Bert Wouters has conducted his doctoral research at the Free University of Brussels under the supervision of Prof. Eeltink and Prof. Desmet. During his research, he developed advanced strategies for one-, two-, and three-dimensional LC and novel approaches to prototype microfluidic devices for high-pressure liquid chromatography. After his PhD, he started working as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Amsterdam under the supervision of Prof. Schoenmakers, focussing on the development of a microfluidic immobilized-enzyme reactor implemented in-line in a high-throughput LC×LC workflow. Currently, he is working as a postdoctoral researcher at Leiden University in the group of Prof. Thomas Hankemeier on the topic of microfluidic sample-preparation and sample-transfer for Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy.