Torgny Fornstedt is a professor in Analytical Chemistry at Karlstad University, Sweden. He obtained a M.Sc. in Pharmacy at Uppsala University 1986, obtained a PhD in Analytical Pharmaceutical Chemistry at Uppsala University 1992 and was promoted to professor in Analytical Biotechnology at Uppsala University 2008. Torgny Fornstedt heads the internationally competitive Fundamental Separation Science Group (www.separationscience.se) at Karlstad University. The goal of the group is to conduct theoretically advanced fundamental research in the field of separation science and to cooperate with industry regarding purification of drug molecules and high-value chemicals. The group cooperate both with leading academic groups in Europe and USA and with leading companies. Specifically the group develops and applies numerical tools to characterize, validate and optimize analytical and preparative separation methods important for analytical chemists, biochemists and pharmaceutical chemists. The group is currently working with liquid chromatography (HPLC/UHPLC), Supercritical Fluid Chromatography (SFC) and biosensors (SPR/QCM).