Invited speakers
Prof. Dr. Robert Kennedy
University of Michigan (USA)
http://kennedygroup.lsa.umich.edu
Pushing the limits of separations: high speed and high pressure
Robert Kennedy is the Willard Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Michigan. He became professor of chemistry at the University of Florida in 1991 and served there for 11 years before moving to Michigan. His research interests are analytical chemistry and its application to neuroscience, endocrinology, and biotechnology.
His work has been recognized by several awards including two MERIT awards from the NIH, a Presidential Faculty Fellowship, a Sloan Foundation Fellowship, Beckman Young Investigator Award, ACS Findeis Award, McKnight Award for Technical Innovations in Neuroscience, and Golay Award for Achievements in Chromatography. He has held several service posts and is presently Associate Editor of Analytical Chemistry and Director of the Microfluidics in Biomedical Sciences Training Program at Michigan.
His group has developed instrumentation that couples sampling probes to capillary electrophoresis, capillary chromatography, mass spectrometry, and microfluidic assays for monitoring neurotransmitters in vivo. These methods have been used for studying changes in neurotransmitter concentrations associated with behavior and diseases. His group has also developed sensors and microfluidic devices for monitoring insulin secretion from pancreatic b-cells. These methods are coupled with metabolomics to understand the biochemical mechanism of insulin secretion and perturbations associated with diabetes. His group is also researching use of rapid electrophoretic and mass spectrometric assays as novel approaches to high-throughput screening.
Prof. Dr. Soledad Muniategui Lorenzo
Universidad de A Coruña (UDC) – Instituto Universitario de Medio Ambiente (Spain)
http://investigacion.udc.es/es/Research/Details/G000343
Current Trends in Sample Treatment for Environmental Analysis.
Soledad Muniategui Lorenzo es catedrática de Química Analítica en la Universidad de A Coruña (UDC) desde 2003. Actualmente dirige el Instituto Universitario de Medio Ambiente de la UDC y coordina el grupo de Química Analítica Aplicada (QANAP). Tiene una amplia experiencia en el desarrollo de metodologías analíticas para la determinación de contaminantes prioritarios y emergentes y productos de degradación en muestras ambientales, agroalimentarias e industriales. Su investigación en el campo del medio ambiente se centra en la evaluación de la calidad del aire, calidad del agua y el medio marino, aplicando nuevas estrategias de tratamiento de muestras y determinación por espectrometría de masas acoplada a cromatografía de gases y líquidos y con plasma de acoplamiento inductivo. Ha participado en más de 35 proyectos de I+D financiados en convocatorias competitivas de ámbito autonómico, nacional y europeo y en más de 40 contratos/convenios con empresas, instituciones públicas y centros tecnológicos, en la mayoría como investigadora responsable. Es autora de 230 trabajos publicados en revistas SCI, 300 comunicaciones en congresos y conferencias, 19 libros / capítulos y supervisado 19 tesis de doctorado. Ha desempeñado diversos cargos académicos y de gestión como Directora del Departamento de Química Analítica de la Universidad de A Coruña (1997-2013), Coordinadora del Programa de Doctorado interdepartamental “Química Ambiental y Fundamental” (1997-2011) y Coordinadora del Máster en Ciencias, Tecnologías y Gestión Ambiental de la Universidad de A Coruña desde 2012.
Prof. Dr. Lourdes Ramos
Instituto de Química Orgánica General – CSIC (Spain)
http://www.iqog.csic.es/personal-www/lourdesramos
Comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography-mass spectrometry of complex mixtures: non-orientated studies.
Lourdes Ramos currently holds the position of Senior Scientific Researcher of the Spanish Scientific Research Council (CSIC, Madrid), at the Department of Instrumental Analysis and Environmental Chemistry of the Institute of Organic Chemistry. Her main research interests are the development of novel miniaturised sample preparation approaches for the fast and green determination of trace organic pollutants in environmental and food samples, and the evaluation of new chromatographic techniques, in particular hyphenated gas chromatography (GC) based approaches, for unravelling the composition of complex mixtures of organic microcontaminants. Member of the of the editorial board of various journals, including Journal of Chromatography A, invited editor of several special issues, she has co-authored over 80 peer-reviewed scientific papers, 12 book chapters, and has edited a multi-authored book on comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography.
