PLENARY SPEAKERS
Advancements in mRNA structural characterization
KOEN SANDRA
CEO and Co-owner at RIC group (Kortrijk, Belgium)
Koen Sandra received a PhD degree in Biochemistry from the Ghent University, Belgium in 2005. After his PhD, he joined Pronota, a molecular diagnostics company where he was active in developing analytical platforms for disease biomarker discovery and in setting up external collaborations. In 2008, he joined RIC, a company that provides analytical support to the chemical, life sciences and pharmaceutical industries, where he holds the position of CEO. As a non-academic scientist, Koen Sandra is author of over 50 highly cited scientific papers and has presented his work at numerous conferences as an invited speaker. He has been listed several times in the Analytical Scientist’s Power List celebrating the world’s most influential people in the field and has been the recipient of the HTC award.
Automating the Analytical Laboratory - Current Developments and Future Perspectives
KERSTIN THUROW
Director of the Center for Life Science Automation (University of Rostock, Germany)
Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Kerstin Thurow studied chemistry and received her doctorate from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in 1995. In 1999, she habilitated in measurement and control engineering. In the same year, she was appointed to the professorship of "Laboratory Automation" at the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Rostock. Since 2004, she has held the chair of "Automation Technology / Life Science Automation" at the University of Rostock and is Director of the Center for Life Science Automation (University of Rostock). Dr. Thurow has authored more than 250 publications, including three monographies. Her research topics include the automation of life science and analytical processes, robotics, mobile robotics, as well as system integration and systems engineering.
Dr. Thurow is a founding member of the Academy of Sciences Hamburg and a member of the Technical Academy acatech.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Streamlining method development in comprehensive 2D-LC using a freely accessible tool
DAVY GUILLARME
Davy Guillarme, Ph.D. in analytical chemistry from the University of Lyon, France, currently serves as a senior lecturer and research associate at the University of Geneva in Switzerland. With over 350 published journal articles in pharmaceutical analysis and h-index of 77 (Google Scholar), his expertise spans various techniques, including HPLC, UHPLC, HILIC, LC−MS, SFC, SFC-MS, multidimensional LC, and the analysis of biopharmaceuticals.
He is an associate editor of the Journal of Chromatography A. He serves on the editorial advisory board of prestigious journals like Trends in Analytical Chemistry, Journal of Chromatography B, Journal of Separation Science, LC−GC International...
Davy Guillarme has been honored with the LC-GC Emerging Leader Award in Chromatography (2013), the Jubilee Medal from the Chromatographic Society (2018), and the International Award of the Belgian Society of Pharmaceutical Sciences (2022). He has also been listed among the world's most influential analytical scientists by "Analytical Scientist" magazine in multiple years.
Frontiers of high-resolution accurate mass analysis
ALEXANDER MAKAROV
Alexander Makarov obtained his PhD from the Moscow Engineering Physics institute in 1992. In 1996 he embarked on pioneering work on the Orbitrap mass analyzer at HD Technologies Ltd, a small company based in Manchester, UK. After its acquisition by Thermo Electron in 2000, Alexander spearheaded development of the Orbitrap analyzer from first prototypes to the commercial launch of the LTQ Orbitrap instrument in 2005. Under his guidance, the Orbitrap technology expanded to encompass five major families of commercial instruments. He also provided scientific leadership of the Astral analyzer development and technologies for high-mass analysis.
His awards include the Award for Distinguished Contribution in Mass Spectrometry from ASMS, the Aston medal by BMSS and the Thomson medal from IMSF. Presently, he is Director of Research at the Life Science Mass Spectrometry Business Unit of Thermo Fisher Scientific in Bremen, Germany and a Fellow of the Royal Society in the UK.
Recent advances in 1D- and 2D-LC separations of oligonucleotides - Something old, something new, and some surprises Headshot
DWIGHT STOLL
Dwight Stoll is Professor of Chemistry at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, MN. He has authored or co-authored more than 100 peer-reviewed publications and five book chapters in separation science, speaks internationally on the topic, and is co-editor of the recent book: Multi-Dimensional Liquid Chromatography: Principles, practice, and applications. He has also written the monthly “LC Troubleshooting” column for LCGC Magazine since 2017, and co-hosts the Analytically Speaking podcast with Prof. Jim Grinias. His primary research focus is on the development of two-dimensional liquid chromatography (2D-LC) for both targeted and untargeted analyses. Within this area he has made contributions on many aspects of the technique including stationary phase characterization, biopharmaceutical analysis, new 2D-LC methodologies and instrumentation, and fundamental aspects including re-equilibration in gradient elution liquid chromatography and analyte focusing. He has taught several short courses on 2D-LC in recent years at venues including Pittcon and the international HPLC20XX series, and hosts multi-day hands-on trainings for multi-dimensional chromatography in his laboratory at Gustavus.
Isomer separations in biosciences
MICHAEL LÄMMERHOFER
Michael Lämmerhofer is Full Professor for Pharmaceutical (Bio-)Analysis at the University of Tübingen, Germany (since 2011). He graduated in Pharmaceutical Sciences in 1992 and earned his PhD in Pharmaceutical Chemistry in 1996 at the University of Graz, Austria. Between 1997 and 2002 he was assistant professor and from 2002 to 2011 associate professor at the University of Vienna, Institute of Analytical Chemistry. Between 1999-2000 he spent a year as post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Chemistry of the University of California, Berkeley. Since 2007, he is associate editor of Journal of Separation Science and since 2024 editor-in-chief.
His research interests include bioanalysis (metabolomics and lipidomics), pharmaceutical analysis (impurity profiling, enantioselective analytics), multidimensional separations and biopharmaceuticals analysis (peptides, oligonucleotides, proteins, plasmids), and the development of functionalized separation materials (chiral stationary phases, mixed-mode phases, chemo- & bioaffinity materials, nanoparticles, monoliths).
From Science-Fiction Chromatography to modern SFC
CAROLINE WEST
Caroline West is a full professor in analytical chemistry at the University of Orleans, France, where she is teaching separation science. Her main scientific interests lie in fundamentals of chromatographic selectivity, both in the achiral and chiral modes, in SFC and LC. She is also applying these methods, with or without hyphenation to extraction methods and/or MS, to samples of pharmaceutical interest and natural products. She has authored about 120 papers in international peer‐reviewed journals and has presented about 120 lectures in conferences. In 2015, she received the “LC‐GC Emerging Leader in Chromatography” award. She was ranked several times among the most influential people in analytical chemistry by “The Analytical Scientist” magazine (“Top 40 under 40” 2014 & 2018, “The Power List” 2019, 2020 & 2021), and received the Jubilee medal from the Chromatographic Society (2021). She is also an advisory board member for several journals in separation science (J. Chromatogr. A & Open, J. Sep. Sci., J. Pharm. Biomed. Anal., Chromatographia…)
Theoretical and practical aspects of miniaturization in Liquid Chromatography
LUIGI MONDELLO
Luigi Mondello is Full Professor of Analytical Chemistry at the University of Messina, Italy and his leading the Food and Analytical Chemistry Group of the same University. His research is focussed on the development of conventional chromatography and multidimensional chromatographic instrumentation and software (GC×GC, LC×LC, LC-GC×GC, LC-GC-GC-GC-prep.), coupled to state-of-the-art MS, for the study of complex matrices constituents and contaminants in foodstuff. He is co-author of around 700 scientific papers and more than 1300 conference presentations of which more than 240 invited, with an H-index of 67 (Scopus) He is also Editor of Green Analytical Chemistry, and was the recipient of many Awards including the Marcel Golay, Liberti Medal, A.J.P. Martin Medal the Tsweet-Nernst and the Life Time Achievements in Comprehensive Gas Chromatography and also member of the permanent scientific committee of the International Symposium on Capillary Chromatography and many other conferences.
The Sense and Nonsense of Artificial Intelligence in Chromatography
BOB PIROK
Bob Pirok obtained his PhD in 2019 in Amsterdam after having worked for several years in industry. He is currently associate professor at the University of Amsterdam where he focuses on the application of chemometrics in analytical chemistry, with a special interest in method development and data analysis for (multi-dimensional) chromatography. He is a visiting research professor at Gustavus Adolphus College in the group of Prof. Dwight Stoll.
He received several international awards, including the Csaba Horváth Young-Scientist Award in 2017, the Journal of Chromatography Award in 2018, and the HTC Innovation Award in 2024 for his work on automation of method development in LC.
He was selected as Early Career Board member for Analytical Chemistry in 2021 and he is Editorial Advisory Board member of the Journal of Separation Science and LC-GC International. He was featured in the 2022 edition of the Power List by The Analytical Scientist.
GC and GC×GC in 2025
JEAN-FRANCOIS FOCANT
Affiliation:
University of Liège (ULiege), Belgium.
Expertise:
Jean-François (Jef) Focant is Full Professor at the Chemistry Department at ULiege in Belgium. Expert in multidimensional GC coupled to MS, his team develops and validate analytical methods for the measurement of (semi)volatile molecules present in complex matrices. His Organic and Biological Analytical Chemistry Laboratory is known for its focus on solving real-life analytical challenges to serve the general society. The diversity of applications is very large and covers fields such as forensics, food control, archeology, and much more. Major recent activities include metabolomics (volatolomics, breathomics), especially oriented to biomarker discovery in medical applications. The team also specializes in specific chemometric solutions for feature selections over large data sets from multi-class studies.
