Bezhan Chankvetadze

Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia

Talk Title : Capillary electrophoresis as a powerful tool for studying non-covalent intermolecular interactions.

Bezhan Chankvetadze is Professor for Physical Chemistry and director of the Institute of Physical and Analytical Chemistry at the Tbilisi State University in Tbilisi, Georgia.

His research interests include separation sciences with emphases on noncovalent intermolecular interactions, miniaturized techniques, new chiral selectors for liquid-phase separations and enantioselective recognition mechanisms.

He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis and co-editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis Open and a member of the editorial boards of Journal of Chromatography A, Journal of Chromatography Open, Electrophoresis, Journal of Separation Science, Journal of Pharmaceutical Analysis, Chirality and several other journals.

B. Chankvetadze is the recipient of “Journal of Chromatography Top Cited Article Awards” in 2005, 2006 and 2010, the recipient of “2006 Belgian Society of Pharmaceutical Science Award of Recognition”, the joint Csaba Horvath Memorial Award of the Hungarian Separation Science Society and Connecticut Separation Science Council, USA (2017) and Nernst-Tswett Award from the European Separation Science Society (EuSSS) (2024).

In 2019 B. Chankvetadze was elected as Honorary Professor of Xi´an Jiaotong University (Xi´an, China). B. Chankvetadze is the Member of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences and the Member of the Academia Europaea.