Kálmán Benedek is the Director of Analytical Technologies at iGORi, a Contract Research Organization, which is specialized in pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical research. Dr. Benedek has extensive practice in biochemistry and separation sciences, particularly in the field of the HPLC of polymers and biopolymers. He performed fundamental works on the understanding of the relationship between protein conformational changes and reversed phase chromatography. His scientific interests are the physico-chemistry of separation sciences, protein interactions at solid-liquid interfaces and the characterization of proteins and polymers. Dr. Benedek is a Barnett Institute alumni.