Current Chromatography

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. Rosa Maria Alonso obtained her doctorate degree in Analytical Chemistry (in 1983) from University of the Basque Country, Leioa, Spain. Dr. Alonso is affiliated with the University of the Basque Country/EHU, Getxo, Spain, in the Analytical Chemistry Department (Faculty of Science and Technology). Her research interests mainly lie in the subject areas/fields of Chromatography, Liquid Chromatography, High-Performance Liquid Chromatography, Solid Phase Extraction, Analytical Chemistry, Spectrometry, Mass Spectrometry, Tandem Mass Spectrometry, etc. Dr. Alonso, as an author / co-author, has published more than 150 manuscripts in various journals of international repute, accumulating a praiseworthy number of citations, i.e. more than 3,235.

Hakan Arslan is an Professor of chemistry at Mersin University, Mersin, Turkey. He holds a B.S. degree in chemistry (1993) from Erciyes University, Kayseri, Turkey, an M.S. degree in chemistry (1995) from Erciyes University, and a Ph.D. degree in chemistry (1998) from Nigde University. Professor Arslan did his first postdoctoral research at the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Ga, USA, and his second postdoctoral research at the Department of Natural Sciences, Fayetteville State University, Fayetteville, NC, USA. In addition, he has authored and coauthored more than 110+ technical papers in peer-reviewed journals. Arslan also made about 80+ presentations at various major national and international conferences. He is editor of European Journal of Chemistry. Moreover, he is also an Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Chemistry (HINDAWI), International Journal of Spectroscopy (HINDAWI), Heliyon (ELSEVIER), Rasayan Journal of Chemistry, E-Journal of New World Sciences Academy and Karbala International Journal of Modern Science. He also acts as a Referee for major international and national journals. His research interests include synthesis and characterization of redox active ligands, novel thiourea derivative compounds and N-heterocyclic carbene derivative ligands and their metal complexes, thermal behavior and decomposition kinetic studies, single crystal and powder X-ray diffraction studies, theoretical molecular spectroscopy, and vibrational spectroscopy.

Dr. A. Kumar is presently working as a postdoctoral fellow at the faculty of chemical and food technology Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava. He has been awarded for national scholarship program (NSP) of the Slovak Republic funded by the ministry of education, science, research and sport. His research areas of expertise include reactive extraction, applications of ionic liquids in chemical engineering, modeling & simulation, optimization, CO2 capture. His research work at VNIT Nagpur was published in peer reviewed journals and also filled one patent. He is also serving as reviewer in different scientific journals.

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.

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.

I’m Chemist, Crystallographer, interested in hybrids, MOF’s for optoelectronics, energy storage and conduction. I’m using mainly single crystal and powder diffraction for solving new crystal structures and QPA. The powerful spectroscopic techniques (IR, PL, Raman…) and the thermodynamic experiments (DTA, TGA, DCS…) are often unavoidable to validate and proof the structural investigation results. Discovering new smart materials endowed with original behaviour is probably the dream of every researcher team in materials science.

I’m teaching crystallography, thermodynamics, chemistry and powder diffraction (Rietveld). Since 2014, we organize once a year the “Spring Tunisian Rielveld Workshop” in the Engineering School of Nabeul.

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.

Dr. Ibrahim Darwish obtained his Ph.D. degree in Pharmaceutical Analytical Chemistry (in 1998) from Setsunan University (Japan)-Assiut University (Egypt). Dr. Darwish is affiliated as Professor with King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry (College of Pharmacy). His research interests mainly involve: Development and validation of Immunoanalytical methods for pharmaceutical compounds, biomarkers and environmental pollutants; Instrumental analysis by various techniques, including HPLC, LC-MS, HPLC-diodearray, etc.; and, Biotechnology of hybridoma production for generating of monoclonal antibodies. Dr. Darwish, as an author / co-author, has published more than 145 manuscripts in various journals of international repute, accumulating more than 1,815 citations.

