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About
Joe Foley
Joe Foley is Professor Emeritus of Chemistry at Drexel University. A tenured Full Professor at Drexel since 1998, he served as Department Head from September 2020 to August 2025. He received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Florida and conducted research at National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) for 2 years as a National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow. He was an Assistant Professor at Louisiana State University and an Associate and Full Professor at Villanova University before moving to Drexel in 1998. While on sabbatical in 2006-2007 he was Visiting Professor of Chemistry in the Institute of Pharmaceutical Technology at the University of Frankfurt (Germany), and during 2015-2016 was a Visiting Fellow in the Australian Centre for Research on Separation Science (ACROSS) at the University of Tasmania in Hobart.
Joe's research interests are in the fundamental and applied aspects of analytical chemistry and separation science, and he has authored or co-authored over 130 articles, book chapters, reviews, and one patent pertaining to pressure- and voltage-driven liquid-phase separations while mentoring 39 Ph.D. students (2 in progress), 10 M.S. students, and 27 undergraduates. An ISI Highly-Cited Author, several equations from his publications have appeared in undergraduate textbooks and/or graduate monographs. Joe currently serves on the editorial boards of Bioanalysis, Chromatographia, and Electrophoresis, having previously served on the boards of Analytical Communications, Current Chromatography, Separations, The Analyst, and the Journal of Microcolumn Separations.
Joe has organized and spoken in numerous invited scientific symposia for the American Chemical Society (ACS), the Gordon Research Conferences, the Electrophoresis Society, PittCon, EAS, and FACSS/SCIX. A recipient of the 2020 EAS Award for Outstanding Achievements in Separation Science and the 2021 Chromatography Forum of Delaware Valley Award, Joe has organized and taught numerous short courses for the CFDV, ACS, and PittCon. A long-time member of the Executive Committee of the CFDV, he twice served as Program Chair and President.