This is a listing of Researchers and Programs in analytical sciences that students thinking of graduate school should know about. I would consider it an honor if one of the students in my courses found there way into one of these labs or programs. When reading this list of people and programs remember they reflect my background and interests.
The point here is that everyone thinks of the big name schools (Harvard, Cambridge, California Insititute of Technology,..) when thinking about great programs for graduate studies. These universities and institutes have excellent reputations and there is a reason for that. However, graduate level research, particularly at the Ph. D. Level is not so simple and there are pockets of excellence in places you might not expect it. For example, in the area of fluorescence spectroscopy (which is dear to my heart) none of these great institutions come to mind. Instead I think of places like: The University of Illinois Urbana Champagne, The University of Maryland Baltimore. The former is a very strong university across the sciences (particularly chemistry) and if you haven't thought about it in the same league as Harvard, maybe you should.
As another example, if you are thinking about optical sciences the University of Rochester and the University of Arizona have been very strong for some time, but within the specialty of microscopy (also dear to my heart) the US as a whole is not very strong and you should look elsewhere (Germany, England, and Australia) because that is where the best are located.
I will try to update this listing as I have time and people and programs come to mind. Please do not get offended if you are not on the list. It is probably a matter of time more than anything else. If you would like to jog my memory please provide a comment or send an e-mail.
Biological sciences:
European Nuerobiology Institute: I visited the European Nuerobiology Institute in Göttingen last summer and ever since I have been trying to get student to think about the International Graduate program offered jointly by the University of Göttingen, The Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, The Max Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine and the European Neurobiology Institute. The details may be found here: http://www.gpneuro.uni-goettingen.de/The University of Göttingen has been a very strong University for a very long time (44 Nobel prize winners have studied or worked there). But more important than the reputation of these places for you as a student, I do not know of anywhere in the world where such a combination of resources is being brought to bear on such an important scientific problem. There are Nobel prizes waiting for those who figure out how the brain works. Trust me, I'm a Doctor (well in the Ph. D. sense at least).
Analytical Sciences:
M. Bonner Denton (University of Arizona, US) http://www.chem.arizona.edu/faculty/profile/profile.php?fid_call=dent
Paul Geladi (university of Umea, Sweden)
.http://www.chem.umu.se/dep/ok/staff/people/pg/index.html (Has been very influential in the field of multi-variate image analysis and chemometrics). A bit of a weak web site though.
Jonathon Sweedler (UIUC – Note this University has a very strong analytical chemistry program) http://mrel.beckman.uiuc.edu/sweedler/
Richard Zare (Stanford University) http://www.stanford.edu/group/Zarelab/
Fluorescence and/or Biophysics:
Bob Clegg (UIUC, US) http://www.physics.uiuc.edu/People/Faculty/profiles/Clegg/
Eliot Elson (Washington University of St. Louis). http://www.biochem.wustl.edu/~elelab/ele.htm.
Enrico Gratton (UIUC, US) http://www.physics.uiuc.edu/People/Faculty/profiles/Gratton/
Thomas Jovin (MPI Germany) http://www.mpibpc.gwdg.de/abteilungen/060/
Joseph Lakowicz (UM Baltimore, US) http://www.umbi.umd.edu/~mbc/pages/lakowicz.htm
Doug Magde (UCSD, US) http://www-chem.ucsd.edu/Faculty/bios/magde.html
Nancy Thompson: (UNC Chapel Hill. Note this University has a very strong analytical chemistry program) http://www.chem.unc.edu/people/faculty/thompsonnl/nltindex.html.
Microscopy:
Min Gu (Swinburne University, Australia) http://www.swin.edu.au/bioscieleceng/soll/cmp/profiles/Mingu.html.
Stephan Hell (MPI for Biophysical Chemistry, Germany) http://www.mpibpc.gwdg.de/groups/hell/
Thomas Jovin (MPI for Biophysical Chemistry, Germany) http://www.mpibpc.gwdg.de/abteilungen/060/
Colin Shepperd (National University of Singapore) (Formerly of Oxford University, and University of Sydney). http://www.bioeng.nus.edu.sg/people/colin/index.htm
Enrst Steltzer (EMBL, Heidelberg Germany). http://www-db.embl.de/jss/EmblGroupsOrg/per_546.html
Tony Wilson (Oxford University, UK) http://acara.eng.ox.ac.uk/som/People.html
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