Hermann Wätzig

Prof. Dr. Hermann Wätzig is a faculty member at the Faculty of Life Sciences of Technische Universität Braunschweig, leading the Research Group of Pharmaceutical Analysis and Quality Control at the Institute of Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Chemistry. His research focuses on analytical chemistry and pharmaceutical quality assurance, with collaborations across academia and industry.

Education and Career:

• Studied pharmacy at Freie Universität Berlin (1981–1985)
• PhD in HPLC-related research (1989)
• Lecturer at the Institute of Pharmacy in Würzburg (1990)
• Habilitation (1995)
• Appointed Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at TU Braunschweig (1999)

Research Interests include:

• Separation techniques (CE, SDS-PAGE, HPLC, mass spectrometry)
• Statistical process control for pharmaceutical quality
• Affinity capillary electrophoresis for protein interactions
• Optimization of analytical methods in bioanalysis
• Precision and accuracy in chromatography and gel electrophoresis

Leadership and Editorial Roles:

• Chair of the German Pharmaceutical Society’s pharmaceutical analysis division (since 2001)
• Editor-in-Chief of Electrophoresis journal
• Scientific committee member of BfArM, CE Pharm, and ISEAC
• Associate Director of CASSS
• Expert for the European Pharmacopoeia
• Visiting Professor at Shizuoka University