Alasdair Matheson

Articles by Alasdair Matheson

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The Column interviewed Tony Edge, President of ChromSoc and Chair of the ISC Permanent Scientific Committee, to find out what participants can expect from the world’s oldest dedicated chromatography conference, being held this year in Liverpool, UK.

Giorgia Purcaro of the University of Liège discusses the advantages offered by the liquid chromatography–comprehensive multidimensional gas chromatography time-of-flight mass spectrometer/flame ionization detector (LC–GCxGC–TOF-MS/FID) method in the analysis of mineral oil.

LCGC Europe spoke to Giorgia Purcaro from the University of Liège in Belgium, about her work investigating mineral oil hydrocarbons (MOH) using GCxGC and the practical advantages that a novel LC–GCxGC–TOF-MS/FID method offers the analyst.

LCGC is proud to announce that Szabolcs Fekete is the winner of the 2022 HTC Innovation Award. Fekete was honoured at the Hyphenated Techniques and Separations Technology (HTC-17) conference in Ghent, Belgium on Friday 20 May 2022 for his outstanding contributions to the field of separation science.

Filip Cuyckens from Janssen R&D in Belgium spoke to LCGC Europe about recent innovative approaches he and his team developed to support drug metabolism and pharmacokinetic studies, and the inventive role that two-dimensional liquid chromatography (2D-LC) plays in his laboratory to boost sensitivity, solve recovery issues, and increase overall efficiency.

Markes International moved its entire Welsh operations in March this year to relocate from Llantrisant to a newly refurbished site in Bridgend, which is twice as large as its former premises.

This month we interview Katelynn Perrault, Associate Professor of Forensic Sciences and Chemistry at Chaminade University of Honolulu in Honolulu, Hawaii, about her work translating 1D GC methods to effective comprehensive 2D GC (GC×GC) methods for forensic applications and the benefits that GC×GC offers the analyst.

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in surface water have become a major concern due to their persistency and toxicity. We recently spoke to Stefan Van Leeuwen and Bjorn Berendsen of Wageningen Food Safety Research (WFSR), in The Netherlands, about their novel research into non-targeted PFAS screening using an LC–HRMS method with fragment ion flagging.