In progress... Invited Speakers 44th ISCC
Carlo Bicchi
Plant volatiles and capillary gas chromatography: a never-ending story of continuous innovation
Carlo Bicchi
Plant volatiles and capillary gas chromatography: a never-ending story of continuous innovationCarlo Bicchi has been Full Professor of Pharmaceutical Biology at the Faculty of Pharmacy of University of Turin since 1990. His main field of research is development of analytical technologies for biologically active specialized metabolites in plant matrices (essential oils, terpenoids, phenolic compounds and alkaloids) and aroma profiling and fingerprinting of important industrial food crops (coffee, cocoa, hazelnuts, olive oil and tea). He focused his studies on Sample preparation; Gas chromatography (GC, GC-MS, Fast-GC, Multidimensional GC and new stationary phases), Enantioselective GC, High pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC, HPLC-MS), Supercritical fluid extraction and chromatography (SFE and SFC), Chemometric methods, fingerprinting and profiling.His scientific activity is documented by 360 publications in international Journals, and more than 400 plenary lectures, keynote lectures and communications and seminars. He has been Editor, Associate Editor, member of the advisory board of international journals and member of permanent scientific board of several International Scientific foundations and symposia.He was awarded with i) the 2018 Giovanni Dugo’s medal from the Italian Chemical Society (GISS), ii) the 2019 Arnaldo Liberti’s Medal from the Italian Chemical Society (DAC), iii) the 2021 COLACRO Medal from the Latino-American Association of Chromatography and Related Techniques, and iv) the 2022 ISEO Medal of Honor from the International Symposium on Essential Oils (ISEO) Medal Committee.
Gert Desmet
Future Trends in Capillary nano-HPLC Column Technology
Gert Desmet
Future Trends in Capillary nano-HPLC Column TechnologyGert Desmet has a Master’s degree and PhD in chemical engineering from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium, where he currently is a full professor. 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 has been the author or co-author of more than 450 peer-reviewed papers. He currently is the Deputy-director of the Solvay Institute for Chemistry, is an Associate Editor for the journal "Analytical Chemistry" and was the recipient of an ERC Advanced Grant. He is also a member of the permanent scientific committee of the international HPLC and ISC conference series.
Fabrice Gritti
Slalom Chromatography Returns: Powering Breakthroughs in Large DNA/RNA Characterization for Cell and Gene Therapy
Fabrice Gritti
Slalom Chromatography Returns: Powering Breakthroughs in Large DNA/RNA Characterization for Cell and Gene TherapyDr. Fabrice G. Gritti earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry and Physics of Condensed Matter from the University of Bordeaux I in 2001. He subsequently worked as a research scientist with Professor Georges Guiochon at the University of Tennessee, a collaboration that lasted until 2014. In 2015, he joined Waters Corporation as a consultant scientist, where he continues to contribute his expertise to advancing chromatographic science.Dr. Gritti’s research focuses on solid-to-liquid adsorption thermodynamics and mass transfer in chromatographic porous media. His overarching goal is to deepen the understanding of separation and mass transfer mechanisms in existing liquid chromatography (LC) techniques, while driving the development of new column and system technologies that are firmly grounded in scientific principles and responsive to societal needs.Throughout his career, Dr. Gritti has authored more than 300 peer-reviewed publications, delivered over 95 keynote lectures, and presented more than 30 seminars worldwide on the advancement of chromatographic sciences. His contributions have been recognized with numerous awards, including:
- The Chromatographic Society Jubilee Medal (2013)
- The JFK Huber Lecture Award (2019)
- The Eastern Analytical Symposium Award for Outstanding Achievements in Separation Science (2022)
- The Csaba Horvath Memorial Award (2023)
- The A.J.P. Martin Medal (2024)
Christian Huber
Miniaturized HPLC-MS Workflows to Characterize the Protein Cargo of Extracellular Vesicles: a Viable Approach to Study Intercelluar Communication
Christian Huber
Miniaturized HPLC-MS Workflows to Characterize the Protein Cargo of Extracellular Vesicles: a Viable Approach to Study Intercelluar CommunicationChristian Huber trained as an analytical chemist at the University of Innsbruck focusing on chromatographic separation methods for biopolymers. After a PostDoc in Csaba Horváth’s group at Yale University in 1996, he obtained lecturing qualification in analytical chemistry at the University of Innsbruck in 1997. As an associated professor of analytical chemistry at the University of Innsbruck from 1997 to 2002, he developed monolithic, capillary-scale stationary phases for hyphenating high efficiency nucleic acid-, peptide-, and protein separations to mass spectrometry. From 2002-2008 he held a position as professor for analytical chemistry at Saarland University, where he started working in the field of multidimensional chromatography as well as proteome/metabolome analysis and mass spectrometry data mining. Since 2008, he is a professor of chemistry for biosciences at the University of Salzburg. His current research interests include proteome and metabolome analysis of biological models for disease as well as in-depth (therapeutic) protein characterization by means of HPLC and MS.
