Paweł Urban (also spelled as Pawel L. Urban (Chinese name: 帕偉鄂本)) is a chemist and is a Professor of Chemistry in the National Chiao Tung University (Hsinchu, Taiwan). He received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of York (United Kingdom). Urban's research interests include mass spectrometry and biochemical analysis. Urban is an inventor of the hydrogel micropatch sampling method, fizzy extraction, systems for imaging chemical reactions, and micro-arrays for mass spectrometry (MAMS). He has been popularizing the use of open-source hardware in prototyping instrumentation for analytical chemistry. He co-authored numerous scientific publications, including a book on time-resolved mass spectrometry.