Professor Victor David graduated from the Faculty of Chemistry, Bucharest, Romania, and has a doctorate in analytical chemistry (1989). Between 2007 – 2019 he was the Head of Analytical Chemistry Department at the University of Bucharest, Romania. His main field of research is separation science (theory and applications in various scientific domains). Dr. David's list of publications includes 4 books as a co-author (Elsevier), 11 chapters in books and encyclopedias, and 145 scientific articles in ISI journals with impact factor. He is an Associate Editor of Journal of Liquid Chromatography and Related Technologies (Taylor & Francis Publishers), and an Editorial Board Member of the journals: Biomedical Chromatography (Wiley Interscience); Journal of Chemistry (Hindawi); Journal of Essential Oil-Bearing Plants (Taylor and Francis); Revue Roumaine de Chimie (Romanian Academy).

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.

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.

Dr. Joe P. Foley obtained his Ph.D. in Chemistry (in 1983) from University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA. Dr. Foley is affiliated as Professor with Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA, in the Department of Chemistry. His research interests mainly lie in the subject areas / fields of Capillary Electrophoresis and Electrokinetic Chromatography, Liquid Chromatography, Supercritical Fluid Chromatography, etc. Dr. Foley, as an author / co-author, has published more than 115 manuscripts in various journals of international repute, accumulating a praiseworthy number of citations, i.e. more than 4,475.

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. 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.

Dr. Iqbal Hussain obtained his Ph.D. in Chemistry (in 2010) from Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India. Dr. Hussain is affiliated as Assistant Professor with Jubail Industrial College (Royal Commission), Jubail Industrial City, Saudi Arabia, in the Department of General Studies. His research interests mainly lie in the subject areas / fields of "Separation Sciences" {chromatographic techniques (HPLC, GC, GC-MS, LC-MS) & capillary electrophoretic (CE) techniques}, "Sample Preparation Methods" (involving liquid-liquid extraction (LLE), solid phase extraction (SPE), etc.}, and "Characterization Techniques" (like FT-IR, FE-SEM, TGA, XRD, etc.). Dr. Hussain, as an author / co-author, has published more than 25 manuscripts in various journals of international repute, accumulating more than 470 citations.

Gunel T. Imanova (PhD.) is currently a scientific researcher in the Laboratory of “Radiation Chemistry of Heterogeneous Processes” at the Institute of Radiation Problems, Azerbaijan, Baku. She is the Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Advanced Biotechnology and Bioengineering (Synergy Publishers). Radiation Materials Science and Physical Chemistry are her areas of expertise. She is currently conducting physical and chemical experiments on different nano-oxides. She has published more than 50 research/review articles in international and national scientific journals and conferences.

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. Djuro Josic obtained his Ph.D. degree in Fermentation Technology and Biotechnology (in 1981) from Berlin Institute of Technology (TU Berlin), Berlin, Germany. Dr. Josic is affiliated as Professor Medicine (Research) with Brown University, Providence, RI, USA, in the Warren Alpert Medical School. His research interests mainly lie in the subject areas / fields of Proteins, Proteomics, Chromatography, Mass Spectrometry, Protein Separation, Protein Purification, etc. Dr. Josic, as an author / co-author, has published more than 175 manuscripts in various journals of international repute, accumulating a praiseworthy number of citations, i.e. over 4,620.

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.

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.

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, working 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 141 research articles; 3 patents; presented ca. 140 seminars/conferences; authored two textbooks, wrote 22 national standard procedure of analysis, and (co)supervised more than 100 MSc and PhD theses. He is a member of the editorial advisory board of 94 journals and has acted as secretary of three national mirror committees of ISO/TC for years. He finished 25 industrial projects and has been counsellor in 10 companies in Iran. In 2017 he was awarded the prize of best researcher of the University of Sistan and Baluchestan. Publons recognized him four times as "top 1 percent of top reviewers" in multidisciplinary, cross-field and in chemistry in 2017, 2018 and 2019, respectively. Currently, he is the chairman of Smartphone Analytical Sensors Research Centre.

