Prof. Dr. G.J. de Jong

Gerhardus Jacobus (Ad) de Jong studied chemistry in Utrecht, the Netherlands. His specialization was analytical chemistry and he graduated in 1972. He received his Ph.D. in 1978 at the Free University of Amsterdam and his promotor and co-promotor were Prof.Dr. R.W. Frei and Dr. U.A.Th. Brinkman, respectively. The subject of his thesis was "Liquid-liquid extraction and reversed-phase chromatography of metal ions in thiocyanate systems".
From 1978 to 1985 he worked for Duphar, a pharmaceutical company in Weesp, the Netherlands in the Department Analytical Research. Subsequently, he went back to Free University as associate professor in the Department of Analytical Chemistry and did research in the field of sample handling and detection in chromatography. In 1990, he switched again to the pharmaceutical industry and became section head Chromatography of Solvay Duphar. From August 1995, he was professor in Analytical Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Analysis at the University Centre for Pharmacy, Groningen, the Netherlands and from October 2001 he is professor in Pharmaceutical Analysis at the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University Utrecht. He was chairman of the board of the research school Groningen University Institute for Drug Exploration.
Dr. De Jong is (co-)author of more than 200 papers in various scientific journals and some book chapters. He is co-author of the book "Chromatografie" and was editor of Journal of Chromatography B from 1998 to 2003. His specialism is separation techniques and their application in pharmaceutical analysis, bioanalysis and analysis of biomacromolecules. His current research interests are electrodriven separation techniques and hyphenated systems including new sample handling procedures and coupling with mass spectrometry.

E-mail: G.J.deJong@uu.nl