New Dimensions in Chromatography with AI and Ion Mobility: An HPLC Interview with Gérard Hopfgartner

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At HPLC 2023, LCGC spoke with Gérard Hopfgartner of the University of Geneva. This clip contains one of several HPLC interviews that were conducted at the conference.

Hopfgartner spoke with us at HPLC 2023 in Dusseldorf, Germany, where he expanded on a talk he gave supporting his research presentation, "Separations Sciences Coupled to Mass Spectrometry for Multimodal Analysis: Challenges and Opportunities."

Hopfgartner is the head of Life Sciences/Mass Spectrometry at the University of Geneva in Switzerland.

In these interview clips, Hopfgartner answers the following:

  1. How can artificial intelligence benefit the chromatography community? (00:15–01:21)
  2. Can you explain how ion mobility is
 adding a new separation dimension
 in chromatography? (01:22–02:42)

This interview was one of several conducted at HPLC 2023. You can see our latest conference coverage, including our additional video interviews conducted at HPLC, at the following link: https://www.chromatographyonline.com/conferences/hplc

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