Apryll Stalcup is currently Director of the Irish Separation Science Cluster and Professor of Chemical Sciences at Dublin City University in Ireland. She received a B. S. in Chemistry from California State University-Sacramento in 1979. She obtained her Ph. D. in Chemistry from Georgetown University, Washington, D. C. in 1988. During her graduate studies, she was a Co-op Fellow at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Maryland. After a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Missouri-Rolla, she joined the faculty at the University of Hawaii-Manoa in 1990. In 1996, she moved to the University of Cincinnati and was promoted to Full Professor in 2001. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Chemistry of Ireland, member of the University of Cincinnati Graduate Fellows and a Charter member of the University of Cincinnati Chapter’s National Academy of Inventors. In 2011, she was awarded the Cincinnati Chemist of the Year by the Cincinnati Section of the American Chemical Society. In 2012, she moved to Dublin City University. She currently serves on the Advisory panel for Analytical Chemistry Features and the Editorial Board of Trends in Analytical Chemistry. She is a member of the American Chemical Society, the American Association of the Advancement of Science, the American Nuclear Society and Sigma Xi. Her research interests include understanding chromatographic and electrophoretic separation mechanisms, exploring new separation methods, surface confined ionic liquids as stationary phases, characterization of complex carbohydrates and nuclear forensics.