Steven J. Ray Joins Spectroscopy’s Editorial Advisory Board
Spectroscopy magazine is pleased to announce the addition of Steven J. Ray to its editorial advisory board.
Spectroscopy magazine is pleased to announce the addition of Steven J. Ray to its editorial advisory board.
Ray received his PhD from Indiana University and is currently the Winkler Assistant Professor of Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry at the State University of New York at Buffalo (New York). He is the recipient of a 2011 R&D100 Award, the 2013 Ron Hites Award for the best manuscript in Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry, the 2014 SAS Lester Strock Medal, the 2015 Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry “Best Paper” Award, and the 2016 Young Plasma Spectrochemist Award.
Ray currently serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, and the editorial advisory boards of Spectrochimica Acta, Part B and Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry. He is also the 2016–2017 governing board chairman of the Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies (FACSS). His research interests involve novel aspects of analytical instrumentation, including distance-of-flight mass spectrometry, atomic spectroscopy, plasma spectrochemistry, and metallomics methodologies. He has published approximately 80 manuscripts, book chapters, and patents.
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