Robert Kennedy
High Throughput Capillary LC and Application to Reaction Screening, Biopharmaceutical Analysis and Enzyme Engineering
Robert Kennedy
High Throughput Capillary LC and Application to Reaction Screening, Biopharmaceutical Analysis and Enzyme EngineeringRobert Kennedy is the Willard Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry at the University of Michigan. His research has combined his interest in biology with chemical analysis, separations and microfluidics. A theme of his group has been development of new chemical analysis tools that can be used for engineering enzymes, monitoring neurotransmitters in the brain, and studying the secretion of insulin. Key technical areas including ultra-high pressure LC, droplet microfluidics, and mass spectrometry.His work has been recognized by several awards including the ACS Award in Chromatography and the Ralph Adams Award in Bioanalytical Chemistry. He has held several service posts including Department Chair and is presently Associate Editor of Analytical Chemistry and ACS Measurement Science Au.
Fernando Mauro Lanças
The role of graphene-derived sorbents in miniaturized sample preparation and chromatography
Fernando Mauro Lanças
The role of graphene-derived sorbents in miniaturized sample preparation and chromatographyProfessor 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.
Jim Luong
Recent Developments in GC
Jim Luong
Recent Developments in GCJim Luong is a Fellow of Analytical Science, Core R&D of The Dow Chemical Company.In his four-decade career at Dow, Luong has held critical positions in manufacturing and R&D. Luong was involved in the start-up and expansion of several world-scale chemical plants in different geographical locations including Canada, Argentina, Thailand, and Kuwait. He is also a key contributor to Dow’s Fort Saskatchewan Path2Zero project; the world’s first net-zero emissions integrated ethylene cracker and derivatives site in Alberta, Canada.As an analytical chemist, Luong practices several techniques such as mass spectrometry, differential mobility spectrometry, inductively coupled plasma spectrometry, and is most passionate with gas chromatography (GC). Some key areas of research and innovations include column stationary phase development, ultra-trace analysis, microfluidic-enabled GC, hyphenated techniques, MDGC, GC×GC, and novel selective detection strategies such as chemiluminescence, post-column reaction with catalysis, and photo diode array.Luong has authored or co-authored over 90 articles in peer-reviewed journals, three book chapters, and holds three patents. Luong is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, served on the RSC’s Analytical Methods Editorial Board and currently on the journal’s Advisory Board. Luong is a recipient of the 2007 Northern Alberta Institute of Technology Award of Distinction, and the 2013 Chemical Institute of Canada’s Maxxam Award, an annual award conferred to a Canadian scientist who has made a significant contribution to analytical chemistry. More recently, Luong was named the Top 100 analytical scientists in the Power List 2019, 2020, and 2021, published by the Analytical Scientist.
Rosa Maria Marcé
New materials for the selective extraction of contaminants from environmental samples
Rosa Maria Marcé
New materials for the selective extraction of contaminants from environmental samplesProf. Rosa Maria Marcé is Full Professor in Analytical Chemistry of the Analytical and Organic Chemistry Department at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV) in Tarragona since 2010 and Distinguished Professor of URV since 2018.Her main interest is the development of new chromatographic methods to determine contaminants of emerging concern in environmental samples. This interest includes the development and application of new and sustainable materials for the sorptive extraction techniques to align with the Green Analytical Chemistry. These materials improve the selectivity of the analytical methods and the retention of challenging compounds, such as the polar and ionic ones. These materials, combined with high-tech liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry techniques significantly contribute to solve analytical problems of environmental samples.The developed methods have been applied to monitor pollutants in air, waste and surface water, sludge, dust, biota, etc. In addition, the data from monitoring studies has been valuable to evaluate the effectiveness of wastewater and drinking water treatments, to assess the drug consumption from their concentration in wastewater (named waste water epidemiology) or to calculate the health risk posed by their presence due to intake, inhalation or dermal contact, among others. She has supervised more than 25 doctoral theses. The results of her research have been published in more than 280 papers in peer-reviewed journals and 15 book chapters.
