Professor Fernando Mauro Lanças is the leader of the Chromatography Group and a full Professor at the Institute of Chemistry of the University of São Paulo at São Carlos, Brazil. He started and is Chairman of several scientific meetings, including COLACRO and SIMCRO, and is co-Chairman of WARPA. Prof. Lanças advised more than 130 Ph.D. and Master's theses; published more than 400 papers; 20 book chapters and 8 books as the only author.His primary research interest is currently focused on the complete miniaturization and automation of sustainable sample preparation – chromatography - mass spectrometry techniques and the practical implementation of the Unified Chromatography concept.