Professor Ziad El Rassi earned M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in analytical chemistry from Claude-Bernard University, France, in 1974 and 1978. A visiting Assistant Professorship followed at Ecole Centrale de Lyon, France. He Joined the Chemical Engineering Department at Yale University in 1980. In 1988 he accepted an Assistant Professorship at Oklahoma State University, where he later became Full professor, followed by Regents Professor. El Rassi is a member of The Asia Pacific International Symposium on Microscale Separations, The International Symposium on Capillary Electroseparation Techniques (ITP), and The Latin-American Symposium on Biotechnology, Biomedical, Biopharmaceutical and Industrial Applications of Capillary Electrophoresis and Microchip Technology. He has served on editorial boards of several international journals and as the Chairman of three international symposia. He has received several research awards and his research has resulted in 200 research publications, two books, and 250 presentations, including 170 invited lectures around the world.