Green and Sustainable Analytical Chemistry: Myths, Truths and Opportunities
ELIA PSILLAKIS
Elefteria (Elia) Psillakis is a Water Chemistry Professor at the School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Greece. In 2007, she received a Fulbright Award as a visiting Professor at CALTECH, USA. She was featured in the Top 100 Power List 2021 of the magazine “The Analytical Scientist” and has received three “Top cited article” awards. She has published more than 100 papers that have received ~10000 citations. She is Editor-in-Chief of “Advances in Sample Preparation” (Elsevier) and the Head of the Sample Preparation Network of the EuChemS-DAC. She is also the Founder and Director of ExtraTECH Analytical Solutions, a Spin-Off Company of the Technical University of Crete. From 2014-2016, she was the Vice Rector of Academic Affairs and Research at the Technical University of Crete
Beyond Conventional Methods: AF4 for Advanced Analysis of (Bio)Molecular Assemblies
ALINA ASTEFANEI
Alina Astefanei is an assistant professor in analytical sciences at the Van ’t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Her research focuses on the detailed characterization of carbon-based nanoparticles and biomacromolecules using field-flow fractionation (FFF) and mass spectrometric techniques. A key contribution to the field is her work developing an online AF4 platform with multi-angle light scattering and native mass spectrometry (nMS), which opens new approaches to study the stability and aggregation of protein biotherapeutics.
As a member of the Young Scientist Board for Field-Flow Fractionation (FFF), she and her committee colleagues are committed to transforming FFF from a specialized tool into a global standard, driving scientific innovation to address complex challenges across industries. Alina is also dedicated to mentoring young scientists and inspiring the next generation in separation science.
Functionalized monoliths for sample preparation
VALERIE PICHON
Valérie PICHON, full professor at Sorbonne University (Paris), leads the Department of analytical chemistry (LSABM), a part of the department of Chemistry Biology and Innovation (CBI) located at ESPCI Paris (PSL University, CNRS) and also leads the CBI department.
Her main research interests include the development and miniaturization of antibody- or aptamer-based sorbents and molecular or ionic imprinted polymers for the selective extraction of target compounds present in trace amounts in complex samples.
She is the author of over 150 publications, 7 book chapters and 3 patents. She is associate editor of Journal of Separation Science. She has received the Analytical Chemistry Department Prize of the French Chemical Society (2001), the Silver Medal of the French National Centre for Scientific Research (2022) and recently the Senior Prize of AfSep, the French Association for Separation Sciences (2023).
Potential of Immunoaffinity Chromatography and Field-Flow Fraction for the Fractionation and Isolation of Biomacromolecules
MARJA-LIISA RIEKKOLA
Since 1987 Professor of Analytical Chemistry, University of Helsinki. Educated over 450 MSc and 40 PhD degrees in analytical chemistry. Research interests: Development of analytical instrumental techniques and their applications to atmospheric studies and to isolation of biomacromolecules. Active board member in national and international scientific committees, councils, evaluation panels and societies in different countries in Europe. Published over 400 scientific peer-reviewed publications, one book (1st edition and 2nd extended edition in Finnish), and as joint Editor book on Liquid Chromatography (Vols. 1 and 2, 2017 and 2023, Elsevier) and 15 book chapters, and over 200 other scientific papers in the field of analytical chemistry. Awarded the Magnus Ehrnrooth Prize in Chemistry, Emmanuel Merck Prize in Chromatography and the Russian Tswett Medal in Chromatography. Member of the Finnish Society of Science and Letters, and Member of Finnish Academy of Science and Letters. Belonged in 2013 and 2015 to the top 100 Power List and in 2016 the top 50 Women list and in 2023 to Leaders and Advocates in Analytical Science of the magazine “The Analytical Scientist”. Editor-In-Chief of J. Chromatogr. A and Editorial Board Member of Electrophoresis, J. Chromatogr. Open, J. Sep. Sci., J. Chromatogr. Sci., Results in Chemistry and AIMS Environmental Science.
How much chromatography is needed for the multimodal mass spectrometric analysis of metabolites and lipids in plasma and urine of drug of abuse consumers?
GERARD HOPFGARTNER
Gérard Hopfgartner received his Ph.D. degree in 1991 at the University of Geneva. Then he moved to Cornell University, USA as a postdoctoral fellow. From 1992 to 2002 he headed the LC-MS group and the bioanalytical section at F. Hoffmann-La Roche in Basel as a scientific expert. In 2002 in joined the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Geneva and Lausanne as a Full Professor for analytical sciences and mass spectrometry and since 2015 in the department of Analytical and Inorganic Chemistry. His research interests focus on the development of multimodal mass spectrometry approaches with and without chromatography in the field of life sciences.
Retrospective of the Development of Microscale High Performance Liquid Phase Separation Techniques
KOJI OTSUKA
Koji Otsuka was a professor at the Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, from 2002 to 2023. Currently he is a specially appointed professor of the research promotion division at Osaka Metropolitan University since July 2023. He has engaged in the development of micro/nano scale high performance separation techniques using electrophoretic and chromatographic methods for over 40 years.
He received the Award of the Society for Chromatographic Sciences (SCS) in 2006, the Chemical Society of Japan Award for Creative Work in 2009, the Award of the Japan Society for Analytical Chemistry in 2014, the Terabe Shigeru Prize in 2014, the Award of the Society for Chemistry and Micro-Nano Systems in 2022, and the SCS Special Honorary Award in 2023. He is a member of the Permanent Scientific Committee of the HPLC Symposium. He served as a co-chair of HPLC2008 Kyoto and a chair of HPLC2019 Kyoto.
A new generation of LC-method-development tools Tutorial: No molecule is above the law (no matter how big and strong they are)
PETER SCHOENMAKERS
Peter Schoenmakers has been a full-time professor in Analytical Chemistry at the University of Amsterdam since 2002 – with emeritus status since 2021. His has worked on many aspects of one- and two-dimensional chromatography, with a special interest in the characterization of macromolecules. He has seen method-optimization and artificial-intelligence tools emerge some forty years ago, with only gradual progress until recently. Finally, we are starting to see exciting progress in method development for LC.
Together with Bob Pirok, Peter Schoenmakers has recently completed a new textbook on Analytical Separation Science, which is to be launched at HPLC2025 Bruges. He is also the Education Director of COAST, The Netherlands’ public-private-partnership organization on analytical chemistry. From 2005 to 2020 he was an editor of the Journal of Chromatography A. He has received a number of international awards, most recently the ACS Award for Chromatography (2022) and the LCGC lifetime-achievement award (2023).
Multi-dimensional and enantioselective LC analysis of chiral amino acids and dipeptides –method development and biological applications
KENJI HAMASE
He graduated from The University of Tokyo and obtained his Ph.D. degree in 1996. Subsequently, he moved to Kyushu University, and was promoted to the full Professor in 2016. He is now a Vice Dean of the Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences responsible for the international affairs (from 2018). He received The Japan Society for Analytical Chemistry Award for Young Scientists in 2003, The Pharmaceutical Society of Japan Award for Young Scientists in 2006 and The Society for Chromatographic Sciences Award (Japan) in 2019. His current research interests focus on the development of multi-dimensional HPLC methods for chiral amino acids and related compounds to study on their physiological functions, diagnostic values and the design of functional foods. Enantioselective analysis of extraterrestrial amino acids is also one of his research topics in cosmic materials including the asteroid Ryugu obtained by the Hayabusa 2 mission.
Exploring Brain Chemistry using LC, CE, and Mass Spectrometry
ROBERT KENNEDY
Robert Kennedy is the Willard Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry at the University of Michigan. His research has combined his interest in biology with chemical analysis, separations and microfluidics. A theme of his group has been development of new chemical analysis tools that can be used for engineering enzymes, monitoring neurotransmitters in the brain, and studying the secretion of insulin. Key technical areas including ultra-high pressure LC, droplet microfluidics, and mass spectrometry. His work has been recognized by several awards including the ACS Award in Chromatography and the Ralph Adams Award in Bioanalytical Chemistry. He has held several service posts including Department Chair and is presently Associate Editor of Analytical Chemistry and ACS Measurement Science Au.
Can we combine high-throughput and comprehensive lipidomic quantitation ?
MICHAL HOLCAPEK
Michal Holčapek obtained his Ph.D. in analytical chemistry from the University of Pardubice, where he currently works as a professor of analytical chemistry. His research focus is mass spectrometry and its coupling with liquid chromatography or supercritical fluid chromatography, applied mainly in lipidomic analysis and cancer biomarker research. He has received numerous prestigious awards, including the Neuron Award for connecting science and business (2023, Neuron Foundation), the Rudolf Lukeš Prize (2023, Experientia Foundation), the Herbert J. Dutton Award (2022, American Oil Chemists' Society), and repeated recognition on The Analytical Scientist's Power List of the most influential people in analytical sciences. He is one of the founding members of the Lipidomics Standards Initiative and currently serves as Vice President for Conferences at the International Lipidomics Society.
Multidimensional liquid chromatography strategies for the analysis of natural products
PAOLA DUGO
Dr. Paola Dugo is a full Professor of Food Chemistry and vice-rector for Research at the University of Messina (Italy).
Her research focuses on innovative chromatographic techniques and multidimensional techniques in combination with mass spectrometry for the study of complex natural matrices and food products.
She served as Coordinator of the Italia Group of Food Chemistry of the Italian Chemistry Society (2019-2021) and is now part of the board. She is editor of Journal of Chromatography A (Elsevier)
Comprehensive 2D LC-MS to study phenolic evolution in single vineyard wines
ANDRE DE VILLIERS
André de Villiers is a Professor in Analytical Chemistry at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. His research activities include fundamental studies and the practical application of chromatographic separations, with the emphasis on natural product analysis. Specific areas of interest include comprehensive 2-dimensional liquid- and gas chromatography, ion mobility spectrometry and advanced mass spectrometric methods in combination with separation methods. He is author or co-author of more than 100 scientific papers and the recipient of the 2009 Csaba Horváth Award and LCGC’s Emerging Leader in Chromatography Award in 2014.
Exploring retention properties and selectivities of different stationary phases for the characterization of natural extracts through UHPLC coupled to HR-MS
MARTINA CATANI
Martina Catani is associate professor of analytical chemistry at the University of Ferrara (Dept. of Chemical, Pharmaceutical and Agricultural Sciences).
She received a PhD in chemical sciences in 2018 from the same University. During her career, she has spent research periods at VUB Brussels (Belgium), University of Pécs (Hungary) and ETH Zurich (Switzerland).
Her research activities are in the field of liquid chromatography for both analytical and preparative purposes, including the development of green separation methods. More recently, she has started working also on analytical approaches applied to omics science through untargeted liquid chromatography coupled to high resolution mass spectrometry.
