PERMANENT SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Alberto Cavazzini
University of Ferrara
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Gert Desmet
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
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Gert Desmet has a PhD in chemical engineering from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium, where he currently is a full professor. His research 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 Analytical Chemistry” and was the recipient of an ERC Advanced Grant. He is also a member of the permanent scientific committees of the international HPLC and ISC conference series.
Tony Edge
Avantor
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Dr. Tony Edge has been working in the field of chromatography for more than 30 years. During that time he has worked at different organisations including AstraZeneca where he developed methods for bioanalytical workflows and also in the manufacturing arena working for ThermoScientfic, Agilent and Avantor where he headed R&D teams developing next generation separation and extraction media. He was awarded the Desty Memorial Lecture in 2004 for his contributions to innovating separation science, and in the same year also won a clinical excellence award. Edge’s current interests are centered on improving the extraction process and high-temperature chromatography.
Michal Holčapek
University of Pardubice
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Michal Holčapek obtained his Ph.D. in analytical chemistry from the University of Pardubice (1999), where he currently serves as a professor of analytical chemistry. His research focuses on mass spectrometry and its coupling with liquid chromatography or supercritical fluid chromatography, applied mainly to lipidomic analysis and cancer biomarker research. He has received numerous prestigious awards, including the Neuron Award for Connecting Science and Business (2023, Neuron Foundation), the Rudolf Lukeš Prize (2023, Experientia Foundation), the Herbert J. Dutton Award (2022, American Oil Chemists’ Society), and has been repeatedly recognized on The Analytical Scientist’s Power List of the most influential people in analytical science. He is one of the founding members of the Lipidomics Standards Initiative and the International Lipidomics Society.
Jörg Kutter
University of Copenhagen
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Professor Dr. Jörg P. Kutter holds a B.Sc. and a Ph.D. in analytical chemistry (1995) from the University of Ulm, Germany, focusing on chromatographic and electrophoretic techniques.
After graduation, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Oak Ridge, TN, USA) developing microchip-based analytical tools. He joined the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) in 1998, and in 2006, he was appointed professor in experimental lab-on-a-chip systems.
Since September 2013, Dr. Kutter is the Chair of Analytical Biosciences at the Dept. of Pharmacy at the University of Copenhagen. His research interests focus on the development of miniaturized separation and sample preparation methods.
Oliver Schmidt
University of Duisburg-Essen
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Since 2012 Oliver J. Schmitz has been a full professor at the University of Duisburg-Essen and is the chair of the Institute of Applied Analytical Chemistry.
In 2018 Oliver has founded, together with Agilent, the Teaching and Research Center for Separation (TRC) at the University of Duisburg-Essen.
Prof. Schmitz´s main research area is separation science, with a particular focus on non-target analysis of complex samples, the development of ion sources, the use and optimization of multidimensional LC and GC, ion mobility-mass spectrometry and metabolomics. He was awarded the Gerhard-Hesse Prize for chromatography in 2013 and the Andrzej Waksmundzki medal award in 2019.
Caroline West
Université d’Orléans, France
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Caroline West is a full professor at the University of Orleans, France. She is a specialist of SFC, with or without hyphenation to extraction methods and/or MS, to analyze samples of pharmaceutical interest and natural products. She has authored about 140 papers and book chapters, and has presented about 130 lectures in conferences and seminars. In 2015, she received the “LC‐GC Emerging Leader in Chromatography” award. She was ranked several times among the most influential people in analytical chemistry by “The Analytical Scientist” magazine (2014, 2018, 2019, 2020 & 2021), received the Jubilee medal from the Chromatographic Society (2021) and the JFK Huber Award Lecture from the Austrian Society for Analytical Sciences (2025).
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