Prof. Tadeusz Górecki

Tadeusz Górecki is a Professor of Chemical Sciences at the Department of Chemistry, University of Waterloo. From adapting passive gas sampling in polluted soils to speeding up extractions of chemicals from contaminated rock, he has made a career of analyzing some of nature’s most complex samples. He is best known, though, for his patented improvements to two-dimensional chromatography, a much more sensitive, two-step version of gas chromatography that allows researchers to fully resolve analyte peaks in messy environmental and biological samples. His research interests are comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography (GC×GC); high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC); passive sampling; enhanced extraction techniques; indoor air quality analysis; environmental analysis; pyrolysis GC\/MS; and devices and analytical methods. He was the winner of the GC×GC Lifetime Achievement Award in 2017 and is a member of The Water Institute.