Bezhan Chankvetadze#
| Membership Number: | 6160 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GEORGIA |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Bezhan-Chankvetadze |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-2379-9815 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2006 - present Full Professor and Head of Department of Physical and Analytical Chemistry, Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia
- 2010 - present Director of the Institute of Physical and Analytical Chemistry, School of Exact and Natural Sciences, Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia
- 2007 - present General Manager (CEO), Enantiosep GmbH, Muenster, Germany
- 2004 - present Editor, Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences, Elsevier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- 2007 - 2021 Consultant, Phenomenex, Inc., Torrance, CA, USA
- 1998 - 2006 Full Professor, Chair of Department of Physical Chemistry, Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia.
- 2002 - 2007 General Manager (CEO), Sepaserve GmbH, Muenster, Germany
- 1991 - 2002 Visiting Researcher and Visiting Professor (different years), Institute of Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry, University of Muenster, Muenster, Germany
- 1992 - 2004 Visiting Scientist (different years), Department of Engineering, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
- 1985 - 1998 Docent (Associate Professor), Chair of Physical Chemistry, School of Chemistry, Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia
Fields of Scholarship
- Clinical drug monitoring
- Capillary electrophoresis and capillary electrochromatography
- Environmental, biomedical and pharmaceutical analysis
- Enantiomer separations by high-performance liquid chromatography
- Investigations of chiral recognition mechanisms
- Drug metabolism and pharmacokinetics
- Separation and other instrumental analytical techniques
- Zeolite and asymmetric catalysis
- Chemical instrumentation and instrumental analysis
Honours and Awards
- 2005, 2006 and 2010 - “Journal of Chromatography Top Cited Article Award”
- 2006 - "Belgian Society of Pharmaceutical Science Award of Recognition”
- 2013 - Elected (Full Member) of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences, Tbilisi, Georgia
- 2016 - the recipient of the Shota Rustaveli Georgia National Science Foundation inaugural award “The Scientist of the Year”
- 2017 - the recipient of Csaba Horvath Award from Hungarian Separation Science Group and Connecticut Separation Science Council (USA).
- 2019 - elected as Honorary Professor of Xi´an Jiaotong University (Xi´an, China)
