Separation Techniques

Norman Dovichi holds the Grace-Rupley Professorship in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Notre Dame. He received his BSc with a dual major in Chemistry and Mathematics from Northern Illinois University and his PhD in Physical Analytical Chemistry from the University of Utah, where he was Joel Harris’s first PhD student. He spent two years at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory with Dick Keller. Since then he has held faculty positions at the Universities of Wyoming, Alberta, and Washington before taking his current position at Notre Dame. Dovichi has graduated 58 PhD students, has published over 275 papers, holds seven US patents, and has given over 350 invited talks. He has served on the editorial advisory boards of 16 journals and now serves as Associate Editor for Analytical Chemistry. He holds an honorary professorship with the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Dr. Adolfo Iulianelli, Degree in Chemical Engineering, is a Ph.D. in Chemical and Material Engineering. Nowadays, he works at the Institute on Membrane Technology of the Italian National Research Council. He published more than 50 articles in international scientific ISI journals, more than 20 chapters in international books, author of one patent and a book and of more than 50 papers in proceedings of National and International Conferences. He is reviewer of more than 20 scientific ISI journals, Associate Editor of International Journal of Membrane Science & Technology, Editor of Journal of Membrane Science and Technology, Advances in Chemical Engineering and Process Technology, Journal of Fuels and Scientific World Journal as well as serving as guest editor for International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. His H-index is today equal to 22.

N. Menad has completed his PhD from National School of geology of Nancy (France) and worked as associate professor at Technical University of Lulea (Sweden). He is scientific expert on process development on industrial waste recycling. He has published more than 90 papers in reputed journals and conferences. At the moment, he is working at BRGM (Bureau de recherché Géologique et minière) on development of separation techniques applied on the urban mine to recover metals.

Dr Dapremont received his Master degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Toulouse, France and his Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry in Simulated Moving Bed technology (SMB) and chiral applications in 1997 from the University of Pierre and Marie Curie in Paris France. He started his career, in 1992, developing SMB technology for Prochrom R&D, France. In 1997, He joined Chiral Technologies Europe, France, as manager of the SMB laboratory, where he was in charge of developing kilogram scale SMB chiral separations. He joined Aerojet Fine Chemicals, now AMPAC Fine Chemicals (AFC) in Rancho Cordova, CA, at the beginning of 2001. At AFC, Dr Dapremont is in charge of the development of chromatographic processes for APIs and intermediates. To this day, he has developed and implemented more than 20 chiral and non-chiral separations using SMB from kilogram to multi ton scale. Dr. Dapremont is author and co-author of several articles on preparative chromatography and SMB applications in various scientific journals and magazines. He is co-inventor for multiple patents using SMB as a purification step for APIs and he has been presenting lectures at International conferences on Preparative Chromatography (Prep, SPICA, Large Scale Chromatography Conference) for the past 20 years. Dr Dapremont is also a member of the Organizing Committee of the Prep Symposium conference and a member of the Scientific Committee of the SPICA conference.

Professor Zoltan Takats obtained his PhD from Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary. He has worked as a post-doctoral research associate at Purdue University, Indiana, USA. After returning to Hungary, he served as Director of Cell Screen Research Centre and also as Head of Newborn Screening and Metabolic Diagnostic Laboratory at Semmelweis University, Budapest. Professor Takats was awarded the Starting Grant by the European Research Council in 2008 and he subsequently was appointed to a Junior Research Group Leader at Justus Liebig University, Gießen, Germany. He moved to the United Kingdom in 2012 and is currently a Professor of Analytical Chemistry, Director of Mass Spectrometry Research within Division of Computational Systems and Medicine, Deputy Head of Division of Computational Systems and Medicine. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles in the fields of analytical chemistry and translational medicine, with more than 3000 independent citations. Some of these were published in Science, Nature, PNAS and Angewandte Chemie International Edition. He is primary inventor of eight analytical methods including Desorption Electrospray Ionization and Rapid Evaporative Ionization Mass Spectrometry, which are commercially available from Prosolia Inc. and Waters Corporation. He is one of the founders of the field termed ‘Ambient Ionization Mass Spectrometry’. He was also the recipient of the prestigious Mattauch-Herzog Award of the German Mass Spectrometry Society and the Hungarian Star Award for Outstanding Innovators.