History of the HPLC Conference Series

Since its first edition in 1973 in Interlaken, Switzerland, the HPLC symposium series has been 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. Location Chair(s)
1973 1st Interlaken, Switzerland Willy Simon
1975 2nd Wilmington, USA Jack J. Kirkland
1977 3rd Salzburg, Austria Joseph F.K. Huber
1979 4th Boston, USA Barry L. Karger
1981 5th Avignon, France Georges Guiochon
1982 6th h Cherry Hill, USA Robert Bardford
1983 7th Baden-Baden, Germany Klaus Peter Hupe
1984 8th New York City, USA Csaba Horvath
1985 9th Edinburgh, UK John H. Knox
1986 10th San Francisco, USA Ronald E. Majors
1987 11th Amsterdam, The Netherlands Hans Poppe
1988 12th Washington, USA Georges Guiochon
1989 13th Stockholm, Sweden Douglas Westerlund
1990 14th Boston, USA Barry L. Karger
1991 15h Basel, Switzerland Fritz Erni
1992 16th Baltimore, USA Fred E. Regnier
1993 17th Minneapolis, USA Klaus K. Unger
1994 18th Minneapolis, USA Larry D. Bowers and Peter W. Carr
1995 19th Innsbruck, Austria Wolfgang Lindner
1996 20th San Francisco, USA William S. Hancock
1997 21st Birmingham, UK Anthony F. Fell
1998 22nd St. Louis, USA Daniel W. Armstrong
1999 23rd Granada, Spain Emilio Gelpi
2000 24th Seattle, USA Edward S. Yeung
2001 25th Maastricht, The Netherlands Hans Poppe and Henk Lingeman
2001 - Kyoto, Japan Nobuo Tanaka and Shigeru Terabe
2002 26th Montreal, Canada Irving W. Wainer
2003 27th Nice, France Antoine M. Siouffi
2004 28th Philadelphia, USA Mark R. Schure
2005 29th Stockholm, Sweden Douglas Westerlund
2006 30th San Francisco, USA John H. Frenz
2007 31st Gent, Belgium Jacques Crommen and Pat Sandra
2008 32nd Baltimore, USA Georges Guiochon and Steven Jacobson
2008 33rd Kyoto, Japan Koji Otsuka and Nobuo Tanaka
2009 34th Dresden, Germany Christian Huber
2010 35th Boston, USA Steven A. Cohen
2011 36th Budapest, Hungary Attila Felinger
2011 37th Dalian, China Yukui Zhang and Peter Schoenmakers
2012 38th Anaheim, USA Frantisek Svec
2013 39th Amsterdam, The Netherlands Peter Schoenmakers
2013 40th Hobart, Australia Paul Haddad
2014 41st New Orleans, USA J. Michael Ramsey
2015 42nd Geneva, Switzerland Gérard Hopfgartner
2015 43rd Beijing, China Guibin Jiang
2016 44th San Francisco, USA Robert T. Kennedy
2017 45th Prague, Czech Republic Michal Holčapek and František Foret
2017 46th Jeju Island, Korea Doo Soo Chung
2018 47th Washington, DC, USA Norman Dovichi
2019 48th Milan, Italy Alberto Cavazzini and Massimo Morbidelli
2019 49th Kyoto, Japan Koji Otsuka
2020 - San Diego, USA Mary J. Wirth (postponed due to COVID pandemic)
2022 50th San Diego, USA Frantisek Svec
2023 51st Düsseldorf, Germany Michael Lämmerhofer and Oliver J. Schmitz
2024 52nd Denver, USA Susan Olesik
2024 53rd Dalian, China Guowang Xu
2025 54th Bruges, Belgium Gert Desmet, Ken Broeckhoven, Deirdre Cabooter, Sebastiaan Eeltink, Frederic Lynen
2026 55th Indianapolis, USA Todd Maloney and Jared Anderson
2027 56th Innsbruck, Austria Gunda Köllensperger and Christian Huber
2027 57th Fukuoka, Japan Kenji Hamase and Yasushi Ishihama
2028 58th Las Vegas, USA Adam Woolley and Ryan Kelly