Kate Jones

Jef Focant considers how far we are from fully automated, standardized GC×GC data processing pipelines accessible to labs without specialist chromatography knowledge.

Jef Focant on what methodological and study design changes will drive volatolomics from promising biomarker discovery results to clinically actionable tests.

Jef Focant discusses where comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography fits in a clinical setting increasingly demanding rapid, low-cost diagnostic solutions.

Sébastien Rolle outlines how the environmental footprint of analytical instruments and methods can be quantified across the full product life cycle.

Sébastien Rolle explores the practical barriers preventing wider adoption of SFE and SFC, and what instrument manufacturers can do to lower them.

Sébastien Rolle discusses the trade-offs between greener instrument design and analytical performance, addressing sensitivity, throughput, and method robustness for laboratory scientists.

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Sébastien Rolle examines four levels of manufacturer sustainability impact and questions whether the analytical chemistry industry is moving fast enough across all fronts.

Gauthier Eppe discusses the vast data complexity that arises when ion mobility is layered on top of HRMS in non-targeted contaminant screening workflows.

Gauthier Eppe discusses how applicable the SWIM approach is beyond halogenated POPs.

The sliding windows in ion mobility (SWIM) approach leverages predictable correlations between retention time and collision cross-section values to improve confidence in identifying semi-volatile contaminants by GC-IMS-HRMS.

At analytica 2026, Gauthier Eppe described adding ion mobility–HRMS to GC–HRMS workflows to support analysis of environmental pollutant mixtures.

Rasmus Bro shows how generative AI extends chemometrics by automating curation, linking analytical data with text knowledge, and improving interpretation.

Kevin Schug identifies the key challenges preventing wider uptake of molecular encoding and machine learning tools in everyday analytical laboratory settings.

Kevin Schug examines how models trained on known compounds perform when applied to unseen molecules or transferred to new experimental setups.

Kevin Schug outlines the criteria used to select machine learning methods for analytical problems and how success is defined and evaluated.

Peter Tranchida on the robustness of enantiomeric ratio profiling across food types.

Kevin Schug explores how molecular encoding bridges chemistry and data science to enhance precision and intelligence in analytical measurements.

Peter Tranchida on how cryogenic band compression boosts sensitivity across analytes.

Peter Tranchida explains how cryogenic band compression and GC×GC boost sensitivity while reducing sample preparation demands in complex food analyses.

In this interview recorded at analytica 2026 in Munich, Giorgia Purcaro discusses how GC‑based hyphenated techniques are reshaping the analysis of complex food samples.

Giorgia Purcaro explains how hyphenated GC and GC×GC deliver rich fingerprints, simplify prep, and enable targeted and untargeted food analysis.

At analytica 2026, Gert Desmet of Vrije Universiteit Brussel mulls over the ways these next-generation columns deliver environmental or resource-use benefits over conventional packed beds.

Caroline West highlights how advances in SFC instrumentation are driving greener, more versatile analytical workflows across diverse applications.

Caroline West highlights how advances in SFC instrumentation are driving greener, more versatile analytical workflows across diverse applications.

At analytica 2026, Gert Desmet of Vrije Universiteit Brussel dicusses the key barriers to routine industrial or clinical adoption of these technologies, and how far away widespread use is.

At analytica 2026, Gert Desmet of Vrije Universiteit Brussel compares the main fabrication approaches across micro-pillar arrays, 3D-printed supports, and multi-capillary channel columns, weighing each against factors such as scalability, cost, and the degree of structural control they offer.

At analytica 2026, Gert Desmet of Vrije Universiteit Brussel discusses the drive toward perfectly ordered column structures in HPLC — from micro-pillar arrays to 3D-printed supports — and the fundamental theoretical gains in chromatographic performance that make this pursuit worthwhile.

At Pittcon 2026, Damià Barceló of the Universidad de Almería sat down with LCGC International to discuss sustainable analytical approaches for microplastics detection and the open challenges facing the field.

At Pittcon 2026, Damià Barceló of the Universidad de Almería sat down with LCGC International to discuss sustainable analytical approaches for microplastics detection and the open challenges facing the field.