Peter Schoenmakers has been a full-time professor in Analytical Chemistry (including its applications in forensic science) at the University of Amsterdam since 2002. His research domain is analytical separations, which specific focus on multi-dimensional liquid chromatography.
He obtained a Masters Degree in chemical engineering from the Technical University of Delft, Te Netherlands and performed his PhD research with Professor Leo de Galan in Delft and with Professor Barry Karger in Boston, MA, USA. Thereafter he worked for Philips in Eindhoven (The Netherlands) and for Shell in Amsterdam and in Houston, TX, USA. While at Shell he became a part-time professor in Polymer Analysis at the University of Amsterdam, which evolved in his current position in 2009.
Peter Schoenmakers is also an editor of the Journal of Chromatography A.