On behalf of the organizing committee of the 30th International Symposium on Chromatography, ISC 2014, it is our pleasure to invite you to Salzburg, Austria, 14 — 18 September 2014. The ISC series has established itself as one of the premier meetings for discussion and presentation of all modes of separation sciences such as gas chromatography, high performance liquid chromatography, electro-driven separation techniques or supercritical fluid chromatography, to name but a few methodological topics. A major focus of this Symposium will also be set on the newest developments in mass spectrometry, the more and more dominating mode of detection e...