Board of Directors

The Board of Directors are responsible for the following tasks:

  • Ensure that the SMSB mission is respected and implemented;
  • Strategically develop the MSB symposium series;
  • Guide current and future symposium chairs to meet the conference philosophy; and
  • Solicit for and engage future symposium chairs, as well as future Directors.

A list of former members can be found here.

As of 2025, the SMSB Board of Directors is composed of the following members:

 

Rawi Ramautar (President)

Associate Professor, Leiden University, Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research, Leiden, The Netherlands

Alberto Fracassi (Secretary)

Professor in Chemistry, Chemistry Institute, State University of Campinas, Sao Paolo, Brazil

Lisa Holland (Treasurer)

Professor, C. Eugene Bennett Department of Chemistry, West Virginia University, VA, USA.

Alexandra Ros (Co-Treasurer)

Professor, School of Molecular Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA

Víctor Gonzalez-Ruiz (Webmaster)

Associate Professor, Centre for Metabolomics and Bioanalysis, CEU-San Pablo University, Madrid, Spain

Muhammad J A Shiddiky

Distinguished Professor of Nanotechnology, Charles Sturt University, Orange, Australia

Thanh-Duc Mai

Researcher, Faculty of Pharmacy, Université Paris-Sud, France

Jana Lavicka

Senior scientist, Institute of Analytical Chemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic

Takayuki Kawai

Associate Professor, Faculty of Science Department of Chemistry, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

Karen Waldron (Outgoing treasurer)

Professeure titulaire, Faculté des arts et des sciences, Université de Montréal, Canada

Susan Darling

Senior Director Product Management, SCIEX, San Mateo, USA

All members of the Board of Directors can be contacted using their affiliation e-mail addresses or via the contact form.