Current Chromatography

Professor Hassan Y. Aboul-Enein is a Professor Emeritus at the Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry Department , National Research Center in Cairo ,Egypt and the Chemistry Department. Professor Aboul-Enein is the author and co-author of over 1000 refereed published articles, 90 book chapters and more than 400 conference presentations. He is also authored and edited 8 books in the field of analytical chemistry. He is on the Editorial Board of 22 journals and the Associate Editor of Current Chromatography (Bentham Science Publishers) since 2014.

Yoichiro Ito graduated from Osaka City University Medical School in Osaka, Japan, in 1958. He was a resident in pathology at Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital in Cleveland and the Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago before returning to Osaka to work as an instructor in the Department of Physiology at Osaka City University Medical School. He joined the NHLBI as a visiting scientist in 1968. He has been a Medical Officer in the Laboratory of Technical Development, the Laboratory of Biophysical Chemistry, and currently, the Biochemistry and Biophysics Center. He received the FLC Mid-Atlantic Region's award for Excellence in Technology Transfer for high-speed countercurrent chromatography in 2010. Dr. Ito has published over 600 articles and holds 50 patents for his numerous chromatographic advances.

Dr. M.R. Alegre, was graduated in Chemical Sciences (Specialization in Analytical Chemistry) at University Jaume I (Castellon, Spain). Afterwards, she earned her PhD in Sciences also at this University, working on the determination of antibiotics using micellar liquid chromatography in physiological samples and food. Following her doctorate, she completed a one-year post Doctoral position at Ghent University, Belgium. Nowadays she is working at IRTA (Spain) as a researcher, and will be in charge of the Analytical Chemistry Laboratory, aimed at the determination of marine biotoxins with different analytical techniques, mainly chromatographic, including mass spectrometry detection.

Dr. Bello-López has occupied some academic positions from 1985 in the Department of Analytical Chemistry (University of Sevilla. Spain) and nowadays is Professor in this Department. He is Head of the Microanalysis Research Service of the University of Sevilla and leads a research team devoted to the analysis of emerging pollutants into environmental and biological samples and the developing of liquid phase microextraction and electromembrane setups and procedures. Dr. Bello-López has authored more than 80 papers, 4 books and 5 books’ chapters. Additionally, has been directive member of some scientific and academic associations and agencies.

Dr Giuliana Bianco is author of 44 manuscripts published in peer-review journals and three book chapters (invited). Currently, she is in the Executive Board of the Division of Mass Spectrometry, which is one of the twelve divisions of the Italian Chemical Society. G. Bianco was involved in the evaluation of several research proposals for national (PRIN) and international research foundation. G. Bianco’s research activity has been mainly devoted to the development of analytical methods for the determination of natural and synthetic compounds in real samples (food, biological and environmental samples) by chromatographic and/or electrophoretic methods coupled with UV, electrochemical, LIF and MS detection schemes.

Keyller Bastos Borges is an Associate professor at Federal University of São João del-Rei, Department of Natural Sciences. He is head and founder of Research, Innovation and Analytical Development (RIAD), which focuses on the development of innovative analytical methods (Chromatographic, Electrophoretic, Spectrophotometric and Electrochemical) to measure biological events in complex biological systems, environmental and food analysis, new materials on sample preparation and separation and enantioselective methods. His research group is involved in a wide range of collaborative projects where challenging or novel approaches to bio/analysis, new and smart materials are required. He has authored more than 80 papers, 11 book chapter, 12 patent deposit, and 1 book.

Associate professor and the Head of the Laboratory of Instrumental Analysis at Medical University of Lublin; coordinator and lecturer of chemistry for students of English Language Division, Faculty of Medicine, Medical University in Lublin; invited speaker on international conferences; awarded by Polish Minister of Health, Rector of Medical University of Lublin, and Rector of Warsaw Medical University for scientific achievements; member of many editorial boards; active reviewer; holder of the patent; author of several chapters in scientific books and textbooks for students, many monographs, papers in scientific journals, instructor on chromatographic courses; supervisor of the students’ research teams of American and Polish Students’ Scientific Society; manager of six interdisciplinary, international, non-commercial research projects; member of a Society of Iodine Science (Chiba University, Japan) and Polish Chemical Society. Research interests include mainly new applications of chromatographic techniques for complex samples, clinical and environmental chemistry.

