FACSS announces Professor Royston Goodacre from the University of Liverpool as the 2021 Charles Mann Award recipient Share Article FACSS announces Professor Royston Goodacre as the 2021 Charles Mann Award recipient We are pleased to recognize Professor Goodacre for his scientific, leadership, and mentoring achievements. - Ian Lewis, FACSS Charles Mann Award Committee Chair MOUNT ROYAL, N.J. (PRWEB) April 01, 2021 The Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies (FACSS) is proud to announce announces Professor Royston Goodacre from the University of Liverpool as the 2021 Charles Mann Award recipient. Roy is Professor of Biological Chemistry in the Department of Biochemistry and Systems Biology within the Institute of Systems, Molecular and Integrative Biology (ISMIB) at the University of Liverpool. He is the Chair of the Institute’s Research and Impact Committee, Deputy Head of Department, and a co-director of the Centre for Metabolomics Research. A long-term UV Raman spectrometer failure led to a change of direction in Roy’s Raman research and in 2004 his group showed for the first time that surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) could be developed for robust bacterial identification.