Martin Medal winner
Guowang Xu | Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, China
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.
Professor Guowang Xu joined the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics in 1991 as an Assistant Professor before becoming Full Professor in 1997. In 2017 he was appointed Director of the CAS Key Laboratory of Separation Science for Analytical Chemistry. Professor Xu is globally recognized for his work in LC-MS-based fundamental research and its applications to metabolomics research in biomarker discovery, traditional Chinese medicines and food safety. His lab has developed world-leading platforms for metabolomics and lipidomics, including pseudo-targeted metabolomics and modified metabolomics methods. Additionally, Professor Xu is highly dedicated to Chinese chromatography, serving as the current president of the Chromatography Committee of the Chinese Society of Chemistry.
The primary separation tools used by his group are liquid chromatography and gas chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry. His work has always been highly regarded; he is an author of almost 700 scientific publications (>31,000 citations), five books and over 100 patents. His Hirsch index (h-index) is 92. He has received numerous awards for his work over the years, recently including the Science and Technology of China Association of Instrument Analysis (CAIA) Award in 2020.
Professor Xu is a foremost presence at international conferences (HPLC, ISC) and has represented China’s chromatographic excellence for many years, as well as serving on the HPLC permanent scientific committee and chromatographic editorial boards (Journal of Chromatography B and Analytical Chemistry). The ChromSoc considers Guowang Xu to represent the ideal of a world-renowned analytical scientist and is a worthy recipient of the Martin Medal.
