Serge Rudaz is Professor at the University of Geneva where he leads the biomedical and metabolomics analysis (BMA) group. He’s vice-president of the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, President of the Swiss Metabolomics Society (SMS), vice-president of the Competence Center in Chemical and Toxicological Analysis (ccCTA) and member of the management Board of the Swiss Centre for Applied Human Toxicology (SCAHT) Foundation. He is interested in UHPLC and CE coupled to MS, advances in sample preparation, analysis of pharmaceuticals and counterfeits medicines, biological matrices, clinical and preclinical studies, including metabolism and toxicological analysis. He is a (co)author of over 25 book chapters and more than 330 peer-reviewed papers. He was chair/co-chair of several national or international congresses, such as Chimiométrie 2015, SEP 2017, MSB 2020 and PBA 2024. His research group has also focused on developing chemometric approaches dedicated to the analysis of data produced by MS couplings. Aspects of dimensionality reduction and multi-table analysis are addressed through collaborative projects in the fields of toxicology, biology, biochemistry, and pharmacology.

Prof. Börje Sellergren's research expertise span over supramolecular chemistry, molecular recognition and separation science. Based on rational chemical design, molecular self assembly and imprinting, abiotic receptors are designed and used in affinity techniques for molecular biomarker analysis and discovery, pathogen inhibition and sensing, cell imaging, extracellular matrix imitations and therapeutics. He has published over 190 scientific publications and 15 patents in the field of molecular imprinting and biomimetic chemistry with notable contributions reporting robust lipid bilayer mimetics, protein and peptide imprinting, PTM affinity engineering, combinatorial imprinting and host design.  As current and previous coordinator of several EU Research Training Networks and as company founder he has extensive experience in international training of researchers as well as in project management and business development.

Federico Marini received his MSc (2000) and PhD (2004) from Sapienza University of Rome. He is currently full professor of Analytical Chemistry at Sapienza University of Rome. He was awarded the Young Researcher Prize from the Analytical Division of the Italian Chemical Society and the Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems Award . He has been visiting researcher in various Universities (Copenhagen, Stellenbosch, Silesia, Lille). His research activity is focused on all aspects of chemometrics, ranging from the application of existing methods to real world problems in different fields to the design and development of novel algorithms. He is author of more than 270 papers in international journals, and he edited and coauthored the book Chemometrics in food chemistry (Elsevier). He is Editor of Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems and Frontiers in Analytical Science and member of the Editorial boards of Analytica Chimica Acta, J. of Chemometrics, J. of NIR Spectroscopy, J. of Spectral Imaging and Food Control and he serves as Associate Editor for Chemometrics in Wiley’s Encyclopedia of Analytical Chemistry. He has been the coordinator of the Chemometric group of the Italian Chemical Society and is currently the leader of the Chemometric study group of DAC-EuChemS.

Jose Luis Capelo-Martínez (NOVA University of Lisbon-FCT)  is a renowned bioscience researcher and co-head of the bioscopegroup (www.bioscopegroup.org), an organization dedicated to advancing the field of bioscience through innovative research and collaboration. Dr. Capelo's current research interests include developing new methodological approaches in personalized medicine using new proteomics techniques and unravelling bacterial resistance to antibiotics using nanotechnology. He is co-discover of many new bioanalytical methods assisted by ultrasound and he has coined the concept of Prescriptomics. 

Bezhan Chankvetadze is Full Professor for Physical Chemistry and director of the Institute of Physical and Analytical Chemistry at the Tbilisi State University in Tbilisi, Georgia. He has given over 300 presentations as plenary, invited or oral speaker on the international conferences in fields of chirality, electromigration techniques and separation science. Together with editing the Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis, as well as the Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis Open (both Elsevier, Amsterdam, Netherlands) B. Chankvetadze is a member of the editorial boards of:  Electrophoresis (Wiley-VCH), Journal of Chromatography A (Elsevier), Journal of Chromatography O (Elsevier), Journal of Separation Science (Wiley-VCH), Chirality (Wiley), Acta Chromatographica (Academia Kiado), Journal of Pharmaceutical Analysis (Elsevier) and several other international journals. B. Chankvetadze is the recipient of “Journal of Chromatography Top Cited Article Awards” in 2005, 2006  and 2010, the recipient of “2006 Belgian Society of Pharmaceutical Science Award of Recognition” and and Csaba Horvath Memorial Award of the Hungarian Chemical Society and Connecticut Separation Science Council (USA) (2017). Prof. B. Chankvetadze is Full Member of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences.

Chiara Cordero is Full Professor of Food Chemistry at the Università degli Studi di Torino (Turin, Italy). She was Research Fellow at the Technical University of Munich (Germany) in 2008; Visiting Professor at Poznan University of Life Sciences (Poznan, Poland) in 2019 and 2022, and Visiting Professor at Stellenbosch University (Stellenbosch, South Africa) in 2020. Her research focuses on: (a) design of comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography (GC×GC) platforms for food metabolomics; (b) discovery of food quality markers and food intake markers in bio-fluids (nutrimetabolomics and volatilomics); (c) design of green sample preparation approaches for sensomics.

In 2008, she received the "Leslie S. Ettre” Award for “original research in capillary gas chromatography with an emphasis on environmental and food safety" and in 2014 the “John B. Phillips Award” for her research in the field of comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography. In 2016 Chiara was included in the “Women Power List” as one of the 50 most influencing women in the analytical sciences. In 2022 she received the Scientific Achievement Award for her research in GC×GC (https://www.gcxgc-symposium.com/saa-2022).

