Leslie A Sombers, Ph.D., M.A.

Leslie Sombers is a Professor of Pharmacodynamics in the University of Florida College of Pharmacy. She earned her Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry at Pennsylvania State University in 2008 under the direction of Andy Ewing, after which she researched as a postdoctoral fellow at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the R. Mark Wightman group. She spent 16 years as faculty at North Carolina State University where she built an interdisciplinary program comprising researchers from Chemistry, Biochemistry, Engineering, Biology and Physics. The Sombers lab research focuses on the development, characterization, optimization, and application of analytical techniques to study real-time neurochemical changes in preparations that range from single cells in culture to living brain tissue. She is the President-Elect of the Society for Electroanalytical Chemistry, she serves on the Board of Directors of the International Society for Monitoring Molecules in Neuroscience, and she also currently serves as an Associate Editor at ACS Chemical Neuroscience. Her research interests are focused on bioanalytical electrochemistry, biosensors, and measurement science.