Janusz Pawliszyn
Whole column imaging cIEF coupled to MS for characterization of native proteins
Janusz Pawliszyn
Whole column imaging cIEF coupled to MS for characterization of native proteinsThe primary focus of Professor Pawliszyn's research program is the design of highly automated and integrated instrumentation for isolating analytes from complex matrices and the subsequent separation, identification, and determination of these species. The primary separation tools used by his group are Gas Chromatography, Liquid Chromatography, and Capillary Electrophoresis coupled to a variety of detection systems, including a range of mass spectrometry techniques as well as ambient ionization techniques. Currently, his research is focusing on the elimination of organic solvents from the sample preparation step and miniaturization of the sampling devices to facilitate on-site monitoring and in-vivo analysis. Several alternative techniques to solvent extraction are investigated including the use of coated fibers, packed needles, membranes, and supercritical fluids. Dr. Pawliszyn is exploring the application of computational and modeling techniques to enhance sample preparation, chromatographic separations, and detection performance. The major area of his interest involves the development and application of imaging detection techniques for microcolumn chromatography, capillary electrophoresis, and microchip separation devices.Professor Pawliszyn has supervised 65 PhD and 70 MS students, and he is an author of over 750 scientific publications and a book on Solid Phase Microextraction. His Hirsch Index (H-index) is 108. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Editor-in-Chief of Trends in Analytical Chemistry and Green Analytical Chemistry.
Valérie Pichon
Functionalized and miniaturized monoliths for sample preparation coupled to liquid chromatography
Valérie Pichon
Functionalized and miniaturized monoliths for sample preparation coupled to liquid chromatographyValérie PICHON, full professor at Sorbonne University (Paris), leads the Department of analytical chemistry (LSABM), a part of the department of Chemistry Biology and Innovation (CBI) located at ESPCI Paris (PSL University, CNRS) and also leads the CBI department.Her main research interests include the development and miniaturization of antibody- or aptamer-based sorbents and molecular or ionic imprinted polymers for the selective extraction of target compounds present in trace amounts in complex samples.She is the author of over 150 publications, 7 book chapters and 3 patents. She is associate editor of Journal of Separation Science. She has received the Analytical Chemistry Department Prize of the French Chemical Society (2001), the Silver Medal of the French National Centre for Scientific Research (2022) and recently the Senior Prize of AfSep, the French Association for Separation Sciences (2023).
Elia Psillakis
Greener by Design: Transforming Analytical Chemistry with Purpose
Elia Psillakis
Greener by Design: Transforming Analytical Chemistry with PurposeElia Psillakis is Full Professor in Water Chemistry at the School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Crete. Her research focuses on green and sustainable analytical chemistry, sample preparation techniques, and the environmental fate of organic pollutants. In 2007, she received a Fulbright Award and used it at Caltech, USA.In 2025, she was awarded both the Silver Jubilee Medal (The Chromatographic Society) and the Robert Kellner Lecture Award (EuChemS-DAC). In 2021, she featured in the Top 100 Power List of the magazine “The Analytical Scientist”. To date, her investigations have resulted in six book chapters more than 100 publications in ISI Journals, with more than 10500 citations (h-index=52) and six “Top cited article” awards. She is Editor-in-Chief of “Advances in Sample Preparation” from Elsevier and Specialty Chief Editor of “Environmental Analysis” for Frontiers in Analytical Science (Frontiers). Professor Psillakis leads the EuChemS-DAC Sample Preparation Study Group and Network, and is the Founder and Director of the spin-off company ExtraTECH Analytical Solutions. From 2014-2016, she was the Deputy Rector of Academic Affairs and Research at the Technical University of Crete and has served twice as the Director of postgraduate studies.
