Authors
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.
Yuki Suzuki earned her Ph.D. in neurogenetics from Tokyo Metropolitan University in 2022. She currently works as an application chemist at the Solution Center of Excellence at Shimadzu Corporation in Japan, where she focuses on liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry (LC–MS). Dr. Suzuki has developed a wide range of applications across various fields, including life sciences, food safety, and environmental analysis.
Matthew Gorton is a Product Manager at Waters Corporation (Wilmslow, UK).
Balasubrahmanyam Addepalli is a Scientist Director at Waters Corporation (Milford, USA).
Daniel Merriman is a senior advisor - process analysers at Thermo Fisher Scientific.
Michael W. Dong is a principal of MWD Consulting, which provides training and consulting services in HPLC and UHPLC, method improvement, pharmaceutical analysis, and drug quality. He was formerly a Senior Scientist at Genentech, a Research Fellow at Purdue Pharma, and a Senior Staff Scientist at Applied Biosystems/PerkinElmer. He holds a PhD in Analytical Chemistry from City University of New York. He has more than 130 publications and a bestselling book in chromatography. He is an editorial advisory board member of LCGC North America and the Chinese American Chromatography Association. Direct correspondence to: LCGCedit@mmhgroup.com.
Zhenzhen (Doris) Ye is the senior manager of analytical development at Bora Biologics. She works on analytical method development and validation for therapeutic proteins, excipient, and process-derived impurities.
Alexander Bulsciewicz is a PhD candidate in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Seton Hall University.His research interests are in separation science with interests in sampling, injection and sustainability in gas chromatography and GC-MS.He holds BS and MS degrees in Chemistry from Seton Hall University.