Robert Synovec
Professor of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Robert E. Synovec obtained his Ph.D. in 1986 from Iowa State University, joining the UW Faculty that year. His group pioneers the development of novel chromatographic instrumentation, chemometric data analysis software, and methodology, with advances conceived at a fundamental level and then implemented at a problem-solving level. Application of our separations technology in many exciting areas such as metabolomics, forensics, petroleum-based fuels, biofuels and environmental systems are being explored. Synovec was awarded the GC×GC Scientific Achievement Award at the 10th GC×GC International Symposium in May 2013, recognizing his group's pioneering contributions in the field of comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography (GC×GC). Synovec received the Marcel Golay Award at the 40th International Symposium on Capillary Chromatography (ISCC) conference in Riva del Garda, Italy, in recognition of a lifetime of achievement in capillary chromatography.