Fabrice G. Gritti received a B.S. degree in Chemistry and Physics from the University Joseph Fourier of Grenoble (France) in 1995, a graduate Engineering school degree in Chemistry and Physics from the University of Bordeaux I (France) in 1997, and a Ph.D. in Chemistry and Physics from the University of Bordeaux I (France) in 2001. Dr Gritti moved to the University of Tennessee at Knoxville in 2002 working as Postdoctoral Fellow. This was followed by positions as a Research Associate and more recently as a Research Scientist. Dr Gritti’s research interests involve liquid/solid adsorption thermodynamics and mass transfer in heterogeneous media for characterization and design of new HPLC column technology. He developed experimental protocols that refined the adsorption isotherms models used in preparative chromatography and the band broadening phenomena in linear chromatography. Dr Gritti has been awarded the 2013 Chromatographic Society Jubilee Medal. He has published over 190 peer-reviewed papers.