James Grinias is a Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry at Rowan University. His research interests primarily focus on liquid-phase separations, especially the fundamentals of column and instrument design in liquid chromatography. For over a decade, he has focused on increasing the efficiency and throughput of these separations, especially with capillary-scale columns.More recently, his group has focused on instrument miniaturization, especially for portable liquid chromatography separations, two-dimensional separation techniques, and microfluidic platforms. He received his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2014 and then moved onto a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Michigan until the end of 2016. James has received a number of awards for his work to date, including the HPLC 2013 Csaba Horváth Award, an NSF CAREER grant, an NIH MIRA grant, the 2021 Satinder Ahuja Young Investigator in Separation Science Award, and the 2021 LCGC Emerging Leader Award.He was also named to The Analytical Scientist’s “Top 40 Under 40” Power List in 2018 and 2022. In addition to his research interests, James has held several service roles within the research community. He currently serves as an Associate Editor for Journal of Separation Science. He recently served as both the President of the Chromatography Forum of Delaware Valley and the Chair of the American Chemical Society Subdivision on Chromatography and Separations Chemistry. James also regularly serves on the organizing committee of the HPLC Symposium Series.