Kevin Van Geem (associate professor) is member of the Laboratory for Chemical Technology of Ghent University. Thermochemical reaction engineering in general and in particular the transition from fossil to renewable resources are his main research interests. He is a former Fulbright Research Scholar of MIT and directs the Pilot plant for steam cracking and pyrolysis. He is the author of more than hundred scientific publications. He is involved in on-line and off-line analysis of complex petrochemical and biochemical samples using comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography. Direct experimental scale-up, detailed kinetic modeling, process modeling (Aspen, ProII), and the role of additives belong to his expertise.

Prof. Dr. Peter Q. Tranchida currently occupies a position as Associate Professor in Food Chemistry in the Department of Pharmaceutical and Health Product Sciences (University of Messina), and he holds the course “Food and Dietary Product Chemistry” (Magister Degree in Pharmacy). He is also Coordinator of the PhD Course in “Food Chemistry and Safety” (University of Messina). His research activities are focused mainly on the study of complex food samples by using advanced chromatography processes, such as fast and very-fast gas chromatographic systems. Furthermore, he has been devoted to the evaluation of ultimate generation stationary phases (i.e., ionic liquids), and, in particular, in the development and application of classical multidimensional and comprehensive chromatography systems. Specifically, he has performed a great deal of research work in the field of classical multidimensional gas chromatography, multidimensional liquid-gas chromatography, and comprehensive 2D gas chromatography (GC×GC). In the field GC×GC, he has performed applications, method optimization studies, and introduced a new form of flow modulation. In 2012, at the"9th GC×GC symposium", held in Riva del Garda, he was awarded the "John Phillips Award", for his outstanding achievements in the field of comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography. In terms of mass spectrometry (MS) systems, he currently uses rapid-scanning single quadrupole, triple quadrupole, and high-resolution time-of-flight devices. Prof. Tranchida has co-authored over 100 scientific papers, 16 book chapters and given over 240 oral/poster presentations in national and international meetings.

Dr Roman Szucs of Pfizer World Wide Research & Development in Sandwich United Kingdom He obtained his PhD under the supervision of Professor Pat Sandra at the University of Ghent in Belgium investigating the separation and quantification of hop bitter acids in beer. This was followed by a post-doctoral position at Unilever Research Laboratory in Vlaardingen (The Netherlands) where the focus of his research was on polymer characterisation. Dr Szucs joined Pfizer in 1997 working in the Separation Technology group and is currently a Senior Research Fellow. His role and group has evolved over his eighteen years at Pfizer but the development and implementation of separation methods and technologies to the Full-Development portfolio continues to be his primary interest. He is Chair of the Science Implementation Panel for the Pfizer Analytical Research Centre programme which includes the Universities of Ghent (Belgium) and Tasmania (Australia). Roman is a visiting Professor at the University of Ghent and in 2010 was awarded the silver jubilee medal by chromatographic society

Thorsten Teutenberg, studied Chemistry at Ruhr University Bochum. He studied for a doctorate in Analytical Chemistry at this institution, submitting a thesis on ‚High-temperature HPLC‘. In 2004 his career took him to the Institut für Energie- und Umwelttechnik e. V. in Duisburg as a research associate. Since 2012 he has been in charge of the Research Analysis Department, mainly working on the various aspects of high-temperature HPLC, miniaturised separation and detection techniques, and multi-dimensional chromatography processes.

Since 2103 Govert W. Somsen is full professor of Biomolecular Analysis/Analytical Chemistry at VU University in Amsterdam. His current research interests include compositional and conformational characterization of intact biomacromolecules, bioactivity screening of compounds in complex samples, and metabolic analysis and profiling of biofluids, with particular attention for compound chirality. His group focuses on hyphenation and integration of advanced separation, fractionation and sample-preparation techniques with state-of-the-art mass spectrometry (MS), optical sensing and bio-activity detection. Somsen obtained his doctorate at VU University with professor Brinkman on the hyphenation of liquid chromatography with vibrational spectroscopy. In 1996, he was appointed assistant professor at the University of Groningen, and in 2001 he became associate professor at Utrecht University. There he built an internationally recognized expertise in the coupling of capillary electrokinetic separation techniques with MS and fluorescence spectroscopy for drug impurity profiling, characterization of therapeutic proteins, and human metabolomics. From 2008 to 2011, he was also reader in Analytical Techniques in the Life Sciences at the Avans University for Applied Sciences in Breda.

Sebastiaan Eeltink received his PhD degree in Chemistry (specialization Analytical Chemistry) in 2005 from the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. From 2005-2007 he conducted postdoctoral research at the University of California, Berkeley, USA, and was guest scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. In 2007 he joined Dionex and conducted research on packed and monolith column technology for ultra-high-pressure LC, two-dimensional LC, and nanoLC. In 2009 the National Fund for Scientific Research (FWO, Belgium) awarded him an Odysseus grant and currently he holds a position as research professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Free University of Brussels

Valérie Pichon is full professor at the UPMC. She leads the Department of Analytical, Bioanalytical Sciences and Miniaturization (30 researchers), a part of the Chemistry and Biology Institute (CBI) located at the ESPCI ParisTech. She also co-leads the CBI since January 2014 (more than 100 permanent and non permanent researchers). She graduated PhD in Analytical Chemistry from the UPMC in 1995 and became Lecturer at the Analytical Chemistry Laboratory at the ESPCI, and then Professor at the UPCM in 2010. Her major research interests include developing stationary phases based on antibodies or aptamers and molecularly imprinted polymers to selectively extract target compounds from complex samples, always trying to miniaturize these tools. She is author of more than 100 publications (H 33 factor) and 5 book chapters. She was rewarded in 2001 with the Analytical Chemistry Department of the French Society of Chemistry Prize. She is currently Vice-President of AfSep (Association Française des Sciences Séparatives).

Johan Viaene is working as a PhD student at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) at the Department of Analytical Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Technology. His research is supervised by Professor Yvan Vander Heyden and professor Debby Mangelings. His major research topic is the development and chemometric treatment of herbal fingerprints obtained by liquid-chromatography with UV and mass spectrometric detection in the context of the quality control of herbs. In his presentation today, he focusses on the comparison of a quadrupole time of flight mass analyzer and a triple quadrupole mass analyzer for the quantification of 16 opioids in human plasma.

Dr García-Gómez earned his PhD in analytical chemistry in 2013 at the University of Salamanca (Spain) where he studied new automatic methods for complex sample preparation and LCxLC applications. Since 2014, Dr. García-Gómez works as postdoc at ETH Zürich in the group of Prof. Zenobi developing new instruments for real-time breath analysis and their applications in the field of clinical diagnosis

Aurélie Périat is a PhD student at the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. She is working on the possibilities and limitations of HILIC and HILIC-MS for pharmaceutical analysis.

Arnaud Lubin has obtained a master degree in analytical chemistry at the University of Rennes, France in 2013 and is currently a PhD student at Janssen R&D Belgium, affiliated with KU Leuven, Belgium. Arnaud is part of a Marie Skłodowska-Curie funded program called ARIADME (Analytical Research In Absorption, Distribution, Metabolism and Excretion). His project focuses on the evaluation and implementation of novel analytical techniques using state-of-art technology for the generation of qualitative and/or quantitative absorption distribution metabolism excretion (ADME) data on biological samples.

Professor Jean-François (Jef) Focant is the Head of the Chemistry Department of the University of Liège in Belgium. He is leading the Organic and Biological Analytical Chemistry group of the mass spectrometry laboratory. Main research interests are coupling of sample preparation procedures, development of new chromatography strategies in separation science, hyphenation to various types of mass spectrometric detectors through multidimensional systems, and implementation of emerging strategies under QA/QC requirements for human biomonitoring and food control. Professor Focant has been active in the field of dioxin analyses for the last 15 years. He chaired the 31st International Symposium on Halogenated Persistent Organic Pollutants and POPs (DIOXIN2011) in Brussels in 2011. Known as a dioxin expert, he is also active in other areas of Separation Science such as characterization of complex mixtures of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) for medical and forensic applications. Recent investigations include characterization of cadaveric decomposition odors, screening for biomarkers of cancer by breath analysis, and plant combustion studies. Working on the hyphenation of state-of-the-art analytical techniques to solve practical analytical issues is what he enjoys to do.

Fields of Research

- Instrumental analytical chemistry (mass spectrometry/photoionisation)
- Analysis of complex environmental, biological and industrial systems
- Health effects of aerosols and biomedical analysis

Short-Vita

- 1991 Diploma (chemistry), TU Munich
- 1995 Graduation (Dr. rer. nat.), TU Munich/Weihenstephan
- 1999 Research sojourn University of Antwerp, Belgium
- 2001 Professorship in analytical chemistry (C3), University of Augsburg; division manager at bifa-Umweltinstitut in Augsburg and team leader GSF (at the research centre)
- 2001 state doctorate (environmental chemistry and analysis), TU Munich/Weihenstephan
- since 2008 Chair in analytical chemistry (W3) and head of the Joint Mass Spectrometry Centre of the University of Rostock and the Helmholtz Zentrum München

Key-Publications

- L. Hanley, R. Zimmermann "Feature Article: Light and Molecular Ions - The Emergence of Vacuum UV Single-Photon Ionization in MS" Anal. Chem. 2009, 81, 4174.
- W.Welthagen, J.Schnelle-Kreis, R.Zimmermann "Search criteria and rules for comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography-time-of-flight mass spectrometry analysis of airborne particulate matter" J. Chromatography A 2003, 1019, 233.
- M. Bente, M. Sklorz, T. Streibel, R. Zimmermann "On-line laser desorption - resonance enhanced multiphoton post-ionization mass spectrometry of individual aerosol particles: Molecular source indicators for particles emitted from diesel and gasoline car emission as well as from soft and hard wood combustion" Anal. Chem. 2008, 80, 8991.