Dr. Weijun Kong is working as an Associate Professor at Institute of Medicinal Plant Development, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College. He did his PhD from Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine. His research interests include analytical chemistry, pharmaceutics, medical science, life science, natural products chemistry, phytochemistry, pharmacognosy, applied microbiology, biological, chemistry, pharmacology and chemometrics. He has authored and co-authored several papers in national and international journals.

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).

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.

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. Marcello Locatelli is an Associate Professor of Analytical Chemistry, his research activity is aimed at the development and validation of chromatographic methods for the quantitative determination of biologically active molecules in human and animal, cosmetics, food, and environmental complex matrices, applying innovative (micro)extraction techniques. These procedures, applied to different analytes finding application in clinical and pre-clinical studies designed to assess the PK, bioequivalence and ADME, were devoted to characterize new delivery systems of the active principle to improve their pharmacological properties using new instrument configurations for the quantitative analysis in complex matrices.

Dr. Mamdouh Saad Masoud obtained his Ph.D. degree in Chemistry (in 1970) from the Faculty of Science, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt. Dr. Masoud is affiliated as Professor of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry with Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt, in the Chemistry Department (Faculty of Science). His research interests mainly lie in the subject areas / fields of inorganic & analytical chemistry and structural chemistry, as well as their application with special use of different types of spectra; magnetic susceptibility; electro-analytical tools; thermal analysis; trace metal analysis, etc. Dr. Masoud, as an author / co-author, has published more than 180 manuscripts in various journals of international repute, accumulating a praiseworthy number of citations, i.e. over 3,040.

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”.

Dr. R. Nandhakumar, Associate Professor, specializes in Organic Chemistry and Supramolecular Chemistry. He obtained his Ph.D. in 2004 from the Department of Chemistry, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, India. His research interests include Bio Organic Chemistry, Chemosensors and Chirality towards the development of novel heterocyclic molecules for varied applications in Chiral discrimination, sensing of biologically and environmentally important small molecules. To his credit, he has two international patents and published more than 100 research papers in peer reviewed journals including J. Am. Chem. Soc., J. Org. Chem., Chem.Comm., Inorg. Chem., Chem. Euro. J., J. Phy. Chem., C., RSC Adv., Sensor Actuat B-Chemical, Tet. Lett., Ind. J. Chem., etc., with a h index of 20 and i index of 40.

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 François Picimbon has received his PhD in Marseille University (France). Currently, he is working as a Director of Agricultural Microbiology Institute in QILU University of Technology (Jinan, Shandong Province, China). His research has included pheromones and olfactory proteins of insects. Based on this research and fellowship training he has received several awards and honours, such as S.T.A. JISTEC - BRAIN Research fellowship (Japan), Alexander von Humboldt fellowship (Germany), one of the top ten most talented international young scientists, High-Level Oversea Scientist, and Taishan Scholar Oversea Scientist (China). He is serving as an Associate Editor of several reputed journals like GENE, Agri-GENE, GENE & Translational Bioinformatics, International Journal of Bioorganic Chemistry & Molecular Biology, SOJ Genetic Sciences and SOJ Microbiology and Infectious Diseases & expert Reviewers for more than 25 journals. His research interests focus on Microbiology, Genomics, and Pathology.

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.

Dr. Zafar Rasheed received his research training at the JN. Medical College, AMU. India, where he also earned his Ph.D. degree in Medical Biochemistry in 2006. Afterwards he joined as a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, USA. At this postdoctoral position he performed extensive studies on human cartilage biology, inflammation and arthritis. He continued these studies during a second postdoc at Columbia, University of South Carolina, USA. Dr. Rasheed then pursued further investigation into cartilage biology with microRNAs regulatory mechanisms during his third postdoctoral appointment at the MetroHealth Medical Center, Ohio, USA. Dr. Rasheed has a long list of publications (>90) including several highly impact papers focused on cellular immunology, inflammation and microRNAs. He has been serving the scientific community as a professional editor for many scientific journals. He received a number of grants in his current position as researcher at College of Medicine, Qassim University, Saudi Arabia.

