Petr Kubáň obtained his Ph.D. in 2000 from Stockholm University, Sweden. Between 2001 and 2004 he was a postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Purnendu K. Dasgupta at Texas Tech University, USA, followed by a 6-year academic career at Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic. He then spent 2 years at Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia and currently works in the Department of Bioanalytical Instrumentation, Institute of Analytical Chemistry of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic in Brno, Czech Republic. His main research interests are microcolumn separation techniques, sample pretreatment and preconcentration, miniaturization, microfluidics and development of novel analytical instrumentation.