2023 Martin & Jubilee Medal Winners

The Chromatographic Society annually confers a number of accolades for scientific achievement in the field of chromatography. In 2023 we are pleased to announce the awarding of both the 2023 Martin and Silver Jubilee medals to Professors Janusz Pawliszyn and Jared L Anderson respectively.

2023 Martin Medal winner?Janusz Pawliszyn, University of Waterloo, Canada

The Martin Medal is named after Professor A.J.P. Martin who, together with Richard Synge, received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1952 for their seminal work on partition chromatography. The award represents the highest honour that the Chromatographic Society confers.?

Janusz Pawliszyn Joined the University of Waterloo, Canada where he became a Professor in 1988. He is most well known for the invention of the solid-phase microextraction (SPME) technique which "uses a solid coating on a sample probe to selectively extract chemical substances from blood, saliva, urine, and even plasma”. SPME has been said to have revolutionized many areas of sampling and analysis.

While Professor Pawliszyn’s name has become synonymous with SPME, he has conducted research widely in the area of sample preparation, his work becoming more topical as interest in “green chemistry” began to increase. His current primary focus is on 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. The primary separation tools used by his group are gas chromatography, liquid chromatography and capillary electrophoresis coupled to a variety of detections systems, including a range of mass spectrometry techniques. The major area of his interest now involves the development and application of imaging detection techniques for microcolumn chromatography, capillary electrophoresis and microchip separation devices.

2023 Silver Jubilee Medal winner Jared L Anderson, Iowa State University, USA.

The Jubilee Me was created in 1982 to mark the 25th anniversary of The Chromatographic Society, with the intention of recognizing up-and-coming separation scientists who have made major use of separation science in their own field or have made important contributions to a particular area of separation science.

Jared L. Anderson (Alice Hudson Professor of Chemistry), joined the chemistry faculty of the Iowa State University in August 2015. The focus of Anderson’s research is on a broad range of separation science and sample preparation areas. He is specifically interested in employing and understanding the role that ionic liquids (ILs) and polymeric ionic liquids (PILs) play in chromatographic separations and sample preparation, particularly microextraction-based techniques.

His research interests include the application of magnetic ionic liquids in nucleic acid extraction and preservation, analysis of genotoxic impurities and residual solvents in active pharmaceutical ingredients, and the development of new stationary phases for the analysis of complex samples using comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography.

The Chromatographic Society would like to offer thorough congratulations to both medal winners and look forward to presenting the awards in person at upcoming international symposia.