BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH · Prof. Deirdre Cabooter

Department of Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Sciences
University of Leuven 
Belgium

Deirdre Cabooter is a tenured research professor at the Department of Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Sciences at the University of Leuven (KU Leuven, Belgium). She obtained a PhD in Chemical Engineering under supervision of Prof. Gert Desmet in 2009. Her current research is directed towards a deeper understanding of the fundamentals of liquid chromatography, the evaluation of novel supports in chromatography, the analysis of complex samples in pharmaceutical, bio-analytical and environmental applications, retention modeling and solutions for automated method development. She has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters, and is currently the promoter of 9 PhD students. She received the LCGC Emerging Leader in Chromatography Award in 2017, the Jubilee Medal of the Chromatographic Society in 2020, and is an editor of Journal of Chromatography A since 2018.