Deirdre Cabooter is a professor at the Department of Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Sciences at the University of Leuven (Belgium). She has a Master in Bio-engineering and a PhD in Chemical Engineering. Her current research is directed towards a deeper understanding of the fundamentals of 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 90 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters, she received the LCGC Emerging Leader in Chromatography Award in 2017 and the Jubilee Medal of the Chromatographic Society in 2020.