Janusz Pawliszyn, a professor at the University of Waterloo, is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He is one of the top analytical scientists in the world, as the inventor of solid-phase microextraction and imaged capillary isoelectric focusing. Both techniques have been successfully commercialized and adopted in various research and industry fields. He is the chief editor of Trends in Analytical Chemistry and Green Analytical Chemistry. He is one of the highest cited analytical chemists in the world with an H-index of 137, over 750 papers, and more than 87000 citations.He is the founder of the ExTech Symposium series.