We congratulate Dr Alexander Makarov from Thermo Scientific, Bremen, for winning the 2009 Curt Brunnée Award. The award, which is sponsored by Thermo Scientific, carries a research prize of $5,000USD. It is made "for outstanding contributions to the development of instrumentation for mass spectrometry by a person under the age of 45 at the time of the award".

Previous winners of the award are Dr Gareth Brenton (Swansea University, 1994), Prof Michael Guilhaus, (University of New South Wales, 1997), Prof Scott McLuckey, (Purdue University, 2000), Dr Michisato Toyoda, (Osaka University, 2003) and Prof Roman Zubarev (Uppsala University, 2006).

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