J. Michael Ramsey
High Throughput Metabolomics with Microchip CE-MS and Automated Analysis
J. Michael Ramsey
High Throughput Metabolomics with Microchip CE-MS and Automated AnalysisMichael Ramsey, emeritus from UNC, held the Minnie N. Goldby Distinguished Professor of Chemistry Chair at the UNC - Chapel Hill. He was also on the faculty of the Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Applied Physical Sciences. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, the Optical Society of America, the American Chemical Society, and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. Moreover, Dr. Ramsey is the science founder of two public companies, Caliper Technologies (NASDAQ:CALP), renamed Caliper Life Sciences and acquired by PerkinElmer in 2011 and 908 Devices Inc. (NASDAQ:MASS), a company developing revolutionary handheld and desktop tools for acquiring chemical and biochemical information.He is also the science founder of two additional venture financed life sciences tools companies, Genturi Inc. and Codetta Bio Inc., and a founding partner of Move Analytical. Prof. Ramsey has published over 300 peer-reviewed papers (H-index = 87, i10 index = 214) and presented nearly 600 invited, plenary, or named lectures. In addition, he has over 210 issued and multiple pending patents.
Koen Sandra
Emerging applications of CE and CE-MS in biopharmaceutical analysis
Koen Sandra
Emerging applications of CE and CE-MS in biopharmaceutical analysisCEO and Co-owner at RIC group (Kortrijk, Belgium)Visiting Professor, Ghent University (Ghent, Belgium)Koen Sandra received a PhD degree in Biochemistry from the Ghent University, Belgium in 2005. After his PhD, he joined Pronota, a molecular diagnostics company where he was active in developing analytical platforms for disease biomarker discovery and in setting up external collaborations. In 2008, he joined RIC, a company that provides analytical support to the chemical, life sciences and pharmaceutical industries, where he holds the position of CEO. As a non-academic scientist, Koen Sandra is author of over 50 highly cited scientific papers and has presented his work at numerous conferences as an invited speaker.
Oliver Schmitz
Coupling GC with SLIM-qTOF-MS for a powerful orthogonal two-dimensional separation of complex samples
Oliver Schmitz
Coupling GC with SLIM-qTOF-MS for a powerful orthogonal two-dimensional separation of complex samplesAfter his doctorate in 1997 in the Department of Analytical Chemistry at the University of Wuppertal (BUW), he spent one year in the Walther-Straub Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the Ludwigs-Maximilians University of Munich and two years as a post-doc in the Division of Molecular Toxicology at the German Cancer Research Centre in Heidelberg.Between 2001 and 2008 Schmitz was been a senior staff member in the Department of Analytical Chemistry at the BUW in Germany. In 2004 he was designated as an associate professor at the BUW, and 2009 he got a full professor in Analytical Chemistry at this university. Between 2010 and 2012 he was the chair of the Analytical Chemistry department at BUW. Since October 2012 Schmitz has been a full professor at the University of Duisburg-Essen and is the chair of the Institute of Applied Analytical Chemistry.2009 he cofounded the company iGenTraX UG which develops new ion sources and units to couple separation techniques with mass spectrometers. In 2018 he founded, together with Agilent Technologies, the Teaching and Research Center for Separation, one of Agilent`s Center of Excellence.Since 2013 Prof. Schmitz is the chairman of the analytica conferences worldwide (China and Vietnam and USA) and a consultant of analytica Munich. In 2023, Schmitz, together with Prof. Michael Lämmerhofer, was chairman of the world's largest conference for separation technologies, the 51st HPLC in Düsseldorf.Prof. Schmitz is recognized as an international expert in analytical chemistry, especially in the development of ion sources, multidimensional chromatography, ion mobility-mass spectrometry and metabolomics.
Nicholas Snow
Challenging Today’s Perceptions and Assumptions About Good ‘Ole GC
Nicholas Snow
Challenging Today’s Perceptions and Assumptions About Good ‘Ole GCNicholas H. Snow is Dr. Thomas and Mrs. Sylvia Tencza Professor and Chair of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Seton Hall University. He holds a BS in Chemistry from the University of Virginia and a PhD in Analytical Chemistry from Virginia Tech, where he worked under Professor Harold McNair. He has been with Seton Hall since 1994 and has mentored 25 PhD and MS students and dozens of undergraduates. He has authored or co-authored over 100 journal articles and two books, mostly relating to gas chromatography, GC-MS, sample preparation, and most areas of separation science. He has co-taught over 100 short courses covering the breadth of separation science.
