SAS – Society for Applied Spectroscopy Fellow Award for Christian Huck

This award is established to recognize individual members for their outstanding achievements in and contributions to the science, the profession, and the Society for Applied Spectroscopy. The award consists of a plaque and recognition at the SAS annual meeting. Nomination for the award of Fellow must be made by current SAS Fellows, the Executive Committee, the Governing Board, or the Fellows Committee. The Fellows committee reviews all nominations and forwards the award slate to the SAS Executive Committee for final approval. Fellows must continue to be members in good standing of the Society in order to maintain Fellow status. On 28 September, Fellow Award was given to Christian Huck (Figure 1) for outstanding contributions in the field of analytical chemistry, focusing on novel vibrational spectroscopic technologies with emphasis put on near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) (1) during Scix 2021 in Providence, USA, on 27 September. These contributions comprise miniaturization in spectroscopy (2), quantum chemistry for spectra simulation and band assignment (3), medicinal plant (4) and food quality (5), pharmaceutical (6) and material science (7), medicinal (8) and biotechnological (9) spectroscopy.