Robert E Synovec (born 1959) is an American analytical chemist and professor of chemistry at the University of Washington where he specializes in multidimensional separations and chemometrics.
He obtained his PhD from Iowa State in 1986 working under Edward Yeung where he developed detection and data analysis methods for liquid chromatography.
[4] Synovec's interests include both instrumentation and chemometrics, the science of using mathematical and statical tools to extract useful information from chemical data.
His group were early adopters of comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography (GC×GC), a multidimensional separation technique.
Another focus of Synovec's lab is the development of comprehensive three-dimensional gas chromatography (GC3), a 3D extension of GC×GC which employs three separation columns and two modulators.