Tea with Wolfgang Lindner
Wolfgang discusses the spirit of science, Salzburg and ISC2014 in the latest episode of Tea with Rich.
Rich sits down with Wolfgang Lindner for the fourth instalment of Tea with Rich from ISC2014 in Salzburg, a city very close to Wolfgang’s heart. Wolfgang reflects on what it means to bring ISC back to Salzburg and on the importance of bringing people together at conferences; linking industry veterans with young scientists, and bridging applications and theoretical science. He thoroughly believes in the “spirit” of ISC. “Science is about constantly questioning – and you can feel that at ICS.” Wolfgang also insists that we must never forget the importance of validation: “If data are not valid then there is no meaning behind them. Most of our colleagues believe in data, so we have the responsibility to deliver the right data!”
Wolfgang Lindner is professor emeritus at The Institute of Analytical Chemistry, University of Vienna, Austria. In 2014, Wolfgang is also co-chair of the International Symposium of Chromatography. “I’m not only an analytical chemist, I am also a materials scientist, and I was trained as an organic chemist. So I try to bridge many different fields. I also have an entrepreneurial flair,” says Wolfgang, who co-invented chiral stationary phase technology, which is licensed out to Chiral Technologies.