She is co-author of more than 80 papers on peer reviewed journals and she collaborates with many industrial partners. Martina has been the recipient of many awards, including the “Csaba Horváth Young Scientist Award” conferred at HPLC2018 Washington (USA), and in 2024 of the “Emerging Leader in Chromatography Award” conferred by LCGC.
Assessment of nanoparticle distributions: divide and conquer
GOVERT SOMSEN
Govert W. Somsen is full professor of Biomolecular Analysis/Analytical Chemistry at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His main expertise is on hyphenated concepts in separation science directed to the characterization of (bio)polymers, nanoparticles and complexmixtures. His group made significant contributions to the development, optimization and application of coupled analytical techniques combining selective liquid-phase separations with mass spectrometry, optical spectroscopy and bioactivity assays. He is (co-)author of over 230 papers in these fields. He is editor of Journal of Chromatography B and has (co-)organized a number of international symposia in the field of analytical separations. He is co-founder of the Center of Analytical Sciences Amsterdam (CASA), the Dutch focal point for excellence in analytical research and education, and member of the consultation committee Chemistry of the Dutch Research Council.
3D printed devices for chemical analysis and separations.
MICHAEL BREADMORE
Michael Breadmore Obtained his PhD in Analytical Chemistry in 2001 from the University of Tasmania, before spending time at the University of Virginia, University of Bern and with deltaDOT. He returned to UTAS in 2004 as an Australian Research Council fellow (APD 2004-2008; QEII 2009 – 2013; Future Fellowship 2014-2017) where he has a continuing position. He has published over 200 peer-review papers, is co-inventor on a number of patents and has 5 commercial products at market based on his research.
Boosting the separation power of LC×LC
OLIVER SCHMITZ
Since 2012 Oliver J. Schmitz has been a full professor at the University of Duisburg-Essen and is the chair of the Institute of Applied Analytical Chemistry.
In 2018 Oliver has founded, together with Agilent, the Teaching and Research Center for Separation (TRC) at the University of Duisburg-Essen.
Prof. Schmitz´s main research area is separation science, with a particular focus on non-target analysis of complex samples, the development of ion sources, the use and optimization of multidimensional LC and GC, ion mobility-mass spectrometry and metabolomics. He was awarded the scholar-in-training award of the American Association for Cancer Research in 2003, the Gerhard-Hesse Prize for chromatography in 2013 and the Andrzej Waksmundzki medal award in 2019.
GC-Based Hyphenated Techniques in Food Analysis
GIORGIA PURCARO
Giorgia PURCARO is an analytical chemistry professor at the Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech Department of the University of Liège, Belgium.
She works on developing and miniaturizing sample preparation coupled with hyphenated chromatographic techniques (LC-GC and GCxGC), mainly related to food contaminants and quality.
She is the author of over 140 publications, 12 book chapters and more than 200 conference presentations. She received the Leslie Ettre Award for the most outstanding contribution in capillary chromatography and the J.Philips Award for her contribution to the field of comprehensive two-dimensional GC.
Development of Quantitative Structure Enantioselectivity Retention Relationships to predict enantioseparations on polysaccharide-based chiral stationary phases
DEBBY MANGELINGS
Debby Mangelings is professor at the department of Analytical Chemistry, Applied Chemometrics and Molecular Modelling of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) in Belgium. She obtained a Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences in 2006.
Her research focuses on the use of liquid chromatography (LC), supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC) and miniaturized separation techniques such as capillary electrophoresis (CE) and capillary electrochromatography (CEC) for a variety of pharmaceutically oriented applications. In the field of chiral separations, enantiorecognition mechanisms on polysaccharide and macrocyclic antibiotic chiral phases are currently studied. Other investigated topics are the introduction of novel sample pretreatment techniques in metabolomics and method development for targeted and untargeted metabolomics using LC-MS, CE-MS and SFC-MS. Her publication record includes 16 book chapters and 115 manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals. She is member of the editorial board of Chromatographia, LCGC International and Acta Chromatographica. In 2016, she received the LCGC Emerging Leader in Chromatography Award.
SEC-UV-MALS for exploring oligomeric enzyme disruptors in the context of drug design
MARIANNE FILLET
Marianne FILLET is full professor at the department of Pharmacy at the University of Liège. She leads the laboratory for the Analysis of Medicines and the Mass Spectrometry platform. Her research themes focus on the development of analytical tools for biomarker discovery of human diseases and for the quality control of medicines (more particularly biopharmaceuticals), in an efficient and robust workflow (from sample collection to data analysis). Her research team is also developing analytical solutions to explore drug-target and protein-protein interactions in native-mimicking in vivo environment.
She is a (co)author of more than 240 peer-reviewed papers, with a H-index (Google Scholar) of 53, with more than 9000 citations. She was chair of several national or international congress, such as Drug Analysis/PBA 2014 and MSB 2022.
A study of the potential of peraqueous liquid chromatography as a green chemistry analytical approach
DAVID McCALLEY
David McCalley is Professor of Bioanalytical Science at the University of the West of England. In 2021, 2019, 2015 and 2013, he was named as one of the world's 100 most influential analytical scientists. He was awarded the Silver Jubilee medal of the Chromatographic Society in 2008 and its prestigious gold (Martin) medal in 2024. His research attempts to understand separation mechanisms in HPLC, including effects of pressure and temperature on retention/efficiency, mixed mechanisms for strong bases, superficially porous packings, and overloading in both RP and HILIC. In HILIC his work has focussed on methods to improve robustness and applicability. Applications have included analysis of monoclonal antibodies, peptides, steroids, pharmaceuticals and clinically relevant compounds using both UV detection and mass spectrometry. His h index is 45. His work has attracted funding from the Engineering and Physical Science Research council (EPSRC), GSK, AstraZeneca and Pfizer, and instrument companies Agilent, Waters and Thermo.
Rebirth of slalom chromatography: separation fundamentals and key applications in cell and gene therapy
FABRICE GRITTI
Fabrice G. Gritti received a Ph.D. in Chemistry and Physics of Condensed Matter from the University of Bordeaux I (France) in 2001. He then worked as a research scientist at the University of Tennessee (Knoxville, TN) from 2002 to until 2014 in the research group of Prof. Georges Guiochon. He joined Waters Corporation in 2015 where he is currently a consultant scientist.
Dr. Gritti’s main research interests involve liquid/solid adsorption thermodynamics and mass transfer in heterogeneous media used in the field of separation science. During the last 25 years, he has provided fundamental insights in preparative liquid chromatography and on the retention mechanisms in liquid chromatography (LC), refined the detailed theory of band broadening in modern LC columns, and contributed to improve column and instrument technologies in both LC and supercritical fluid chromatography.
Dr. Gritti has been invited to give about thirty seminars on diverse topics of chromatographic sciences worldwide. He has delivered over ninety-five invited keynote lectures and published over three hundred peer-reviewed articles. Dr. Gritti was the recipient of the 2013 Chromatographic Society Jubilee Medal, the 2019 JFK Huber Lecture Award, the 2022 Eastern Analytical Symposium Award for Outstanding Achievements in Separation Science, the 2023 Csaba Horvath Memorial Award for propagation of separation sciences throughout the world and co-operation in the development of chromatography in Hungary, and the 2024 A.J.P. Martin Medal.
Nucleic acid melting temperature and its importance for LC analysis
MARTIN GILAR
Dr. Martin Gilar (*1966) received his Ph.D. in analytical chemistry from Institute of Chemical Technology in Prague (1996). He spent postdoc years in Hybridon Inc. (1996-1998) and Northeastern University in Boston (1998) developing separation methods for antisense oligonucleotides and fraction collector for DNA molecules. Since 1998 he has worked at Waters Corp. in Milford, Massachusetts, participating in column, sample preparation and instrument research.
Dr. Martin Gilar is a Research Fellow in the Separations R&D group at Waters Corporation. He has 30+ years of experience in the separation sciences, including chromatography, electrophoresis, and mass spectrometry. His research interest is the analysis of biopolymers, peptides, and nucleic acids. He has published over 75 peer reviewed papers. Dr. Gilar is recipient of Jaroslav Janak 2022 medal and Chromatographic Society Jubilee medal in 2023.
Weak to Strong Ion Pairing Elution Gradients to Improve the Selectivity of Oligonucleotide RPLC Separations
SZABOLCS FEKETE
Szabolcs Fekete, Consulting Scientist, Cell and Gene Therapy, Consumables at Waters Corporation
Szabolcs Fekete received his PhD in Analytical Chemistry from the Technical University of Budapest. He worked in analytical R&D in the pharmaceutical industry for 10 years, then joined the University of Geneva in Switzerland as a research associate. He joined Waters Corporation in 2021 and is now a consulting scientist. His current interests include separations of new chemical modalities, fundamentals of chromatography, column technology and new method development approaches. He has co-authored ~200 publications (including journal articles, book chapters and handbooks).
3D-printed sorbents: optimizing technology and geometry for drug extraction
MARIUSZ BELKA
Mariusz Belka graduated from Biotechnology at the Gdańsk University of Technology in Poland and continued his academic journey at the Medical University of Gdańsk. There, he earned a Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences in 2015. His research interests primarily center around developing innovative sample preparation techniques for various analytical applications, such as pharmaceutical, biomedical, and environmental analysis.
In recent years, Mariusz has been investigating the potential of 3D printing to create sorbents that can be used for the extraction of small-molecular analytes. He is a co-author of over 60 scientific publications spanning diverse fields, including analytical and medicinal chemistry.
Fewer animals, Less Waste: Automated Analysis of Organoids and Organ-on-a-Chip Systems
STEVE WILSON
Steven Ray Wilson is a Professor at the Department of Chemistry, University of Oslo. During his career, Wilson has developed and applied analytical systems with a focus on miniaturization, automation, and hyphenation. Areas have included ultra-narrow columns (e.g. PLOT systems for proteomics studies of cancer stem cells and exosomes), on-line 2D LC systems for peptidomics, and LC-NMR systems for natural product analysis. In recent years, Wilson has focused on the study of organoids and organ-on-a-chip systems, which are emerging alternatives to animal models in e.g. drug discovery. He engages in multi-disciplinary research as a PI in the Center of Excellence Hybrid Technology Hub, undertaking drug analysis and various omics approaches to the study of laboratory-grown organ models. Key visions are to develop analytical tools that will aid the reduction of animal models and the reduction of plastic waste in life science.