Frank Sobott obtained his Dr. phil. nat. at the Goethe University in Frankfurt/M (Germany) in 2000 in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry. After working with Dame Carol Robinson at Oxford and Cambridge, he returned in 2004 to Oxford in order to take up posts in the Structural Genomics Consortium, the Centre for Integrative Systems Biology and the Centre for Gene Function, and he retains a visiting professorship in the Biochemistry Department there. At the end of 2009, he moved to the University of Antwerp in Belgium where he heads the Biomolecular & Analytical Mass Spectrometry group, with the title of Francqui Research Professor (2011-14). His research focuses on the structural analysis of noncovalently bound, supramolecular systems and functional assemblies of biomolecules. The group is developing new methods and instrumentation for the analysis of multi-component, heterogeneous and dynamic assemblies based on mass spectrometry, ion mobility and associated techniques. The group applies these tools in a highly interdisciplinary context to research questions from chemistry, biology and medicine.

Completed PhD in Chemistry (graduated 2012) within the Australian Centre for Research on
Separation Science (University of Tasmania)
Post-doctoral stay at Johannes Kepler University Linz (Austria), 2012-2014
Currently Senior Scientist (within the Institute of Analytical Chemistry) at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU Vienna)

Dr. Jana Krenkova is a Staff Scientist at the Department of Bioanalytical Instrumentation, Institute of Analytical Chemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Brno. She received her M.Sc. degree in Analysis of Biological Materials (2003) and Ph.D. degree in Analytical Chemistry (2007) at the University of Pardubice, Czech Republic. During years 2007-2010, she was as a postdoctoral fellow at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA working on development of enzyme and nanoparticle-modified monolithic materials for bioanalytical applications. In 2010, she received a Marie Curie Fellowship and joined the group of Frantisek Foret at the Institute of Analytical Chemistry in Brno. Her research interests include monolithic materials, enzymatic reactors, nanoparticle synthesis, and separation/mass spectrometry coupling.

Achim is the director of NUPPA, the protein facility at the University of Newcastle. After undergraduate studies in biochemistry at the Universities of Tübingen (Germany) and in plant physiology at the University of Warsaw (Poland), he did a PhD in biochemistry in Mike Ferguson’s lab at the University of Dundee. Following postdoctoral work as a JSPS fellow in Koiti Titani’s lab at Fujita Health University, Japan, and as a Wellcome Trust postdoctoral fellow in Steve Homans’ lab (Universities of St Andrews, Scotland and Leeds, England), he was appointed as the director of the Proteomics and Mass Spectrometry Facility at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. 2008 he became the lead scientist of the North East Protein Analysis Facility in Newcastle upon Tyne, England and in 2013 the director of the Newcastle University’s Protein and Proteome Analysis Facility (NUPPA). Achim has collaborated with many scientists world-wide and is a co-author on more than 50 peer-reviewed publications.

- Studying chemistry at Saarland University in Saarbruecken
- 1998 PhD on Synthesis, Characterization and Application of non porous 1.5 µm particles in fast HPLC at the group of Prof. Engelhardt (Saarland University)
- 1998- 2010 Division manager columns & stationary phases Bischoff Chromatography (Developped products like ProntoSIL and POPLC)
- 2011 to now: Senior Scientist at BASF Competence Center Analytics, Separation Science & Hyphenatated Techniques group

Gabriel Vivó-Truyols studied analytical chemistry at the University of Balearic Islands (Spain) and graduated with honours in 1998. In 2004 he obtained his PhD with honours from the University of Valencia (Spain) on chemometric methods for optimization and data treatment in HPLC. His PhD focused on the development of novel methods for optimization and data treatment in HPLC, and it was awarded with the D.L. Massart award in chemometrics from the Belgian Chemometrics society in 2006. This award is given every two years to the best PhD thesis in chemometrics, world-wide. Parts of the PhD were conducted at the University of Brussels, under the supervision of prof. Massart. In 2004, Gabriel joined the team of Peter Schoenmakers (University of Amsterdam), where he developed a research program focused on chemometric techniques for optimization, calibration and data-treatment of two-dimensional chromatographic methods. In 2007 he joined the analytical chemistry team at BP in Sunbury (London area). He worked as chemometric specialist developing algorithms and software for GCxGC analysis of petroleum subproducts, as well as developing chemometrics methods for on-line infra-red analysis. In 2009 he joined the analytical-chemistry group of Peter Schoenmakers at University of Amsterdam as an assistant professor. Since 2008, Gabriel Vivó-Truyols is scientific consultant for BP in analytical chemistry, including chromatographic data analysis, on-line spectroscopic measurements and mass spectrometry. Gabriel Vivó-Truyols has supervised more than 10 MSc thesis (one of them was recipient of the University of Amsterdam MSc award), and has or conducting 4 PhD students. He is (co)author of more than 50 articles and he is currently coauthoring a book with Elsevier about chemometric methods for chromatographers. The main part of his work has been performed in close collaboration with industry, including BASF, DSM, Unilever, the Dutch Forensic Institute, RIKILT (institute for food safety), Organon, Shell, Océ and many others. Since 2010, his interests have shifted to the application of Bayesian statistics for complex data analysis of mass spectrometry and chromatography.

Ann Van Eeckhaut obtained the degree of pharmacist in 1997 at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, and a PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences in 2004 at the same university with a thesis entitled “Chiral Separations with Cyclodextrin-Mediated Capillary Electrophoresis”. In 2012 she was appointed as assistant professor in the department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Drug Analysis, responsible for all pharmaceutical chemistry education for pharmacy students. As member of the research group Experimental Pharmacology within the Center for Neurosciences, she is leading all bioanalytical research within the department. Her main interest lies in the development of miniaturized chromatographic methods for the quantification of neuropeptides, neurotransmitters and drugs in various biological samples. She has (co)-authored 29 international peer reviewed papers and is editor of the book ‘Chiral Separations by Capillary Electrophoresis’. She is promoter of 2 doctoral theses and at the moment she is supervising the work of 4 other doctoral students. Ann is also board member of the Belgian Society of Pharmaceutical Sciences and of the Belgian Society for Mass Spectrometry.

Claudio Brunelli completed his PhD in analytical chemistry with Prof. C. Bicchi, Universita’ degli Studi di Torino – ITALY, with the research focus on Chiral GC, Fast and Ultrafast GC.
In 2004, he became a Pfizer Postdoc Fellow at Pfizer Analytical Research Centre (PARC) – BELGIUM, under the supervision of Prof. Pat Sandra and mentorship of Dr. Yining Zhao with a project on High Resolution Supercritical Fluid Chromatography (SFC) for pharmaceutical analysis. Joined Pfizer Analytical Research and Development (Sandwich) – UK, in 2007 as part of Separation Science team led by Melissa Hanna Brown and Roman Szucs. He then pioneered the Quality by Design principles and practice for chromatography.
Different roles have been covered since, including trace analysis for active API and DP projects as well as method development using less common analytical technologies such as HILIC, CE, chiral separations and detectors for non chromophoric compounds.
More recently took on board the challenges of drug stability and forced degradations of pharmaceuticals and computational tools.

Giacomo Russo graduated cum laude in Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Technology (Industrial Pharmacy) at the “Federico II” University of Naples, Italy, in 2012 defending a thesis entitled “The IAM-HPLC technique as a tool to assess lipophilic and electrostatic forces involved in drug/membrane interactions: state of the art”. He then started a PhD in “Pharmaceutical Sciences” at the same university on a research topic that regards the use of phospholipid affinity indexes in the prediction of drug-biological membrane barrier passage of drugs, with the tutoring of Prof. Francesco Barbato. He is co-author of five works regarding the use of chromatographic parameters for the description of BBB and intestinal passage of the drugs, as well as the determination of endocrine disrupting agents in food and biological matrices. After a two-month joint research project at the University “Statale” in Milan, he is now working at the laboratories of Prof. Dr. Frédéric Lynen for the development and validation of high-throughput chromatographic indexes-based statistic models for an improved prediction of Blood-Brain barrier penetration of drugs.

Ian D Wilson id Prof. of Drug Metabolism and Molecular Toxicology in the Dept of Surgery and Cancer at Imperial College, London UK. After obtaining a PhD from Keele University and postdoctoral work at University College Hospital Medical School in London he joined the Pharmaceutical industry, first at the Hoechst Pharmaceutical Research Laboratories and ICI, Zeneca and finally AstraZeneca joining Imperial College in 2012. His research areas cover drug metabolism, drug bioanalysis, molecular and systems toxicology and metabonomics. He is the author, or co-author, of over 500 papers or reviews, and has received a number of awards in separation and analytical science from the Royal Society of Chemistry including the Silver (1989) and Gold Medals (2005) of the Analytical Division and most recently the Knox Medal of the RSC Separation Science Group (2012). He received the Jubilee Medal of the Chromatographic Society, of which he is an Honorary Life Member, in 1994 and gave the inaugural Desty Memorial lecture for Innovation in Separation Science in 1996. In 2014 he received the International Award of the Belgian Society for Pharmaceutical Sciences and the Bioanalysis Significant Contribution Award (BOSCA) from the journal Bioanalysis.

Dr G John Langley, Associate Professor at the University of Southampton where he is Head of Characterisation and Analytics in Chemistry in the Faculty of Natural & Environmental Sciences. My research is in the development and application of hyphenated mass spectrometry approaches for identification of key analytes in complex matrices, including petroleomics, biodiesel, oligonucteotides, and metabolite i.d. via predictive MS/MS. John studied for his first degree at Swansea University and his PhD at the University of London (School of Pharmacy – mass spectrometry), is a Chartered Chemist, Chartered Scientist and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) and a IUPAC Fellow; Vice President of the International MS Foundation (formerly Secretary) and Chair of the RSC Separation Science Group and member of the RSC Analytical Division Council.

Glenn Loos is a PhD student at KU Leuven (Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Analysis). As a member of an IWT-TETRA project his research focusses on the evaluation of pharmaceutically relevant contaminants in surface and waste water samples. Therefore his main goal is to develop new UHPLC and sample preparation methods.

My name is Pierre-Hugues STEFANUTO. I am originally from Chimay but I moved to Liège to perform a master degree in chemistry in 2006. For my master thesis, I worked on the development of a GC×GC-TOFMS method for the profiling of the “smell of death”. This research was conducted in the Organic and Biological Analytical Chemistry Group headed by Prof. JF FOCANT. Based on this study, I received the opportunity to undertake a PhD as a teaching assistant in the University of Liège in 2011. During the course of my PhD, my research topic expanded to the characterization of complex volatile mixtures from the life sciences. This includes forensic, food and medical related samples. I am now in the final step of my PhD and I will defend in December.

