Jen Field is currently the chromatographic lead and demonstration laboratory supervisor at Shimadzu UK’s Centre of Excellence in Milton Keynes. She completed her bachelor's in chemistry before going on to complete a research master’s sponsored by GlaxoSmithKline. She then began a knowledge transfer partnership (KTP) between the Open University and Hichrom on the development and commercialization of novel silanes for HPLC stationary phases, after which she became an application specialist at Hichrom. She then returned to academia to gain her PhD with the University of Strathclyde, sponsored by Novo Nordisk and based in Shimadzu UK, to investigate the peptide separation system by designing specific peptide probes to interrogate stationary phase and mobile phases retention mechanisms for maximum selectivity differences.