Prof. Dr. Serge Rudaz
School of pharmaceutical sciences University of Geneva (Switzerland)
https://epgl.unige.ch/labs/fanal/analyses-biomedicales
New insights into separation techniques for endogenous metabolomic profiling
Serge Rudaz studied pharmacy in Switzerland, where he obtained his PhD in 1997. Later, he joined the National Research Center in Roma (Italy) for a post-doctoral position concerning the application of capillary electrophoresis (CE) hyphenated to mass spectrometry (MS) for chiral separation in biological fluids. From 1998 to 2011, he was a master-assistant in Phytochemistry at the University of Lausanne and then Maître d’Enseignement et de Recherche (MER), where he started to promote new strategies for untargeted MS analyses. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2012 at the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Geneva, where he leads the biomedical and metabolomics analysis (BMA) group.
Serge Rudaz contributed to the field of analytical sciences with diverse activities, including invited lectures and invited professorships at various Universities. He is a member of several scientific societies and scientific boards. In addition to acting as a research group leader and member of the management board of the Swiss Centre for Applied Human Toxicology (SCAHT) Foundation, he is also President of the Competence Center in Chemical and Toxicological Analysis (ccCTA) and president of the Swiss Metabolomics Society (SMS). Currently, he is interested in metabolomics, (UHP)LC and CE coupled to MS, advances in sample preparation, analysis of pharmaceuticals and counterfeit medicine, biological matrices, and clinical and preclinical studies, which include metabolism and toxicological analysis. Serge Rudaz is an expert in a variety of chemometric approaches, including experimental design (DOE) validation and regulation (ISO17025), as well as multivariate data analysis (MVA) for metabolomics. He is a (co)author of over 10 book chapters (>10) and 260 peer-reviewed papers, with an H-index (Scopus) of 48. He was chair of the Chimiométrie 2015 and SEP 2017.
The group of Serge Rudaz is developing new strategies for untargeted metabolomics analyses and specializes in the analysis of low molecular weight compounds in biological matrices. Since 2010, the group has also focused on developing chemometric approaches dedicated to the analysis of data produced by MS couplings, including capillary electrophoresis. Aspects of dimensionality reduction and multi-table analysis are addressed through collaborative projects in the fields of toxicology, biology, biochemistry, and pharmacology.
Prof. Dr. Oliver J. Schmitz
University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany)
https://www.uni-due.de/aac
Thousands of separated signals in a four-dimensional separation approach: How can we manage the data?
In 2009 Oliver J. Schmitz got a full professor in Analytical Chemistry at the University of Wuppertal (BUW). Between 2010 and 2012 he was the chair of the Analytical Chemistry department at BUW. Since 2013 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 2011 he was one of the founding directors of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Pure and Applied Mass Spectrometry, University of Wuppertal.
The research field of Prof. Schmitz are the development of ion sources, use and optimization of comprehensive LC and GC, ion mobility-mass spectrometry and coupling analytical techniques with mass spectrometers. He was awarded the scholar-in-training award of the American Association for Cancer Research in 2003, the Cancer Council South Australia ‘Distinguished Visitor’ travel award in 2008, the Gerhard-Hesse Prize for chromatography in 2013 and in the same year the Fresenius Lecturer.
Prof. Dr. Antonio Segura Carretero
Universidad de Granada (Spain)
http://www.ugr.es/~agr274/
Advanced analytical strategies in the field of bioactive ingredients
Dr. Antonio Segura Carretero is Professor at the Department of Analytical Chemistry at the University of Granada and CIDAF Research Head (Research and Development Center for Functional Food) and Head of Research Group “Bioactive Ingrediens”. Dr. Segura got the Extraordinary Doctoral Award and the Young Investigator Award in Analytical Chemistry GRASEQA the Andalusian Society of Analytical Chemists. He has developed 45 national and international projects and 35 targeted research contracts. He has published 380 articles in indexed journals with more than 1200 citations and H index of 57; he has been recognized with the Prize UGR-Caja Rural for his research of high impact in experimental sciences in 2018. He has presented 400 communications in poster and 30 oral or invited presentations at national and international conferences. He has tutored 29 PhD theses and 40 Master Thesis and is co-tutor 8 roadmaps in the Master of Chemistry. Editor of two books and co-author of 27 chapters in various monographs both Spanish and English. He has been teaching in inter-university and international courses and the organization of several courses of university extension comparable free credits including three editions of the “Expert of functional foods and nutraceuticals”.