Dr Frank DAVID received his PH.D degree in 1986 at the Laboratory of Organic Chemistry of the Universiteit of Gent under the direction Prof. Dr. M. Verzele.

Since October 1986, Frank David is R&D manager at the Research Institute for Chromatography (RIC) in Kortrijk under the direction of Prof. Dr. Pat Sandra. Frank David is author of more than 100 scientific papers in different areas of separation science. His expertise includes capillary gas chromatography, supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC), GC-mass spectroscopy (GC-MS), liquid chromatography (HPLC), liquid chromatography-mass spectroscopy (LC-MS), multidimensional chromatography (GC-GC, GCxGC, LC-GC) and miniaturisation and automation of sample preparation.

Frank David is also consultant for instrument manufactures and for industrial laboratories in environmental, petrochemical, food, pharmaceutical and chemical industries. In this function he has a long experience in theoretical and practical training courses.

In addition, Frank David is also member of the scientific committee of the HTC (Hyphenated Techniques in Chromatography) symposia and of the organizing committee of ISCC (Riva del Garda, Italy).

1966-1985 Grew up on a winefarm in Maikammer/Pfalz.
1986-1992 Study of Chemistry at the University of Mainz partly supported with a stipend of the Friedrich-Ebert-society .
09/1989-03/1990 exchange student at the University of Toronto (Canada) in the group of Prof. M.A. Winnik (with a scholarship of the DAAD). Topic: detection of CMC in block copolymers via fluorescence.
Diploma 10/1992 Title: Order and mobility in polymers: 1H and 13C Solid-State NMR in the group of Prof. H.W. Spiess at the Max-Planck-Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz.
Ph.D 07/1995 with the dissertation "Development and application of multidimensional NMR-methods to detect orientation and dynamics in inorganic and organic polymers" in the group of Prof. H.W. Spiess.
10/1993-04/1994 visit at the UCSB , Santa Barbara (USA), via a further DAAD stipend. Prof. B.F. Chmelka on the topic: multidimensional 13C-exchange NMR applied to zeolites.
Postdoc from 09/1995 to 4/1997 at the Weizmann-Institute (Israel) in the group of Prof. J. Klein (currently at the University of Oxford, UK) using dendrimers under confinement and shear. This postdoctoral stay was founded via a MINERVA stipend.
Staff scientist from 05/1997 to 10/2004 at the Max-Planck-Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz in the group of Prof. H.W. Spiess where a habilitation was conducted. The habilitation is the German equivalent of an assistant professorship.
The topic of the habilitation (1997 - 2001) was the development and application of non-linear mechanical methods for the characterization of materials (see below).
This work was rewarded by the Reimund-Stadler prize of the Fachgruppe Makromolekulare Chemie (GDCh) in 1999.
11/2004-09/2006 Professorship at Technical University Darmstadt in joint cooperation with Max-Planck-Institut for Polymer Research. Head of a Max-Planck research group "Mechanics of Polymers" in the engineering mechanics department.
From 10/2006 Professorship „Polymeric Materials“ at University of Karlsruhe, Institute for chemical technology and polymer chemistry.

1993: PhD in Chemistry, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster, Germany, Research on “Flow-injection immuno-analysis” in Prof. Dr. Karl Cammann’s group (Dept. of Analytical and Inorganic Chemistry)
1993-1995: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California at Davis, California, U.S.A., Research on immunoassays for triazine herbicides in Prof. Bruce Hammock’s group (Dept. of Entomology)
Since 1996: employed at BASF SE, Ludwigshafen, Germany;
1996-1999: lab manager in the crop protection division / pesticide development
Since 2000: lab manager in the group “Environmental Analytics and Water/Steam Monitoring”, responsible for the GC-MS laboratory, focus of the lab: online- and offline methods for water analysis

Joeri Vercammen is senior consultant GC&MS with > 15 years of experience in GC&MS method development, laboratory process optimization and quality assurance. He develops unique solutions for various industries worldwide. His main asset is his capability to identify hidden customer needs and match them with the most recent technological advances, taking into account constraints such as laboratory competence level, available budgets, etc. Contact: J.Vercammen@is-x.com LinkedIn: http://be.linkedin.com/in/joerivercammen

Dr. Jacek Koziel serves as faculty at the Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, Iowa State University, in the USA. His students and co-workers specialize in GC-based simultaneous chemical and sensory analyses with emphasis on livestock odors and their control. Somchai Rice (1st author) is now a Ph.D. candidate at Iowa State University. Dr. Koziel currently serves as a Fulbright Scholar at Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences in Poland.

Laura McGregor gained her Ph.D. in Environmental Forensics from the University of Strathclyde, UK, where she used GC×GC-TOF MS to 'chemically fingerprint' environmental contaminants. She joined Markes International in 2013 as a Sales Support Specialist, and is now Product Marketing Manager for Markes' time-of-flight mass spectrometry products.

Dr García-Gómez earned his PhD in analytical chemistry in 2013 at the University of Salamanca (Spain) where he studied new automatic methods for complex sample preparation and LCxLC applications. Since 2014, Dr. García-Gómez works as postdoc at ETH Zürich in the group of Prof. Zenobi developing new instruments for real-time breath analysis and their applications in the field of clinical diagnosis

Jelle De Vos obtained his MSc degree in 2012 at Ghent University and is currently a Ph.D. student at the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Vrije Universteit Brussel (Brussels, Belgium). His research focusses on the development of a generic approach to increase detection sensitivity in gradient LC via post-column refocusing and the study of chromatographic performance limits to advance UHPLC column technology and system design.

Niels van Boxtel holds a master degree in Chemistry in which he focused on analytical chemistry (Free University Amsterdam, The Netherlands). Before and during his master degree he obtained experience in various analytical techniques such as LC and GC hyphenated with various sampling techniques and detection methods. He is currently conducting his PhD research at KU Leuven (Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Analysis) in the field of alternative techniques around GC analysis.

Scientific Director, Research Institute for Chromatography (RIC), 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 the Research Institute for Chromatography (RIC) and started activities in life sciences. He is presently leading a team of scientists working on all aspects of life sciences including (bio)pharmaceutical analysis, proteomics, metabolomics and lipidomics. He is furthermore consulting several (bio)pharmaceutical and biotech companies and instrument manufacturers. As a non-academic scientist, Koen Sandra is author of over 30 highly cited scientific papers and has presented his work at numerous conferences as an invited speaker. In addition, he is holder of several patents related to analytical developments in the life sciences area.

Achim is the director of NUPPA, the protein facility at the University of Newcastle. After undergraduate studies in biochemistry at the Universities of Tübingen (Germany) and in plant physiology at the University of Warsaw (Poland), he did a PhD in biochemistry in Mike Ferguson’s lab at the University of Dundee. Following postdoctoral work as a JSPS fellow in Koiti Titani’s lab at Fujita Health University, Japan, and as a Wellcome Trust postdoctoral fellow in Steve Homans’ lab (Universities of St Andrews, Scotland and Leeds, England), he was appointed as the director of the Proteomics and Mass Spectrometry Facility at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. 2008 he became the lead scientist of the North East Protein Analysis Facility in Newcastle upon Tyne, England and in 2013 the director of the Newcastle University’s Protein and Proteome Analysis Facility (NUPPA). Achim has collaborated with many scientists world-wide and is a co-author on more than 50 peer-reviewed publications.

Rainer Bischoff started his career in protein-related research when joining the biotechnology company Transgene (Strasbourg, France) in 1987. He applied mass spectrometry to the characterization of recombinant proteins early on with a first paper appearing in 1990 using electrospray ionization for the analysis of alpha-1-antitrypsin and its variants. Rainer Bischoff continued his career at AstraZeneca R&D (Lund, Sweden) before joining the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the University of Groningen (The Netherlands) in 2001 as full professor of Analytical Biochemistry. Research interests of the Analytical Biochemistry Department focus on biomarker discovery and validation, bioinformatics (in collaboration with Prof. Horvatovich), the bioanalysis of biopharmaceutical proteins and the development of novel instrumental analytical techniques (e.g. based on the coupling of electrochemistry to mass spectrometry). The group uses state-of-the-art equipment for protein and peptide separation and identification mainly based on high-performance liquid chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry. Rainer Bischoff is director of the Interfaculty Mass Spectrometry Center (IMSC http://mscenter.webhosting.rug.nl/tiki-index.php) housing currently 17 LC-MS/MS installations. Rainer Bischoff served in a number of functions such as chairing the national Analytical Chemistry working group of the Dutch Scientific Research Organization (NWO) and being the Dutch representative of the Chromosome-Centric HPP program of HUPO. He currently directs the Biomarker Development Center (http://biomarkerdevelopmentcenter.nl/), a public-private partnership funded by the Dutch Technology Foundation (STW). Rainer Bischoff authored more than 180 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters and is (co)inventor on 12 patents.

André de Villiers is an Associate Professor at the Department of Chemistry and Polymer Science at Stellenbosch University (SU), 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, capillary electrophoresis, novel sample preparation methods and advanced mass spectrometric methods in combination with separation methods. André completed his PhD at SU in 2004 under the supervision of Prof. Pat Sandra, followed by a post-doctoral fellowship at the Pfizer Analytical Research Centre (PARC) at Ghent University. He was subsequently appointed as academic staff member at SU in 2006, where he has recently been promoted to Associate Professor.

David Clicq is an Analytical Project Leader at UCB Pharma working on both technical and therapeutic projects. David graduated in 2000 as a Bio-Engineer and own awns a PhD in chemical engineering. In 2008 he joined UCB Pharma as a Scientist. His mean area of work over the last years was the implementation of new analytical technologies and implementation of new regulatory guideline requirements.