At Seton Hall he is recipient of the Bishop McQuaid Medal for outstanding long-term university service and the Hakim Faculty Service Medal for service to the faculty. He was a founding member of the University Teaching Fellows, a GEM Teaching Fellow and Peer Leader in the University Seminar on Mission and has been recognized for outstanding teaching and service to students by the Seton Hall Board of Regents. As an academic leader, he has served as Middle States Re-accreditation Faculty Chair, Department Chair, Associate Provost, and Director of Sponsored Research.
He has served on the Governing Board of the Eastern Analytical Symposium for 30 years and was President in 2001. He is GC Connections Editor of LCGC International, Associate Editor of the Journal of Liquid Chromatography and Related Technologies and he serves on the Editorial Boards of Separations, Journal of Pharmaceutical Innovation and Green Analytical Chemistry. He is the 2025 recipient of the Eastern Analytical Symposium Award for Outstanding Achievements in Separation Science.
Elena E. Stashenko
Chromatographic study of specific molecular transfers in soil-plant-insect systems
Elena E. Stashenko
Chromatographic study of specific molecular transfers in soil-plant-insect systemsElena E. Stashenko is a Laureate Professor at the School of Chemistry of the Faculty of Sciences of the Industrial University of Santander (UIS), in Bucaramanga (Colombia). She is the General Director of the Center for Chromatography and Mass Spectrometry (CROM-MASS) and the Center for Research in Biomolecules (CIBIMOL), which are part of the National Center of Excellence CENIVAM. During the last 35 years she has directed undergraduate degree projects, specialization, Master's research works and Doctoral theses, in total, of more than 250 new professionals in Chemistry, Biology, Chemical Engineering, Industrial Engineering and Mechanical Engineering.Elena Stashenko and her collaborators have published more than 300 scientific articles in national and international indexed journals; she is the author of books on essential oils and their analysis, editor of books on aromatic plants, and has written more than ten chapters on essential oils, antioxidants, natural ingredients and their characterization, on bioeconomy and the value chain of aromatic plants, in freely accessible technical books and commercial books; she participated as an inventor, together with other researchers from the Industrial University of Santander, in the processes for obtaining 14 patents. Her work has been recognized through distinctions at UIS and awards in Colombia and abroad. Elena E. Stashenko was the founder of the National School of Chromatography (1998) in Colombia.
Guowang Xu
Towards the third generation of new metabolomics analysis technology
Guowang Xu
Towards the third generation of new metabolomics analysis technologyProf. Dr. Guowang Xu received his Ph.D in Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in Jun., 1991. He is also president of Chromatography Committee of Chinese Society of Chemistry, deputy director of the Environmental Exposure Science Committee of the Chinese Society for Environmental Sciences and council member of the Chinese Chemical Society.Prof. Xu has co-written 5 books and published 560+ peer-reviewed papers in the ‘Web of Science Core Collection’ (WoS) indexed journals including PNAS, Nature Protocols, Nature Commun., Nature Methods, Cell Metab., Advance Science, Hepatology, Cancer Res., Anal. Chem., etc., and holds more than 100 China patents. His main research fields are in the chromatography-mass spectrometry (MS) technique development and the MS-based bulk, single cell and spatial metabolomics/exposomics applications in disease biomarker discovery, traditional Chinese medicines and food safety.
In progress... Invited Speakers 21st GC×GC
Heather Bean
Discovering breath biomarkers of fatigue using untargeted GCxGC analysis
Heather Bean
Discovering breath biomarkers of fatigue using untargeted GCxGC analysisHeather Bean is a bioanalytical chemist who focuses on characterizing the volatile metabolomes of humans, animals, plants, and environmental microbial consortia with two main purposes: 1) developing novel biomarkers and diagnostics, with an emphasis on breath tests, and 2) investigating the roles of volatile and semi-volatile metabolites in mediating microbe-microbe and host-microbe interactions.She received a BS in Biochemistry (1999) and a PhD in Chemistry (2008) from the Georgia Institute of Technology and is currently an Associate Professor in the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University. The Bean research group at ASU is also working to advance the applications of comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography – time-of-flight mass spectrometry GC×GC-TOFMS to untargeted metabolomics, pushing the boundaries of existing data analysis tools and pipelines and developing new ones, as needed, to transform large metabolomics data sets into useful information for monitoring health and diagnosing disease.
