ISC 2026 Plenary Lectures
International Symposium on Chromatography: ISC 2026 Plenary lectures
ISC 2026
The International Symposium on Chromatography (ISC) represents the oldest conference series on separation science. ISC symposia have been organised since 1956 in each even year. ISC is one of the premier meetings series for discussion of all modes of chromatography and separation science with a broad coverage of techniques and applications.
The major focus of the symposium will be on the impact of chromatography and separation science to meet the needs of the pharmaceutical, environmental, food and health industry, as well as science and medicine. The symposium programme will reflect these themes and highlight new challenges and emerging opportunities for the science and marketing of separation and detection systems and methods.
As an integral part of the scientific programme of lectures and poster sessions, an international exhibition and vendor seminars on instrumentation and services for chromatography, separation science and mass spectrometry will be organised. ISC 2026 will provide the perfect forum for attendees from academia, industry and government research institutions for scientific exchange and networking.
35th International Symposium on Chromatography
📆6. - 10. September 2026
📍Prague, Czech Republic
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Invited Speakers - Plenary Lectures
Jennifer van Eyk
ISC: Jennifer van Eyk
Dr. Jennifer Van Eyk, Ph.D., an international leader in clinical proteomics, is dedicated to democratizing personalized biomarkers and individualized therapies. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Alberta and completed postdoctoral fellowships in Heidelberg and Chicago before establishing her first laboratory at Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada. She was subsequently recruited to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and later to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, where she now directs the inaugural Advanced Clinical BioSystems Research Institute. Dr. Van Eyk is a Professor of Cardiology in the Smidt Heart Institute and holds the Erika Glazer Endowed Chair in Women’s Heart Disease. Her accomplishments include more than 425 peer-reviewed publications, over 26 patents, and numerous national and international awards recognizing her research and leadership.
Ana Maria García-Campaña
ISC: Ana Maria García-Campaña
Full Professor at the University of Granada (Spain) and leader of the research group “Quality in Food, Environmental and Clinical Analytical Chemistry”. Her work focuses on advanced analytical platforms such as liquid chromatography and capillary electrophoresis coupled with mass spectrometry, fluorescence, or ion mobility spectrometry for food and environmental quality control, contaminant monitoring and exposomic studies. She develops sustainable analytical methodologies and innovative sample treatments. Author of 246 articles, several books, and 301chapter books (h-index 54). Currently Vice-Rector of Postgraduate Studies and Vice-President of Spanish Society of Chromatography and Related Techniques. Included in Stanford University’s “World’s Top 2% Scientists” ranking.
Tomáš Jungwirth
ISC: Tomáš Jungwirth
Tomas Jungwirth is a Head of the Department of Spintronics at the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, a Chair Professor at the University of Nottingham in the UK, and a Distinguished Professor at the Tohoku University in Japan. He contribited to discovery of the spin Hall effect, currently adopted by major semiconductor companies. With collaborators, he initiated the field of antiferromagnetic spintronics by demonstrating proof-of-concept ultra-fast and scalable memory device. His team’s recent discovery of altermagnetism was among the 10 Breakthorughs of the Year 2024 by the Science journal. He is a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher.
Zoltan Takats
ISC: Zoltan Takats
Prof. Zoltan Takats, PhD FMedSci has obtained his M.Sc. degree in Chemistry from the Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, in 1998. He has carried out his Ph.D. research at the Chemical Research Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and at Purdue University. He has received his PhD degree in analytical chemistry in 2003. He has been doing mass spectrometry-related research for more than 25 years, with a primary focus on the development of novel atmospheric pressure ionization methods. His team developed electrosonic spray ionization, desorption electrospray ionization, jet desorption ionization and rapid evaporative ionization mass spectrometry methods.
Besides pursuing a scientific career, he has been deeply involved in the introduction of mass spectrometry-based neonatal screening programme in Hungary and served as the head of one of the national screening laboratories. Following a couple of years spent at Justus-Liebig-Universität in Gießen, Germany, he currently works as Professor of Analytical Chemistry spectrometry at Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London. Since 2023 he shares his time between Imperial and the University of Regensburg, where he holds a Chair for Multimodal Imaging. Present research interests include the application of ambient ionization methods in surgical metabolomics and development of mass spectrometric imaging techniques for the rapid phenotyping of cancer patients.