Ian D Wilson id Prof. of Drug Metabolism and Molecular Toxicology in the Dept of Surgery and Cancer at Imperial College, London UK. After obtaining a PhD from Keele University and postdoctoral work at University College Hospital Medical School in London he joined the Pharmaceutical industry, first at the Hoechst Pharmaceutical Research Laboratories and ICI, Zeneca and finally AstraZeneca joining Imperial College in 2012. His research areas cover drug metabolism, drug bioanalysis, molecular and systems toxicology and metabonomics. He is the author, or co-author, of over 500 papers or reviews, and has received a number of awards in separation and analytical science from the Royal Society of Chemistry including the Silver (1989) and Gold Medals (2005) of the Analytical Division and most recently the Knox Medal of the RSC Separation Science Group (2012). He received the Jubilee Medal of the Chromatographic Society, of which he is an Honorary Life Member, in 1994 and gave the inaugural Desty Memorial lecture for Innovation in Separation Science in 1996. In 2014 he received the International Award of the Belgian Society for Pharmaceutical Sciences and the Bioanalysis Significant Contribution Award (BOSCA) from the journal Bioanalysis.

Fields of Research

- Instrumental analytical chemistry (mass spectrometry/photoionisation)
- Analysis of complex environmental, biological and industrial systems
- Health effects of aerosols and biomedical analysis

Short-Vita

- 1991 Diploma (chemistry), TU Munich
- 1995 Graduation (Dr. rer. nat.), TU Munich/Weihenstephan
- 1999 Research sojourn University of Antwerp, Belgium
- 2001 Professorship in analytical chemistry (C3), University of Augsburg; division manager at bifa-Umweltinstitut in Augsburg and team leader GSF (at the research centre)
- 2001 state doctorate (environmental chemistry and analysis), TU Munich/Weihenstephan
- since 2008 Chair in analytical chemistry (W3) and head of the Joint Mass Spectrometry Centre of the University of Rostock and the Helmholtz Zentrum München

Key-Publications

- L. Hanley, R. Zimmermann "Feature Article: Light and Molecular Ions - The Emergence of Vacuum UV Single-Photon Ionization in MS" Anal. Chem. 2009, 81, 4174.
- W.Welthagen, J.Schnelle-Kreis, R.Zimmermann "Search criteria and rules for comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography-time-of-flight mass spectrometry analysis of airborne particulate matter" J. Chromatography A 2003, 1019, 233.
- M. Bente, M. Sklorz, T. Streibel, R. Zimmermann "On-line laser desorption - resonance enhanced multiphoton post-ionization mass spectrometry of individual aerosol particles: Molecular source indicators for particles emitted from diesel and gasoline car emission as well as from soft and hard wood combustion" Anal. Chem. 2008, 80, 8991.

Sara Boulanouar Al Massati obtained a chemistry degree (Univ. Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona, Spain) in 2012 and an interuniversity Master's Degree in Applied Chromatographic Techniques (Univ.Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona, Univ. of Girona, in Girona and Univ. Jaume I, in Castelló) in 2014. She was recruited in October 2014 to pursue her PhD in the laboratory of Analytical, Bioanalytical Sciences and Miniaturization, ESPCI ParisTech under the supervision of Prof. Valérie Pichon and Audrey Combès (assistant professor) in collaboration with a cosmetic group. Her objectives are to synthesize and characterize molecular imprinted polymers for the selective extraction of pesticides from oil samples before their analysis by HPLC-DAD.

Dr. Takeshi Hara (°1981) obtained his Master degree in Engineering at the Kyoto Institute of Technology (Kyoto, Japan) in 2006 and his PhD at the Justus-Liebig University (Giessen, Germany) in 2013. Currently, he is assigned as a post-doc fellow of The Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels. Dr. Hara is an expert in the preparation and characterization of silica monolithic columns. Up to date, he is the author of 10 journal papers and 4 book chapters.

Zsuzsanna Kuklenyik has completed her master degree in chemical engineering at Technical University of Budapest, and her PhD degree at Emory University of Atlanta Georgia, where she also conducted postdoctoral studies. Currently she is a senior research scientist in the Biological Mass Spectrometry Laboratory at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. She has published more than 40 papers in reputed journals on wide range of applications of hyphenated chromatographic techniques and mass spectrometry, such as biomonitoring of environmental chemicals, analysis of pre-exposure prophylactic drugs against HIV, biological toxins, and more recently, lipoproteins.

Graduated in Chemistry from Exeter then joined the Medical Professorial Unit at Barts Medical College in London. His research interests have focussed on the application of the separation sciences, LC, LC-MS and CE to diagnosis and treatment of human disease. Although he has just retired as Professor of Bioanalytical Science he continues to undertake Dept of Health funded decontamination research in labs at Barts. He holds patents on devices for use in residual protein detection that will be marketed from 2013. To date he has authored or co-authored 175 papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals, 30 Books and Chapters plus over 50 contributions in the Proceedings of Conferences, Academic Societies, etc. Most recent book is “Gout at your fingertips” was shortlisted for the BMA best popular medical book. He lectures widely both nationally and internationally.

Dr. Davy Guillarme holds a PhD degree in analytical chemistry from the University of Lyon, France. He is now senior lecturer at the University of Geneva in Switzerland. He authored 140 journal articles related to pharmaceutical analysis. His expertise includes HPLC, UHPLC, HILIC, LC-MS, SFC, analysis of proteins and mAbs. He is an editorial advisory board member of several journals including journal of chromatography A, journal of separation science, LC-GC North America and others...

After more than 20 years in pharmaceutical industry, Cari Sänger - van de Griend is now a consultant in pharmaceutical analysis. Her research interest is in implementing new technologies in industry, especially capillary electrophoresis, with a focus on the tiny details that matter. The implementation umbrella covers many aspects such as (bio)pharmaceuticals, good working practices, Quality by Design, protein and virus vaccine characterization, chiral separations etc. She studied in Leiden and got her PhD at Uppsala University. In her spare time she is Associate Professor at Uppsala University and Adjunct Senior Lecturer at the University of Tasmania. She also lectures at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Background
University lecturer in Biochemistry, University of Newcastle upon Tyne 28 years’ experience with Dionex then Thermofisher Scientific in Chromatography solutions. Current job title is the European Bio-Separations expert for Thermofisher Scientific where most of my time is spent now on Bio-Pharmaceutical applications to characterise protein and nucleotide based bio-therapeutics.
Instrumentation experience
Most forms of liquid chromatography including HPLC, FPLC, IC, SFE, Capillary electrophoresis. This includes most detection systems and interfacing with MS. Strong links to the consumable division where the sample preparation and multiple column technologies are essential for bio-separations. Also the HPLC and Mass Spectrometry divisions to form the best total solutions.
Application experience
Bio-Separations including; Metabolomics, Glycomics, Lipidomics, Proteomics and Bio-Therapeutics HPLC applications including UHPLC and LCMS Ion Chromatography including conductivity, electrochemistry and ICMS

Gert Desmet heads the department of chemical engineering at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, where he teaches courses on biochemical and chemical reactor engineering as well as on analytical separation sciences. His research mainly focuses on the miniaturization and automation of separation methods, as well as on the investigation and the modeling of flow effects in chromatographic systems. He is the first or senior author of over 250 peer-reviewed papers and 11 patent applications. He currently is the chair of the Chemistry Panel of the Belgian National Science Fund (FWO), and is an Associate Editor for "Analytical Chemistry", a journal of the American Chemical Society. He is also a member of the editorial board of J Chrom A and LC-GC magazine. He is frequently invited to present keynote and plenary lectures or chair topical sessions at international conferences. He and his students presented over 200 lectures at international conferences and symposia in the past 10 years.

Dr. Wim Th. Kok obtained his PhD from the VU University Amsterdam, with a thesis on electrochemical detection in HPLC. After his promotion he was appointed in 1985 as a lecturer at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). Within the Analytical Chemistry group there, he supervised approx. 20 PhD students over the years, with research mainly focused on separation methods. His current research deals with nano- and microfluidics on one hand, and with the separation of macromolecules (FFF) on the other. He has published >160 research papers and book chapters and a book on CE. He has been (co-)organizer of various international symposia, including the large HPLC conferences in Maastricht (2001) and Amsterdam (2013). Wim Kok teaches courses in the (BSc and MSc) joint programs in Chemistry of the UvA and the VU, on Analytical Chemistry, Separation Sciences, Statistics and Thermodynamics, and he is director of the Graduate School of Sciences in Amsterdam.

Deirdre Cabooter completed a Master of Science degree in Bioengineering (cell- and gene biotechnology) at the Free University of Brussels in 2005, after which she obtained a PhD in chemical engineering at the same university in 2009, funded by the Agency for Innovation by Science and Technology (IWT, Flanders). The main topic of her PhD was the comparison and evaluation of novel techniques in the field of liquid chromatography. After her PhD, she obtained a post-doc fellowship from the Research Foundation Flanders (2009-2011) of which she spent one year at Stellenbosch University (South Africa) where her research was primarily focused on the analysis of natural products. In October 2011, she was appointed as a lecturer at KU Leuven at the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences where she teaches a course on Quantitative Chemical Analysis to first year pharmacy students. Her current research is directed towards the implementation of new chromatographic techniques for pharmaceutical analysis. She has published 51 publications in international peer-reviewed journals and is currently (co-) promoter of 6 PhD students.

Dr. Frank Steiner is Scientific Advisor in the HPLC organization of Thermo Fisher Scientific and coordinates scientific collaborations with external partners to advance UHPLC technologies and applications. Frank received his PhD degree in Chemistry in 1995 from Prof. Dr. Dr. Heinz Engelhardt at the Saarland University in Saarbrücken. He then became a postdoctoral research fellow at the CEA, Saclay in France focusing on elementary and isotopic analysis by IC and IC-ICP/MS in 1996. Frank returned to Saarland University in 1997 to conduct research on electro-driven separation techniques and became an assistant professor in 2003. In 2005 Frank joined the Dionex Softron GmbH in Germering, Germany, now a part of Thermo Fisher Scientific and conducted different roles in marketing before he became scientific advisor. He played a significant role in developing and launching the UltiMate 3000 UHPLC systems and solutions, as well as the recently introduced Vanquish UHPLC system.

