Andrew J. deMellois a Senior Lecturer at Imperial College London. He obtained a First Class honours degree in Chemistry from Imperial College in 1991, and subsequently completed a doctorate in the field of molecular photophysics. He then moved to the University of California, Berkeley where he held a post-doctoral research fellowship in the Department of Chemistry. Between 1996 and 1997, Dr deMello held a lectureship in Physical Chemistry at the University of East Anglia.Dr deMello′s current research programmes are centred on the areas of miniaturised chemical analysis systems and ultra-high sensitivity detection. Generally, studies focus on performing chemistry in picoliter volumes, high-efficiency manipulation of small liquid samples and investigating novel phenomena on the microscale. In particular he has an established track record in the development of microdevices for DNA analysis, microfluidic reactors for small molecule and nanomaterial synthesis, novel chip-based detection protocols and evanescent wave and single molecule spectroscopies. He was a member of the Genome Instrumentation Panel, DOE, USA (1998), and is currently a member of the Detection and Decontamination of Chemical and Biological Weapons Working Group of The Royal Society.Dr. deMello has co-authored one book and in excess of 60 scientific publications in scientific journals. Since 1997, he has given over 70 oral presentations on various aspects of his research on microfluidic systems. Dr deMello was awarded the 2002 SAC Silver Medal by the Royal Society of Chemistry for his contributions to the Analytical Sciences.