Searching for orthogonality: Supercritical Fluid Chromatography in Multidimensional Separation Techniques
KARINE FAURE
Research director at Institute of Analytical Sciences (CNRS University of Lyon, France)
Karine Faure received her PhD in Analytical Chemistry from University College Cork, Ireland. Passionate about separation sciences, she has worked over the course of her career on miniaturised liquid chromatography, preparative chromatography and multidimensional liquid chromatography. She authored 50 publications and 5 book chapters. Concerned about sustainable chemistry, her research focuses on the development of multidimensional techniques using liquid chromatography and supercritical fluid chromatography for the non-targeted analysis of natural products, renewable materials and waste valorization products.
Analyzing Complex Samples with Compact Capillary LC
JIM GRINIAS
James Grinias is a Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry at Rowan University. His research interests primarily focus on liquid-phase separations, especially the fundamentals of column and instrument design in liquid chromatography. More recently, his group has focused on instrument miniaturization, especially for portable liquid chromatography separations, two-dimensional separation techniques, and microfluidic platforms.
He received his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2014 and then moved on to a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Michigan until the end of 2016. His awards to date include the HPLC 2013 Csaba Horváth Award, a National Science Foundation CAREER grant, the 2021 Satinder Ahuja Young Investigator in Separation Science Award, and the 2021 LCGC Emerging Leader Award. He was also named to The Analytical Scientist’s “Top 40 Under 40” Power List in 2018 and 2022.
Modular microfluidics: a new concept for chip-HPLC and chip-SFC implementation and their seamless MS and IMS coupling
DETLEV BELDER
Detlev Belder is a full professor of analytical chemistry at the University of Leipzig.
His research focuses on lab-on-a-chip technology as an enabling science in chemistry.
A broad field of research and application of lab-on-a-chip technology is being
addressed in the Belder laboratories at the University of Leipzig. The Belder group is
well known for miniaturised separation techniques such as chip electrophoresis and
chip HPLC and for novel concepts in digital microfluidics. The Belder laboratory is also
working on detection methods such as coupling microfluidic chips with mass
spectrometry or ion mobility spectrometry, as well as optical methods such as
fluorescence and Raman microscopy. In recent years, a particular focus has been on
integrated chip laboratories that combine chemical reactors and analysis units on a
single chip.
Professor Belder has been honoured with several awards, including the Gerhard
Hesse Prize (2015) and the Fresenius Prize (2019).
Molecular Simulations and Retention Measurements of Hydrophilic Interaction Liquid Chromatography (HILIC): How HILIC works
MARK SCHURE
Mark Schure’s scientific interests include fundamental separation science, the separation of polymers and colloids, and all aspects of solving large-scale chemical and physical problems with computers. His contributions to separation science include detailed theory, simulations and experimental investigations in the areas of 2D chromatography, chromatographic stationary phase retention mechanisms, capillary electrophoresis, electrochromatography and field-flow fractionation.
He has received the Arthur Doolittle award from the PMSE (Polymeric Materials Science and Engineering) Division of the ACS, the Northeastern University Distinguished Alumni Lecture award, the Douglas Leng award within The Dow Chemical Company, the L. S. Palmer award from the Minnesota Chromatography Forum, the Eastern Analytical Symposium award in separation science, the Stephen Dal Nogare award and the Uwe D. Neue award. Dr. Schure has been an Adjunct Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Delaware for over 30 years and has published over 120 papers and 4 patents.
Rapid Oligonucleotide Analysis using Sample Preparation and HPLC
JARED ANDERSON
Jared L. Anderson, Alice Hudson Professor of Chemistry, and Faculty Scientist at Ames Laboratory earned his B.S. in 2000 from South Dakota State University and his Ph.D. from Iowa State University in 2005. Prior to joining Iowa State University, he was a Professor of Chemistry at The University of Toledo from 2005-2015 where held the ranks of assistant professor, associate professor, and full professor. His research focuses on the development of stationary phases for multidimensional chromatography, alternative approaches for sample preparation, particularly in nucleic acid isolation and purification, and analytical tools for trace-level analysis within active pharmaceutical ingredients. He has published over 250 peer-reviewed publications, 5 book chapters, and has co-edited a book series titled “Analytical Separation Science”. He currently holds 9 patents and is an editor for the Journal of Chromatography A.
An In-Depth Single-Cell Proteome in 5 minutes or Less
RYAN KELLY
Ryan Kelly is a Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Brigham Young University (BYU). A central theme of Dr. Kelly’s research has been the development of new technological solutions for ultrasensitive biochemical analyses. His recent efforts have focused on single-cell proteomics and spatial proteomics, which have involved tailoring sample preparation, separations,ionization and mass spectrometry acquisition for low-input samples. His group’s efforts have enabled thousands of proteins to be rapidly profiled from single cells.
Dr. Kelly has authored or coauthored more than 120 publications and he is a named inventor on several patents that have been licensed and commercialized by companies including Bruker, Cellenion and his own startup MicrOmics Technologies. His work has been recognized with several awards including two R&D 100 awards, the Georges Guiochon HPLC Faculty Fellowship and the HTC Innovation Award.
Design and application of Online Liquid Chromatography-Based Process Analytical Technology to Enable Synthetic Peptide Process Development and Manufacturing
STEVE GROSKREUTZ
Steve Groskreutz, Ph.D. is the Senior Director of Analytical Development in Bioproduct Research and Development at Eli Lilly and Company. Steve joined Lilly as a post-doctoral scientist in 2017 after receiving his Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from the University of Pittsburgh. In 2018 he transitioned to a research scientist within the drug substance process analytical team where he accelerated the technical development and implementation of integrated, process analytical technology (PAT)-centric impurity control strategies for synthetic peptide manufacturing. He established foundational analytical and PAT platforms that were transferrable across the synthetic peptide portfolio and was key to establishing Lilly’s peptide synthesizer platforms. Since 2023, Steve has provided technical and organizational leadership for analytical development teams across synthetic and biologic modalities within Eli Lilly and Company’s Product Research and Development organization.
Boosting sensitivity in drug metabolism research with cutting-edge LC configurations
FILIP CUYCKENS
Filip Cuyckens serves as a Director at Johnson & Johnson located in Beerse, Belgium. He earned a degree in pharmaceutical sciences, industrial pharmacy and a PhD at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. Filip has more than 25 years of experience in analytical chemistry, particularly in liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry and has authored or co-authored over 100 scientific publications.
At Johnson & Johnson R&D he is currently leading the Biotransformations team. This team plays a vital role in the end-to-end analytical support of drug metabolism related studies in discovery and development. Another part of his team focuses on imaging mass spectrometry and associated techniques to visualize the distribution of drug candidates, metabolites and biomarkers in tissues.
Novel Characterization Strategies for Therapeutic Oligonucleotides
TODD MALONEY
Todd D. Maloney earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry in 2002 from the University at Buffalo under the advisement of Professor Luis A. Colón. He is currently an Associate Vice President in Synthetic Molecule Design and Development at Eli Lilly and Company where he leads teams developing integrated process control strategies for synthetic oligonucleotides, peptides, small molecules, and conjugates. Throughout his career at Lilly, Todd has led the development and implementation of novel methodologies in separation science, mass spectrometry, and process analytical technology (PAT) across Lilly’s discovery, development, and manufacturing and quality organizations. He serves on the Board of Directors and is chair emeritus of the Enabling Technologies Consortium (ETC) and is the co-chair of HPLC 2026 in Indianapolis, IN, USA.
StreamFind: an open source data processing workflow assembler
RICARDO CUNHA
Dr Ricardo Cunha holds a PhD in Environmental Technology from Wageningen University & Research, based in Wetsus in the Netherlands, and an MSc in Biological and Chemical Engineering from the University of Minho in Portugal. Since 1 June 2019, he has been working as a research associate at IUTA in Germany. His work in the Analytical Research and Miniaturisation Department focuses on advanced data analysis, automation, digitalisation, and environmental and analytical technology. He is currently working on projects to develop data processing workflows for predicting equipment maintenance in the laboratory by combining open communication protocols and machine learning techniques. Dr Cunha also investigates chemical and biological transformation processes in wastewater treatment through non-target screening and quality routines for product control using Raman spectroscopy and mass spectrometry. He also has extensive experience in the development of separation and detection
Advances in the monitoring of natural toxins in food and enviromental samples by chromatographic and electrophoretic techniques
ANA GARCIA-CAMPANA
Ana M. Garcia-Campaña is full Professor at the University of Granada (Spain), responsible of the research group "Quality in Food, Environmental and Clinical Analytical Chemistry" (FQM-302). Her research areas are focused on the use of advanced analytical platforms based on liquid chromatography and capillary electrophoresis coupled with mass spectrometry, fluorescence or ion mobility spectrometry for food and environmental quality control and safety, monitoring contaminants, including natural toxins and residues of veterinary and human drugs and pesticides. Developments of innovative and sustainable analytical methodologies and sample treatments, as well as biomarker studies in biological fluids related to the contaminant exposition have being carried out. She has published 240 articles, edited several books and co-authored 30 book chapters (h-index 54). Currently she is Vice-rector of Postgraduate Studies and Continuing Education and Vice-President of the Spanish Society of Chromatography and Related Techniques (SECyTA). She is included in the world ranking of the Stanford University “the World Scientists: World´s Top 2% Scientists”.