Gertrud Morlock is full professor at the Justus Liebig University Giessen in Germany. She holds the Chair of Food Sciences there (www.uni-giessen.de/food). Her research focuses on planar chromatography, hyphenations, office chromatography, effect-directed analysis, pattern recognition, bioprofiling, analysis of food, commodities, botanicals, pharmaceutical formulations, environmental samples, and trace analysis. She graduated PhD at Professor Helmut Jork and Professor Heinz Engelhardt, has worked in industry for years, and went back to academia in 2004. She made her professorial thesis at Professor Wolfgang Schwack, University of Hohenheim, in 2008, where she was professor then. In 2009, she was awarded with the Kurt-Täufel-Preis des Jungen Wissenschaftlers of the German Society of Food Chemistry, and in 2010, with the Highly Cited Author Award of the Journal of Chromatography A. She has made over 90 peer-reviewed original research paper since 2006, contributed with over 200 oral presentations at symposia, is active in several scientific committees and provides scientific consultancy for industries.

Kevin Van Geem (associate professor) is member of the Laboratory for Chemical Technology of Ghent University. Thermochemical reaction engineering in general and in particular the transition from fossil to renewable resources are his main research interests. He is a former Fulbright Research Scholar of MIT and directs the Pilot plant for steam cracking and pyrolysis. He is the author of more than hundred scientific publications. He is involved in on-line and off-line analysis of complex petrochemical and biochemical samples using comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography. Direct experimental scale-up, detailed kinetic modeling, process modeling (Aspen, ProII), and the role of additives belong to his expertise.

Kaat Verplanken was born on the 25th of October 1990. She studied Latin-Sciences and afterwards obtained her master degree in pharmaceutical care at Ghent University in 2013. During her studies she started her master thesis at the lab of chemical analysis at the faculty of veterinary medicine of Ghent University concerning the development of a GC-MS based metabolomics approach for gastro-intestinal metabolites. After her studies she started her PhD research granted by the IWT on the development and validation of rapid analytical detection methods for boar taint at the slaughter line.

Danilo Sciarrone is an Associate Professor of Analytical Chemistry at the University of Messina. He is author and co-author of papers dealing with separations science, related to the development of methods and instruments coupling for multidimensional GC and LC techniques. In the last years, his main field was represented by the development of multidimensional chromatographic systems for the fast collection of high amount of highly pure components from essential oils and natural products exploiting different combination of MDGC-prep configurations.

I was born in 1988 in Serbia where I grew up in the city of Pancevo, graduating from a gymnasium high school in 2007. During studies of chemical engineering at the Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy (University of Belgrade, Serbia) my interests were primarily related to biodiesel production. Thus my thesis topic on Bachler studies was “Synthesis, characterization and testing of heterogeneous catalysts in the process of reducing free fatty acids content in used vegetable oil”. Even though I was focusing on the field of Organic Chemical Technology after obtaining my Bachler degree in 2011, I joined Ball Packaging Europe as an engineering trainee. Gathered practical knowledge gave me a comprehensive view on engineering research application and chemical production. After obtaining my Master degree in 2013 at the Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy (University of Belgrade, Serbia) I decided to develop as a science researcher. Research in the field of Steam Cracking was a logical next step after graduating on a subject “Methodology Development for Thermo-Hydraulic Calculation of Fired Heaters”, thus I join Laboratory for Chemical Technology of Ghent University. Field of my PhD research is Heavy feed qualification and fouling assessment in the process of steam cracking.

Romain Pesesse was born in 1989 in Liège, in Belgium. He went to the University of Liège in 2007 to follow chemistry lessons. After finishing its master in chemistry, he has started a PhD in the Organic and Biological Analytical Chemistry group of professor Jean-François Focant. The topic of his thesis is the characterization of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) find in exhaled human breath by GC×GC-(HR)-TOFMS in the goal to establish a non-invasive and early diagnostic of cancer diseases.

Lewis is a senior clinical scientist and leads on chromatographic and mass-spectrometric assay development and validation in both the clinical biochemistry and toxicology labs at Viapath, King’s College Hospital. Lewis has particular interests in high-throughput analysis and automation of mass-spectrometry-based methods for routine applications in the clinical laboratory.

Sheelan Ahmad is a Senior Scientist within the Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics Department of GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals R&D. She has worked for GSK for over 8 years supporting numerous GLP and non-GLP, preclinical and clinical studies. Prior to this, Sheelan obtained her Pharmaceutical Science BSc with first class honours from the University of Hertfordshire, in 2006. She is currently enrolled as a part time PhD student while undertaking a dynamic expert role at GSK. Her current interests include new microsampling techniques with a special focus on the application of solid phase microextraction to pharmaceutical bioanalysis.

Christophe Stove is Professor of Toxicology at the Department of Bioanalysis in the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Ghent University. After he obtained a degree as a pharmacist in 1999, he dis his PhD at the Faculty of Medicine, followed by a first postdoctoral position at the Faculty of Sciences, all at Ghent University. His research at that time was situated in the field of fundamental cancer research, studying regulatory molecules implied in signaling and adhesion of cancer cells, utilizing cell biological and molecular biological techniques. In 2007, he returned to the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, joining the Laboratory of Toxicology, headed by Willy Lambert, whom he succeeded in 2014. During the last few years, alternative sampling strategies -with special emphasis on microsampling- have become one of the prime research interests of the Laboratory.

Dr Stefan Louw studied at Stellenbosch University, South Africa, where he graduated with a PhD in Analytical Organic Chemistry in 2003 (supervised by Prof Ben Burger). His PhD researched involved the chemical characterisation of glandular secretions of South African girdled lizards. After spending almost 3 years in the pharmaceutical industry and another 2 years in a mass spectrometry service laboratory, he actively “kicked off” his scientific career as a post-doctoral researcher at the Pfizer Analytical Research Centre in Ghent, Belgium, under the supervision of Prof Pat Sandra. His 2 years in Ghent was spent exploring a number of novel liquid chromatography separation methods involving HILIC. This was followed by almost 4 years as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Cape Town to set up LC-MS and preparative HPLC capabilities for a drug discovery centre (H3-D), primarily for drug metabolism studies. In 2013 he became a Senior Lecturer at The University of Namibia (UNAM) where he finally started his academic career. At UNAM Dr Louw is now heading his independent research, involving GC, HPLC, GC-MS and LC-MS analysis as well as exploring novel sample preparation techniques in the context of drug-, natural product- and environmental analysis. He is currently supervising 7 MSc students while welcoming every possible opportunity to eat some gemsbok (oryx) steak

Prof. Dr. Luigi Mondello is Full Professor of Analytical Chemistry at the "Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche, Biologiche, Farmaceutiche ed Ambientali" of the University of Messina, Italy. He received a degree in Chemistry from the University of Messina in 1991. Prof. Mondello teaches the course of Analytical Chemistry and of Food Chemistry at the Pharmacy Course of the University of Messina, and the course of Food Chemistry at the “Campus Biomedico” in Rome. He is the author of 370 Scientific papers, 13 book chapters, 2 reviews, co-editor of a book on Multidimensional Chromatography (John Wiley & Sons), and he has been chairman and invited lecturer in national and international congresses and meetings. His research interests include Chromatography techniques (HRGC, HPLC, HRGC/MS, HPLC/MS, OPLC) and the development of coupled techniques such as LC-GC-MS, GC-GC, GCxGC, LCxLC, LCxGC and their applications in the study of natural complex matrices. Prof. Mondello has been member of the organizing committees of national and international meetings and he is permanent member of the scientific committee of the International Symposium on Capillary Chromatography (ISCC), of the International Symposium on Essential Oils (ISEO), of the International Symposium on Hyphenated Techniques in Chromatography and Hyphenated Chromatographic Analyzers (HTC), of the Brazilian Symposium on Chromatography and Related Techniques (SIMCRO), of the “ Congresso Latino-Americano de Cromatografia e Técnicas Relacionades (COLACRO)" member of the Scientific Committee of the “Workshop-Symposium on Analytical and Preparative Enantioseparation (Enantiosep ’07), member of the Steering Committee of the Italian Separation Science Group of the Italian Chemical Society, member of the expert team of “Chromedia” (Chromatography Knowledge Base), and editor of Journal of Separation Science and of Flavour and Fragrance Journal both published by John Wiley & Sons, member of the Central Technical Committee of the National System for the Accreditation of the Laboratory (SINAL), member of the Advisory Board ofi LC-GC Europe, Separation Science e Scientia Chromatographica and serves as reviewer for 33 different Journals in the field of Analytical Chemistry and Food Chemistry. In February 2006 ( York, U.K.) he was awarded with the “HTC-Award for the most outstanding and innovative work in the field of hyphenated chromatographic techniques”, from the Flemish Chemical Society. In May 2008 ( Riva del Garda, Italy) he was awarded from “The Chromatographic Society” with the “Silver Jubilee Medal for his Considerable Contribution to the Development of Separation Sciences”. In October 2008 during the "Congresso Latino-Americano de Cromatografia e Técnicas Relacionades" helded in Florianòpolis, Brasil the "Instituto Internacional de Cromatografia" has assigned to Prof. Luigi Mondello the COLACRO Medal for his contribution to the development and diffusion of the Chromatographic Techniques. In September 2012 during the Analytical Chemistry Division of the Italian Chemical Society Conference in Elba, Italy, he was awarded with the “Liberti Medal”. In 2013 he has been awarded in “The Analytical Scientist Innovation Awards (TASIAs) and in September 2014 he has been the recipient of the IFEAT Medal by the International Federation of Essential Oils & Aroma Trades. He is present in the list of the “Top Italian Scientist (via-Academy) with a relative position of 87 on about 2800 scientists with h-Index of 41.

