Dr John Earl PhD
	Danny Sampson BSc, MSc,  FAACB
	Dr Dilo Pillai PhD
	Trudi Jones
	Dr Irina Piatkov PhD
	Jill Buchmann BSc, Dip Ed, MBA
	Chris Salonikas BAppSc, MAppSc

PM Separations

Australian Scientific

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RCPA Quality Assurance Programs Pty Limited

BIO-RAD

VARIAN

DIONEX

Waters

Astral Scientific

Shimadzu Scientific

CHROMSYSTEMS

Stanton Scientific

Applied Biosystems

Analytical Technologies

MERCK

Australasian Association of Clinical Biochemists

  Sydney 16-18 July 2007

 Professor Joe Pesek

Biography

Joseph Pesek received his B.S. degree in Chemistry from the University of Illinois, Urbana, Champaign

and his Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from the University of California, Los Angeles. He did a one-year postdoctoral fellowship at UCLA before becoming Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Northern Illinois University.  He then moved to San Jose State University becoming Professor of Chemistry and has also served as Department Chair, and Dean for Graduate Studies and Research. He was selected the President’s Scholar at San Jose State in 1993 for his research productivity and contributions to the development of graduate students. He was named a Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation Scholar in 1993 and again in 2001. He was the project director for the development of the W.M. Keck Facility for Chemical Research at San Jose State.  He has had sabbatical leaves in Paris (with Georges Guiochon) and Marseille (Tony Siouffi), France as well as Melbourne (Milton Hearn), Australia. He has over 160 publications, 3 books, 4 patents and has made over 200 presentations at a variety of symposia and meetings. He is one of the editors for the Journal of Separation Science. He has served as a consultant to pharmaceutical and instrumental companies, commercial analytical laboratories and intellectual property law firms. His research interests are in the development, characterization and applications of separation materials for chromatographic and electrophoretic processes.