Chiara Cordero
Beyond Resolution: GC×GC as an Enabler of Predictive, Purpose-Driven Analytical Science
Chiara Cordero
Beyond Resolution: GC×GC as an Enabler of Predictive, Purpose-Driven Analytical ScienceChiara Cordero (orcid.org/0000-0003-3201-0775) is Full Professor of Food Chemistry at the Department of Drug Science and Technology, University of Turin (Italy). She was Research Fellow at the Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Lebensmittelchemie (DFA), Technical University of Munich (Germany), and Visiting Professor at the Poznan University of Life Sciences (Poland, 2019 and 2023) and Stellenbosch University (South Africa, 2020).Her research focuses on the development of instrumental platforms based on comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography (GC×GC) for food-omics applications (profiling and fingerprinting), data processing tools for GC×GC interpretation, discovery of food quality markers (food metabolomics and volatilomics), and intake markers in biofluids (nutrimetabolomics and volatilomics). She also works on the design of miniaturized, fully automated, solvent-free sample preparation strategies for sensomic food characterization.In 2008, she received the “Leslie S. Ettre Award” for original research in capillary gas chromatography with emphasis on food and environmental safety. In 2014, she was awarded the “John B. Phillips Award” for achievements in GC×GC. In 2016, The Analytical Scientist included her in its “Women Power List” of the 50 most influential women in analytical science. In 2022, she received the Scientific Achievement Award in GC×GC, and in 2024, the “Giovanni Dugo Medal” from the Italian Chemical Society (GISS) for research in food analysis.
John Dimandja
Towards a Standardized Understanding of Selectivity in GCxGC
Frank Dorman
Using a Multidimensional Approach for Characterization of PFAS Impact on the Envi-ronment and Food Web for Traditional and Non-traditional Sources
Frank Dorman
Using a Multidimensional Approach for Characterization of PFAS Impact on the Envi-ronment and Food Web for Traditional and Non-traditional SourcesFrank Dorman is currently a Resident Scholar and Instructor in the Chemistry Department at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH where he is active in teaching analytical chemistry to undergraduates and graduate students. Concurrently, Frank is also Senior Business Development Manager for Waters focusing on their global environmental business and. In his role at Waters, Frank manages the research-focused environmental market, external collaborations, and interfaces with R&D for new product development. Prior to these roles, Frank was an Associate Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (BMB) sat Penn State University in University Park, PA. At Penn State, Frank served as a member of the Graduate Faculty in: Biochemistry, Microbiology and Molecular Biology (BMMB), Chemistry (CHEM), Biogeochemistry (BGC) and the Forensic Science Program (FRNSC) and the Center for Molecular Toxicology and Carcinogenesis. Franks scientific interests are in gas and liquid chromatography and fundamental characterization, instrumentation and column development, as well as mass spectrometry and atomic spectroscopy as applied to trace analysis in complex sample matrices. During Franks professional career, he has published ~100 publications, several book chapters, and mentored ~40 research students in Analytical and Physical Chemistry, Forensic Chemistry and Environmental Chemistry. When not working in the chemistry field, Frank is the Head Coach and Program Director for an alpine ski race team in Central Vermont.
Jean-François Focant
GC×GC-(HR)TOFMS Volatolomics: Advances in Disease Diagnosis
Jean-François Focant
GC×GC-(HR)TOFMS Volatolomics: Advances in Disease DiagnosisAffiliation: University of Liège (ULiege), Belgium.Expertise: Jean-François (Jef) Focant is Full Professor at the Chemistry Department at ULiege in Belgium. Expert in multidimensional GC coupled to MS, his team develops and validate analytical methods for the measurement of (semi)volatile molecules present in complex matrices. His Organic and Biological Analytical Chemistry Laboratory is known for its focus on solving real-life analytical challenges to serve the general society. The diversity of applications is very large and covers fields such as forensics, food control, archeology, and much more. Major recent activities include metabolomics (volatolomics, breathomics), especially oriented to biomarker discovery in medical applications. The team also specializes in specific chemometric solutions for feature selections over large data sets from multi-class studies.