Automated Multicolumn Screening Workflow in Ultra-High Pressure Hydrophilic Interaction Chromatography for Streamlined Method Development of Polar Analytes
ERIK REGALADO
Erik L. Regalado is a Sr. Principal Scientist at Merck Research Laboratories (MRL) where he leads the Assay Development & Screening group. He completed his postdoc at Merck on new separation - HTA technologies, and a collaborative Ph.D. in Chemistry between the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, France, and the University of Havana. Erik has 130+ publications and 2 patents with 15+ cover arts, for a total of 4600+ literature citations and an h-index of 38. Erik is the recipient of 2024 Merck Green & Sustainable Science, 2023 MRL Big I Innovation, 2021 Emerging Leader in Chromatography and 2019 ACS Early Career Investigator Awards with his research highlighted on Angewandte Chemie Team Profile, C&EN, Synfacts, Nature, In the Pipeline, ChemistryWorld, Sigma-Aldrich among others.
Non-Target Screening of Environmental Samples: Strategies for Quantification, Prioritization, and Identification Using LC-HRMS and Multidimensional Chromatography
JAN H. CHRISTENSEN
Jan H. Christensen is a Professor in Environmental Analytical Chemistry. He is leader of the Analytical Chemistry group, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark and heads the Research Centre for Advanced Analytical Chemistry (RAACE). He has pioneered cutting-edge analytical and chemometric methods for oil hydrocarbon fingerprinting and now works with all aspects of contaminant fingerprinting and metabolomics. His group develops analytical methods and new tools to handle and process complex multidimensional chromatographic data. The main application areas are currently suspect- and non-target screening of organic and inorganic contaminants in waste-, surface-, and drinking water; as well as sustainable fuels; plant-microbe interactions, and foods. The group how focus on development of alternative analytical methods for non-target screening including multidimensional chromatography methods in combination with data science tools for quantitative non-target screening analysis. He has authored and co-authored more than 170 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters on these topics, are (co-)responsible for seven courses in analytical chemistry, and has supervised > 90 BSc, MSc students, and PhD students ORCID : 0000-0003-1414-1886.
How to improve the resolving power in ion mobility in hyphenation with front end chromatography for environmental contaminants
GAUTHIER EPPE
Gauthier Eppe obtained his MSc degree in Chemical Engineering and his PhD degree in Analytical Chemistry from University of Liege, ULiege, Belgium. After a post-doc at the National Institute of Standard and Technology (NIST, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA), he returned to ULiege and was appointed Associate Professor in 2009. He is currently Full Professor of Analytical Chemistry in the Chemistry Department at ULiège. He is the director of the Mass Spectrometry Laboratory (MSLab), a laboratory hosting a large panel of state-of-the-art MS instruments that can cover a broad range of cutting-edge topics in the domain of mass spectrometry (www.mslab.uliege.be). The group is currently made up of around 40 researchers, including 20 PhD students. His research mainly focuses on mass spectrometry and ion mobility-mass spectrometry hyphenated with GC and LC, with a particular emphasis on non-targeted analysis in the field of ultra-trace analysis of environmental contaminants entering the food chain. He has authored and co-authored over 160 peer-reviewed papers and 7 book chapters.
Global retention models: An alternative approach to handling highly complex samples in HPLC
MARIA CELIA GARCIA-ALVAREZ-COQUE
María Celia García-Álvarez-Coque was born in Mexico City. In 1971, she moved to Spain with her family, where she studied the Chemistry Degree and Doctorate with awards. She held various academic positions at the University of Valencia, including Assistant Professor (1977-1983), Professor (1983-1997), and Full Professor (1997-2024). Now she holds the position of Emeritus Professor. She has taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses, primarily on fundamental topics in Analytical Chemistry.
Dr. García-Álvarez-Coque has published over 300 research articles, two books and 24 book chapters, mostly in top international journals and editorials. Her research has predominantly focused on HPLC, particularly on fundamental studies, secondary equilibria, and development of analytical methods for pharmaceutical and clinical samples. She has supervised 29 PhD. students from various countries, received research awards, collaborated with researchers worldwide, and served on the editorial boards of Journal of Chromatography A, Analytica Chimica Acta, and Separation and Purification Reviews.
Multilevel/hierarchical modeling of chromatographic retention
PAWEL WICZLING
Paweł Wiczling earned his PhD in Pharmacy from the Medical University of Gdańsk in 2005. Since 2003, he has been a dedicated member of the Department of Biopharmaceutics and Pharmacodynamics at the same institution. His expertise lies in the analytical and theoretical aspects of chromatography, with a focus on developing methods for the simultaneous determination of dissociation constants and lipophilicity and developing general mechanistic models of chromatographic retention. Additionally, he specializes in the modeling and simulation of drug pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics, and in applying Bayesian inference techniques within the fields of chromatography and pharmacometrics.
Data Science Tools for Advanced Method Development and Prediction in Analytical Measurements
KEVIN SCHUG
Kevin A. Schug is Professor and the Shimadzu Distinguished Professor of Analytical Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at The University of Texas at Arlington (UTA). He received his B.S. degree in Chemistry in 1998 from the College of William and Mary, and his Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from Virginia Tech in 2002. From 2003-2005, he performed post-doctoral research at the University of Vienna in Austria. Since joining UTA in 2005, his research has been focused on the theory and application of separation science and mass spectrometry for solving a variety of analytical and physical chemistry problems, in the fields of forensic, environmental, pharmaceutical, biological, and energy research.
Digital Transformation of the Analytical Lab - it's Mind over Matter!
JOACHIM RICHERT
Dr. Joachim Richert
TU Darmstadt, Germany
After obtaining his Ph.D. in Physical-Organic Chemistry from the University of California Santa Barbara under the mentorship of Prof. Donald Aue, and completing a post-doctoral fellowship at UCSB, Joachim joined BASF SE in Germany. Throughout his 33-year career at BASF, Joachim has led various analytical and research units. He served as CEO & Managing Director of DNA LandMarks Inc., an agricultural biotech company located in Québec, Canada. Since 2010 he directed the Competence Center Analytics of BASF SE, leading groups in Shanghai, Mumbai, Basel, Münster, Lemförde, Tarrytown/NY, Wyandotte/MI, and Ludwigshafen.
Having recently retired from his role as Vice President Analytical Science, Joachim is currently sharing his expertise teaching post-graduate classes at the Technical University Darmstadt, focusing on the enabling role of analytical chemistry, laboratory automation and data science in driving transformative changes in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries.
Sample preparation and detection all in one for rapid analysis
GONKE LI
Prof. Gongke Li
Director of Analytical Sciences Institute
School of Chemistry, Sun Yat-sen University
Guangzhou 510006, P.R. China.
Tel:+86-20-39339782;
E-mail:cesgkl@mail.sysu.edu.cn
Professor Gongke Li obtained her Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from Sun Yat-sen University in 1992. She then joined Sun Yat-sen University and has been a professor since 2000. Her major research advances include the establishment of fairly systematic modern sample preparation techniques based on the exploitation of various novel and/or unique materials, novel devices and applications of them to the analysis of trace composition in complex systems, such as foods, drugs, environmental samples, and biological samples. She has published more than 500 peer-refereed journal articles, 4 books and more than 60 patents for invention. Recently, rapid detection of complex samples has also gained fast development in her group. She was awarded the Chinese Women’s Analytical Chemist in 2015 and the Chromatographic Contribution Award of China in 2023. She was also named as one of the 2016 Power List and the Top 50 most influential women, the 2019 and 2021 Power List as one of the Top 100 most influential people in analytical science in the world by The Analytical Scientist. She is currently the Editor of Journal of Chromatography A.
Analysis of Diastereomers of Oligonucleotides: Strategies and Technologies.
KELLY ZHANG
Kelly Zhang is a Senior Fellow and Director at Genentech/Roche. She leads analytical R&D teams on both drug substance and drug formulation. She has over 20 years of pharmaceutical industry experience at Genentech, Allergan and Pfizer. She has published over 80 peer-reviewed papers in the field of pharmaceutical analysis, covering synthetic molecules, biologic conjugates and nucleic acid based medicines.
Hybrid HPLC-MS techniques employed to the characterization protein structure: lessons learned from the analysis of simple and highly complex glycoproteins
CHRISTIAN HUBER
Christian Huber trained as an analytical chemist at the University of Innsbruck focusing on chromatographic separation methods for biopolymers. After a PostDoc in Csaba Horváth’s group at Yale University in 1996, he obtained lecturing qualification in analytical chemistry at the University of Innsbruck in 1997. As an associated professor of analytical chemistry at the University of Innsbruck from 1997 to 2002, he developed monolithic stationary phases for hyphenating high efficiency nucleic acid-, peptide-, and protein separations to mass spectrometry. From 2002-2008 he held a position as professor for analytical chemistry at Saarland University, where he started working in the field of proteome analysis and mass spectrometry data mining. Since 2008, he is a professor of chemistry for biosciences at the University of Salzburg. His current research interests include proteome and metabolome analysis of biological models for disease as well as in-depth (therapeutic) protein characterization by means of HPLC and MS.
Mastering the Basics of Chiral Separations for Innovative Applications
ALBERTO CAVAZZINI
Alberto Cavazzini has been full professor of Analytical Chemistry in the Department of Chemical, Pharmaceutical and Agricultural Sciences at the University of Ferrara since 2014. He was researcher fellow at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA, and Oak Ridge National Laboratories, Oak Ridge in Tennessee, in the group of Prof. Georges Guiochon. His scientific activity revolves around separation science, particularly liquid chromatography, and chromatographic-like techniques, both from a fundamental and an applicative viewpoint. He was the recipient of the JFK Huber Lecture Award 2022 of the Austrian Society of Analytical Chemistry and of the Medaglia Liberti 2022 of the Division of Analytical Chemistry of the Italian Chemical Society. He was appointed in 2023, as the Scientific Director of the Council for Research in Agriculture and Agricultural Economics (CREA).
Effect of spatial arrangement of zwitterions on HILIC separation performance
ZHENGJIN JIANG
Dr. Zhengjin Jiang is a professor at the College of Pharmacy, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China. He received his PhD degree in the Institute of Elemento-Organic Chemistry, Nankai University in 2001. Afterwards, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher or research fellow in University of Tuebingen in Germany, King‘s College London, Pfizer (Sandwich, UK) Research Centre, Novartis (Horsham, UK) Research Centre, respectively. His research interests focus on developing novel separation methods and equipment for pharmaceutical analysis. So far, he has published around 180 peer-reviewed papers in prestigious international journals and given more than 40 oral presentations at international/domestic conferences (including 20 keynotes). He also serves as editor of Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis, chair of the 27th International Symposium on Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis in 2016, permanent board member of steering committee of PBA conference. Current, he is also listed in the editorial advisory board of Journal of Chromatography A.
