarded with a Departmental Prize due to the number and quality of publications obtained. Afterwards, she conducted a post-doctoral work as Fulbright Scholar at the Department of Chemistry in the University of Cincinnati (Ohio, USA) for 26 months, under the supervision of Prof. J. A. Caruso. Back to Spain from USA, she obtained the “Ramón y Cajal” research contract (five years) and she joined the group leaded by Prof. Sanz-Medel. During this period, she obtained the national habilitation and then the permanent position at the Department of Physical and Analytical Chemistry.She is author or co-author of more than 70 scientific publications in international journals and book chapters. This work has been presented in many lectures at national and international Conferences also as invited speaker. Her main research topics include hybrid techniques for speciation to solve biological and environmental problems. HPLC, Capillary GC and Capillary Electrophoresis, as powerful separation tools are coupled to Plasma-based Mass Analysers (ICP-MS). Speciation for Proteomics, integrating MS “molecular” (MALDI-TOF and Electrospray-Q-TOF) and “atomic” (ICP-MS) for the elucidation of metalloproteins and some prostrasductional modifications (e.g.glycosylation) related to certain pathological status.Dr Montes-Bayón participates in several national research projects from the Ministry of Education and Science and she is member of the Board of the Mass Spectrometry Group in Spain and has belonged to the National Spectroscopy Group and to the Advisory Board ofJAASsince 2006.Yasumitsu OgraYasumitsu Ograobtained his BS degree from Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences in 1991, and his PhD from Chiba University (Japan) in 1996. He continued carrying out scientific research as a post-doctoral fellow at the National Institute of Industrial Health (Japan). Since 1997, he has worked in the Department of Toxicology and Environmental health, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chiba University as a research associate (1997–2003) and an associate professor (2004–present). He was a visiting scientist of the French National Research Council (CNRS) in 2002 and 2003. His current research interests include the elucidation of mechanisms underlying physiological and toxicological effects of metals and metalloids, and development of a novel approach to metal/metalloid toxicology by combination between speciation/fractionation of metals/metalloids and molecular biological techniques. His special attention is devoted to toxicology in metallomics,i.e., toxicometallomics.Joanna SzpunarJoanna Szpunargraduated from the Warsaw University of Technology and then moved to the University of Warsaw from which she obtained her PhD (1992) and DSc (habilitation) (2000) degrees. She was research fellow at the University of Antwerp (UIA) (1993–1994), and fellow of the European Environmental Research Organization (EERO) at the University of Bordeaux (1995–1996). In 1997 she joined the National Research Council of France (CNRS) as research engineer at the Laboratory of Bioinorganic Analytical and Environmental Chemistry in Pau. Szpunar is titular professor of chemistry (Poland). Her research interests focus on the development of hyphenated techniques for thein vivospeciation and fractionation of trace metals and metalloids in natural products and biological systems.Jeffrey ZaleskiProfessor Jeffrey Zaleskireceived his BS degree from SUNY at Geneseo in 1988 followed by his PhD from Michigan State University in 1993. He was subsequently awarded Jane Coffin Childs Postdoctoral Fellowship at Stanford University where he studied Physical-Bioinorganic chemistry under the direction of Professor Edward I. Solomon. Professor Zaleski joined the faculty at Indiana University in 1996.His research interests are in the fields of metals in medicine, bioinorganic chemistry, synthetic chemistry, and materials. Professor Zaleski and his group have four main thrust areas. (1) Attempting to harness the power of naturally occurring chemical functionalities for applications as metal-mediated biomedical reagents. These systems are primarily based on radical or diradical intermediates whose reactivity is difficult to control and systematically modulate. (2) The development of novel nano-scale architectures as hybrid materials for optics, photo-magnetic switching, and nanomedicine applications. Constructing these materials involves development of new synthetic strategies or novel ligand coatings with specific properties to enable optical or magnetic excitation. (3) Applications of spectroscopy to electronic structure of inorganic and bioinorganic metal sites involved in thermal or photoinduced processes such as energy transfer, or biochemical gene expression. (4) Synthesis of unique porphyrinoid architectures that have unusual optical properties for energy-related photoelectronic or synthetic applications requiring extended chromophores.