Andras Guttman is holding a Marie Curie Chair of the European Commission and leads the recently formed Horvath Laboratory of Bioseparation Sciences at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. His main research interests are to pursue basic research in the field of bioseparation sciences with the aim to develop and implement high performance bioanalytical techniques for genomics, proteomics and metabolomics based biomarker discovery using single- and multi-dimensional separation methods. Dr. Guttman held prior industrial and academic appointments in the USA and Europe. He has more than a 180 scientific publications, edited several textbooks and holds 15 patents. He is an associate director of CASSS and on the editorial boards of numerous international scientific journals. Dr. Guttman graduated from the Veszprem University (Hungary) in chemical engineering, where he also received his Ph.D. He was awarded the Analytical Chemistry Award of the Hungarian Chemical Society in 2000 and became a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2004.