Advancing the analytical toolbox to enable macrocyclic peptide pharmaceutical drug discovery.
MAKAROV ALEXEY
Dr. Alexey A. Makarov is a Senior Principal Scientist in the Analytical Research & Development (AR&D) department at Merck Research Laboratories (MRL). He earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Stevens Institute of Technology, NJ, and has over twenty years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry. Dr. Makarov has authored more than 60 peer-reviewed publications. In 2024, he received the Industrial Mid-Career Investigator Award from the American Chemical Society. In his role at Merck, Dr. Makarov leads the Discovery Analytical Research team in Boston, MA, focusing on analytical methodology development and characterization of small molecules and biologics to support Merck's pipeline. His team collaborates closely with early discovery teams and process development groups to advance programs from discovery to preclinical candidate selection.
Automation of flow-based sample treatment for bioanalysis
SEGUNDO MARCELA
Marcela Segundo holds a BSc in Microbiology, a PhD in Biotechnology (specialty in Chemistry) and Habilitation in Pharmaceutical Sciences. She is currently a member of the Executive Board of Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Porto, where she teaches in the Department of Chemical Sciences. Her current research is focused on automation of sample treatment and on development of high-throughput microchemical methods (ORCID 0000-0003-2938-0214). She is in the Advisory Editorial Board of Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, Talanta and Analytica Chimica Acta. In 2016 she received the FIA Award for Science attributed by the Japanese Association for Flow Injection Analysis. Since 2023, she is the Chair of the Division of Analytical Chemistry of the European Chemical Society (EuChemS).
New Omnitrap-enabled activation techniques for oligonucleotide analysis
VALERIE GABELICA
Valérie Gabelica is specialized in nucleic acids native mass spectrometry. She obtained a PhD in Chemistry in 2002 at the University of Liège, Belgium. After a postdoc in Frankfurt as Humboldt fellow, she rejoined the Mass Spectrometry Laboratory in Liège where she obtained a permanent position as FNRS research associate in 2005. In 2013, she joined the Institut Européen de Chimie et Biologie (IECB, Bordeaux, France) with an appointment as research director of the French Institute for Health and Medical Research (INSERM) to study nucleic acids biophysics by mass spectrometry. She served as the director of the IECB from 2021 to 2023, obtained an ERC Consolidator grant in 2014, was awarded several research prizes, including the Heinrich Emanuel Merck Award for Analytical Sciences and Inserm research prize in 2022. In January 2024, she was appointed as Full Professor in Analytical Chemistry at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, in the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences.
Implementing high-resolution ion mobility and mass spectrometry for fast(er) analytical methods
TIM CAUSON
Tim Causon is an Associate Professor at Institute of Analytical Chemistry, BOKU University in Vienna, Austria. He is the co-ordinator of the MSCA Doctoral Network “MobiliTraIN” (Ion Mobility Mass Spectrometry Training Network, www.mobilitrain.eu). His main areas of research are liquid chromatography, molecular mass spectrometry, and ion mobility-mass spectrometry (IM-MS) for diverse analytical method development challenges and fundamental studies of ionisation behaviour of small molecular ions. Current research topics include development of methods for optimizing upstream (e.g., microbial cell factories) and downstream (e.g., purification) ends of the bioprocessing continuum, high-resolution ion mobility separation using Structures for Lossless ion Manipulation (SLIM), and coordinated efforts toward harmonization of IM-MS measurement and reporting standards.
Bridge over troubled water - How to overcome solvent strength issues in industrial HPLC applications
LAMOTTE STEFAN
STEFAN LAMOTTE, Senior Principal Scientist Liquid Chromatography,
Analytical & Material Science,
LC, Bioanalysis & Chemometrics,
BASF SE, Ludwigshafen, GERMANY
Studying chemistry at Saarland university Saarbruecken, Diploma Thesis in 1995 in the field of HPTLC; PhD working group and field of work: Prof. Heinz Engelhardt, Saarland University (1998) in the field of synthesis and application of sub 2 μm nonporous particles for use in fast HPLC; 1998-2010 Division manager columns & stationary phases Bischoff Chromatography; Since 2011: Competence Center analytics, BASF SE, Ludwigshafen, Germany; Since 2012 Member of the expert group of the general chromatography chapter (CST-Expert working party) of the European Pharmacopoeia Authority (EDQM); Since 2019 Deputy Chairman of the Working Party Separation Science of the Department of Analytical Chemistry of the German Chemical Society (GDCh); Gerhardt Hesse Award of the Working Party Separation Science of the Department of Analytical Chemistry of the German Chemical Society (GDCh) in 2019.
Identification of new pollutants in Chinese environment by HPLC on-line coupled with Mass Spectrometry
JIANG GUIBIN
Professor Jiang Guibin graduated from Shandong University in January 1982, and received his master's and doctoral degrees from the Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences from 1987 to 1991. From 1989 to 1991 and 1994 to 1996, he was a visiting scholar and postdoctoral researcher at the National Research Council of Canada and the University of Antwerp, Belgium, respectively.
Jiang’s research is mainly focused on analytical development, environmental fate, toxicology and health effects of persistent organic pollutants (POPs), organometallic compounds and nano-materials. He has contributed more than 1300 papers in peer-reviewed international scientific journals and published 23 monographs.
Breaking Boundaries in Natural Product Analysis with SFC-MS
LUCIE NOVAKOVA
Lucie Nováková has been a Full Professor in Analytical Chemistry at the Charles University, Faculty of Pharmacy in Hradec Králové, Department of Analytical Chemistry, the Czech Republic since 2019. Her research is oriented towards separation techniques, namely ultra-high performance liquid chromatography, supercritical fluid chromatography, and their coupling to mass spectrometry. She is involved in a broad scope of research projects focused on pharmaceutical analysis, doping control, plant analysis, and bioanalytical methods. An important part of her research also lies in the sample preparation step. She authored the book on HPLC theory and practice in Czech and in English and nine book chapters. She published over 155 peer-reviewed scientific articles and review papers with more than 5850 citations and an h-index of 42. She is also widely involved in teaching and education activities, such as HPLC and SFC training courses, seminars, and conferences.
Analytical and preparative separations of therapeutic oligonucleotides: Current understanding and challenges
TORGNY FORNSTEDT
Torgny Fornstedt obtained his Ph.D. in Analytical Pharmaceutical Chemistry from Uppsala University in 1992. In 2007 he was promoted to Professor of Analytical Biotechnology at Uppsala University. Since 2010 he has been Full Professor of Analytical Chemistry at Karlstad University, Sweden. Torgny focus on fundamental issues in separation science, more particular, he combines theory and practice for deeper understanding how molecules interact with each other and with separation surfaces or biosensor chips. Recently, his research group and industrial partners have focused on the analysis and purification of therapeutic oligonucleotides such as ASOs & siRNA, and how to use modern digitalization technology for the enhanced quality assurance of these next generation drugs.
2024 Torgny was the recipient of the J. F. K. Huber Lecture Award. He is an advisory editorial board member for J. Chromatography A & Open.
Asymmetric Flow-Field Flow Fractionation (AF4) for the characterization of biopharmaceuticals
LARS NILSSON
Lars Nilsson has a background in surface and colloid science, receiving his PhD from Lund University, Sweden in 2007. The thesis subject was emulsification and macromolecular emulsifiers. The work brought him into contact with field-flow fractionation under the mentorship of Professor emeritus Karl-Gustav Wahlund, who pioneered asymmetric flow field flow fractionation (AF4). After a period in the biotech industry, he returned to Lund University and increasingly engaged in AF4 methodology and applications. In 2012 a spinoff company offering AF4 and complementary techniques as a contract service was founded. In 2020 he became full Professor in Formulation Technology at Lund University. His current research focus is on the formulation of therapeutic proteins, lipid nanoparticles and biomolecular corona formation on nanoparticles as well as development and application of AF4 methodology. This involves the combination of AF4 with synchrotron small angle x-ray scattering (SAXS) and small angle neutron scattering (SANS).
Integrating HPLC and SFC methods into an entirely automated synthetic laboratory : On the road toward a self-driving laboratory
PASCAL MIEVILLE
Pascal Miéville earned his doctorate in physical chemistry with a specializaIon in hyperpolarized magneIc resonance from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). Following a period of several years working in pharmaceuIcal development in the industry, he assumed a leadership role at the EPFL NMR plaPorm. In this role, he iniIated the automaIon of analysis and the integraIon of data. This experience, in addiIon to a Master of Business AdministraIon (MBA), laid the foundaIon for his current posiIon as ExecuIve director and senior lecturer for the Swiss Cat+ West Hub naIonal research infrastructure.
Bridging physical and digital worlds: The new role of analytical instrumentation in the automated lab
CHRISTIAN HAAS
Christian Haas is an R&D Scientist at Agilent Technologies, leading innovation in liquid chromatography by integrating data science with chemical applications. He has extensive experience in automated analytical chemistry, having worked on technology transfer and process optimization at Bayer, and on autonomous synthesis platforms coupled with online LC at MIT. Christian holds a PhD in Chemistry from Philipps-Universität Marburg, where he specialized in automated flow chemistry and analytical instrumentation.
Separation of enantiomers and isotopically labelled compounds: Similarities and differences
BEZHAN CHANKVETADZE
Bezhan Chankvetadze is Professor for Physical Chemistry and director of the Institute of Physical and Analytical Chemistry at the Tbilisi State University in Tbilisi, Georgia.
His research interests include separation sciences with emphases on noncovalent intermolecular interactions, miniaturized techniques, new chiral selectors for liquid-phase separations and enantioselective recognition mechanisms.
