LCGC Interviews

In this first roundtable discussion focused on Women in Chromatography, LCGC International spoke with Diane Turner, Jacqueline Hamilton, and Caroline Gauchotte-Lindsay, who are all leading voices in the LinkedIn International Women in Chromatography group.

In this second part of our interview with Females in Mass Spectrometry (FeMS) Empowerment Award Winner Josephine Ouma, we discuss her experience with mass spectrometry and how FeMS has impacted her life.

In this first part of our interview with Females in Mass Spectrometry (FeMS) Empowerment Award Winner Josephine Ouma, we discuss her PhD research and what inspired her to join FeMS.

Here is some of the most popular content posted on LCGC International this week.

During Pittcon 2025, Christopher Pohl and Katelynn Perrault Uptmor won awards honoring their careers. In this interview, they share their best advice for the next generation of separation scientists.

Here is some of the most popular content posted on LCGC International this week.

In this interview, we spoke with Lee Ferguson of Duke University about his laboratory’s work accurately tracing these contaminants in complex environmental matrices.

In this video interview, Luo explains more about his laboratory group’s research, as well as provides an overview about what he talked about at Pittcon during his award symposium. And finally, Luo addresses some of the highlights of Pittcon and what winning the Pittcon Achievement Award means for his research.

In this video interview with Xiao Su, he dives deeper into the research that he and his team are conducting with redox-active polymers and the applicability of electrochemical approaches in separation science.

In this video interview from Pittcon, we ask Christopher Palmer about developing novel polymeric materials for microscale liquid phase separations, as well as some of the current trends and challenges he is observing in chromatography.

In our interview with Kate Perrault Uptmor, we asked her about the resources available for those interested in learning more about multidimensional chromatography, and current trends happening in separation science that are of particular note.

As part of our series on how North Carolina researchers are helping to combat PFAS in the environment, we asked Mei Sun of the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, about her work with the North Carolina PFAS Testing Network, what strategies show the most promise for large-scale environmental cleanup, and how regulations on PFAS are influencing research priorities and mitigation technologies.

Nadia Gadi and Allisson Barros de Souza spoke to LCGC International about their investigation into the application of electrochemical advanced oxidation processes (eAOPs) for the efficient removal of pharmaceutical residues in wastewater.

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In this video interview from Pittcon, Elham "Elle" Akbari sat down with LCGC International to discuss her research, as well as the challenges of using liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry (LC–MS) and combustion ion chromatography (CIC) to characterize PFAS in environmental samples.

At Pittcon 2025, Long Luo of the University of Utah sat down with LCGC International to discuss his laboratory's tetrahedron approach to their research.

LCGC International sat down with Su to discuss what winning the Young Investigators in Separation Science Award means for him and his research. Su also passed along some advice for separation scientists and young professionals in this space.

In the final section of our interview with Christopher Pohl, he imparts knowledge to the next generation of aspiring separation scientists.

In this interview segment, we sat down with Chris Palmer of the University of Montana to discuss his talk, as well as the evolving role of electrokinetic chromatography in applications areas such as environmental analysis.

In this interview clip, Katelynn Perrault Uptmor, an assistant professor of chemistry at the College of William & Mary, in Williamsburg, Virginia, discusses winning the Emerging Leader in Chromatography Award and her upcoming talk tomorrow.

In this penultimate section of our interview with Christopher Pohl, he reflects on the history of chromatography, sharing what he deems the most important moments in the field.

LCGC International spoke to Paul-Albert Schneide and Oskar Munk Kronik about the development and application of a novel two-step workflow—mass filtering (MF) combined with multivariate curve resolution (MCR)—for extracting clean mass spectra from trace-level compounds in LC×LC–HRMS data.

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In this third part of our interview with Christopher Pohl, he tells us about his most treasured accomplishments from throughout his storied career.

In this second part of our interview with Christopher Pohl, we learn about the mentors Pohl turned to throughout his career, and the important teachings he took from them.