Prof. Hans-Gerd Janssen studied chemical Engineering at the Eindhoven University of Technology, where he obtained his MSc Diploma (fast GC, 1987, cum laude) and PhD. Degree (Supercritical-Fluid Chromatography, 1991). He joined the Eindhoven University as an assistant/associate professor in 1991.Prof. Janssen joined Unilever in 1999 to become group-leader chromatography and mass spectrometry. He has been, or is, active as a board member in several national committees including the Section for Analytical Chemistry of the Royal Dutch Chemical Society (KNCV) and the working group Separation methods of the KNCV. He also is active in several international scientific and organising committees for symposia and meetings and he is a member of the editorial board of several journals including the Journal of Chromatography. In 2004 Hans-Gerd was appointed part-time professor Analytical Separations at the University of Amsterdam. His research focuses on the development of new chromatographic and chemometrics methods for the analysis of complex food and biomedical samples. He has more than 170 publications in the area of chromatography, mass spectrometry, metabonomics and food analysis.

Lynn Vanhaecke was born in 1981 in Bruges, Belgium. Following her undergraduate studies as a Master in Bioscience Engineering, from 2004 until 2008 she was affiliated with the Laboratory of Microbial Ecology and Technology, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering at Ghent University as a PhD student student. During this period her research focused on the impact of the human intestinal microbiota on the metabolism and biological activity of meat contaminants. In 2008 she graduated as a PhD in Bioscience Engineering and shifted to the Laboratory of Chemical Analysis within the Department of Veterinary Public Health and Food Safety at Ghent University, where she was appointed as doctor-assistant prior to obtaining a postdoctoral fellowship from the Flemish Science Foundation (FWO-Vlaanderen). Since October 1st 2011 she is appointed as Professor (in the rang of lecturer) at the Laboratory of Chemical Analysis. The chemical analyses of food, the metabolism and biological activity of food constituents and the analysis of small molecules (residues, contaminants) including DNA adducts using advanced mass spectrometric techniques in biological matrices in relation to human health belong to her major research objectives now. She is author and co-author of more than 120 peer-reviewed international publications and presented her work in many national and international conferences. http://www.vvv.ugent.be/

Ken Broeckhoven (°1983) graduated cum laude as Chemical Engineer (2006) and maxima cum laude as Doctor in Engineering sciences (2010) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels (VUB). He is currently a tenure track lecturer in the department of Chemical Engineering at the same university. His research topics include the investigation of the flow and dispersion behavior in chromatographic columns, the effects of the use of ultra-high pressure in liquid chromatography (UHPLC), the construction and development of novel ultra-high pressure instrumentation, the operation and fundamentals of supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC) and the optimization of the kinetic performance of chromatographic separations in LC, SFC and GC. He is currently author or co-author of 42 peer-reviewed, several oral presentations at internal conferences and a patent application. Despite his young age (31), he was also part of the Top 40 under 40 “Power List” of The Analytical Scientist, indicating the most promising young scientists under 40 in the field of analytical separation science.

I have a bachelor degree in chemistry and a master degree in environmental science
–environment monitoring, integrated solutions with a specialization in water and waste treatments
– both from the University of Liège.
During the first year and a half of my PhD, I have developed a method for serum untargeted analysis by GCxGC-TOFMS with, among others, experimental design for the conditions of sample preparation, optimization of separation and detection parameters (modulation, temperature, …), and innovative quality control system, an innovation made necessary for the use of GCxGC in metabolomics.

Alexandre Grand-Guillaume-Perrenoud holds a master degree in Biochemistry (University of Fribourg, Switzerland) and a Federal Diploma of Pharmacist (University of Geneva, Switzerland).

He recently obtained a PhD degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences (University of Geneva, Switzerland) for his thesis work focused on SFC and new perspectives in pharmaceutical analysis under the direction of Prof. Jean-Luc Veuthey and Dr Davy Guillarme. He is now post-doc fellow at Nestlé Institute of Health Sciences (Federal polytechnical school of Lausanne, Switzerland).

His domain of expertise includes small molecules analysis using SFC and different LC approaches hyphenated to mass spectrometry.

Pranov Ramana is currently a PhD student in Ann Van Schepdael’s lab at KU Leuven. His thesis is about the study of drug metabolism through immobilization of phase I and II enzymes on magnetic nanoparticles and in-line capillary electrophoresis. Prior to his enrollment at KU Leuven, he did his bachelors in pharmacy at Rajiv Gandhi University of health sciences, Bengaluru, India and later moved to University of Groningen, Netherlands for his masters in medical pharmaceutical sciences.

2012–present: Ph.D. student at Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry and Applied Ecochemistry (Universiteit Gent)
2011–2012: Master of Science in Management (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
2006–2011: Master of Science in Chemistry (Katholiek Universiteit Leuven)

Karel Folens’ field of research is analytical chemistry and applications in environmental issues. He is investigating the behavior of multiple (ultra) trace-elements in water streams and their interaction with chemical materials or processes. The study involves the development of specific methods, such as hyphenated spectroscopic techniques. He has experience in several inorganic analytical techniques including atomic absorbance spectrometry, inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry and mass spectrometry and high pressure liquid chromatography.

Deirdre Cabooter completed a Master of Science degree in Bioengineering (cell- and gene biotechnology) at the Free University of Brussels in 2005, after which she obtained a PhD in chemical engineering at the same university in 2009, funded by the Agency for Innovation by Science and Technology (IWT, Flanders). The main topic of her PhD was the comparison and evaluation of novel techniques in the field of liquid chromatography. After her PhD, she obtained a post-doc fellowship from the Research Foundation Flanders (2009-2011) of which she spent one year at Stellenbosch University (South Africa) where her research was primarily focused on the analysis of natural products. In October 2011, she was appointed as a lecturer at KU Leuven at the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences where she teaches a course on Quantitative Chemical Analysis to first year pharmacy students. Her current research is directed towards the implementation of new chromatographic techniques for pharmaceutical analysis. She has published 51 publications in international peer-reviewed journals and is currently (co-) promoter of 6 PhD students.

Dr. Frank Steiner is Scientific Advisor in the HPLC organization of Thermo Fisher Scientific and coordinates scientific collaborations with external partners to advance UHPLC technologies and applications. Frank received his PhD degree in Chemistry in 1995 from Prof. Dr. Dr. Heinz Engelhardt at the Saarland University in Saarbrücken. He then became a postdoctoral research fellow at the CEA, Saclay in France focusing on elementary and isotopic analysis by IC and IC-ICP/MS in 1996. Frank returned to Saarland University in 1997 to conduct research on electro-driven separation techniques and became an assistant professor in 2003. In 2005 Frank joined the Dionex Softron GmbH in Germering, Germany, now a part of Thermo Fisher Scientific and conducted different roles in marketing before he became scientific advisor. He played a significant role in developing and launching the UltiMate 3000 UHPLC systems and solutions, as well as the recently introduced Vanquish UHPLC system.

Filip Cuyckens is a Scientific Director & Fellow at Janssen R&D in Beerse, Belgium. He is responsible for Analytical Sciences in the Pharmacokinetics, Dynamics & Metabolism (PDM) department. Analytical Sciences PDM consists of Biotransformations, focusing on metabolite profiling and identification of discovery to late development compounds, and Discovery & Exploratory Bioanalysis, focusing on quantification of drug candidates, metabolites and biomarkers in biological matrices. Filip earned a pharmacist degree in 1998, a degree in industrial pharmacy in 2002 and a Ph.D. in pharmaceutical sciences in 2003. He has (co )authored more than 50 publications, is a member of the associate editorial board of Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry and board member of the Belgian Society for Mass Spectrometry.

Hernan joined Dow in 1978, in Midland, Michigan as an Analytical chemist and held a number of positions in various Analytical Sciences groups including Polymer characterization, Inorganic analysis, Organic analysis, Agricultural chemicals, and Pharmaceuticals. Hernan’s technology expertise is in Separation Science, with emphasis on Gas, Liquid, Supercritical and Multidimensional Chromatography development. Throughout his career, he utilized his expertise in various capacities ranging from manufacturing problem-solving to development of new technology to increase knowledge and create competitive advantages. He retired from Dow in 2009 and formed Hernan J. Cortes Consulting, LLC., providing services in Separation Science. He is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia, conducting research in Multidimensional Chromatography, Microfluidics, Low Thermal Mass Liquid Chromatography and Selective Detection. He is currently conducting research with Michigan State University, Lansing, USA and University of Messina, Italy. Hernan is the author of ca. 70 external publications in peer-reviewed journals, 17 patents, and editor of the first ever book on the subject of “Multidimensional Chromatography”. Hernan has received the Norman E. Skelly Award for excellence in Separation Science, the Vernon A. Stenger award for meritorious achievement in Analytical Science, The R. E. Cramer award (2) for Excellence in Technical Development, the Dow Chemical Company’s Scientists Award, and the 2014 L. S. Palmer Award from the Minnesota Chromatography Forum. Hernan holds a bachelors degree in Chemistry from Florida International University, Miami and a Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from the University of Stockholm, Sweden.

Alexandre Grand-Guillaume-Perrenoud holds a master degree in Biochemistry (University of Fribourg, Switzerland) and a Federal Diploma of Pharmacist (University of Geneva, Switzerland).

He recently obtained a PhD degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences (University of Geneva, Switzerland) for his thesis work focused on SFC and new perspectives in pharmaceutical analysis under the direction of Prof. Jean-Luc Veuthey and Dr Davy Guillarme. He is now post-doc fellow at Nestlé Institute of Health Sciences (Federal polytechnical school of Lausanne, Switzerland).

His domain of expertise includes small molecules analysis using SFC and different LC approaches hyphenated to mass spectrometry.

Kevin Roeleveld graduated in Chemistry at Ghent University, Belgium, in 2012 defending a thesis entitled “Development of Sorptive Extraction Techniques Based on Immobilized Ionic Liquids for Selective Chromatographic Analysis”. Next he continued his research in the laboratory of ‘separation science group’ at Ghent University on this topic regarding polymerized ionic liquids used in sample preparation for SPME and SBSE, under the guidance of prof. dr. Frédéric Lynen. Now his focus switched to the development of polymerized ionic liquids as stationary phase in GC, especially towards the development of polar thermally stable columns.

