AES Lifetime Achievement Award

The AES Lifetime Achievement Award is given for exceptional career contributions to the fields of Electrophoresis, Electrokinetics, and related areas. One award is presented every year at the AES Annual Meeting. The recipient of the award will receive a plaque, a certificate of lifetime membership in the society, and one complementary registration to the annual meeting where the award will be presented.

2024 Recipient

Victor Ugaz

Victor Ugaz is a Professor and former Interim Department Head at the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University. He is receiving for this award based on his sustained contributions in electrokinetics and electrophoresis, for his unique approaches that have merged the disciplines of polymer materials science and electrokinetic microfluidics, and for his contributions to developing integrated microdevices for analyzing minute quantities of DNA. His work has been published multiple times in several of the most prestigious journals such as Nature, Science, PNAS, and Angewandte.  Examples of the outcomes of this research work are a multivortex micromixing device (published in PNAS), which employs a versatile mixing approach for microfluidic devices and a a pocket-size PCR thermocycler (published in Angewandte) that requires low power input, making it truly portable. He has been the PI for numerous grants from several funding institutions, such as NIH, NSF, DOE, Keck Foundation, The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, among others. Prof. Ugaz has made a lasting and significant impact on the AES Electrophoresis Society through his strong leadership (President 2008-2010), Vice-President, Councilor, and Newsletter Editor. He has dedicated several years of service to AES, he enthusiastically and relentlessly worked to grow AES.

Nominations

Deadline is traditionally January 1. Details on nomination requirements and process at http://www.aesociety.org/awards/lifetime_achievement_nomination.php.

Past recipients

2023         James P. Landers

2022       Adrienne R. Minerick

2021       Juan G. Santiago

2020       Philippe Renaud
2019       Hsueh-Chia (Chia) Chang

2018       Norman Dovichi

2017       Ron Pethig

2016       Jean-Louis Viovy

2015      Cornelius Ivory

2014      Pier Giorgio Righetti

2012      Nancy Stellwagan

2011      Kelvin H. Lee