Tadeusz Gorecki
Modulation in GC×GC: a journey over three decades
Tadeusz Gorecki
Modulation in GC×GC: a journey over three decadesTadeusz Górecki is a professor at the Department of Chemistry, University of Waterloo (ON). He obtained his M.Sc. Engineer (1981) and Ph.D. (1986) degrees from the Gdansk University of Technology, Poland, and the Professor of Chemical Sciences degree (2009) from the President of the Republic of Poland.Prof. Górecki’s main research area is separation science, with a particular focus on comprehensive multidimensional gas and liquid chromatography, as well as sample preparation and environmental analysis. He has authored/co‐authored 28 book chapters, over 180 papers published in peer reviewed journals, over 320 conference contributions (including nearly 100 invited presentations) and 6 patents.He is the recipient of the Waksmundzki Medal awarded by the Committee on Analytical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences. In 2017 he received the GCxGC Scientific Achievement Award at the 41st International Symposium on Capillary Chromatography & the 14th GCxGC Symposium. His papers have been cited over 10000 times.
Leandro Wang Hantao
Preliminary feature extraction algorithm for comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography
Leandro Wang Hantao
Preliminary feature extraction algorithm for comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatographyProfessor at the Institute of Chemistry, University of Campinas (UNICAMP). His research interests include sample preparation, comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography, mass spectrometry, and chemometrics.
James Harynuk
Labrador vs. laboratory in arson investigations. GC×GC-TOFMS to the rescue
Teruyo Ieda
GC×GC-HRToFMS for the detection of organohalogen compounds in environmental samples
Teruyo Ieda
GC×GC-HRToFMS for the detection of organohalogen compounds in environmental samplesTeruyo Ieda is a senior researcher at the National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan. Her research focuses on the development of detection methods for organohalogen compounds in environmental samples. Her research interests include comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography (GC x GC), high-resolution time-of-flight mass spectrometry (HRToFMS), sample preparation, and thermal desorption methods.
Hans-Gerd Janssen
Using comprehensive GCxGC to improve the sensitivity and temporal resolution in food flavour analysis
Hans-Gerd Janssen
Using comprehensive GCxGC to improve the sensitivity and temporal resolution in food flavour analysisProf. Hans-Gerd Janssen obtained his MSc degree in Chemical Engineering (1987, cum laude) and his PhD degree in analytical chemistry in 1991 (Supercritical Fluid Chromatography), both from the Eindhoven University of Technology. After obtaining his PhD degree he joined the Eindhoven University as an assistant professor and became associate professor in 1996. In 1999 he moved to Unilever R&D where he currently is science leader Food Compositional Analysis. From 2004 to 2019 he was part-time professor at the University of Amsterdam at the chair ‘(bio-)macromolecular separations’. In 2019 he moved to Wageningen University where he now holds a part-time professor position in ‘recognition-based analytical chemistry’.Prof. Janssen has published more than 220 papers including four patents and seven book chapters. He is a member of the editorial advisory board of several scientific journals. He has been, or is, a member of the board of the Analytical Chemistry division of the Dutch Chemical Society and the working group Separation Methods. He also is a member of the scientific or organizing committee of several symposia including the Comprehensive GCxGC meetings, the conference series on Capillary Chromatography and the series Recent Advances in Food Analysis. His research interests are broad, ranging from theory development in chromatography to the development of advanced chromatographic systems for food analysis. Prof. Janssen was awarded the 2020 GC×GC scientific achievement award in recognition of his contribution to the field. In 2023 he received the AOCS Herbert Dutton Award for tis contribution to developments in the field of lipid analysis.
Philip Marriott
Innovations in GC×GC Modulator Design with 3D Printing, and Selected Novel Applications
Philip Marriott
Innovations in GC×GC Modulator Design with 3D Printing, and Selected Novel ApplicationsProfessor Marriott’s research commenced at LaTrobe University (Ph.D.), continued at Bristol (Postdoc) then had academic appointments at the National University of Singapore then in Melbourne at RMIT and Monash University. These latter two appointments accompanied invention of, and developments in cryogenic modulation in GC, leading to primary research in comprehensive two-dimensional GC (GC×GC), multidimensional GC (MDGC), and mass spectrometry.Our research includes device development, fundamental descriptions of GC×GC technology, and supports a broad applications base. As a platform technology, we apply MDGC and GC×GC to a diverse array of separations, including: pesticides; petrochemicals; pharmaceuticals; natural products; toxins; and foods, flavours and beverage analysis such as olfactometry, essential oils, wine, coffee, hop, fatty acids, polyphenols, food safety, herbs and spices etc. He has had visiting appointments in China, South Korea, Singapore, Brazil, and Malaysia.
