Namrata Saxena is based in Phenomenex Sydney. She has 16 years of experience with chromatography, working in various fields including Environmental, Pulp and Paper, HPLC & GC column manufacturing. Prior to joining Phenomenex, she spent 10 years in Column Chemistry, Column manufacturing and method development with Bischoff Chromatography, Germany. She has 3 years of research experience in analyzing Environmental Pollutants with India’s leading Research Organizations.

Zachary Woodward is a Technical Specialist with Phenomenex, Inc., located in Torrance, California, USA. In his role, Zachary regularly assists customers with project development, troubleshooting, and applications support with respect to sample preparation, and both gas and liquid chromatography.  Zachary spent his formative years as an analytical and organic chemist developing LC and GC methods for potential pharmaceutical compounds. He then developed both solid-phase extraction and LC analytical methods in a clinical setting, after which Zachary took a break from chemistry to teach middle-school science. 

Zachary received his B.Sci. in Chemistry from the College of William and Mary, and a Master’s in Chemistry as well as his Teaching Credential at San Diego State University. He also earned his musician calluses from years of playing the bass guitar.

Our moderator, Jonathan Page is an analytical chemist who polished his skills learning from the finest chromatographers in Hungary, but mainly just so he could border hop and stalk Novak Djokovic.

Jonathan has worked with small molecules and mass spectrometers for over 20 years and loves to inject things onto them "just to see what happens".

His hobbies include playing the drums, fermenting strange vegetables and he one day hopes to meet the Paddle Pop lion.