Tomasz Tuzimski, PhD, DSc, is an adjunct professor in the Department of Physical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Medical Analytics Division, Medical University of Lublin (Lublin, Poland). His scientific interests include the theory and application of liquid chromatography, taking into consideration optimization of chromatographic systems for separation and quantitative analysis of analytes in multicomponent mixtures. Dr. Tuzimski was rewarded for his achievements in the field of study of chromatographic methods in analytical chemistry of pesticides (a series of five publications and monograph, T. Tuzimski and E. Soczewiński, Retention and Selectivity of Liquid– Solid Chromatographic Systems for the Analysis of Pesticides (Retention Database) in Problems of Science, Teaching and Therapy, Medical University of Lublin, Poland, October 2002, by the Ministry of Health of Poland (individual prize). Dr. Tuzimski was also rewarded as a coauthor of a handbook for students, Analytical Chemistry (edited by R. Kocjan, PZWL, 2000 and 2002, in Polish), by the Ministry of Health of the Polish Republic (team prize). Dr. Tuzimski was invited by Professor Szabolcs Nyiredy to a 3-month practice in the Research Institute for Medicinal Plants in Budakalász (Hungary). The investigations were financially supported by the Educational Exchange Programme between Hungary and Poland—Hungarian Scholarship Board (No. MÖB 2-13-1-44-3554/2005). He actively participated in numerous scientific symposia, where he presented his research results as oral and poster presentations at 20 international meetings and 18 national scientific symposia. Dr. Tuzimski has published 47 research papers (including 24 individual papers) in journals with a high level of impact factors (total IF = 64.377). He is the author of articles written at the special invitations of editors of the Journal of Chromatography A, Journal of Liquid Chromatography and Related Technologies, and Journal of Planar Chromatography—Modern TLC. Besides the above-mentioned monograph, Dr. Tuzimski is the author of the following chapters: Use of Planar Chromatography in Pesticide Residue Analysis, in Handbook of Pesticides: Methods of Pesticide Residues Analysis, edited by Leo M.L. Nollet and Hamir Singh Rathore, Boca Raton 2010, CRC Press Taylor & Francis Group; Basic Principles of Planar Chromatography and Its Potential for Hyphenated Techniques, in High-Performance Thin-Layer Chromatography (HPTLC), edited by ManMohan Srivastava, Springer, Heidelberg 2011; Multidimensional Chromatography in Pesticides Analysis, in Pesticides—Strategies for Pesticides Analysis, edited by Margarita Stoytcheva, InTech, Rijeka 2011; Determination of Pesticides in Complex Samples by One-Dimensional (1D-), Two- Dimensional (2D-) and Multidimensional Chromatography, in Pesticides in the Modern World— Trends in Pesticide Analysis, edited by Margarita Stoytcheva, InTech, Rijeka 2011; Pesticide Residues in the Environment, in Pesticides: Evaluation of Environmental Pollution, edited by Leo M.L. Nollet and Hamir Singh Rathore, CRC Press Taylor & Francis Group, Boca Raton 2012; and Advanced Spectroscopic Detectors for Identification and Quantification: UV–Visible, Fluorescence, and Infrared Spectroscopy, in Instrumental Thin-Layer Chromatography, edited by Colin F. Poole, Elsevier 2015, Amsterdam, Netherlands. He is also a coauthor with Prof. Dr. T. Dzido of the chapter Chambers, Sample Application and Chromatogram Development, in Thin-Layer Chromatography in Phytochemistry, edited by M. Waksmundzka-Hajnos, J. Sherma, and T. Kowalska, Boca Raton 2008, CRC Press Taylor & Francis Group. Dr. Tuzimski is a recipient of two grants from the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education (2005–2008 and 2009–2011) for the study and procedure implementation of new methods of analysis of pesticides in original samples (e.g., water, medicinal herbs, wines, food) with application of modern analytical methods combined with diode array scanning densitometry. Dr. Tuzimski has reviewed 150 submitted research manuscripts (Journal of Chromatography A, Journal of Chromatography B, Journal of Separation Science, Journal of Chromatographic Science, Journal of AOAC Int., and Journal of Planar Chromatography—Modern TLC). He has taught analytical and physical chemistry exercises with second-year students of the Faculty of Pharmacy, and was also an instructor of postgraduate chromatographic courses for scientific research staff from Polish universities and workers from the industry. He was a promoter of research work of three masters of pharmacy and supervised the research work of ten masters of pharmacy. He is a member of the Polish Pharmaceutical Society as well as the editorial board of The Scientific World Journal/Analytical Chemistry, Advances in Analytical Chemistry, American Journal of Environmental Protection, International Journal of Biotechnology and Food Science (IJBFS), and Advancement in Scientific and Engineering Research (ASER). Dr. Tuzimski edited four special sections on pesticide residue analysis of the Journal of AOAC International (2010, 2012, 2014, and 2015). Joseph Sherma earned a BS degree in chemistry from Upsala College, East Orange, New Jersey, in 1955 and a PhD degree in analytical chemistry from Rutgers, the State University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, in 1958 under the supervision of the renowned ion exchange chromatography expert William Rieman III. Professor Sherma is currently the John D. and Francis H. Larkin Professor Emeritus of chemistry at Lafayette College, Easton, PA; he taught courses in analytical chemistry for more than 40 years, was head of the chemistry department for 12 years, and continues to supervise research students at Lafayette. During sabbatical leaves and summers, Professor Sherma did research in the laboratories of the eminent chromatographers Dr. Harold Strain, Dr. Gunter Zweig, Dr. Mel Getz, Professor James Fritz, and Professor Joseph Touchstone. Professor Sherma has authored, coauthored, edited, or coedited more than 780 publications, including research papers and review articles in approximately 55 different peer-reviewed analytical chemistry, chromatography, and biological journals; approximately 30 invited book chapters; and more than 70 books and U.S. government agency manuals in the areas of analytical chemistry and chromatography. In addition to his research in the techniques and applications of thin layer chromatography (TLC), including especially drug analysis, Professor Sherma has a very productive interdisciplinary research program in the use of analytical chemistry to study biological systems with Bernard Fried, Kreider Professor Emeritus of Biology at Lafayette College, with whom he has coauthored the book Thin Layer Chromatography (first to fourth editions) and edited the Handbook of Thin Layer Chromatography (first to third editions), all published by Marcel Dekker, Inc., as well as coediting Practical Thin Layer Chromatography for CRC Press. Professor Sherma wrote with Dr. Zweig a book titled Paper Chromatography for Academic Press and the first two volumes of the Handbook of Chromatography series for CRC Press, and coedited with him 22 more volumes of the chromatography series and 10 volumes of the series Analytical Methods for Pesticides and Plant Growth Regulators for Academic Press. After Dr. Zweig’s death, Professor Sherma edited five additional volumes of the chromatography handbook series and two volumes in the pesticide series. The pesticide series was completed under the title Modern Methods of Pesticide Analysis for CRC Press with two volumes coedited with Dr. Thomas Cairns. Three books on quantitative TLC and advances in TLC were edited jointly with Professor Touchstone for Wiley-Interscience. For CRC/Taylor & Francis Group, Professor Sherma coedited with Professor Teresa Kowalska Preparative Layer Chromatography and Thin Layer Chromatography in Chiral Separations and Analysis, coedited with Professor Kowalska and Professor Monika Waksmundska-Hajnos Thin Layer Chromatography in Phytochemistry, and coedited with Professor Waksmundska-Hajnos High Performance Liquid Chromatography in Phyt
