Foredragsholdere

Elia Psillakis is Full Professor in Water Chemistry at the School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Greece. Her research focus on the development and application of novel analytical procedures for detecting trace amounts of organic pollutants in a variety of environmental samples as well as studying the fate of organic micropollutants in natural and engineered environments. She is Head of the EuChemS-DAC Sample Preparation Study Group and Network and Editor-in-Chief of “Advances in Sample Preparation”, Elsevier. She was awarded a Fulbright award and used at Caltech, USA (2007) and the Silver Jubilee Medal from The Chromatographic Society (2025).  

Andrea Gargano is an Associate Professor of Analytical Chemistry at the van’t Hoff Institute for Molecular Science, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. In his research, he focuses on LC-MS technology development for macromolecule characterization. Examples are hyphenated separation approaches for intact protein analysis, impurity profiling of oligonucleotides, and novel enzymatic systems for synthetic polymer characterization.  

His significant contributions have been recognized with the Ernst-Bayer Award (2014), the Csaba Horváth Young-Scientist Award (2015), a prestigious NWO-VENI research fellowship, alongside numerous national and international grants. The Analytical Scientist magazine has twice celebrated him among their ‘Fab Forty’ (2018, 2022) for his transformative impact on analytical science. 

Alastair Lewis is professor of atmospheric chemistry at the University of York, UK. He is an experimental scientist who has studied the composition of the atmosphere from polar regions to megacities, open oceans to tropical forests. He has received the Royal Society of Chemistry Silver Medal for analytical science, John Jeyes award for environment, energy and sustainability and the biannual prize for science policy. He is Chair of the Air Quality Expert Group and the Department for Transport Science Advisory Council and a member of the Environmental Sustainability Panel of the Civil Aviation Authority. He has been a contributor to >300 scientific publications on topics spanning analytical chemistry, air pollution science, and public health impacts. 

Erik Hallin finished his PhD in biochemistry at Lund University (Sweden) in 2016, elucidating the
function and structural properties of proteins involved in the light protection mechanisms in plants.
He then continued with a post-doc at the University in Bergen (Norway), working with
characterization of brain proteins involved in the formation of long-term memory. He is currently
employed at Haukeland University Hospital, developing LCMS based methods for quantification of
therapeutic monoclonal antibodies (t-mAb). These t-mAb are used for treatment for cancer,
autoimmune diseases and more. The goal of this research is to introduce LCMS-based t-mAb
quantification to hospitals and thereby allow improved personalized medication.

Aleš Kvasnička is a Clinical Metabolomics Scientist at the Section for Metabolomics and Lipidomics, Oslo University Hospital, Norway, working in the team of Katja B. P. Elgstøen. During his PhD in Clinical Biochemistry (Faculty of Medicine, Palacký University, Czechia in 2024), he completed several international internships in leading research laboratories in Germany, Norway, and Japan. His research focuses on the clinical application of metabolomics and lipidomics and their translation into medical practice. He is actively involved in several scientific and professional societies, including the Metabolomics Society (EMN and ETC committee member), EFLM (Chair of the YS Committee), and the IFCC (member of the Metabolomics WG). In addition, he serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Metabolomics journal.