Prof. Dr. Janusz Pawliszyn

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsAnalytical Chemistry
KeywordsProbenahme, Probevorbereitung, SPME, MESI, Partikel

Current contact address

CountryCanada
CityWaterloo
InstitutionUniversity of Waterloo
InstituteDepartment of Chemistry
Homepagehttp://sciborg.uwaterloo.ca/chemistry/pawliszyn/

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Karsten LevsenFraunhofer-Institut für Toxikologie und Experimentelle Medizin (ITEM), Hannover
Prof. Dr. Peter FritzHelmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung - UFZ, Leipzig
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang KochFraunhofer-Institut für Toxikologie und Experimentelle Medizin (ITEM), Hannover
Start of initial sponsorship01/01/2001

Programme(s)

1999Humboldt Research Award Programme

Nominator's project description

Prof. Pawliszyn has pioneered work in sample preparation in the field of analytical chemistry. Chemical analysis is usually devided in sampling, sample preparation (for instance: extraction, clean-up) and the instrumental analysis. Impressive progress has been made in recent decades in the development of sophisticated instruments which are usually fully outomized and allow the analysis of chemical compounds with ever increasing sensitivity, precision and selectivity. In contrast sample treatment has been largely neglected and today techniques are used frequently which have been invented 100 years ago. Theses techniques are time-consuming, labour intesive and need large quantities of in part toxic chemicals. Prof. Pawliszyn has invented several new methods for sample preparation which are very simple, but nevertheless efficient and which can be readily automized. Most remarkable is his invention of solid phase micoextraction, a solvent-free method which uses a tiny polymer coated fibre to extract and concentrate organic compounds from water, air, soil, plant material and other matrices. This new method facilitates chemical analysis in the lalboratory, but is also very well suited for field analysis, i.e. for the monitoring of air and water in the environment.

Publications (partial selection)

2009Jacek Koziel, Shokouh Hadadi, Wolfgang Koch, Janusz Pawliszyn: Sampling and analysis of nanoparticles with cold fibre SPME device. In: Journal of Separation Science, 2009, 1975-1980
2004Janusz Pawliszyn et al: In-vivo Study of Triazine Herbicides in Plans by SPME. In: Analyst, 2004, 107-108
2004Janusz Pawliszyn et al: Multidimensional On-line Sample Preparation of Verpamil and its Metabolites by a Moleculary Imprinted Polymer Coupled to LC/MS. In: J. Chromatogr, 2004, 297-306
2004Janusz Pawliszyn et al: Polydimethylsiloxane Rod Extraction, a Novel Technique for the Determination of Organic Micropollutants in Water Samples by Thermal Desorption - Capillary Gas Chromatography. In: J. Chromatogr, 2004, 17-26
2002Janusz Pawliszyn et al: Automated In-tube Solid-Phase Microextraction Coupled with HPLC for the Determination of N-Nitrosamines in Cell Cultures. In: Anal. Chem, 2002, 1695-1701
2002Janusz Pawliszyn et al: Bio-compatible In-tube Solid Phase Microextraction Capillary for the Direct Extraction and HPLC Determination of Drugs in Human Serum. In: J. Chromatogr, 2002, 325-334
2002Janusz Pawliszyn et al: Direct LC Analysis of five Benzodiazepines in Human Urine and Plasma Using an ADS Restricted Access Extraction Column. In: Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis, 2002, 307-319
2002Janusz Pawliszyn (Editor): Sampling and Sample Preparation for On-site and Laboratory Applications. Elsevier, 2002