SHORT COURSES
SC 1 – Modern HPLC Separation in Theory and Practice
SATURDAY, 5 SEPTEMBER 2026, 9:30 – 17:00
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Lucie Nováková
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Lucie Nováková is a Full Professor in Analytical Chemistry at the Charles University, Faculty of Pharmacy in Hradec Králové, Czech Republic. Her research is focused on separation techniques, including UHPLC, SFC and their coupling to mass spectrometry. She is involved in a wide scope of research projects in pharmaceutical analysis, doping control, plant analysis, and bioanalytical methods. She authored the book on HPLC theory and practice in Czech and in English (https://czechhplcbook.com) and ten book chapters. She published almost 180 peer-reviewed scientific articles with more than 6600 citations and an h-index of 44. She is also widely involved in teaching and education activities.
Jiří Urban
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Jiří Urban received a Ph.D. in 2007 in the group of Pavel Jandera at the University of Pardubice, the Czech Republic, where he worked until 2016. During 2009-2011, he followed post-doctoral research at the University of California, Berkeley, USA, in the Frantisek Svec and Jean M. J. Fréchet group. In 2017 he moved to the Department of Chemistry at Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, where he became an Associate Professor in 2018. In his research, he utilizes multifunctional polymer monoliths to develop new analytical methods applicable to metabolomics and proteomics. He also focuses on the design of new instrumental setups for two-dimensional liquid chromatography.
Petr Česla
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Petr Česla is an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Analytical Chemistry at the Faculty of Chemical Technology, University of Pardubice, Czech Republic. His research focuses on the development of liquid chromatographic separations, including two-dimensional separations, retention modeling, and optimization procedures. The main application areas of his work include the analysis of naturally occurring plant metabolites, pharmaceuticals, and industrial samples such as surfactants, oligomers and synthetic dyes. He also represents the Czech Republic in the Central European Group of Separation Sciences.
Michal Douša
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Michal Douša has served as the Head of the Separation Methods Department at the pharmaceutical company Zentiva since 2007. His research focuses on separation techniques, particularly HILIC, chiral separation, and derivatization techniques. He has prior experience in HPLC analysis of soil, food, and feed. He is the author of a book on HPLC theory and practice and one book chapter. He has published over 67 articles, accumulating more than 1039 citations (h-index 20). He is also actively involved in teaching and educational activities, including HPLC and validation training courses. He serves as the Chairman of the Czech Chromatography School association.
SC 2 – The Analytical Procedure Lifecycle Approach: from Procedure Design to Performance Assessment using AQbD Principles
SUNDAY, 6 SEPTEMBER 2026, 8:30 – 11:45
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Jean-Marc Roussel
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Jean-Marc Roussel holds a PhD in Analytical Chemistry and has been an associate to Paris-Saclay university for 12 years. With almost 40 years’ experience in the development and statistical assessment of analytical methods, he is an independent consultant since 2002 and is deeply involved in the concept of Analytical Methods Life Cycle, particularly as co-designer of NeoLiCy® software for statistical evaluation of analytical methods. He is with the United States Pharmacopeia (USP), Pharmaceutical Analysis Lifecycle and Data Science Experts Committee, and with several experts’ committees from the French Society for Pharmaceutical Sciences and Techniques (SFSTP) and A3P association.
Amanda Guiraldelli
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SC 3 – Interpretation of Mass Spectra: Basic Introduction for Chromatographers
SUNDAY, 6 SEPTEMBER 2026, 8:30 – 11:45
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Josef Cvačka
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Josef Cvačka is head of the Mass Spectrometry Group at the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences and an associate professor at the Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague. His research focuses on the structural analysis of bioactive organic compounds using advanced mass-spectrometric techniques. He develops methods for pinpointing double-bond and methyl-branching positions in lipids and aims to discover new lipid classes in biological samples. His laboratory also designs new ion sources for MS and HPLC/MS. He teaches and supervises students at Charles University and founded the Czech Museum of Mass Spectrometry.