He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis and co-editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis Open and a member of the editorial boards of Journal of Chromatography A, Journal of Chromatography Open, Electrophoresis, Journal of Separation Science, Journal of Pharmaceutical Analysis, Chirality and several other journals.
- Chankvetadze is the recipient of “Journal of Chromatography Top Cited Article Awards” in 2005, 2006 and 2010, the recipient of “2006 Belgian Society of Pharmaceutical Science Award of Recognition”, the joint Csaba Horvath Memorial Award of the Hungarian Separation Science Society and Connecticut Separation Science Council, USA (2017) and Nernst-Tswett Award from the European Separation Science Society (EuSSS) (2024).
Flow FFF-ESI-MS/MS for the Direct Lipid Analysis of Extracellular Vesicles
MYEONG HEE MOON
Myeong Hee Moon earned his undergraduate degree in chemistry from Yonsei University (1987) and a Ph.D. from the University of Utah (1991) under Prof. Calvin J. Giddings. He began his academic career at Kangnung National University in 1994 and joined Yonsei University's chemistry department in 2003. His research centers on developing innovative methodologies in flow field-flow fractionation (Flow FFF) for the separation and analysis of biological macromolecules. Notable contributions include advancements in FFF channel systems such as frit-inlet asymmetrical flow FFF, hollow fiber flow FFF, and multidimensional separation techniques integrating isoelectric focusing and asymmetrical flow FFF (IEF-AF4) for protein separation. He also pioneered miniaturizing flow FFF channel to hyphenate with ESI-MS/MS for direct lipid analysis of biomacromolecules.
Precision Manufacture of Ordered Chromatographic Material
BO ZHANG
Bo Zhang, Associate Professor at Xiamen University, China; Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry; Scientific Committee Member of HPLC2025; Associate Editor of Journal of Separation Science. Editorial Board Member of Journal of Chromatography A. He was trained as a separation scientist at National Chromatographic Center, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics since 1999. He went on to do PhD in chromatography at University of York, UK, from 2002-2007, followed by postdoc at Imperial College London for two years. Since 2009, he took up the current position at Xiamen University, where he is running a pure chromatography research group focused on column technology, advanced manufacture of chromatographic materials as well as microfluidic technologies for bioseparation.
In vivo Protein Footprinting Reveals the Dynamic Conformational Changes of the Proteome of Multiple Tissues in Progressing Alzheimer’s Disease
JOHN YATES
John R. Yates is the Ernest W. Hahn Professor in the Departments of Molecular Medicine and Neurobiology at Scripps Research. His research interests include development of integrated methods for tandem mass spectrometry analysis of protein mixtures, bioinformatics using mass spectrometry data, and biological studies involving proteomics. He is the lead inventor of the SEQUEST software for correlating tandem mass spectrometry data to sequences in the database and developer of the shotgun proteomics technique for the analysis of protein mixtures. His laboratory has developed proteomic techniques to analyze protein complexes, posttranslational modifications, organelles and quantitative analysis of protein expression for the study of biology. He has received awards including the ASMS Biemann Medal, HUPO Achievement Award, Christian Anfinsen Award (Protein Society), Analytical Chemistry award (ACS), Ralph N. Adams Award, Thomson Medal (IMSF), John B. Fenn Award (ASMS), HUPO Discovery Award. He is currently the EIC at the Journal of Proteome Research.
Development of a comprehensive two-dimensional liquid chromatography combining top-down and bottom-up protocols
JIRI URBAN
Jiří Urban received a Ph.D. in 2007 in the group of Pavel Jandera at the University of Pardubice, the Czech Republic, where he worked until 2016. During 2009-2011, he followed post-doctoral research at the University of California, Berkeley, USA, in the Frantisek Svec and Jean M. J. Fréchet group. In 2017, he moved to the Department of Chemistry at Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, where he became an Associate Professor in 2018. In his research, he utilizes multifunctional polymer monoliths to develop new analytical methods applicable to metabolomics and proteomics. He also focuses on the design of new instrumental setups for two-dimensional liquid chromatography.
Application of high pH anion exchange chromatography for the separation of carbohydrates
CHRISTOPHER POHL
Christopher Pohl is a chromatography consultant for CAP Chromatography Consulting and President of Cap Chromatography LLC. He retired from Thermo Fisher Scientific in August 2021 where he was Vice President, Chromatography Chemistry. Christopher joined Dionex, now part of Thermo Fisher Scientific in 1979 where the focus of his work was new stationary phase design. He is an author or co-author of 112 US patents, in a number of areas including separation methods and stationary phase design. He is the author or co-author of 14 book chapters and more than 149 papers. He received his BS in Analytical Chemistry from the University of Washington in 1973. He received the International Ion Chromatography Symposium Award in 1990. He received the Uwe Neue Award and the Eastern Analytical Symposium Separation Science Award in 2018, the 2020 Thermo Fisher Scientific - George N. Hatsopoulos technical innovation award and the 2023 ACS Chromatography Award.
Approaching the "dark lab": Can we run it fully automated?
THORSTEN TEUTENBERG
Dr. Thorsten Teutenberg studied chemistry at the Ruhr University in Bochum. Since 2012 he is head of the department Research Analytics & Miniaturization at IUTA. He focuses on the development of coupling systems based on liquid chromatography, mass spectrometry and vibrational spectroscopy. He is currently involved in the development of a fully digitalized laboratory of the future (FutureLab.NRW).
Characterization, identification and determination of microbiomes by different separation and spectral techniques
BOGUSLAW BUSZEWSKI
Prof. Dr. Bogusław Buszewski is a graduate of the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin (Poland). In 1986 he obtained a PhD degree, and in 1992 a DrSc (habilitation). In 1994, he was appointed professor at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. He was a scholarship holder of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the University of Tübingen (Germany), and post-doc at the Kent State University (Ohio, USA) as well as a visiting professor at numerous universities in: Europe, Asia, Australia and America. His main scientific interests concern separation sciences (chromatography and related techniques, spectroscopy) (HPLC, GC, CZE, FFF, ICP, MALDI, MS), adsorption, columns and stationary phases, sample preparation, environmental and bioanalysis (-omics, biomarkers), nanotechnology and chemometrics. He is the author or co-author of 16 books, numerous patents and over 750 scientific papers (over 32,000 citations, h=81) and a member of the editorial boards of 26 national and international journals. Prof. B. Buszewski is the chairman of the Central European Group for Separation Sciences and the honorary chairman of the Analytical Chemistry Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He is an ordinary member of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. Awarded by many national and international institutions and organizations (including multiple honory doctorates).
Preparative and Industrial Chromatography of Viral Gene therapy Vectors, Vaccine and Bionanoparticles
ALOIS JUNGBAUER
Alois Jungbauer holds a doctorate in food technology and biotechnology from BOKU. He is retired Professor Emeritus of Downstream Processing at the Institute of Bioprocess Science and Technology at BOKU University, Adjunct Professor at University of Adelaide and an active scientist at the Austrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology. He is currently working in the field of bioprocess engineering of proteins, viruses and gene therapy vectors. He has published more than 400 papers on recombinant protein production, bioseparation and advanced materials for bioprocess engineering, 17 patents and 12 book chapters and a monograph titled “Protein Chromatography, Process Development and Scale Up”. He has developed several processes for the manufacture of advanced biopharmaceuticals and serves on the advisory board of several companies. He coordinated the Marie Currie Innovative Training Program (ITN) Continuous Downstream processing (CODOBIO) and coordinates the ITN Characterization and Recovery of Viral Gene therapy Vectors and Vaccines (CAARE).
Novel Methods for Simultaneously Untargeted Metabolome and Targeted Exposome Analysis in One Injection of LC-MS
XINYU LIU
Prof. Dr. Xinyu Liu earned her Ph.D. degree in Jan. 2017 in Dalian institute of chemical physics (DICP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, and has been a Principal Investigator (PI) of the Laboratory of High Resolution Separation/Analysis and Metabolomics in DICP since Nov. 2024. She is also a member of the Youth Innovation Promotion Association of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Dr. Liu is committed to develop chromatography-mass spectrometry-based new methods and technologies for metabolomics/exposomics and apply them in the study of major chronic diseases. She has published more than 80 peer-reviewed papers in the WoS indexed journals, such as Nat Metab, Nat Commun，Gut Microbes, TrAC, Environment Int, Clin Chem, Anal Chem, and J Clin Invest, and holds more than 20 China patents.
She was supported by the Liaoning Province Excellent Youth Fund in 2024 and got the grand prize of Science and Technology of China Association of Instrument Analysis (CAIA, 4/10) in 2020.
Enhanced Fluidity or Subcritical Liquid Chromatographic Separations- the impact on chromatography of biological compounds
SUSAN OLESIK
Susan Olesik is currently a University Distinguished Professor and the Dean of Natural and Mathematical Sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences at Ohio State University. She has received numerous awards; recent awards include the 2023 Dal Nogare Award, 2023, 2021 Analytical Scientist - 100 Most Influential Analytical Chemists, 2020 Eastern Analytical Symposium Award for Outstanding Achievements in the Fields of Analytical Chemistry.
She is most known for research in three areas of separation science — Enhanced-fluidity Liquid Chromatography (EFLC), development of carbon stationary phases and design of nanoscale materials for chromatographic as well as mass spectrometric applications. Recent areas of study include studies of biologically relevant compounds and improving in efficiency in separation science and ionization efficiency in surface assisted laser desorption ionization (SALDI) using nanoparticle and nanofiber arrays and devices.
Analytical LabAutomation in early drug discovery chemistry labs
TOMAS LEEK
With a career at AstraZeneca beginning in 1997, Tomas Leek currently holds the position of Senior Director for the Physical and Analytical Characterization team within early Medicinal Chemistry, early Respiratory and Immunology, at AZ Gothenburg. His experience in characterizing synthetic compounds spans various compound classes, including small molecules, peptides and oligonucleotides. Tomas experience in advanced techniques such as LC-MS, MS-MS, and NMR to support tasks ranging from high-throughput reaction monitoring to detailed characterization of pre-clinical material. In his role, he also leads and oversees operational improvements through automation and digitalization to enhance analytical workflow efficiencies.
