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Jean-Luc Veuthey (born on 20 April 1958 in Dorenaz, Valais) is an ordinary professor of pharmaceutical analytical chemistry at the University of Geneva since 1992. His research focuses on the development of modern analytical methods, and more specifically on separation methods for the determination of drugs or analytes in different matrices.

Biography
Jean-Luc Veuthey studied chemistry at the Geneva Engineering School, where he obtained his ETS engineering degree in chemical engineering in 1978. He continued his studies at the University of Geneva, where he graduated as a chemist in 1983. He then obtained his PhD in chemistry in 1987 under the supervision of Professor Werner Haerdi in the Department of Mineral Analytical Chemistry of the Chemistry Section, Faculty of Sciences, University of Geneva. From 1988 to 1989, he moved to Paris, where he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Ecole Supérieur de Physique et de Chimie de Paris. In parallel, he became a lecturer for the DEA in analytical chemistry.

In 1989, he returned to Geneva, where he spent a year as an Assistant Master in the Pharmacy Section as Head of General Chemistry Laboratories. On the strength of this experience, he was appointed as a substitute senior lecturer for 2 years (1990-1992). Without leaving the University, he worked in a private company in Geneva where he was responsible for the analytical chemistry group (1990-1992). In 1992, he passed the competition for a newly opened chair in analytical chemistry and became directly an ordinary professor at the University of Geneva.

Institutional career
Upon his appointment, Jean-Luc Veuthey created the Laboratoire de Chimie Analytique Pharmaceutique (LCAP ). This new entity, initially of modest size, initiated for the first time within the Section of Pharmaceutical Sciences, research in Analytical chemistry. While developing his own research, he quickly became vice-president of the Ecole Romande de Pharmacie in 1994, and then president in 1996. At that time, pharmacy was taught in a coordinated manner at both the Universities of Lausanne and Geneva. In 1998, he became the head of the school of Pharmaceutical Sciences to prepare one of the largest institutional movements in Western Switzerland's academic landscape: the creation of the Geneva-Lausanne School of Pharmacy, of which he is one of the main architects. This was formally created in 2003, when the Convention organized the transfer of the school of Pharmaceutical Sciences to the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Geneva.

In 2004, he was called to join the Dean's Office of the Faculty of Science at the University of Geneva as vice-dean. During the next 6 years, Jean-Luc Veuthey occupied several key dicasteries and participated in the development of the faculty. In 2010, under the aegis of Professor Vassali, rector of the University of Geneva, he joined the University's management as vice-rector in charge of human resources, buildings and innovation until 2015.

Back within the Pharmaceutical Sciences Section, he still holds many administrative positions, such as representative of the University of Geneva on the Foundation Board of the FNRS (Switzerland).

Teaching activites
Since 1992, Jean-Luc Veuthey has taught pharmaceutical analytical chemistry to Bachelor and Master students in Pharmaceutical Sciences.

He has also taught as a visiting professor at other institutions and universities, such as the Ecole Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie de Paris, University of Turin, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, University of Lausanne, and University of Lyon. In 2016, he was invited by the Faculty of Pharmacy from the University of Montreal as a visiting professor, where he trained himself in new information and communication technologies for teaching. Back in Geneva in 2017, he applies in his ex cathedra teaching new pedagogical approaches such as the flipped classroom and introduces modern tools such as on-line teaching platforms, electronic surveys and learning videos. Since 2018, he has chaired the teaching commission of the Ecole de Pharmacie Genève-Lausanne (EPGL), where he is leading a reform of pharmacy studies based on a program approach.

Research activites
During his career, Professor Jean-Luc Veuthey has supervised more than 60 PhD students and trained many post-docs. He is the author of more than 340 scientific articles, collecting more than 11,000 citations, and possesses an h-index of 54 (Scopus). He is an expert in pharmaceutical analysis, and his main research topics are as follows:


 * Online and offline sample preparation techniques.
 * Separation techniques, such as capillary electrophoresis, liquid chromatography, and supercritical fluid chromatography.
 * The use of various detection modes, such as UV spectroscopy, fluorescence, evaporative light scattering detector (ELSD), and mass spectrometry (MS).

In his laboratory, all important steps of the analytical process (i.e. sample preparation, separation techniques, and detection modes) are optimized to develop new strategies that can be applied to the analysis of pharmaceutical formulations and biological fluids. In terms of applications, Professor Veuthey is particularly interested in the analysis (characterization and quantification) of drugs, drugs of abuse, counterfeit drugs, doping agents, metabolites and monoclonal antibodies.

Among the most notable works of his career, Professor Veuthey is recognized as one of the first users of capillary electrophoresis coupled to mass spectrometry (CE-MS) as early as 1998. Since the release of commercial ultrahigh pressure liquid chromatography (UHPLC) systems in 2004, he has demonstrated the potential of this approach for pharmaceutical analysis as well as the possibility of easily transferring HPLC methods to UHPLC, to achieve faster separations. Finally, he is also recognized for his work on matrix effects in LC-MS, demonstrating the importance of sample preparation since the early 2000s.

Professor Veuthey also always had a keen interest in scientific publishing and communication. Since 2018, he has been one of the associate editors of the Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis, considered as the reference journal in the field of pharmaceutical analysis. In 2012, he also co-edited with Davy Guillarme a book entitled UHPLC in Life Sciences. Finally, he has co-organized major scientific events in the field of analytical sciences and was the chairman of the 27th Microscale Bioseparations (MSB) conference in 2012, which took place in Geneva (Switzerland), as well as the chairman of the 32nd International Symposium on Chromatography (ISC2018 ), which will take place in Cannes-Mandelieu, France, in 2018.

Finally, in a ranking established by the journal "The Analytical Scientist", he was elected among the 100 most influential personalities in the world in the field of analytical sciences in 2013 and 2014 and again in 2015. In 2017, he was also elected among the 10 most influential personalities in pharmaceutical analysis.