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Frantisek Svec

Frantisek Svec lives in California and is Professor at the Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, China and at the Department of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Charles University, Hradec Králové, Czech Republic. He received a BSc in chemistry and PhD in polymer chemistry from the Institute of Chemical Technology, Prague (Czech Republic). In 1976 he joined the Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, before joining the faculty at Cornell University in 1992. In 1997, he was appointed at the University of California, Berkeley and also affiliated with the Molecular Foundry of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Svec has authored 450 scientific publications, edited two books, and authored 75 patents. He is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Separation Science, member of editorial boards of a number of renowned journals and was President of CASSS in 2003–2015. He is best known for his research in the area of monoliths and their use in liquid chromatography, electrochromatography, supports for solid phase chemistry, enzyme immobilization, and microfluidics.

Content by Frantisek Svec:

Business & Education Professional Development

The Art of Writing

| Paul Haddad, Emily Hilder, Frantisek Svec

We present a straightforward guide to preparing papers and posters that will get you noticed

Techniques & Tools Liquid Chromatography

The Next Big (or Small) Thing

| Emily Hilder, Pat Sandra, Janusz Pawliszyn, Ian Wilson, Steven Lehotay, Susan Olesik, Sebastiaan Eeltink, Michal Holcapek, Kevin Schug, Hans-Gerd Janssen, Frantisek Svec, Lourdes Ramos

We attempt to predict liquid chromatography’s way forward in our leaders’ “wish list”

Fields & Applications Gas Chromatography

Science Without Borders

| Frantisek Svec

Working behind the Iron Curtain wasn't easy; fortunately, good chemistry is applicable worldwide

Techniques & Tools Metabolomics & Lipidomics

Gurus of the monolith

| Emily Hilder, Sebastiaan Eeltink, Frantisek Svec, Nobuo Tanaka

Four stationary phase experts – Emily Hilder, Frantisek Svec, Nobuo Tanaka and Sebastiaan Eeltink – discuss the unfolding story of monolithic columns: from chromatographic curiosity to the future of sample preparation?

About the Author

| Charlotte Barker, Pat Sandra, Marcus Lippold , Rich Whitworth, Karen Trentelman, John K. Delaney, Yuriko Jackall, Michael Swicklik, Ana Martins, Petria Noble, Koen Janssens, Caroline West, Sarah Maurer, Donald Chace, Giuseppe Petrucci, Greg Miller, Robert Kraus, Sebastian Pantò, Han van Krieken, Joanna Cummings, Steven (Steve) Schultz, Jonathan Sweedler, Sonja Masselter, Magnus Jezussek, Despo Louca, Michèle Lees, Bruce McCord, Georgios Theodoridis, Tim Causon, Deirdre Cabooter, Steven Lehotay, Torsten Schmidt, William Tindall, Thomas Jocks, Vincenzo Palleschi, Abhijit Ghosh, Christian Wenz, Tomoyoshi Soga, Rob Haselberg, Norman (Norm) Dovichi, Michael Knierman, Peter Schoenmakers, Marcel Florin Musteata, Tiemin Huang, Ryan Sasaki, Nicholas Snow, Rob Haselberg, Frank Vanhaecke, William Tobin, Clifford Spiegelman, Taco van der Maten, Constantine Stalikas, Jörg Feldmann, Dietmar Knopp, Michael Snyder, Vicki Blazer, Bryn Flinders, Kévin Contrepois, Susan D. Richardson, Vince Remcho, Lisa Holland, Silvia Bruni, Andrew Palmer, Theodore Alexandrov, Heinz Siesler, Rudolf Kessler, Elyssa Litchfield, Peter James, Michael Lämmerhofer, Philip Marriott, Joshua Coon, Jack Cochran, Fabrice Gritti, Gert Desmet, James Jorgenson, Monika Dittman, Mary Wirth, Mustafa Culha, Mirek Macka, Zuzana Gajdosechova, Rainer Bischoff, Scott Phillips, Richard C. King, Eric Francotte, Mark T. Stauffer, Andrew Dix, Kimberly Moser, Lothar Brecker, Thomas Annesley, Sebastiaan Eeltink, Frantisek Svec, Nobuo Tanaka, Steven Olde Damink, Ron M. A. Heeren, Jeremy Nicholson, Joshua Windmiller, Robert Thomas, Brad Lord, Wolfgang Lindner, Bernard Testa, Yoshio Okamoto, Christopher J. Welch, David Matthew, Gareth S. Dobson, John DeHaan, Eva Tyteca, Dennis Åsberg, Purnendu Dasgupta, Jeroen Kool, Willem Jonker, Paul G. Stevenson, George Scott, Joachim Weiss, Markus Läubli, Paul Haddad, Steve Thomas, Victoria Samanidou, Bob Blackledge, Lee DesRosiers, Claas Wagner, Kim H. Esbensen, Bert Pöpping, Olaf de Groot, Martin Gilar , Anne Francois Aubry, Henry Nowicki, Sergio Nanita, André de Kok, Lutz Alder, Finbarr O’Regan , Henk van 't Klooster, Ewa Szymańska, Ulrich Panne, Xiaojiang Xie, Eric Bakker, André de Villiers, Jody Dunstan, Elizabeth Thomas, Aydogan Ozcan, Bayden Wood, Jack Cochran, Chuck Henry, John Volckens, David Cate, Stephanie Vine, Christopher R. Harrison, Ian Jardine, Ben Potenza, John A. McLean , Bill Anderson, Lawrence “Larry” Mason, W. Franklin Smyth, Volker Deckert, Peter Griffiths, Gary Hieftje, Justin Bueno, Igor Lednev, Curtis Marcott, Craig Prater , Hans-Gerd Janssen, Jean-François Focant, Ashley Sage, George M. Whitesides, Alberto Mantovani, Juan Muñoz-Arnanz, Lourdes Ramos, Ron van der Oost, Annemieke Kolkman, Juliane Hollender, Werner Brack, Debdulal Roy, Alejandro Cifuentes, Joachim Pleil, Terence Risby, Nick Kim, Iestyn Armstrong-Smith, Herman Ram, Douwe de Boer, Rick Russo, Reinout Raaijmakers, Albert Heck, Miguel de la Guardia Cirugeda, Robert Trengove , Axel Walch, Ron M. A. Heeren, Joeri Vercammen , David C. Muddiman, Jeremy Barry, Kenneth P. Garrard, Guillaume Robichaud, Kim H. Esbensen, Alexander Bünz, Andrew Ward, John Yates, Barry Karger, Christian Huber, Dev Kant Shandilya, Adrian Stevens, André Deelder, Jon Platt, Konstantin Choikhet, Imre Molnár, Alexander Makarov, Michel Nielen, Yolanda Pico, Michele Suman, Rudolf Krska, John Coates, Peter Gorst-Allman, Jayne de Vos, Eric Lesellier, Davy Guillarme, Isabelle François, Melanie Voigt, Anika Gold, Christina Blaesing, Timo Hoelscher and Martin Jaeger, Joan LLuis-Vives Corrons, Emily Hilder, Richard Gallagher, Mike Grayson, Dave Strong, Lutgarde Buydens, Giuseppe Astarita, Yaroslav Faybishenko, Frank Neely, E. Neil Lewis, Jaap de Zeeuw, Frank van Geel, Amanda Hummon, Norm Dovichi

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