Tomas also leads the MS Center of Excellence at the AZ Gothenburg site, comprising over 50 advanced LCMS systems and more than 100 LCMS experts. This center significantly supports early pre-clinical projects within AZ BioPharmaceuticals. As a lifelong learner and educator, Tomas is a sought-after speaker at international conferences and lectures at several universities.
Necessity is the Mother of Invention: the challenges of novel pharmaceutical chemical entities and the analytics they inspire
ADRIAN CLARKE
Adrian Clarke is a Scientific Advisor in Analytics at Novartis Pharma (Basel, Switzerland). His main responsibilities are: driving scientific excellence, identifying strategic and operational and technological needs; Defining, developing and implementing innovative state of the art analytics and regulatory control strategies.
He has more than 25 years’ experience working in the Pharma industry and in the last 5-10 years he has been actively involved in new modality and oligonucleotide projects.
His special interests are liquid phase separations & hyphenated techniques (Fast LC/UHPLC, 2D LC, SFC, MS), column characterisation, method development, and also analytical control & regulatory strategies, including new modalities, oligonucleotides and mutagenic impurities.
Adrian has DPhil in Analytical Chemistry (Separation sciences) from the University of York, UK. He has authored multiple publications and book chapters, he is a committee member of the Chromatographic Society, UK, and been on the organising committee of several international conferences (ISC2024, PBA2024, HPLC2025) and more than 10 ChromSoc UK scientific meetings, and he is also on the editor advisory board of LC-GC International.
Technoeconomic evaluation of 3D printed monolithic adsorbers for integrated clarification and capture of therapeutic antibodies
SIMONE DIMARTINO
I am a Senior Lecturer at the Institute for Bioengineering at the University of Edinburgh, UK. In 2012 I pioneered 3D printing for the fabrication of porous media with perfectly ordered morphology, focusing on the design of three-dimensional lattices and the development of materials compatible with chromatographic separations. Together with my research group, I am currently transferring methods to other operations in the biotechnology and chemical engineering industries (e.g. biocatalysis and bioreactors).
To date, I raised a total of over £ 2 million research income with projects bridging the industry and government sectors. Over my career I have received a number of international awards, including the Csaba Horvath Young Scientist Award at HPLC 2016 and the best contribution at the XIX Recovery of Biological Products Conference in 2022.
My most recent creation is Planet Crafting Labs, a start-up where I combine my research expertise in the bioprocess industry, my 20 years of academic experience, and my commitment to climate action. At Planet Crafting Labs I help businesses and organisations achieve a rapid and effective climate transition by running design sprints that empower ESG teams though their sustainability journey.
The thermodynamics of liquid chromatography
ATTILA FELINGER
Attila Felinger
Attila Felinger is a Professor of Analytical Chemistry at the University of Pécs (Hungary). He is the head of the Analytical and Environmental Chemistry Department at the Faculty of Sciences, and he is at the helm of the Institute of Bioanalysis at the Medical School (both at the University of Pécs). In addition, he serves as President of the Hungarian Society for Separation Sciences.
He graduated with a degree in chemical engineering from the University of Veszprém (Hungary) and obtained his PhD in analytical chemistry in 1988 from the same university. His research interests focus on the fundamentals of chromatography including nonlinear and analytical separations, as well as the chemometric analysis of analytical measurements. In 2016 he was elected as a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Digitalization in analytical R&D labs: boosting innovation by efficiency and effectivity enhancement.
RON PETERS
Ron Peters is a science fellow at Covestro. He leads the global competence development of testing, analysis, and physics in Covestro. He is also a part-time professor of bioterials analysis at the Faculty of Science (FNWI) of the University of Amsterdam (UvA), Netherlands. His current research activities focus on developing and applying novel strategies using cutting-edge analytical technologies to understand the molecular structure of complex functional copolymers. Direct correspondence to: Ron.Peters@covestro.com
Construction of Novel Chiral Covalent Organic Frameworks for Chromatographic Enantioseparation
CHEN YUAN
Chen Yuan received his PhD in Chemistry in 2022 from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Subsequently, he joined Sichuan University, where he is currently serving as an Associate Researcher. His research interests lie in the fields of chiral separation, chromatography, and crystalline porous materials. To date, he has published 8 papers as the first author or corresponding author in prestigious journals such as JACS and Anal. Chem. Among these, 3 papers have been selected as ESI highly cited papers. Additionally, he was selected for the Sichuan University Double Hundred Talents Program and awarded the Youth Innovation Award for Separation Science by the Chromatography Professional Committee of the Chinese Chemical Society.
Realization of vortex chromatography in polymeric devices
WIM DE MALSCHE
Wim De Malsche is full professor at the Departments of Chemical Engineering Sciences and of Bioengineering Sciences at the Free University of Brussels (VUB), where he teaches on Microfluidics, Microreactors, Microfabrication and Environmental Chemistry. The research of his µFlow group is focused on multi-physics microfluidic approaches aiming for breakthrough technologies in chemical and biotechnological domains. A focus in analytical separations is the recently developed Vortex Chromatography methodology. He is academic director of the open access MICROLAB cleanroom core facility for Si and glass microfabrication. He is coordinator of the Microfluidics spearpoint Research Program SubCellDynamite at VUB (targeting sub-cellular analysis) and of µFlow Cell Group of Excellence in Advanced Research (the microfluidics valorization vehicle at VUB).
Improved metabolome coverage with conventional and miniaturized approaches for separation techniques hyphenated with mass spectrometry.
SERGE RUDAZ
Serge Rudaz is a Full Professor at the University of Geneva, leading the Biomedical and Metabolomic Analysis (BMA) research group. He serves as Vice-President of the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences and is a member of the Management Board of the Swiss Centre for Applied Human Toxicology (SCAHT) Foundation. Prof. Rudaz participates in numerous scientific boards such as the Swiss Metabolomics Society (SMS) and the Competence Center in Chemical and Toxicological Analysis (ccCTA). His research interests encompass ultra-high-performance liquid chromatography (UHPLC) and capillary electrophoresis (CE) coupled with mass spectrometry (MS), advancements in sample preparation, analysis of pharmaceuticals and falsified medicines, biological matrices, as well as clinical and preclinical studies, including metabolism, toxicological analysis, and metabolomics. Prof. Rudaz has authored or co-authored over 25 book chapters and more than 370 peer-reviewed papers, achieving an H-index of 77(G-Scholar).
HPLC: a critical component of proteomics in precision medicine.
JENNIFER VAN EYK
Dr. Jennifer Van Eyk, Ph.D, an international leader in clinical proteomics, is focused on democratizing personalized biomarkers and individualized therapies. She obtained her PhD from University of Alberta, and carried out post-doctoral fellowships in Heidelberg and Chicago before started her lab at Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada. She was recruited to Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore and then to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, where she directs the inaugural Advanced Clinical BioSystems Research Institute. She is a Professor of Cardiology in the Smidt Heart Institute and holds the Erika Glazer Endowed Chair in Women’s Heart Disease. Her achievements include <425 articles, <26 patents, and numerous National and International research and leadership awards.
New stationary phases for rare earth ion separation
HONGDENG QIU
Hongdeng Qiu received his PhD from Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics (LICP), Chinese Academy of Sciences (2008). He did his postdoctoral research in Kumamoto University from 2009-2012 under the G-COE Program and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS Fellow). From 2012-2023, he was a full professor in LICP. Then he moved to Ganjiang Innovation Academy (GIA), Chinese Academy of Sciences and become a part time professor in LICP. His current research interests are the applications of new materials for chromatographic separation and sample preparation, especially for rare earth ion separation. He has published more than 250 papers and 50 patents.
Chiral Stationary Phases Based on Polysaccharide Derivatives and Superficially Porous Silica – Present and Future
TIVADAR FARKAS
Tivadar Farkas has over 30 years of experience in chromatography. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville in Analytical Chemistry in 1997 under the guidance of Georges Guiochon. He joined Phenomenex in 1997 as a Senior Scientist, where he was assigned to further the understanding of the column packing process and to improve related technology. For several years he managed the Analytical Support and Development group within R&D at Phenomenex. In this position, he supported the development of novel stationary phases and column formats for both analytical and prep HPLC, including the development of the core-shell particle-based line of columns Kinetex – arguably one of the most recognized brands of UHPLC columns. He also initiated the development of a line of high-performance preparative columns commercialized under the name Axia. For two decades, Tivadar acted as the Senior Managing Scientist of R&D overseeing all major research projects, with a primary focus on the development of the Lux line of chiral HPLC columns.
In addition to his contributions in industry, Tivadar has contributed to journals in the field of separation science, as well as to the major chromatography scientific meetings over several decades. He has co-authored over 65 scientific publications on HPLC column heterogeneity, instrumental aspects of HPLC, developments in core-shell technology and chiral LC separations. Tivadar is also co-inventor to four patents on innovations in the field of separation science.
Currently, Tivadar is associated with the Institute of Physical and Analytical Chemistry, School of Exact and Natural Sciences, Tbilisi State University, Georgia as a Senior Researcher. While he retired from Phenomenex last year, he continues to support various new product development projects as a consultant.
High-Throughput Spatial Proteome Analysis by Bottom-up and Top-down Strategies
LIHUA ZHANG
Prof. Dr. Lihua Zhang is the director of Biotechnology Division in Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). Now she is also an Associate Editor of Analytical Chemistry. She obtained Bachelor degree of Science from Jilin University in 1995, and obtained Ph.D. degree from DICP, CAS in 2000. During 1999 to 2000, she was in GSF-Research Center for Environment and Health, Germany, to join the Ph.D. joint-education program of DAAD. From 2001, she engaged in the postdoctoral research in Japan. In April 2003, she went back to work in DICP and was promoted to be a full professor in 2005. Her research interest is focused on the development of new methods for proteome qualitation, quantitation and interaction. She has published more than 300 SCI papers in journals such as Nature, Cell, Nature Communication, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Advanced Science, Molecular and Cellular Proteomics, and Analytical Chemistry.