Christopher Pohl is Vice President, Chromatography Chemistry in the Chromatography & Mass Spectrometry Division of Thermo Fisher Scientific. Christopher joined Dionex now part of Thermo Fisher Scientific in 1979 where the focus of his work has been new stationary phase design. He is an author or co-author of 50 US patents in a number of areas including: separation methods, stationary phase design, suppressor technology, solid phase extraction, capillary electrophoresis techniques and accelerated solvent extraction (ASE). He is the author or co-author of four book chapters and more than 95 scientific papers published in peer reviewed scientific journals. He received his BS in Analytical Chemistry from the University of Washington in 1973.