Hello everybody.

So my thank you to the organizers.

We have been here on the workshop and learned a lot.

And this is also something that shows our dedication to analytical and

artificial certification that we always try to at least understand what you guys are doing here.

Advanced characterization using the AUC.

And so it's something that is something that we are doing actually, we will do in the future.

And so your characterization technique is very important to us.

I'm not giving a scientific talk here.

I'm giving a talk about our dedication.

You will see some nice pictures here and also understand the situation of AUC and Backman in the future.

We have a second talk here on the meeting that is more scientific talk.

And I hope that you're all looking forward to then hear Amy presenting.

My talk is also about a personal perspective on the history of our engagement in AUC.

There's a little bit of disclaimer here about the property and personal perspective.

I added to the title because there is not a real good description of the history of AUC available.

Maybe it's something that one of you picks up one day and writes something comprehensive summary about the history of AUC.

I think it's something that is missing.

So we several years ago created a video about the history of AUC.

This is available on YouTube.

It is a video that you could look into and maybe you find it exciting.

I added a slide here to start with a funny note.

We presented on the history of AUC there on YouTube and there was a feedback on YouTube, social media.

And the feedback says, this gives absolutely zero information about AUC history.

We already know the timeline of world history and molecular biology in general.

Your job was specific for AUC.

So a good statement.

The statement was done by a person who calls himself the sexy scientist.

And if the sexy scientist is present here, maybe he can help us understand the comment.

Good.

So there are more reasons why I named it personal perspective.

You can also see in some minutes what is my personal entry in AUC here.

Of course we have 80 different AUC users here and so we will have 80 different points of view.

But what is important to me is the technique is often overlooked.

And we need to have the engagement of the companies that are involved in that and of all of you scientists

to be enthusiastic about the technique, to communicate about it and to tell your story about AUC.

My personal journey started with this book here.

It's called physics that relates to us and I got this from my parents when I was 11 years old.

Then I went into studying physics and slipped into the field of biophysics, was working on membrane transport.

And this also brought me then to the use of AUC.

I got in contact with Beckman at that time and I'm an employee since 1996.

So AUC was also very important for my life and for the life of my family, of my children.

And I think it's the same for a lot of you here in the audience.

Beckman was not involved in everything that was happening before 1947.

There had been T. Sweatberg, you know all that.

These are pictures from the Sweatberg lab from a meeting we had in Uppsala.

I'll just go back.

Then T. Sweatberg got the Nobel Prize in 1926.

So I think we are looking forward to more promotion of the technique also in the coming years.

And the Lamm equation has been developed in 1930.