Alexandre Stoyanov, PhD is Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Pathology and Anatomical Sciences at the University of Missouri. He earned his PhD in Chemistry in the Institute of Physical Chemistry at the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. In 2001 Dr. Stoyanov co-authored the Elsevier book, Proteome Revisited: Theory and Practice of all Relevant Electrophoretic Steps. He has been a contributor to two other books and more than 30 journal articles on related topics. His current research focuses on electophoretic and chromatographic separations, spectroscopy, 2D electrophoresis and LC-mass spectrometry.