I am currently doing a Ph.D at the laboratory “ICOA“in France. My thesis is supervised by the Dr. Éric Lesellier and occurs in a partnership with the international corporation LVMH-Recherche. I completed my Master degree in analytical chromatography of biological molecules (2013) at the University of Orleans (France). My research focuses on hyphenations chromatography with varied detection (UV, APCI-HRMS and APPI-HRMS), the use of different techniques in chromatography (SFC, CCC), screening analysis of bioactive compounds and sample preparation by extraction (SFE, ASE) for the valuation of natural resources in cosmetic

Gert Desmet heads the department of chemical engineering at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, where he teaches courses on biochemical and chemical reactor engineering as well as on analytical separation sciences. His research mainly focuses on the miniaturization and automation of separation methods, as well as on the investigation and the modeling of flow effects in chromatographic systems. He is the first or senior author of over 250 peer-reviewed papers and 11 patent applications. He currently is the chair of the Chemistry Panel of the Belgian National Science Fund (FWO), and is an Associate Editor for "Analytical Chemistry", a journal of the American Chemical Society. He is also a member of the editorial board of J Chrom A and LC-GC magazine. He is frequently invited to present keynote and plenary lectures or chair topical sessions at international conferences. He and his students presented over 200 lectures at international conferences and symposia in the past 10 years.

Professor Jean-François (Jef) Focant is the Head of the Chemistry Department of the University of Liège in Belgium. He is leading the Organic and Biological Analytical Chemistry group of the mass spectrometry laboratory. Main research interests are coupling of sample preparation procedures, development of new chromatography strategies in separation science, hyphenation to various types of mass spectrometric detectors through multidimensional systems, and implementation of emerging strategies under QA/QC requirements for human biomonitoring and food control. Professor Focant has been active in the field of dioxin analyses for the last 15 years. He chaired the 31st International Symposium on Halogenated Persistent Organic Pollutants and POPs (DIOXIN2011) in Brussels in 2011. Known as a dioxin expert, he is also active in other areas of Separation Science such as characterization of complex mixtures of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) for medical and forensic applications. Recent investigations include characterization of cadaveric decomposition odors, screening for biomarkers of cancer by breath analysis, and plant combustion studies. Working on the hyphenation of state-of-the-art analytical techniques to solve practical analytical issues is what he enjoys to do.

John R. Barr, Ph.D. is currently serving as Chief of the Clinical Chemistry Branch and the Chief of the Biological Mass Spectrometry Laboratory at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). He supervises the development and maintenance of methods to diagnose, determine efficacy of medical treatments, and prevent toxin mediated infectious diseases, influenza, and selected chronic diseases. Dr. Barr received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the College of Wooster with a major in chemistry and minors in mathematics and speech. Dr. Barr received his Ph.D. in organic chemistry at the University of Virginia under the direction of Professor Sidney M. Hecht. He then became a post-doctoral fellow at SmithKline Beecham under the direction of Dr. Steven A. Carr where he studied the structure of AIDS-related glycoproteins by mass spectrometry. Dr. Barr joined the CDC in 1991 where he developed sensitive mass-spectrometry based methods for biological monitoring of organic toxicants in blood and urine samples and the standardization of clinically important proteins for coronary heart disease and diabetes. He also led several emergency response activities involving environmental and infectious diseases. He pioneered CDC’s involvement in counter chemical terrorism by developing and applying methods to measure a variety of chemical warfare agents in people. Most recently, his laboratory has been working on developing methods to assess exposure and evaluate efficacy of vaccines and treatments to biological weapons, toxins, influenza, and other human pathogens. Additionally, Dr. Barr heads up the branch that is responsible for standardization of clinically relevant biomarkers for coronary heart disease, hormones, and other chronic diseases.

Dr. Barr has published over 200 peer-reviewed manuscripts, ten book chapters, has four US patents, and several international patents that have been granted or are pending. Dr. Barr has received many awards for his outstanding research efforts including six CDC/ATSDR Honor Awards, two CDC Director’s awards for innovation, one CDC Director’s award for efficiency, nine National Center for Environmental Health Honor Awards, two Department of Health and Human Services Secretary's Awards for Distinguished Service, the Nakano Citation, the Mackel Award, the CDC Statistical Science Award, and the prestigious Charles C. Shepard Award. Dr. Barr has been a member of many national and international committees including the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Warfare (OPCW) working group for biomedical testing, Clinical Laboratory Standards Institute subcommittee for the Use of Mass Spectrometry in the Clinical Laboratory, Global Health Security Action Group Laboratory Network, International Federation of Clinical Chemistry Working group for the standardization of hemoglobin A1c, EQuATox, Consultant to the Director General of the Taiwan EPA, and led CDC efforts in the U.S - Japan Technology Exchange. In addition, Dr. Barr was the guest editor for two special editions of the Journal of Analytical Toxicology on the analysis of clinical samples for biological and chemical warfare agents.

Ken Broeckhoven (°1983) graduated cum laude as Chemical Engineer (2006) and maxima cum laude as Doctor in Engineering sciences (2010) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels (VUB). He is currently a tenure track lecturer in the department of Chemical Engineering at the same university. His research topics include the investigation of the flow and dispersion behavior in chromatographic columns, the effects of the use of ultra-high pressure in liquid chromatography (UHPLC), the construction and development of novel ultra-high pressure instrumentation, the operation and fundamentals of supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC) and the optimization of the kinetic performance of chromatographic separations in LC, SFC and GC. He is currently author or co-author of 42 peer-reviewed, several oral presentations at internal conferences and a patent application. Despite his young age (31), he was also part of the Top 40 under 40 “Power List” of The Analytical Scientist, indicating the most promising young scientists under 40 in the field of analytical separation science.

Valérie Pichon is full professor at the UPMC. She leads the Department of Analytical, Bioanalytical Sciences and Miniaturization (30 researchers), a part of the Chemistry and Biology Institute (CBI) located at the ESPCI ParisTech. She also co-leads the CBI since January 2014 (more than 100 permanent and non permanent researchers). She graduated PhD in Analytical Chemistry from the UPMC in 1995 and became Lecturer at the Analytical Chemistry Laboratory at the ESPCI, and then Professor at the UPCM in 2010. Her major research interests include developing stationary phases based on antibodies or aptamers and molecularly imprinted polymers to selectively extract target compounds from complex samples, always trying to miniaturize these tools. She is author of more than 100 publications (H 33 factor) and 5 book chapters. She was rewarded in 2001 with the Analytical Chemistry Department of the French Society of Chemistry Prize. She is currently Vice-President of AfSep (Association Française des Sciences Séparatives).

Frank Sobott obtained his Dr. phil. nat. at the Goethe University in Frankfurt/M (Germany) in 2000 in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry. After working with Dame Carol Robinson at Oxford and Cambridge, he returned in 2004 to Oxford in order to take up posts in the Structural Genomics Consortium, the Centre for Integrative Systems Biology and the Centre for Gene Function, and he retains a visiting professorship in the Biochemistry Department there. At the end of 2009, he moved to the University of Antwerp in Belgium where he heads the Biomolecular & Analytical Mass Spectrometry group, with the title of Francqui Research Professor (2011-14). His research focuses on the structural analysis of noncovalently bound, supramolecular systems and functional assemblies of biomolecules. The group is developing new methods and instrumentation for the analysis of multi-component, heterogeneous and dynamic assemblies based on mass spectrometry, ion mobility and associated techniques. The group applies these tools in a highly interdisciplinary context to research questions from chemistry, biology and medicine.

Ir. Ing. Sam Wouters conducts his PhD research at the department of Chemical Engineering at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in the research group of (Bio-)Analytical Separations Sciences. His research focusses on ion-exchange chromatography and the implementation of microfluidic chip technology in liquid chromatography.

Fields of Research
- Trace gas measurements with thermal desorption-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry
- Odour measurements with sensor systems (electronic noses) and GC-olfactometry
- Security research (detection of explosives, nerve agents)
- Development of fast flow field thermal gradient gas chromatography (FF-TG-GC)

Short-Vita
- 1987 Diploma (Dipl.-Ing./chemical engineering), University Erlangen/Nuernberg
- 1992 Graduation (Dr. rer. nat./physical chemistry), University of Bonn
- 2003 state doctorate (bio systems engineering), University of Bonn
- since 2003 private lecturer and head of research group at the University of Bonn

Key-Publications
P. Boeker, J. Leppert, Flow Field Thermal Gradient Gas Chromatography, ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY (2015) 9033–9041.
P. Boeker, On 'Electronic Nose' methodology, SENSORS AND ACTUATORS B-CHEMICAL 204 (2014) 2–17.
P. Boeker, J. Leppert, B. Mysliwietz, P.S. Lammers, Comprehensive Theory of the Deans' Switch As a Variable Flow Splitter: Fluid Mechanics, Mass Balance, and System Behavior, ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY 85 (2013) 9021–9030.

The research interests of Thomas Maximilian Gröger are applications, build-up and conceptional research on comprehensive and new emerging analytical techniques. A main focus is the application towards petrochemical matrices. After his studies of analytical chemistry and material sciences in Germany, United Sates and Canada he joined the research group of Prof. Zimmermann, which at that time was located at the University of Augsburg. His first studies were associated with the implementation of chromatographic separation techniques and development of statistical and multivariate analysis techniques for metabolomics analysis based on comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography. A second field of attention was teaching and supervision of scientific work. After a move to the Helmholtz Zentrum in Munich in 2008 also the focus of the research moved towards development of analytical methods and instrumentation (mass spectrometry & chromatography) for process monitoring, petrochemistry and bioanalytic. In 2011 he also joinned Photonion GmbH to assist the team in building up commercial mass spectrometer for process monitoring.

Dr G John Langley, Associate Professor at the University of Southampton where he is Head of Characterisation and Analytics in Chemistry in the Faculty of Natural & Environmental Sciences. My research is in the development and application of hyphenated mass spectrometry approaches for identification of key analytes in complex matrices, including petroleomics, biodiesel, oligonucteotides, and metabolite i.d. via predictive MS/MS. John studied for his first degree at Swansea University and his PhD at the University of London (School of Pharmacy – mass spectrometry), is a Chartered Chemist, Chartered Scientist and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) and a IUPAC Fellow; Vice President of the International MS Foundation (formerly Secretary) and Chair of the RSC Separation Science Group and member of the RSC Analytical Division Council.