María del Mar Contreras got a predoctoral grant (CSIC I3P) for working at the Inst. of Industrial Fermentations (IFI, CSIC) in Madrid.She obtained her PhD degree in Food Science and Technology, with the highest score (Autonomous Univ. of Madrid) (2010). She also was awarded with a research fellowship from Danone Inst. (2009-2010) and contracted by a food company (4 months) to continue her research studies at the Inst. of Food Science Research (CIAL, UAM-CSIC, Madrid). After this period, she got a Juan de la Cierva contract (2012-2014) and a postdoc contract (Proyecto de Excelencia) (2014-2015) to join the Dep. of Analytical Chemistry, Univ. of Granada (UGR). Currently, she works at the Univ. of Cordoba (Dep. of Analytical Chemistry) (UCO), collaborating with Prof. L. Arce.

Dr. Danilo Corradini holds a doctorate in Chemistry from the University Sapienza of Rome (Italy). Currently, he serves on the International Scientific Strategy Board of the Austrian Drug Screening Institute of Innsbruck, on the International Board of the “Mediterranean Separation Science Foundation Research and Training Center” of Messina (Italy) and is a member and the Past-President of the Stirring Committee of the Interdivisional Group for Separation Science of the Italian Chemical Society. Previously, he has been a member of the General Advisory Board of the Italian Research National Council. For his contribution to separation science, he has been honored with the Csaba Horváth Memorial Award in 2009, with the Central European Group for Separation Science Award in 2011 and with the Arnaldo Liberti Medal in 2014. His research activity covers the investigation of the separation mechanisms of biomolecules in capillary electrophoresis and high performance liquid chromatography and the application of these techniques to life sciences.

Professor Michael K. Danquah is a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers. He is a Full Professor in Chemical Engineering, Curtin University. Professor Danquah’s research activities involve the development of emerging biopharmaceuticals, biofuels / bioproducts and environmental bioremediation systems. His research has resulted in about 200 peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, conference publications and technical reports, with a current H-index of 26. He has trained and supervised numerous researchers including postdoctoral research fellows, PhD and honours project students. He is an Editorial Board member of Current Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Current Chromatography, and an Associate Editor of BMC Biotechnology.

Dr. Du is the dean of the department of Food Science, Zhejiang A & F University, China. He achieved his PhD in Chemical Engineering from Zhejiang University, China. He possesses research experices of 25-years in chromatographic separation and screening of bio-acitive compounds in narural products. He has published more than 100 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as editorial board members of several international journals.

Dr. Salvatore Fanali is Associate Senior Researcher at Institute of Chemical Methodologies (C.N.R.)-Monterotondo Italy. In 1974 he received the degree of Dr. in Chemistry at Rome University “La Sapienza” and the PhD in Analytical Chemistry at Comenius University – Bratislava, Slovakia. His research is focused on development of miniaturized techniques, e.g., nano-LC, CZE, CEC/MS. Studies on enantiomers separations, new stationary phases are carried out. Methods are applied to pharmaceutical, agrochemical, food, environmental, forensic analysis. He is author of 300 publications in Journal (SCI), chapters in books. He is Editor of Journal of Chromatography A (Elsevier), member of the advisory editorial board of 6 Journals.

Karine Faure is a tenured CNRS researcher at the Institute of Analytical Sciences (University of Lyon, France). She has authored 5 chapters in scientific books and over 30 publications in international peer-reviewed journals.Karine Faure holds a PhD degree on capillary electrophoresis from University College Cork, Ireland. From 2006 to 2011, she developed organic monolithic stationary phases for electrochromatography in microfluidic devices.

Szabolcs Fekete holds a PhD degree in analytical chemistry from the Technical University of Budapest, Hungary. He worked at the Chemical Works of Gedeon Richter Plc at the analytical R&D department for 10 years. Since 2011, he is working at the University of Geneva in Switzerland. He contributed 80+ journal articles and authored book chapters in handbooks. His main interests include liquid chromatography (RP, IEX, SEC, HIC, SFC, HILIC), column technology, method development, pharmaceutical and protein analysis.

Professor Fuh received a Ph. D in Analytical Chemistry from University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA. He worked in 3M, USA and Dow Chemical, USA prior to his academic career. Currently, he is a professor in Department of Chemistry, Soochow University, Taipei, Taiwan. His research interests include development of polymeric monolithic column for small molecule analysis, LC-MS method for bioanalysis and food safety and new extraction technique.

Fabio Gosetti graduated in Chemistry Summa cum Laude at the University of Piemonte Orientale (Alessandria, Italy) and he received the Ph.D. degree in Chemical Sciences at the same University. He is author of 52 manuscripts published in peer-review journals (total IF 172, citations: 1094, H-index: 20 by Scopus update 5th October 2016), 5 peer-reviewed conference proceedings and 9 book chapters (invited). The research interest lies in the general area of separation science, in particular the hyphenation of chromatographic technique with mass spectrometry. The main research lines concern the development and validation of new analytical LC-MS/MS methods for the identification and determination of target and non-target species in food, environment and biological samples.

