Title: Analytical Options for the Characterization of Natural Products

Dr. Ganzera studied pharmacy at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, where he obtained his PhD in 1997. Then he was more than 3 years post-doc at the National Center for Natural Products Research at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, USA, interrupted by a 6 month stay at the Hoechst Rousell Vet. company, Vienna, Austria. 2002 he returned to Innsbruck, where he obtained his habilitation (2006) and was appointed to Associate Professor (2012). He spent research internships at the FDA, The Lawrence Berkeley Lab and at the University of Buffalo. His main research interest is the analysis of natural products by conventional (HPLC, LC-MS, GC) as well as less common (CE, CE-MS, CEC, SFC) techniques, including method development, validation and application. He has authored more than 170 scientific papers and since 2019 he is a member of the editorial board of Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis.