Jim Luong is a Fellow of Analytical Science, Core R&D of The Dow Chemical Company.In his four-decade career at Dow, Luong has held critical positions in manufacturing and R&D. Luong was involved in the start-up and expansion of several world-scale chemical plants in different geographical locations including Canada, Argentina, Thailand, and Kuwait. He is also a key contributor to Dow’s Fort Saskatchewan Path2Zero project; the world’s first net-zero emissions integrated ethylene cracker and derivatives site in Alberta, Canada.As an analytical chemist, Luong practices several techniques such as mass spectrometry, differential mobility spectrometry, inductively coupled plasma spectrometry, and is most passionate with gas chromatography (GC). Some key areas of research and innovations include column stationary phase development, ultra-trace analysis, microfluidic-enabled GC, hyphenated techniques, MDGC, GC×GC, and novel selective detection strategies such as chemiluminescence, post-column reaction with catalysis, and photo diode array.Luong has authored or co-authored over 90 articles in peer-reviewed journals, three book chapters, and holds three patents. Luong is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, served on the RSC’s Analytical Methods Editorial Board and currently on the journal’s Advisory Board. Luong is a recipient of the 2007 Northern Alberta Institute of Technology Award of Distinction, and the 2013 Chemical Institute of Canada’s Maxxam Award, an annual award conferred to a Canadian scientist who has made a significant contribution to analytical chemistry. More recently, Luong was named the Top 100 analytical scientists in the Power List 2019, 2020, and 2021, published by the Analytical Scientist.