Dr. Egidijus Machtejevas Merck KGaA Darmstadt, Germany

Dr. Egidijus Machtejevas was born in Kaunas, Lithuania where he studied chemistry, biotechnology and separation sciences (1991-2001) at Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania. Dr. Machtejevas also spent a year in Prof. Stelan Hjerten laboratory in Uppsala University (Sweden) as a research student. After gaining his PhD in analytical chemistry 2001-2007... read morehe worked as a post-doc with Prof Klaus Unger at Mainz University, Germany. Furthermore, Dr. Machtejevas spent two years working at AstraZeneca (Sweden) where he set up and validated several various multidimensional systems for peptidomic analysis of different biological fluids. He joined the R&D Department at Merck KGaA in Darmstadt in 2008, was given a marketing manager position in 2009, and promoted to product manager for chromatography from 2010 until 2018. Dr. Machtejevas is currently a Lead Expert in Chromatography Product & Portfolio Management at Merck KGaA. Dr Machtejevas has twenty-five scientific papers and thirteen book chapters to his name, and his major focus areas include chromatography, multidimensional liquid chromatography, proteomics and mass spectrometry.