Sep 2025: Welcome Lara Hoffman from Germany as a visiting internship student.
Aug 2025: We welcome Marissa as a BSAC Applied Chemistry Project student, and Best continued his PhD program with our group.
July 2025: Max received the University-Wide Outstanding Young Investigator Award in Sciences and Technology, Chulalongkorn University.
May 2025: Best earned the outstanding presentation award for the Department Senior Project exhibition this year. He also participated in the Hitachi Trophy Senior Project Competition, organized by the Faculty of Science.
May 2025: Max received the Outstanding Young Investigator Award in Physical Sciences and Mathematics from Faculty of Science.
Apr 2025: A new review article on Laser-Induced Graphene Microfluidics Sensor with Dr. Nadnudda Rodthongkum has just been published.
Feb 2025: Paper from Somchun's work on the hydrogel-modified electrode for Cd2+ and Ni2+ detection has just been accepted in Microchemical Journal. Congrats!
Jan 2025: Max and Pop will join Pittcon 2025 in Boston. Max will give a talk on laser-induced graphene electrode. Pop will give a poster presentation based on its applcation for pesticide detection.
Aug 2024: Our new review on the nanomaterials for optical sensors has just been accepted and published in TrAC Trends Anal Chem.
July 2024: Congratulations to Fon for the successful M.Sc. thesis defense. Fon will work in our research group for a while to finish the project on the electrochemical detection of HBV.
June 2024: Max has been promoted to Assistant Professor of Analytical Chemistry (officially from Oct 4, 2023).
May 2024: Big achievement in our lab, as THREE papers have been accepted in this month. One is our first electrochemistry research article on laser-induced graphene, published in Electrochimica Acta. The other two are a ML-inspired design of glucose electrochemical sensor (Anal Chim Acta) and a review in natural fiber engineering for chemical sensors (Int J Biol Macromol), both are in the collaboration with Prof. Nadnudda Rodthongkum.
May 2024: Congratulations to Parn presenting her Senior Project. Parn will continue in our lab to pursue the M.Sc. in chemistry (4+1 accelerated program). Also, congratulations Best for the final presentation in the Honors program sequence. He will continue the investigation in his Senior Project.
Apr 2024: Congratulations to Somchun for the successful M.Sc. thesis defense.
Jan 2024: Welcome Sound as a 2nd year honor program student.
Dec 2023: Congratulations for Earth and Best presenting their App Chem Proj and UG Research Proj I at Eurasia Conference. Also, congratulations to Supacha to land a lecturer position in our department. We will keep her as an honorary team member :D
Aug 2023: My second paper in chemical education is accepted to be published in the Journal of Chemical Education. This article describes the laboratory experiment for 2nd year quantitative chemical analysis on paper-based colorimetry that the analytical division had developed during the pandemic.
Aug 2023: Welcome Ploy (back) as a MSc student, Pop as a PhD student (C2F PhD Scholarship), and Parn as a senior project student in the 4+1 program. We are in full team now!
June 2023: Welcome Earth as a BSAC applied chemistry project student.
May 2023: Congratulations Ploy for successfully presenting her senior project and BSc graduation. She will continue to be a MSc student in our lab.
Jan 2023: Welcome Best to be honors program researcher.
Dec 2022: My first paper in chemical education is accepted to be published in the Journal of Chemical Education. This is an article summarizing Lab@Home that we held to substitute the in-class laboratory experiences for Gen Chem Lab students.
Nov 2022: MaxLab successfully received the first external research grant. This is a new scholar research grant from the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Innovation for us to work on the novel fabrication for electrochemical sensor.
Dec 2022: Somchun and Fon passed the proposal examination. Congratuations!!
Aug 2022: Welcome Ploy as an undergraduate senior project researcher.
June 2022: We receive a C2F fellowship from Chula to hire Supacha as my postdoctoral researcher :D
May 2022: Congratulations to Pearl for the successful Senior Project presentation and defense.
May 2022: Welcome my new potentiostat! (See above!) Thanks the funding from ConFlex team.
Oct 2021: Welcome the first batch of my student. Somchun and Namfon pursue Master's degree in Analytical Chemistry, and Pearl is a senior undergraduate researcher.
Sep 2021: My first paper as a corresponding author is accepted to be published in Analyst. This is a review that seeks to discuss how chemometrics and machine learning can improve electrochemical sensors.
May 2021: A review article that Max co-authored is accepted to be published in Analytica Chimica Acta. We discuss the progress and future of non-invasive wearable chemical sensors.
Apr 2021: We are awarded with the New Faculty Grant from Chulalongkorn University!
Jan 2021: Max joined the Center of Excellence in Responsive Wearable Materials, chaired by Dr. Nadnudda Rodthongkum.
Dec 2020: We tested our Autolab potentiostat for the first time and got a nice "duck" shape. Thanks to Prof. Orawon Chailapakul for this gift :)
Aug 2020: Max is appointed as a lecturer (equivalent to assistant professor in the U.S.) at the Department of Chemistry, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand. The official start date is November 1, 2020. I teaches Gen Chem Lab I for Scientists, which is fun, but we need to redesign it for social distancing purpose.
July 2020: Max ended his fantastic time in the U.S. and moved back to Thailand.