Conference History

History of the HPLC Conference Series.

Since its first edition in 1973 in Interlaken, Switzerland, the HPLC symposium series has established as one of the world’s major conference series in analytical chemistry and separation sciences.

The conference represents an international forum for discussion of advances in liquid phase and condensed fluid based separations as well as related technologies; it is strongly methodologically and technologically driven. The emphasis of these meetings is since ever on fundamentals of separation science, in particular liquid chromatography (HPLC, UHPLC) and super-critical fluid chromatography, its hyphenation to mass spectrometry, multidimensional separations, sample preparation and their applications in various fields. In addition, capillary separations, microfluidic, nanofluidic and chip separations, diagnostic systems, and other leading technologies are also considered.

Meetings alternate between Europe (odd years) and the United States (even years). Odd years' meetings in Europe are accompanied since 2008 by an additional meeting in Asia/Pacific.

Year

No.

LocationChair(s)
1973

1st

Interlaken, SwitzerlandWilly Simon
1975

2nd

Wilmington, USAJack J. Kirkland
1977

3rd

Salzburg, AustriaJoseph F.K. Huber
1979

4th

Boston, USABarry L. Karger
1981

5th

Avignon, FranceGeorges Guiochon
1982

6th

Cherry Hill, USARobert Bardford
1983

7th

Baden-Baden, GermanyKlaus Peter Hupe
1984

8th

New York City, USACsaba Horvath
1985

9th

Edinburgh, UKJohn H. Knox
1986

10th

San Francisco, USARonald E. Majors
1987

11th

Amsterdam, The NetherlandsHans Poppe
1988

12th

Washington, USAGeorges Guiochon
1989

13th

Stockholm, SwedenDouglas Westerlund
1990

14th

Boston, USABarry L. Karger
1991

15th

Basel, SwitzerlandFritz Erni
1992

16th

Baltimore, USAFred E. Regnier
1993

17th

Hamburg, GermanyKlaus K. Unger
1994

18th

Minneapolis, USALarry D. Bowers and Peter W. Carr
1995

19th

Innsbruck, AustriaWolfgang Lindner
1996

20th

San Francisco, USAWilliam S. Hancock
1997

21st

Birmingham, UKAnthony F. Fell
1998

22nd

St. Louis, USADaniel W. Armstrong
1999

23rd

Granada, SpainEmilio Gelpi
2000

24th

Seattle, USAEdward S. Yeung
2001

25th

Maastricht, The NetherlandsHans Poppe and Henk Lingeman
2001

-

Kyoto, JapanNobuo Tanaka and Shigeru Terabe
2002

26th

Montreal, CanadaIrving W. Wainer
2003

27th

Nice, FranceAntoine M. Siouffi
2004

28th

Philadelphia, USAMark R. Schure
2005

29th

Stockholm, SwedenDouglas Westerlund
2006

30th

San Francisco, USAJohn H. Frenz
2007

31st

Gent, BelgiumJacques Crommen and Pat Sandra
2008

32nd

Baltimore, USAGeorges Guiochon and Steven Jacobson
2008

33rd

Kyoto, JapanKoji Otsuka and Nobuo Tanaka
2009

34th

Dresden, GermanyChristian Huber
2010

35th

Boston, USASteven A. Cohen
2011

36th

Budapest, HungaryAttila Felinger
2011

37th

Dalian, ChinaYukui Zhang and Peter Schoenmakers
2012

38th

Anaheim, USAFrantisek Svec
Year

No.

LocationChair(s)
2013

39th

Amsterdam, The NetherlandsPeter Schoenmakers
2013

40th

Hobart, AustraliaPaul Haddad
2014

41st

New Orleans, USAJ. Michael Ramsey
2015

42nd

Geneva, SwitzerlandGérard Hopfgartner
2015

43rd

Beijing, ChinaGuibin Jiang
2016

44th

San Francisco, USARobert T. Kennedy
2017

45th

Prague, Czech RepublicMichal Holčapek and František Foret
2017

46th

Jeju Island, KoreaDoo Soo Chung
2018

47th

Washington, DC, USANorman Dovichi
2019

48th

Milan, ItalyAlberto Cavazzini and Massimo Morbidelli
2019

49th

Kyoto, JapanKoji Otsuka
2020

-

San Diego, USAMary J. Wirth (postponed due to COVID pandemic)
2022

50th

San Diego, USAFrantisek Svec
2023

51st

Düsseldorf, GermanyMichael Lämmerhofer and Oliver J. Schmitz
2024

52nd

Denver, USASusan Olesik
2024

53rd

Dalian, ChinaGuowang Xu
2025

54th

Bruges, Belgium

Gert Desmet, Ken Broeckhoven, Deirdre Cabooter,

Sebastiaan Eeltink, Frederic Lynen

2026

55th

Indianapolis, USATodd Maloney