Antonia García is Full Professor of Analytical Chemistry at Pharmacy Faculty, Universidad San Pablo CEU, Madrid (Spain) and cofounder member of the CEMBIO, Centre for Metabolomics and Bioanalysis, in 2008. 25 years of research mainly focused on the development, validation, and applications of chromatographic methods for metabolomics based on mass spectrometry multiplatform (LC, CE and GC) in the study of several pathologies such as cancer, diabetes, obesity, and infectious, neurodegenerative, lung and cardiovascular diseases in any kind of biological sample: biofluids, tissues and cells. Head of the CEMBIO laboratory. Secretary of the CEU International School of Doctorate, in the program of Science and Technology in health. 9 Supervised theses, all with honors. 7 National and international grants as PI. Editorial Board member of Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis.

Laura Goracci is Associate Professor in Organic Chemistry at the University of Perugia, Italy. She completed her M.Sc. in Chemistry at the University of Perugia in 2000. In 2004 she got her Ph.D in Chemical Science (University of Perugia) and her PhD in Organic Chemistry (University of Bordeaux). From 2008 to 2011, she worked for Multivariate Infometric Analysis, collaborating with the software company Molecular Discovery Ltd and running projects with several major pharmaceutical companies. Back to academia in 2011, she combines organic physical chemistry with cheminformatics, and her main research topics are drug design, hit-to-lead optimization, safety risk prediction. She also leads the design and development of the Lipostar software for untargeted lipidomics, being involved in new collaborations with pharmaceutical companies. She is leader for the working group "Epilipidomics analysis and data integration strategies" within the EpilipidNET COST Action.

Clara Grosso is Assistant Researcher at REQUIMTE/LAQV. She has a degree in Plant Biology and a PhD in Biotechnology. Her field of research focuses on extraction optimization of natural products from plants and seaweeds, identification of secondary metabolites and assessment of biological activities (antioxidant, brain enzymes inhibition). Her main interest is to discover new neuroprotective drugs. She is editorial board member of Processes (MDPI) and Current Medicinal Chemistry (Bentham) and author of 54 papers and 9 chapters.

István Ilisz is a Full Professor of chemistry at the Institute of Pharmaceutical Analysis, University of Szeged (Szeged, Hungary). He graduated as a chemist and teacher of chemistry in 1994 at the József Attila University (Szeged, Hungary). He earned his Ph.D. in 1999 from environmental chemistry at József Attila University under the supervision of Prof. András Dombi. Between 1999 and 2018 he worked at the Department of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry as a postdoc fellow, assistant professor, and associate professor. In 2005 he joined the research group of Prof. Antal Péter, and his defining research area became the liquid phase enantioseparations. Since 2018 he has been the head of the Institute of Pharmaceutical Analysis at the University of Szeged. His research interests include liquid phase enantioselective separations and bioanalytics. He has published over 130 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters.

Simone Nicolardi is Senior Researcher at the Center for Proteomics and Metabolomics (CPM) of Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC). In 2006, he obtained a Master’s degree in Analytical Chemistry from the University of Rome “Sapienza”. He worked as an analyst at the “Istituto Centrale per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica Applicata al Mare” (ICRAM) and continued his environmental studies at the University of Almeria, in Spain. In 2014, he obtained a Ph.D. in clinical proteomics at LUMC. He is expert in the development, implementation, and advanced use of high-throughput and high-resolution mass spectrometry (MS)-based methodologies for the qualitative/quantitative analysis of biomolecules. His work includes glycomics and proteomics studies and the characterization of biopharmaceuticals glycoproteins for service contracts with industries and academic and biomedical projects; the miniaturization and robotization of sample preparation protocols for high-throughput profiling of biomolecules applied to large cohorts of clinical samples; and data analysis and interpretation.

Dan Stærk is Head of Department and Professor in Sustainable Natural Products at University of Copenhagen. Professor Staerk's main research interest is to investigate how Nature during evolution has developed complex chemical biofactories that can inspire us to develop new biosolutions for a future sustainable society. This includes studies of traditionally used medicine, use of waste for future functional food or medicine, and investigating the potential of microbial organisms as future cell factories. To succeed with this, he develops and applies advanced analytical techniques for analysis of bioactive natural products in complex extracts of plants and microorganisms. This includes technologies like ligand-fishing, high-resolution inhibition profiling, hyphenated HPLC-PDA-HRMS-SPE-NMR, metabolomics, and bioactivity-labelled molecular networking. Special interest is on bioactive natural products and peptides for treatment of metabolic diseases, but his interests also include antimicrobial compounds and efflux pump inhibitors.

Myriam Taverna was appointed full professor in analytical chemistry and pharmaceutical biotechnology in 2005 and senior member at the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF) in 2017. She is currently the director of the Institut Galien Paris Saclay (IGPS-CNRS) at the university of Paris-Saclay, a CNRS-research unit composed of 7 teams. She is the head of one team strongly dedicated to analytical developments with a focus on miniaturized techniques (including microsystems, biosensors and capillary electrophoresis) for the analysis of peptides, (glyco)proteins being biopharmaceuticals, drug targets or biomarkers of pathologies. She is particularly recognized for her expertise in capillary electrophoresis either for separation purposes but also as an enrichment and sample preparation method. She has, published more than 185 international scientific papers in addition to a dozen of international chapters. She is a member of the editorial board of Analytica Chimica Acta and is this year, guest co-editor of a special topical issue on « Advances in extracellular vesicle analysis » for the Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry journal. Her research work in the field of biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease, led her to co-found in 2014 the start-up Alzohis. She is currently exploring extracellular vesicles for diagnostic and therapeutic applications. She was among the pioneers to report CE analysis of extracellular vesicles as well as their lab-in-droplet isolation.