Authors
Aleksandra Gorska is a teaching assistant and PhD candidate working under the supervision of Prof. Giorgia Purcaro at the Faculty of Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech (University of Liège). She obtained a master’s degree in bioengineering in 2023. Her current research focuses on developing sample preparation methods for the analysis of MOSH/MOAH in food, as well as their toxicological evaluation.
James Ogden spent nine years working within an environmental analytical laboratory, where he was responsible for method testing, development, and implementation. In his current role at SepSolve Analytical, James supports customers through the development, demonstration, and handover of analytical methods across the company’s portfolio of instruments and software.
Nick Pittman is a Marketing Manager at Waters Corporation (Wilmslow, UK).
James Sweatman holds a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from the University of Liverpool, UK, and a master’s degree in analytical chemistry from the University of Huddersfield, UK, and is currently an analytical investigator at Almac Sciences in Northern Ireland. With a career in analytical chemistry spanning over 28 years in the environmental and healthcare fields, he is an expert in analytical method development for small molecules with various chromatographic and spectroscopic techniques. Since joining Almac Sciences in 2007, he has led the analytical development and validation support for many small molecule GMP manufacturing campaigns. Direct correspondence to: james.sweatman@almacgroup.com
Isabel Kolinko is a business development manager at Genedata, AG, where she is responsible for new product development and R&D on digitalization of biotherapeutic discovery and development workflows. She completed her PhD in Biology at LMU Munich and postdoctoral fellowships at University of California, San Francisco and ETH Zürich, and serves as a lecturer at the University of Basel.
Wesley W. Barnhart is a principal scientist in the Synthetic Separations group within the Research and Development department at Amgen. His expertise is focused on analytical and preparative separations of achiral and chiral small molecules, oligonucleotides, and mass-directed purification of microgram levels of pharmaceutical compounds.
Paula Albendea is a postdoc researcher specializing in analytical chemistry at the Faculty of Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech (University of Liège, Belgium). She obtained her PhD in Food Science and Nutrition with an International Mention at the University of Barcelona (Spain) in 2023. Her doctoral research involved evaluating the lipid quality of different matrices. Her current research is focused on optimizing sample preparation methods for MOSH and MOAH analysis, as well as their toxicological evaluation.
Megane Aebischer is with the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences and the Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Western Switzerland, at the University of Geneva, in Geneva, Switzerland.
Kaiyue Sun received his B.S. degree in 2019 and his Ph.D. degree in 2024 from Xiamen University. He joined Bo Zhang’s research group in 2016 and has since focused on chromatography and separation science. His research interests include advanced column technologies and packing materials, the regulation of chromatographic selectivity, and polymer separation.
