The Subdivision on Chromatography and Separations Chemistry of the American Chemical Society’s Division of Analytical Chemistry is pleased to announce Professor James Grinias as the recipient of the 2021 Satinder Ahuja Award for Young Investigators in Separation Science. This award recognizes and encourages outstanding contributions to the field of separation science by a young chemist or chemical engineer from academia, industry, or national laboratories.
James Grinias earned his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill under the guidance of Prof. James Jorgenson, followed by a NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship appointment at the University of Michigan in the lab of Prof. Robert Kennedy. Prof. Grinias is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry at Rowan University, where he joined as an Assistant Professor in January 2017. His research interests primarily focus on liquid-phase separations, especially the fundamentals of column and instrument design in liquid chromatography. For over a decade, he has focused on increasing the efficiency and throughput of these separations, especially with capillary-scale columns. He has applied these techniques to a wide variety of molecular classes, including pharmaceutical compounds, neurotransmitters, physiological metabolites, and drugs of abuse. More recently, his group has focused on instrument miniaturization, especially for portable liquid chromatography separations, two-dimensional separation techniques, and microfluidic platforms. Outside of the lab, he has served on several conference organizing committees, multiple journal editorial advisory boards, and on the Executive Committee of the Chromatography Forum of Delaware Valley.