Bo Zhang, Associate Professor at Xiamen University, China; Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry; Scientific Committee Member of HPLC2025; Associate Editor of Journal of Separation Science. Editorial Board Member of Journal of Chromatography A and Chinese Journal of Chromatography. He was trained as a separation scientist at National Chromatographic Center, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics since 1999. He went on to do PhD in chromatography at University of York, UK, from 2002-2007, followed by postdoc at Imperial College London for two years. Since 2009, he took up the current position at Xiamen University, where he is running a pure chromatography research group focused on column technology, advanced manufacture of chromatographic materials as well as microfluidic technologies for bioseparation.