Paul Haddad is currently an Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at the Univesity of Tasmania. He was Foundation Director of the Australian Centre for Research on Separation Science and Director of the Pfizer Analytical Research Centre. He has more than 500 publications in the general field of separation science and he is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering. He is the recipient of the American Chemical Society Chromatography Award, the AJP Martin Gold Medal, and the Marcel Golay Award.

Dr. Hamid Hashemi earned his Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry at Islamic Azad University. He is Dean of basic science faculty at Damghan Branch, Islamic Azad University and managing editor of journal of Chemical Health risks, He is the author more than 60 papers and 3 book in field of analytical Chemistry

Dr. He received his B. S. and Ph. D degrees from Peking University, Beijing, China. He achieved his postdoctoral studies at Vrije Universiteit Brussel-VUB, Brussels, Belgium, and University of Oklahoma, Norman, USA. Dr. He is currently a distinguished professor of Hubei province, China, and a full professor in the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Wuhan Textile University, Wuhan, China. His interests focus on separation science including separation materials, sample pretreatment, chromatographic separation, and electroosmotic pump. To date, he has published more than 50 research papers in reputed journals and held 4 patents.

Pavel Jandera, DSc., is professor of analytical chemistry at the University of Pardubice, Czech Republic. His research work has focused on the study of retention mechanisms, micro- and multi-dimensional LC techniques. He published 250 papers cited more than 6500 times, co-authored 4 books, including “Gradient elution in column liquid chromatography” (Elsevier, 1985), wrote 30 book chapters and presented more than 300 lectures. He serves at the editorial boards of Journal of Chromatography A, Journal of Separation Science, Analytical Letters and Current Chromatography. Among other awards, he obtained the AJP Martin gold medal of the Chromatographic Society, the Giorgio Nota medal for capillary liquid chromatography and the Nernst-Tswet award of the European Society of Separation Sciences. In 2013 and in 2015, the journal Analytical Scientist ranked him among the 100 most influential persons in Analytical Chemistry.

Dr Jouyban is a Pharm.D. graduate of Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran. He obtained his Ph.D. in pharmaceutical analysis from Bradford University, Bradford, UK in 2001 and now is director of Pharmaceutical Analysis Research Center. Dr Jouyban has published more than 375 papers in peer reviewed journals, a handbook and four book chapters. He is a member of National Board of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, and National Institute for Medical Research Development, Iranian Ministry of Health and Medical Education.

Dr. Min-Jung Kang is senior researcher of Molecular Recognition Research Center in Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) since 2004 (Seoul, Korea). She studied Biochemistry in master degree at Seoul National University (Seoul, Korea) and finished Ph.D. study at Biochemical Engineering department in Saarland University (Saarbruecken, Germany) with theme “Quantitative analysis of substrates and products for enzyme reactions using MALDI-TOF MS”. She researched further in the field of “Method development of metabolites analysis using LC-MS/MS” as a Post Doc in Saarland University. She developed several novel strategies for analysis of anti-doping substances till 2009.

Dr Konstantinos M. Kasiotis is a Chemist with PhD on Chemistry of Bioactive Compounds from the Agricultural University of Athens, Greece. Currently is an Associate Researcher in the Laboratory of Pesticides Toxicology, in Benaki Phytopathological Institute, with multiyear experience in the field of environmental analytical chemistry. He has participated in EFSA as a member in pesticide steering committees (PRAS) and invited member in pesticides-ecotoxicology meetings. He has been/is involved in several national and European projects and he has published more than 60 research/review articles in international and national scientific journals and conferences.

Massoud Kaykhaii is a professor of analytical chemistry at the University of Sistan and Baluchestan (Zahedan, Iran) since 1989. His research work is focused on modern sample preparation techniques including µ-solid phase extraction, solid phase microextraction, liquid phase microextraction and stir bar sorptive extraction. He has published over 75 research articles; presented ca. 120 seminars/conferences; authored two textbooks, and supervised more than 100 MSc and PhD thesis. He is secretary of three national mirror committees of ISO/TC and member of editorial advisory board of five journals. He finished 25 industrial projects and has been counsellor in 10 companies in Iran.

