Prof. Dr. Jean-François Focant

Jean-François (Jef) Focant is Full Professor at the Chemistry Department at ULiege in Belgium. Expert in multidimensional GC coupled to MS, his team develops and validate analytical methods for the measurement of (semi)volatile molecules present in complex matrices. His Organic and Biological Analytical Chemistry Laboratory is known for its focus on solving reallife analytical challenges to serve the general society. The diversity of applications is very large and covers fields such as forensics, food control, archeology, and much more. Major recent activities include metabolomics (volatolomics, breathomics), especially oriented to biomarker discovery in medical applications. The team also specializes in specific chemometric solutions for feature selections over large data sets from multi-class studies.