Hermann Wätzig
Institut für Pharmazeutische Chemie, Germany

Prof. Dr. Hermann Wätzig (born 1962) studied pharmacy at the Freie Universität Berlin from 1981 to 1985. His PhD thesis 1989 about an HPLC topic, supervised by Prof. Dr. S. Ebel. From 1990 Wätzig was a lecturer at the Institut für Pharmazie in Würzburg. Habilitation 1995. In 1999 he took the appointment of a professorship in pharmaceutical chemistry at the Technical University of Braunschweig. Since 2001 he has been the chair of the division pharmaceutical analysis/quality control of the German Pharmaceutical Society.  He is also an Editorial Board Member of the journal Electrophoresis.

Main research interests: instrumental analysis, especially capillary and gel electrophoresis, chromatographic techniques and mass spectroscopy. Analysis from body fluids. Analysis of biopolymers. Proteome research. Quality control. Quality assurance. Drugs from biotechnical production. Validation. Statistics. Surface analysis. High resolution microscopy (REM, AFM...).