SC 4 – Hydrophilic Interaction Liquid Chromatography
SUNDAY, 6 SEPTEMBER 2026, 8:30 – 11:45
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Hydrophilic Interaction Chromatography (HILIC) has become an essential separation mode for the analysis of polar compounds that are poorly retained in reversed-phase LC. This chromatographic mode is more and more widely used in pharmaceutical analysis, biopharmaceutical characterization, and, above all, metabolomics, where enhanced retention, improved MS sensitivity, and complementary selectivity are indispensable. Despite its power, HILIC remains perceived as complex due to its mixed retention mechanisms, sensitivity to experimental conditions, and limited repeatability. A dedicated short course is therefore required to help users understand this technique in a robust and efficient way.
This course will provide an in-depth and practical overview of HILIC fundamentals, starting with a discussion of the relatively complex retention mechanism. Particular emphasis will be placed on critical operational parameters such as sample diluent effects, which can drastically impact peak shape and retention, and on achieving good repeatability in gradient mode.
Participants will also learn how coupling HILIC with MS can maximize sensitivity, and how to select both mobile phase components and stationary phases to obtain reliable and reproducible separations. Numerous applications will be covered, including typical small-molecule analyses, comprehensive metabolomic workflows, and the characterization of large biopolymers such as oligonucleotides, peptides, and proteins.
In the end, this short course will help participants to confidently implement and troubleshoot HILIC in modern analytical laboratories.
Davy Guillarme
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Davy Guillarme currently serves as an associate professor at the University of Geneva in Switzerland. With over 350 published journal his expertise spans various techniques, including UHPLC, HILIC, LC−MS, SFC, SFC-MS, multidimensional LC, and application to the characterization of biopharmaceuticals.
He is an editor of the Journal of Chromatography A and serves on the editorial advisory board of various other journals.
Davy Guillarme has been honored with the LC-GC Emerging Leader Award in Chromatography (2013), the Jubilee Medal from the Chromatographic Society (2018), the International Award of the Belgian Society of Pharmaceutical Sciences (2022) and the Csaba Horvath memorial award (2025).
SC 5 – Oligonucleotides and Other Biopharmaceuticals
SUNDAY, 6 SEPTEMBER 2026, 12:30 – 15:45
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Koen Sandra
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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.
SC 6 – Statistical Analysis and Visualization of Quantitative LC/MS Data in R
SUNDAY, 6 SEPTEMBER 2026, 12:30 – 15:45
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Jakub Idkowiak
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Jakub Idkowiak earned his Ph.D. in analytical chemistry from the University of Pardubice, Czech Republic, under the supervision of Professor Michal Holčapek, focusing on mass spectrometry of lipids and their quantitation in biological matrices. He is currently a research associate in the Laboratory of Lipid Metabolism and Cancer at KU Leuven, Belgium, led by Professor Johannes Swinnen. His research involves developing analytical methods for lipid detection and quantitation using direct infusion mass spectrometry, mass spectrometry imaging, and liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry. He is also interested in statistical analysis, data visualization, and applying -omics technologies to study lipid metabolism in cancer.
SC 7 – Supercritical Fluids in Chromatography and Extraction
SUNDAY, 6 SEPTEMBER 2026, 12:30 – 15:45
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Isabelle François
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Isabelle is the founder of Chromisa Scientific, a consultancy company based in Belgium. She supports academia as well as industry with demanding extraction, chromatography, purification and project management challenges, offering customization, training and support.
Isabelle holds a PhD in analytical chemistry (acquired in the group of Pat Sandra), and has been working with analytical and CO2 technologies since more than 15 years across many industries (during her PhD as well as during her career at Waters and through collaborations with Thar Process and De Dietrich). Next to her expertise in the domain of supercritical fluids, she is also considered as a subject matter expert for two-dimensional fluid based technologies. Isabelle has been awarded numerous times in the Powerlists of the magazine “The Analytical Scientist” eg as one of the most influential female scientists in the world in 2016. Isabelle is still closely connected to the scientific community, contributing to cutting-edge research as well as publishing and reviewing articles on a regular basis, and she is often invited as a speaker at scientific conferences.
Caroline West
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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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