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, which employs a versatile mixing approach for microfluidic devices and a a pocket-size PCR thermocycler 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.
Past Winners
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