Dr. Martin Gilar is a principal investigator in Core Research group at Waters Corporation. He has more than 20 years of experience in the separation sciences, namely chromatography, electrophoresis, and mass spectrometry. His research interest is analysis of biopolymers such as oligonucleotides, peptides, glycans and proteins. He has published over 40 peer reviewed papers. Dr. Gilar’s received his Ph.D. in analytical chemistry from Institute of Chemical Technology in Prague (1996). He spent postdoc years in Hybridon Inc. (1996-1998) and Northeastern University in Boston (1998) developing separation methods for antisense oligonucleotides and fraction collector for DNA molecules. Since 1998 he works at Waters Corp. in Milford, Massachusetts.