Giorgia Purcaro
LC-GC(×GC) a powerful toolbox in food analysis
Giorgia Purcaro
LC-GC(×GC) a powerful toolbox in food analysisGiorgia Purcaro is a full professor of Analytical Chemistry at Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, University of Liège (Belgium). She has a Ph.D. in Food Science from the University of Udine (Italy). She spent part of her postdoctoral work at the University of Messina (Italy) and at Dartmouth College (USA) before being appointed at Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech (Belgium) in 2018.Her main areas of research are the optimization of hyphenated chromatographic techniques and sustainable sample preparation workflows. The primary areas of application are related to contaminant analysis in food and food quality, with a primary focus on lipids and volatile compounds. Her primary goal is to demonstrate the robustness of hyphenated chromatographic techniques and facilitate their routine application, thereby ensuring more cost-effective, informative, and effective analytical methods.She has significantly contributed to the advancement in the field of MOSH and MOAH analysis in food, by developing an LC-GC×GC-FID/MS and the associated dedicated software in collaboration with LECO, and she is constantly improving the sample preparation method to increase accuracy in the determination.She received the Leslie Ettre Award in 2010 for her most outstanding contribution to capillary chromatography and the J. Phillips Award in 2015 for her contributions to the field of comprehensive two-dimensional GC. She was included in the list “Top40under40”.She has been a co-author of more than 150 papers and more than 300 conference presentations, with an H-index of 35.
Robert E. Synovec
Adapting Tile-based Discovery Analysis for Comprehensive Two-dimensional Gas Chromatography with Vacuum Ultraviolet Spectroscopy (GC×GC-VUV) Data of Gas Oils
Robert E. Synovec
Adapting Tile-based Discovery Analysis for Comprehensive Two-dimensional Gas Chromatography with Vacuum Ultraviolet Spectroscopy (GC×GC-VUV) Data of Gas OilsRobert E. Synovec is a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Washington (UW) in Seattle WA, USA. He obtained his PhD in 1986 from Iowa State University under the direction of Edward S. Yeung, then joined the UW Faculty, also in 1986. At UW, he served as Associate Chair of the Chemistry Graduate Education Program from 2007-2020 and is now Co-Director of the MSACST Program (2022-present). Synovec has graduated 51 PhDs, 7 Thesis Masters, and 12 Non-Thesis Masters, with 10 Post Docs and 67 Undergraduate Researchers.His group pioneers the development of novel analytical instrumentation and methodology based upon chemical separation science, coupled with chemometric data analysis at both a fundamental and problem-solving level. He has over 300 publications (which includes over 75 publications in Analytical Chemistry, with an h-index of 60 and i10-index of 212), and over 680 research presentations which includes 280 invited lectures. The tile-based Fisher ratio software pioneered by the group to perform discovery-based analysis of GC×GC-TOFMS data was licensed by LECO corporation, commercialized as ChromaTOF Tile. In May 2013, Synovec was awarded the GC×GC Scientific Achievement Award at the 10th GC×GC International Symposium. This award has been instituted to recognize pioneering contributions in developing and promoting GC×GC instrumentation, method development and/or applications. In May 2016, Synovec received the Marcel Golay Award at the 40th ISCC meeting in Riva del Garda, Italy, presented to a scientist in recognition of a lifetime of achievement in capillary chromatography.
Peter Tranchida
Major benefits of using comprehensive 2D gas chromatography-mass spectrometry in food analysis
Peter Tranchida
Major benefits of using comprehensive 2D gas chromatography-mass spectrometry in food analysisPeter Q. Tranchida occupies a position as Full Professor in Food Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry, Biological, Pharmaceutical and Environmental Sciences (University of Messina, Italy), and is currently Coordinator of the Master’s Degree Course in Food Science and Human NutritionHe has co-authored over 180 scientific publications (Scopus database) and has participated to over 360 oral/poster presentations in national and international meetings. 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 2019, at the “16th GC×GC symposium”, held in Fort Worth (Texas), he was awarded the “GC×GC Lifetime Achievement Award”. Prof. Tranchida is currently Associate Editor of Journal of Separation Science (Wiley).His research activities are focused mainly on the study of complex food samples by using advanced gas chromatography processes, in particular, multidimensional gas chromatography systems, combined with various forms of mass spectrometry 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.