Michael Thompson is a Professor of Bioanalytical Chemistry with the University of Toronto. He has held a number of distinguished research posts, including the Leverhulme Fellowship at Durham University and the Science Foundation Ireland E. T. S. Walton Research Fellowship at the Tyndall National Institute, Cork City. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1999. He has been awarded many prestigious international prizes for his research, including the Robert Boyle Gold Medal of the Royal Society of Chemistry, the E. W. R. Steacie Award of the Chemical Society of Canada, the Theophilus Redwood Award of the Royal Society of Chemistry, and the Fisher Scientific Award in Analytical Chemistry of the Chemical Society of Canada. He has served on the Editorial Boards for a number of major international journals, including Analytical Chemistry, Analyst, Talanta, Analytica Chimica Acta, Biosensors and Bioelectronics, and Journal of Breast Cancer Research and Advancements. And He is the Editor-in-Chief of the monograph series Detection Science for the Royal Society of Chemistry, U.K. He is also the member of UK Royal Society of Chemistry, International Society for Electrochemistry, Canadian Institute for Neutron Scattering, American Chemical Society, and IEEE.