Authors
Kevin A. Schug is a Full Professor and Shimadzu Distinguished Professor of Analytical Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry at The University of Texas (UT) at Arlington. He joined the faculty at UT Arlington in 2005 after completing a Ph.D. in Chemistry at Virginia Tech under the direction of Prof. Harold M. McNair and a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Vienna under Prof. Wolfgang Lindner. Research in the Schug group spans fundamental and applied areas of separation science and mass spectrometry. Schug was named the LCGC Emerging Leader in Chromatography in 2009, and most recently has been named the 2012 American Chemical Society Division of Analytical Chemistry Young Investigator in Separation Science awardee.
Davy Guillarme is with the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Western Switzerland, at the University of Geneva, in Geneva, Switzerland, and the University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
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.