HPLC Methodologies & Research & Development
Dr. Maria Matyska-Pesek advises and collaborates closely with our Technical Support Team, assisting in the development of Application Notes for our HPLC columns. She also works on HPLC method development for our R&D projects, supports our team with customers using our products, and contributes to our laboratory’s and chemical production internal quality management efforts.
As a Professor of Analytical Chemistry at San Jose State University, she has an impressive academic background. She earned her B.S. degree in pharmacy from the Medical Academy in Lublin, Poland, in 1981, and her Ph.D. in analytical chemistry from the same institution in 1989. Following her Ph.D., she completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Universite d’Aix Marseille, France. Her academic career began at the Medical Academy in Lublin, Poland, in 1982, and she joined San Jose State University in 1993.
Dr. Matyska-Pesek has been a visiting research professor at several prestigious institutions, including Leiras in Turku, Finland, Universite d’Aix-Marseilles, Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, and the University of Queensland Department of Pharmacy in Brisbane, Australia. She has secured over $500,000 in research and educational grants from public agencies such as the Polish Ministry of Education and the Brazilian Ministry of Science and Technology, as well as private sources like MicroSolv Technology Corp. and Agilent Technologies. Her research focuses on metabolomics, particularly the use of modified silica hydride stationary phases for separating hydrophilic compounds in metabolic samples. She collaborates with medical schools at UCLA and Cornell Weill, and with industry partners including Thermo Fisher Scientific, Agilent Technologies, and Perkin Elmer. Her work has led to 205 publications in peer-reviewed journals and the development of new stationary phases for High Performance Liquid Chromatography, available through MicroSolv Technology Corporation named Cogent TYPE-C HPLC columns.