Konstantin Choikhet

Konstantin’s interest in chemistry turned out to be a little stronger than his passion for physics and eventually took him to Heinz Engelhardt’s group at the Institute for Instrumental and Environment Analysis of the University of the Saarland for his PhD. In 1999, he joined Hewlett Packard in Waldbronn, Germany as an R&D chemist. “Developing instruments for chromatographic and electrophoretic analysis is a field where I can extensively apply both my physical and my chemical side”, he explains. “It helps to better understand strange or unexpected effects, if you observe them from different perspectives”.