Title: Chiral Amino Acid and Dipeptide Analysis in Food/beverage Samples Using Multi-dimensional HPLC

Dr. Kenji Hamase graduated from The University of Tokyo and obtained his Ph.D. degree in 1996.  Subsequently, he moved to Kyushu University, and was promoted to the full Professor in 2016 (Vice Dean for international affairs from 2018).  He is the president of The Society for Chromatographic Sciences (Japan), Editor of the Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis and Permanent International Committee members of HPLC and PBA conferences. His current research interests focus on the development of multi-dimensional HPLC methods for chiral amino acids and related compounds to study on their physiological functions, diagnostic values and the design of functional foods.