Caroline West first discovered the advantages of SFC as a baby chromatographer when she started her PhD thesis with Dr. Eric Lesellier in 2002. She joined the University of Orleans, France and the Institute of Organic and Analytical Chemistry as an assistant professor in analytical chemistry in 2005.

Her scientific interests lie in fundamentals of chromatographic selectivity, both in the achiral and chiral modes mainly in SFC, but also in HPLC. Her works are essentially devoted to improving the understanding of chromatographic separations in order to facilitate method development. For this purpose, she relies on extensive experiments and chemometric strategies.

She has published more than 50 papers, most of them in SFC.

Ruben started his scientific career in 2012 by completing his masters degree in chemical engineering. He received his PhD in 2015 at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel with his thesis entitled "Understanding axial non-linear chromatographic systems". These non-linearities may arise e.g. in liquid chromatography under extreme pressure drops as well as by applying axial temperature gradients but also in supercritical fluid chromatography where axial non-linearity is found due to the compressible mobile phase in ‘normal’ conditions. He expanded his research domain in 2015 towards optimization of large-scale pressure swing adsorption processes for carbon dioxide capture at the University of Alberta, Canada.

Dr. Sen obtained her PhD in Chemistry at the University of Iowa (USA) in 2011, under the supervision of Professor Amnon Kohen, before joining King's College London as a post-doctoral research fellow in 2012. Her Ph.D. research focused on the development of bioanalytical tools to study enzyme dynamics and kinetics and, as a research fellow at King’s with Dr. Cristina Legido-Quigley, her interests expanded to include UPLC-MS-based method development for metabonomics applications. In her current role as a research associate with Dr. Norman Smith at King’s and the MRC-NIHR National Phenome Center at Imperial College, she is investigating the potential of SFC-HRMS as an analytical platform for high-throughput metabolic profiling studies.

Prof. Dr. Luigi Mondello is Full Professor of Analytical Chemistry at the "Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche, Biologiche, Farmaceutiche ed Ambientali" of the University of Messina, Italy. He received a degree in Chemistry from the University of Messina in 1991. Prof. Mondello teaches the course of Analytical Chemistry and of Food Chemistry at the Pharmacy Course of the University of Messina, and the course of Food Chemistry at the “Campus Biomedico” in Rome. He is the author of 370 Scientific papers, 13 book chapters, 2 reviews, co-editor of a book on Multidimensional Chromatography (John Wiley & Sons), and he has been chairman and invited lecturer in national and international congresses and meetings. His research interests include Chromatography techniques (HRGC, HPLC, HRGC/MS, HPLC/MS, OPLC) and the development of coupled techniques such as LC-GC-MS, GC-GC, GCxGC, LCxLC, LCxGC and their applications in the study of natural complex matrices. Prof. Mondello has been member of the organizing committees of national and international meetings and he is permanent member of the scientific committee of the International Symposium on Capillary Chromatography (ISCC), of the International Symposium on Essential Oils (ISEO), of the International Symposium on Hyphenated Techniques in Chromatography and Hyphenated Chromatographic Analyzers (HTC), of the Brazilian Symposium on Chromatography and Related Techniques (SIMCRO), of the “ Congresso Latino-Americano de Cromatografia e Técnicas Relacionades (COLACRO)" member of the Scientific Committee of the “Workshop-Symposium on Analytical and Preparative Enantioseparation (Enantiosep ’07), member of the Steering Committee of the Italian Separation Science Group of the Italian Chemical Society, member of the expert team of “Chromedia” (Chromatography Knowledge Base), and editor of Journal of Separation Science and of Flavour and Fragrance Journal both published by John Wiley & Sons, member of the Central Technical Committee of the National System for the Accreditation of the Laboratory (SINAL), member of the Advisory Board ofi LC-GC Europe, Separation Science e Scientia Chromatographica and serves as reviewer for 33 different Journals in the field of Analytical Chemistry and Food Chemistry. In February 2006 ( York, U.K.) he was awarded with the “HTC-Award for the most outstanding and innovative work in the field of hyphenated chromatographic techniques”, from the Flemish Chemical Society. In May 2008 ( Riva del Garda, Italy) he was awarded from “The Chromatographic Society” with the “Silver Jubilee Medal for his Considerable Contribution to the Development of Separation Sciences”. In October 2008 during the "Congresso Latino-Americano de Cromatografia e Técnicas Relacionades" helded in Florianòpolis, Brasil the "Instituto Internacional de Cromatografia" has assigned to Prof. Luigi Mondello the COLACRO Medal for his contribution to the development and diffusion of the Chromatographic Techniques. In September 2012 during the Analytical Chemistry Division of the Italian Chemical Society Conference in Elba, Italy, he was awarded with the “Liberti Medal”. In 2013 he has been awarded in “The Analytical Scientist Innovation Awards (TASIAs) and in September 2014 he has been the recipient of the IFEAT Medal by the International Federation of Essential Oils & Aroma Trades. He is present in the list of the “Top Italian Scientist (via-Academy) with a relative position of 87 on about 2800 scientists with h-Index of 41.

André de Villiers is an Associate Professor at the Department of Chemistry and Polymer Science at Stellenbosch University (SU), 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, capillary electrophoresis, novel sample preparation methods and advanced mass spectrometric methods in combination with separation methods. André completed his PhD at SU in 2004 under the supervision of Prof. Pat Sandra, followed by a post-doctoral fellowship at the Pfizer Analytical Research Centre (PARC) at Ghent University. He was subsequently appointed as academic staff member at SU in 2006, where he has recently been promoted to Associate Professor.

Thorsten Teutenberg, studied Chemistry at Ruhr University Bochum. He studied for a doctorate in Analytical Chemistry at this institution, submitting a thesis on ‚High-temperature HPLC‘. In 2004 his career took him to the Institut für Energie- und Umwelttechnik e. V. in Duisburg as a research associate. Since 2012 he has been in charge of the Research Analysis Department, mainly working on the various aspects of high-temperature HPLC, miniaturised separation and detection techniques, and multi-dimensional chromatography processes.

2006 – 2016: Agilent Technologies (Germany). Current: R&D Senior Scientist / Program Manager. Focus: 2D-LC/MS.
2004 – 2006: Eberhard Karls Universtity Tübingen (Germany). Post Doc. Focus: LC/MS for PTM ID and quant Proteomics.
2001 – 2004: University of the West of England (Bristol, UK). PhD, studying factors influencing separation in HPLC in the group of Prof. David McCalley with Prof. Melvin Euerby.
2000 – 2001: University of Strathclyde (Glasgow, Scotland). Master of Science in Pharmaceutical Analysis.
1993 – 1999: University of Applied Sciences Isny (Germany). Diplom-Ingenieur (FH) Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Chemisch-Technischer Assistent.

Dr. Paola Dugo is a full Professor of Food Chemistry at the University of Messina (Italy) since 2011. She received a degree in chemistry from the University of Messina in 1991 and a Ph.D. in Pharmacognosy from the University of Messina in 1996. She was Assistant professor of Food Chemistry at the University of Messina from 1995 and then associate professor between 2000 and 2010. She worked for six months at the University of Siena in the field of the Chemistry of cosmetic products and one year at the University of Leeds, under the supervision of Prof. Keith D. Bartle, carrying out researches on the use of supercritical fluids for the fractionation of citrus essential oils.
Prof. Dugo is the author of more than 200 scientific papers,and she has been lecturer in national and international congresses and symposiums.
Her research interests include the study of the composition of citrus products (essential oils and juices) by chromatographic techniques; the study of components with possible biological activity in natural matrices (carotenoids, anthocyanins, coumarins); the study of essential oils from aromatic plants; the study of the aromatic fraction of wine and other alcoholic beverages; the study of triglycerides in food fats and oils.
The researches are carried out using innovative instrumental analytical techniques. In particular, chromatographic techniques such as high resolution gas chromatography (HRGC), high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), overpressured planar chromatography (OPLC), hyphenated (HRGC/MS; HPLC/MS) and multidimensional techniques (heart-cutting and comprehensive).
Moreover, her scientific activity includes invited article of the Encyclopedia of Separation Science, book chapters and invited review articles for international journals, the collaboration for the preparation of the on-line encyclopedia Chromedia, as topic-owner of the section dedicated to food analysis. She has co-edited the volume of the encyclopedia "Sampling and Sample preparation" dedicated to food and beverages applications, published by Elsevier in 2012. She is also member of the editorial board of Flavour & Fragrance Journal and of Journal of Chromatography A.
In 2015, she was included in “The Analytical Scientist” magazine’s Power List.

Currently working as a PhD student in the Chromatography and Hyphenated Techniques team at the Institute of Analytical Sciences in Lyon, his research focuses on the development of LCxLC-MS and LCxSFC techniques. This PhD thesis is funded by the French Ministry of Research (2013-2016) under the supervision of Dr. Sabine Heinisch.

Giacomo Russo graduated cum laude in Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Technology (Industrial Pharmacy) at the “Federico II” University of Naples, Italy, in 2012 defending a thesis entitled “The IAM-HPLC technique as a tool to assess lipophilic and electrostatic forces involved in drug/membrane interactions: state of the art”. He then started a PhD in “Pharmaceutical Sciences” at the same university on a research topic that regards the use of phospholipid affinity indexes in the prediction of drug-biological membrane barrier passage of drugs, with the tutoring of Prof. Francesco Barbato. He is co-author of five works regarding the use of chromatographic parameters for the description of BBB and intestinal passage of the drugs, as well as the determination of endocrine disrupting agents in food and biological matrices. After a two-month joint research project at the University “Statale” in Milan, he is now working at the laboratories of Prof. Dr. Frédéric Lynen for the development and validation of high-throughput chromatographic indexes-based statistic models for an improved prediction of Blood-Brain barrier penetration of drugs.

Victor Abrahamsson received his Master of Science degree in chemistry from Linnaeus University, Sweden in 2011. Shortly thereafter he joined the Green Technology Group as a PhD student in analytical chemistry at the Centre for Analysis. and Synthesis, Lund University, Sweden. His main research interests involve extraction and chromatography in small scale using particularly supercritical fluid carbon dioxide as a solvent.