Facundo Fernández, Vasser Woolley Foundation Chair in Bioanalytical Chemistry and Regents’ Professor in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, has been selected as this year’s Anachem Award recipient by the Association of Analytical Chemists. 

Presented as a part of a symposium arranged and given by former students and colleagues to honor the recipient, the award recognizes an outstanding analytical chemist that has advanced the field through exemplary research, teaching, or other endeavors.

“This award is very significant to me as it is given to the most accomplished scientists in the field of analytical chemistry, including some of my long-time heroes, such as Bob Kennedy of the University of Michigan, Catherine Fenselau of the University of Maryland and Scott McLuckey of Purdue University,” says Fernández. 

“Anachem award winners include Rosalyn Yallow, who received the Nobel Prize for the development of the radioimmunoassay technique,” he adds. “It is enormously significant to be recognized by such close peers who appreciate the value of measurement science in general, and analytical chemistry in particular.”

Fernández is a noted leader in the field of metabolomics and molecular imaging, where his research encompasses the development of new ionization, imaging, machine learning and ion mobility spectrometry tools for probing composition and structure in complex molecular mixtures. He is the author of over 225 peer-reviewed publications and has received the NSF CAREER award, the CETL/BP Teaching award, the Ron A. Hites best paper award from the American Society for Mass Spectrometry, and the Beynon award from Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, among others.