Victoria F. Samanidou is a Professor of Analytical Chemistry in the School of Chemistry of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. She obtained her doctorate (Ph.D.) in Chemistry in 1990 from the same department. She has published more than 165 original research articles in peer-reviewed journals and 60 reviews and chapters in scientific books. She is a member of the editorial board for more than 10 scientific journals. In 2016, she was listed within the Top 50 Women with a high impact in Analytical Chemistry in the Power list 2016, which was created by The Analytical Scientist Magazine by Texere Publishing. Since January 2016, she has been elected as the President of the Division of Central and Western Macedonia of the Greek Chemists’ Association.

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.

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. Makoto Tsunoda, PhD (pharmaceutical sciences, 2002), is affiliated as Associate Professor with University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, in the Laboratory of Bio-Analytical Chemistry (Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences). His research interests mainly lie in the subject areas / fields of chromatography, chip analysis, bio-analysis, chemiluminescence, catecholamines, amino acids, single-molecule imaging, etc. Dr. Tsunoda, as an author / co-author, has published more than 110 manuscripts in various journals of international repute, accumulating a praiseworthy number of citations, i.e. over 2,350.

Prof. Maria Elizabeth Tiritan has a Degree in Chemistry and PhD in Organic Chemistry. Currently, she is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Pharmacy of University of Porto and Team Leader of the Drug Research line at IINFACTS. Her current interests in research include exploiting new enantioselective analytical method to quantify and identify metabolite in biodegradation of chiral drugs; synthesis of new chiral compounds for diverse biological activities, including potential antitumor and antimicrobial agents as well as studies of structure-activity-properties relationships. She is also enrolled in design of new chiral selectors for enantiomeric separation by liquid chromatography and membranes.

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. Shin-ichi Yusa is a native of Japan and received B.S. (1993) and M.S. (1995) degrees in polymer chemistry from Osaka University under the direction of Professor Mikiharu Kamachi and Professor Yotaro Morishima. He received a Ph.D. from Osaka University (2000) for a thesis. He joined Himeji Institute of Technology as an assistant professor in 1997. He became associate professor of University of Hyogo (2008). His research interests are in controlled radical polymerization and characterization of water-soluble polymers. He is currently on the associate editor of Polymers (MDPI Publishing), and the editorial board member of more than 20 journals.

Dr. Constantinos K. Zacharis is currently an Assistant Professor in Pharmaceutical Analysis at the School of Pharmacy, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Dr. Zacharis received his BSc in Chemistry (2001) and his PhD degree in Analytical Chemistry (2006) from the Department of Chemistry (AUTh). Since 2010, he has been an Editor of the Analytical Chemistry section of the journal Open Chemistry and serves on the editorial boards of Instrumentation Science and Technology, Molecules, Advances in Analytical Chemistry, SEJ Pharmaceutical Analysis. He has authored more than 50 scientific articles, 6 book chapters etc. His current research is focused on the development and application of novel analytical methodologies using separation techniques for pharmaceutical and biomedical analysis.

Dr. Rizvi pursued an MS and PhD combined degree program at the Center for Biotechnology and Drug Design, Department of Chemistry, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA. Right after finishing M.S and Ph.D at the GSU, Dr. Rizvi pursued another Ph.D at the College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Department of the Pharmaceutical Sciences, Mercer University, Atlanta, GA. Dr. Rizvi has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles in top ranking journals, two text book and two book chapters. Dr. Rizvi publications include one of the most highly rated article, two cover articles and one figure from Dr. Rizvi’s paper was included in the text book “Quantitative Chemical Analysis” by Daniel C. Harris (7th Edition, p 616, W. H. Freeman, 2006, ISBN-10: 0716770415). Dr. Rizvi also serves as editor-in-chief, the editorial board member and reviewer for over 120 scientific journals. His research interests are Analytical Chemistry, Separation Sciences, Bioanalysis, Surfactant Chemistry, Chiral Separations of the Drugs, Trace Level Analysis (Forensic Chemistry).