Bezhan Chankvetadze is Professor for Physical Chemistry and director of the Institute of Physical and Analytical Chemistry at the Tbilisi State University in Tbilisi, Georgia.

His research interests include biomedical and pharmaceutical analysis, stereochemistry and enantioselective analysis of chiral drugs, as well as theory of noncovalent enantioselective interactions.

He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis and co-editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis Open and a member of the editorial boards of Journal of Chromatography A, Journal of Chromatography Open, Electrophoresis, Journal of Separation Science, Journal of Pharmaceutical Analysis, Chirality and several other journals.

B. Chankvetadze is the recipient of “2006 Belgian Society of Pharmaceutical Science Award of Recognition”, the joint Csaba Horvath Memorial Award of the Hungarian Separation Science Society and Connecticut Separation Science Council, USA (2017) and Nernst-Tswett Award from the European Separation Science Society (EuSSS) (2024).

B. Chankvetadze is Member of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences, Member of the Academia Europaea and Honorary Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.