An Interview with Martin Medal Winner Fabrice Gritti
Fabrice Gritti was awarded the Martin Medal in the opening ceremony at the International Symposium on Chromatography in Liverpool, United Kingdom. Gritti received a Ph.D. in Chemistry and Physics of Condensed Matter from the University of Bordeaux I (France) in 2001. He then worked as a research scientist at the University of Tennessee (Knoxville, TN) from 2002 to until 2014 in the research group of Georges Guiochon. He joined Waters Corporation in 2015 where he is currently a consultant scientist. Gritti’s main research interests involve adsorption thermodynamics and mass transfer in heterogeneous media used in separation science. He has provided fundamental insights on the retention mechanisms in liquid chromatography (LC), refined the theory of band broadening in LC columns, and contributed to improve column and instrument technologies.
Gritti has been invited to give about 30 seminars on various topics of chromatographic sciences worldwide. He has delivered over 90 invited keynote lectures and published over 300 peer-reviewed articles. Gritti was the recipient of the 2013 Chromatographic Society Jubilee Medal, the 2019 JFK Huber Lecture Award, the 2022 Eastern Analytical Symposium Award for Outstanding Achievements in Separation Science, the 2023 Csaba Horvath Memorial Award for propagation of separation sciences throughout the world and co-operation in the development of chromatography in Hungary, and the 2024 A.J.P. Martin Medal. Gritti spoke to LCGC international about his career in chromatography.
- Congratulations on winning Chrom Soc’s 2024 Martin Medal. When did you initially encounter chromatography?
- Who has inspired you in your career?
- What projects have you found particularly memorable?
- You have recently been working on Slalom Chromatography. Can you tell us more about this?
- Do you have any predictions on how chromatography will change in the future?
- How would you describe the difference between working in academia and industry?
- How will artificial intelligence impact chromatography?
- Do you have any advice for early career researchers on how to be successful in their careers?
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