ISC 2026 Short Course 7 - Supercritical Fluids in Chromatography and Extraction
International Symposium on Chromatography: ISC 2026 Short Course 7 - Supercritical Fluids in Chromatography and Extraction
ISC 2026
The International Symposium on Chromatography (ISC) represents the oldest conference series on separation science. ISC symposia have been organised since 1956 in each even year. ISC is one of the premier meetings series for discussion of all modes of chromatography and separation science with a broad coverage of techniques and applications.
The major focus of the symposium will be on the impact of chromatography and separation science to meet the needs of the pharmaceutical, environmental, food and health industry, as well as science and medicine. The symposium programme will reflect these themes and highlight new challenges and emerging opportunities for the science and marketing of separation and detection systems and methods.
As an integral part of the scientific programme of lectures and poster sessions, an international exhibition and vendor seminars on instrumentation and services for chromatography, separation science and mass spectrometry will be organised. ISC 2026 will provide the perfect forum for attendees from academia, industry and government research institutions for scientific exchange and networking.
ISC 2026 SYMPOSIUM KEY DATES
6-10 SEPTEMBER 2026
- 15 January 2026: Opening of Early-bird Registration & Abstract submission
- 11 March 2026: Deadline for abstract submission (orals)
- 21 April 2026: Sending acceptance letters (orals)
- 15 May 2026: Deadline of early-bird registration and payment & Author registration deadline (orals)
- 1 June 2026: Preliminary detailed program on web
- 1 June 2026: Deadline for abstract submission (posters)
- 16 June 2026: Sending acceptance letters (posters)
- Authors who submit their abstracts with a poster preference by 5 May 2026 will be notified of the outcome by 12 May 2026 and will have the opportunity to register at the early-bird rate until 15 May 2026.
- 30 June 2026: Author registration deadline (posters)
- 30 July 2026: Deadline for abstract submission (late-breaking posters)
- without the possibility of competing for the Best Poster Award
- 11 August 2026: Sending acceptance letters (late-breaking posters)
- 18 August 2026: Author registration deadline (late-breaking posters)
- 25 August 2026: Deadline for late registration & payment
- 6-10 September 2026: Symposium
REGISTRATION
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM
SHORT COURSES
SC 7 Supercritical Fluids in Chromatography and Extraction
🗓️ SUNDAY, 6 SEPTEMBER 2026
🕗 12:30 – 15:45
Supercritical fluids have been widely used in the past 50 years, for extraction, purification or analytical purposes. Their intermediate properties between liquids and gases render them particularly attractive, providing both high diffusivities and good solvation properties. The preferred fluid is carbon dioxide, generally recognized as a safe solvent (GRAS) and possessing several desirable features including the low values of critical pressure and temperature, low price and miscibility to a large range of organic solvents.
In this short course, we will focus on the following aspects:
- Fundamental properties of supercritical fluids in general, and CO2 in particular
- Solubility in supercritical CO2 and co-solvents
- SFE instruments
- SFE method development for selective extraction
- SFE applications to natural products and other samples
- SFC instruments for analytical and preparative purposes, including detection and MS hyphenation
- SFC method development for achiral and chiral separations
- SFC analytical applications including pharmaceuticals, natural products, cosmetics and others.
- SFC transfer to preparative scale, with industrial examples.
Lecturers
Isabelle François
- Isabelle is the founder of Chromisa Scientific, a consultancy company based in Belgium. She supports academia as well as industry with demanding extraction, chromatography, purification and project management challenges, offering customization, training and support.
- Isabelle holds a PhD in analytical chemistry (acquired in the group of Pat Sandra), and has been working with analytical and CO2 technologies since more than 15 years across many industries (during her PhD as well as during her career at Waters and through collaborations with Thar Process and De Dietrich). Next to her expertise in the domain of supercritical fluids, she is also considered as a subject matter expert for two-dimensional fluid based technologies. Isabelle has been awarded numerous times in the Powerlists of the magazine “The Analytical Scientist” eg as one of the most influential female scientists in the world in 2016. Isabelle is still closely connected to the scientific community, contributing to cutting-edge research as well as publishing and reviewing articles on a regular basis, and she is often invited as a speaker at scientific conferences.
ISC 2026: Isabelle Francois
Caroline West
- Caroline West is a full professor at the University of Orleans, France. She is a specialist of SFC, with or without hyphenation to extraction methods and/or MS, to analyze samples of pharmaceutical interest and natural products. She has authored about 140 papers and book chapters, and has presented about 130 lectures in conferences and seminars. In 2015, she received the “LC‐GC Emerging Leader in Chromatography” award. She was ranked several times among the most influential people in analytical chemistry by “The Analytical Scientist” magazine (2014, 2018, 2019, 2020 & 2021), received the Jubilee medal from the Chromatographic Society (2021) and the JFK Huber Award Lecture from the Austrian Society for Analytical Sciences (2025).
ISC 2026: Caroline West
