
Lina Mikaliunaite shares her journey from studying liquid chromatography as an undergraduate to working in industry with GC×GC, highlighting the mentors, research experiences, and career steps that shaped her path in separation science.
Lina Mikaliunaite is an application chemist at Markes International, where she supports customers across North America with thermal desorption, GC×GC, and data processing solutions. Lina earned her Ph.D. from Robert Synovec’s group at the University of Washington, where her research focused on advances in GC×GC instrumentation and developing chemometric workflows for complex datasets. She is also an alumnus of Pepperdine University, where she received her B.Sc. in Chemistry and first became interested in separations through her research on method development for LC.

Lina Mikaliunaite shares her journey from studying liquid chromatography as an undergraduate to working in industry with GC×GC, highlighting the mentors, research experiences, and career steps that shaped her path in separation science.

The application of porous layer open tubular (PLOT) columns can be expanded beyond light compounds to separations of analytes with heavier boiling points.

The application of porous layer open tubular (PLOT) columns can be expanded beyond light compounds to separations of analytes with heavier boiling points.

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