Václav Kašička received degree RNDr. in physical chemistry at Charles University in Prague in 1979, and PhD. degree in biochemistry at the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Prague, in 1985. At this Institute, he is head of the department Electromigration Methods, www.uochb.cz/kasicka. He is engaged in research and development of electromigration methods and their application to analysis and characterization of (bio)molecules. He published about 160 scientific papers. He is editor of the Journal of Separation Science, chairman of the Chromatography and Electrophoresis Group of the Czech Chemical Society, and secretary of the Steering Committee of the European Society for Separation Science.

Prof. Kamil Kuca has worked for the last ten years for several academic institutes in Czech republic (University of Defense, Faculty of Military Health Sciences; University of Hradec Kralove, Faculty of Science; University Hospital Hradec Kralove; National Institute of Mental Health) as a Senior Researcher, group leader or AS A chair.Currently, he is the President of the University of Hradec Kralove and THE Director of the Biomedical Research Centre of the University Hospital Hradec Kralove (Czech Republic). He also extended his services as an Invited professor at the following institutes – Florida International University (Miami, USA).

Xiao-mei LING is a professor of pharmaceutical analysis, the associate director of Department of Chemical Biology, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking University, the editorial board member of Chinese Journal of Pharmaceutical Analysis and the Pharmaceutical Analysis Committee member of Chinese Pharmaceutical Association. She has been engaging in the teaching and research of instrumental analysis and pharmaceutical analysis, and obtained some valuable results in the following research works: the novel technology/methods of HPCE for investigating interactions between biomolecules with drug molecules, screening drugs (using coating capillary columns by immobilization protein or receptor-over-expressed cells), discovering the biomarks of disease occurrence , development and outcome and so on.

Dr. Emmanuelle Lipka holds a PhD degree in 2001, in analytical chemistry from the University of Lille, France. She is now an assistant professor at the analytical chemistry lab of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences (Lille). She has authored 60 journal articles related to chiral separations. Her fields of expertise are separation sciences including High Performance Liquid Chromatography, Supercritical Fluid Chromatography and Capillary Electrophoresis applied to pharmaceutical analysis, for the discovery and development of chiral drugs.

Prof. Michal J. Markuszewski studied pharmacy at the Medical University of Gdansk, Poland. In 2000, he earned his PhD in pharmaceutical sciences under prof. Roman Kaliszan supervision and next for two years joined, as a post-doc, group of prof. Shigeru Terabe at Himeji Institute of Technology (currently Hyogo University). Currently he is a Head of the Department of Biopharmaceutics and Pharmacodynamics, Medical University of Gdansk. His scientific interest comprises the metabolomics, cancer biomarkers, pharmacokinetics, application of separation techniques for pharmaceutical analysis (LC-MS, CE-MS) and bioinformatics. Author of 95 published peer-reviewed publications. He was invited lecturer during international symposia and conferences.

Rajmund Michalski works in the Institute of Environmental Engineering, Polish Academy of Science in Zabrze (Poland) since 1988. His research concern mainly: Ion chromatography (sample preparation, columns, eluents, detectors, and applications) and aapplication of hyphenated techniques (IC-ICP-MS, IC-MS) in species analysis (inorganic disinfection by-products, metal/metalloids ions). He an author of dozen of books, manuscripts and over 170 publications about applications of ion chromatography in environmental and food samples. He is a member of Polish Association of Chemistry; Polish Academy of Sciences (Committee of Analytical Chemistry); CASSS (California Separation Science Society); Polish Committee of Standardization and Chairman of Scientific Committee of annual international conference “Ion Chromatography and Related Techniques”.

Ali Niazi: 1998 BSc (Applied Chemistry), Islamic Azad University (Tehran) Iran; 2001 MSc (Analytical Chemistry), Razi University (Kermanshah) Iran; 2005 PhD, Razi University (Kermanshah) Iran. Currently, he is a professor of Analytical Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry, Islamic Azad University of Central Tehran Branch, Iran. His research areas are analytical chemistry, chemometrics, catalyst and nanochemistry. He has published 141 papers and 10 books.

Senior researcher in analytical Chemistry. María Ramos Payán have worked in prestigious institutions: University of Lund (Sweden), University of Copenhagen (Denmark) and University of North Carolina (USA). Currently, she has a position at University of Seville (Spain). She has expertise in microextraction procedures for sample preparation and fabrication of new microfluidic chip devices as novel tools applied in sample preparation.

