Authors

Kayla Schenk is an associate scientist at Bora Biologics. She is part of the Process Development Purification team, where she develops purification processes for various biologics.

Jared Auclair is Interim Dean at the College of Professional Studies, Vice Provost Research Economic Development and Director of Bioinnovation at Northeastern University, in Boston, Massachusetts. He is also the Director of Biotechnology and Informatics, as well as the Director of the Biopharmaceutical Analysis Training Laboratory.

Laetitia Denbigh is a Director Program Lead at Waters Corporation (Wilmslow, UK).

Grégory Bauwens is a PhD researcher from Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech (University of Liége, Belgium). He recently finished his PhD thesis on the topic on mineral oil hydrocarbons during which he has authored or co-authored 7 peer-reviewed publications and has an H-index of 4. He has work experience regarding the sample preparation and different hyphenated techniques.

Kevin Crossley is a scientist in the Synthetic Separations group at Amgen with 23 years of pharmaceutical industry experience in purification and chromatography. He began his career with largescale natural product isolations and joined Amgen in 2008, supporting programs from FIH to commercial with chiral and achiral purifications. Since 2019, he has contributed to advancing the Discovery pipeline and purification capabilities. Kevin is a recipient of multiple green chemistry awards, holds patents, and has authored several publications.

Adrian Carranza is an Associate Scientist (EW) working within the Synthetic Separations team at Amgen. His current work focuses on quantification and analysis of small molecules, and a high throughput LC-based solubility assay for early-stage synthetic compounds. Adrian received his degree in Microbiology from California State University Northridge in 2019. He has previously worked on liquid formulation screenings of adeno-associated virus (AAV)-based drug products and other chromatographic techniques, such as, size exclusion and ion exchange chromatography.

Giorgio Purcaro is an analytical chemistry professor at Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech (University of Liège, Belgium). Her research focuses mainly on the development of miniaturized sample preparation coupled with advanced chromatographic methods (GC×GC, LC–GC, LC-GC×GC) in food quality and safety. She was awarded the L.S. Ettre (2010) and the J. Philipps (2015) awards at the joint ISCC & GC×GC Symposium for her contribution to the GC×GC field. She was included in the Top 40 under 40 list in 2015. She has authored or co-authored more than 130 peer-reviewed publications and has an H-index of 33.

Ismail Pinar holds an MSc in organic chemistry. He is experienced in analytical method development, having worked as an analyst in several pharmaceutical companies in Turkey. He is currently working as a senior analytical chemist at Almac Sciences, primarily supporting analytical method development and validation.

Melissa Giguere, DFS is an independent consultant for forensic toxicology and provides expert testimony as an affiliate of Medusa Analytical. Melissa earned a Doctor of Forensic Science (DFS) degree, with a focus on toxicology, from Oklahoma State University. Her background includes over ten years of experience in forensic toxicology as a laboratory analyst. She is proficient in multiple areas of instrumentation, extraction techniques, and evidence handling, and held a Texas Forensic Science Commission license. Her background also includes over 13 years of law enforcement experience, ranging from serving as a Master Certified Jailer to holding a Commissioned Peace Officer certificate in the State of Texas.

Christian Reidy is a Product Manager at Waters Corporation (Milford, USA).

Pascal Steffen-Lockhauserbäumer is product manager timsTOF at Bruker Daltonics.

Bo Zhang is an associate professor at Xiamen University, China; a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry; a scientific committee member of HPLC2025; associate editor of Journal of Separation Science, and an EAB member of Journal of Chromatography A and Chinese Journal of Chromatography. He was trained as a separation scientist at National Chromatographic Center, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics. He went on to study for his PhD in chromatography at the University of York, UK, from 2002–2007, followed by a postdoc at Imperial College London for two years. In 2009, he took up his current position at Xiamen University, where he runs a pure chromatography research group focused on column technology, advanced manufacture of chromatographic materials, as well as microfluidic technologies for bioseparation.