Prof. Alina Pyka-Pająk

Alina Pyka-Pająk was born on 28 May, 1961 in Bytom, Poland. In 2009, she was awarded the title of Professor at the Faculty of Chemistry of Jagiellonian University in Krakow. She specializes in liquid chromatography and is the author of more than 150 scientific articles published in major scientific journals and books. In 2003, she was nominated as the Chairman of the Department of Analytical Chemistry in the Pharmaceutical Faculty of the Medical University of Silesia. Her main research interests are the optimization of the separation conditions of organic compounds, including drugs; the application of new visualizing reagents to different classes of organic compounds, including drugs; the application of selected structural descriptors in QSRR, QSPR, and QSAR analyses; the lipophilic investigation of selected compounds for biomedical significance; and the application of TLC and densitometry in the quantitative determination of selected drugs.