Professor Janusz Pawliszyn is the inventor of solid-phase microextraction and the author of over 500 scientific publications and books with more than 54700 citations. His Hirsch Index (H-index) is 110. He is a Fellow of Royal Society of Canada and Chemical Institute of Canada, editor of Analytica Chimica Acta, Trends in Analytical Chemistry and a member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Separation Science and Journal of Pharmaceutical Analysis. He received the 1995 McBryde Medal, the 1996 Tswett Medal, the 1996 Hyphenated Techniques in Chromatography Award, the 1996 Caledon Award, the Jubilee Medal 1998 from the Chromatographic Society, U.K., the 2000 Maxxam Award, the Alumni Achievement Award for 2000 from Southern Illinois University, the Humboldt Research Award for 2001, the 2002 COLACRO Medal, the 2008 A.A. Benedetti-Pichler Award from Eastern Analytical Symposium, and the 2008 Principal Manning Innovation Award, 2010 Torbern Bergman Medal from the Swedish Chemical Society, 2010 Marcel Golay Award, 2010 Ontario Premier’s Innovation Award, 2010 ACS Award in Separation Science and Technology, 2011 PittCon Dal Nogare Award and 2012 E.W.R. Steacie Award. He presently holds the University Professor, Canada Research Chair and Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Industrial Research Chair in New Analytical Methods and Technologies.