Dr. Antje Potthast has more than 20 years of experience in chemistry and analysis of lignocellulose. She received her PhD from TU Dresden Germany and after a postdoctoral stay at NC State University Raleigh, USA, did her habilitation in wood chemistry at BOKU University in Vienna. Since 2003 she is associate professor at BOKU and deputy head of the Division of Chemistry of Renewable Resources, Department of Chemistry, and is head of the work group Biopolymer Analylysis and the Lignin platform. She is awardee of international scientific honors, among them the Hayashi Jisuke International Cellulose Award. Dr. Potthast published more than 200 papers in SCI journals and holds several patents.

Alina Pyka-Pająk was born on May 28, 1961, in Bytom, Poland. She graduated at Silesian University of Katowice, Poland, and obtained an M.S. degree in chemistry in 1985. She was then employed at the Department of General and Analytical Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Faculty of the Medical University of Silesia in Katowice. Ph.D. thesis (1990) was concerned with chromatographic investigation of isomer disubstituted derivatives of benzene. Obtained the habilitation in 2000, in Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry in Jagiellonian University in Krakow. Associate Professor at Pharmaceutical Faculty of the Medical University of Silesia in Katowice. In 2009 awarded the title of professor.

Gavino Sanna is an Associate Professor of Analytical Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy of the University of Sassari. His general research interest is focused towards the assessment, the validation and the application to real samples of instrumental methods for the determination of organic and inorganic analytes in foods, environmental and biological matrices.

Andreas Seubert is Professor of Analytical Chemistry at the Philipps-University Marburg, Germany, since 2000 with deep interest in analytical, inorganic and macromolecular chemistry. He authored and co-authored more than 100 original papers, several book chapters and two patent applications. His research interests include the development of polymeric stationary phases for use in all disciplines of chromatography with a special focus on ion separations as well as the use of atomic spectrometry in conjunction with chromatographic separations for the determination of elemental speciation for several elements. A third field of research deals with ultra-trace analysis of ions and elements in complex sample matrices.

Dr. Shibukawa is a Professor of Chemistry at Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University, Japan. His current research interests lie in chemical separations and measurements—especially liquid chromatography and aqueous biphasic extraction. One long-range goal of his research is development of methods for characterization of separation fields using molecules and ions as probes. He served as a vice president of Japan Society for Analytical Chemistry, an Associate Editor of Analytical Sciences, and an Editorial Advisory Board Member of Journal of Separation Science. He is currently a Chair of the Division of Analytical Chemistry of the Chemical Society of Japan. Dr. Shibukawa has authored or coauthored 18 books and more than 100 journal articles. He received the Japan Society for Analytical Chemistry Award in 2016.

Prof. Shiea is a distinguished professor of Department of Chemistry, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan. He received master and Ph.D. (1991) degrees from Montana State University. He was the president of Taiwan Society for Mass Spectrometry and the executive board member and the representative of Region B of the International Mass Spectrometry Foundation. He has over 30 years of research experiences in Chromatography and Mass Spectrometry, particularly in thin layer chromatography/mass spectrometry, interface for LC and GC with mass spectrometry and ambient mass spectrometry. Currently, he is the Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry.

Sergei Shtykov has completed his PhD from Saratov State University (SSU) in 1980 and Doctorate dissertation (Habilitation) from the SSU in 1990. From 1993 he is a Full Professor on the chair of Analytical Chemistry and Chemical Ecology of SSU. From 2005 he is a member of Division of Analytical Chemistry of the European Association for Chemical and Molecular Sciences (DAC EuCheMS). He has published more than 250 papers in academic journals and was Supervisor of 20 PhD and 8 Doctorate dissertations. His scientific direction is an application of nanoobjects, nanotechnologies and supramolecular principles in the chemical analysis.

Dr. Liang-Jun Yan received his B.S. degree from Peking University, Beijing, China; his M.S. degree from the Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; and his Ph.D. degree from the University of California at Berkeley, CA, USA. He did his postdoctoral studies at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX, USA. Dr. Yan is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences College of Pharmacy at the University of North Texas Health Science Center. His main interest is redox imbalance and oxidative stress in age-dependent metabolic diseases.

Dr. Chunpeng Wan is working as a Professor of Nutrition and Food Hygiene in the College of Agronomy, Jiangxi Agricultural University (JXAU), Nanchang, China. He received his M.S. degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) from Jiangxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and Ph.D. in phylaxiology from Nanchang University, China. Furthermore, Dr. Wan joined the Department of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Rhode Island as a post-doctorate fellow. His research interests include natural products chemistry, metabolomics of medicinal plants, nutraceuticals, and food supplements, properties and actions of antioxidants. He has also edited various books, authored over 100 publications including original articles, reviews, editorials and book chapters.