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Is an Associate Professor at the Department of Analytical Chemistry of the University of Barcelona since 2003. Her expertise is in the design of chemometric methods for complex analytical measurements, such as hyperspectral images, and for monitoring and control of bioanalytical and industrial processes.
Is Full Professor in Analytical Chemistry at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona since 2010. Her main scientific interest is the development of new chromatographic methods to determine organic contaminants in environmental samples.
Is Associate Professor at the Department of Analytical Chemistry of the University of Barcelona since 2014. Her research interests cover the characterization of chromatographic systems and physicochemical characterization of drugs.
Is Associate Professor at the Department of Chemistry of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona since 2009. His research interests focus on rapid analysis using vibrational spectroscopy and ion mobility spectrometry.
Is Associate Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Chemistry of the University of Barcelona since 2003. Her expertise is in the development and application of analytical methods.
Is Serra Húnter Lecturer at the Department of Analytical Chemistry of the University of Barcelona since 2020. Her research interests include food analysis and the recovery of bioactive compounds from agrifood waste.
Is Full Professor of Analytical Chemistry at the University of Girona since 2012. Her research activity focuses on the development of analytical methodologies for the determination of inorganic and organic species, mainly in environmental matrices.
Is Full Professor at the Department of Environmental Chemistry of the Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research from the Spanish Research Council (IDAEA-CSIC). Her research interest is to evaluate the presence and impact of organic contaminants in the environment.
Is Associate Professor at the Department of Analytical and Applied Chemistry of the Institut Químic de Sarrià-Ramon Llull University. His research focuses on the presence of emerging pollutants in the aquatic environment.
Joana S. Amaral is a Professor at the Department of Chemical and Biological Technology of the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança and research member of the Mountain Research Center (CIMO). She served as president of the Food Chemistry Division of the Portuguese Chemical Society (SPQ) (2009-2012) and since 2011 has been representing SPQ at the Food Chemistry Division (FCD) of the EuChemS. As a delegate of FCD-EuChemS she has been actively serving the division, as secretary (2018-2020) and since 2021 as chair. She graduated in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the University of Porto, Portugal, and received her PhD in Nutrition and Food Chemistry by the same University. She has over 100 publications in Scopus (H-index 38), is Section Editor-in-Chief of journal Foods and is a member of over 20 national and international projects. Her main research interests are related to Food Chemistry and Food Science, particularly regarding (i) the development of methodologies for assessing the authenticity of different foods, and (ii) nutraceuticals and extraction of bioactive compounds from medicinal plants and agri-food by-products.
Claudia Beleites is an analytical chemist specialized on chemometrics and vibrational spectroscopy. Currently, she is chair of the Working Group Chemometrics and Quality Assurance of the Analytical Chemistry Division within the German Chemical Society GDCh. Claudia has worked in public research with clinical diagnostic and agricultural applications, and since 2016, she is owner and director of Chemometrix GmbH. Her current main research interests in chemometrics are variance uncertainty in chemometric model validation as well as sampling.
Shenaz obtained her bachelor's degree in Analytical and Medicinal Chemistry from the University of Hertfordshire. With over two decades of expertise in the pharmaceutical sector, Shenaz currently serves as an Associate Director in Analytical Chemistry at GlaxoSmithKline. She oversees the provision of physicochemical solutions, identity and purity data, along with walk-up platforms for analytical and preparative analysis to support R&D Chemistry priorities. Shenaz has led the development and implementation of high-throughput physicochemical screening assays using chromatographic techniques. Shenaz possesses extensive experience in leading teams, managing projects, and fostering collaborative working environments across various organizational matrices. Her expertise has been widely recognized through her numerous contributions to external and internal publications and participation at several conferences. Shenaz held the esteemed title of GSK Associate Fellow and is an active member of the Royal Society of Chemistry. She also serves on the organizing committee of the Physchem Forum. With a strong commitment to promoting inclusivity and diversity, Shenaz provides leadership as the departmental champion for these initiatives at GSK. Originally from Mauritius, she is fluent in both English and French.
Margaretha de Loos-Vollebregt obtained her PhD in 1980 from Delft University of Technology. Until her retirement in 2014 she worked as analytical chemist at the Delft University of Technology. Since 2009 she is guest professor in Atomic Spectroscopy at Ghent University, Belgium. She was member of the scientific committee of international conferences, e.g. CSI, ESAS, FACSS and Rio Conferences. From 1992 she was member of the editorial advisory board of Spectrochimica Acta Part B: Atomic Spectroscopy and became reviews editor in 1997. From 2001 until 2024 she has served the journal as editor. She was a member of the advisory board of the Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry from 1991 until 2016. Since 2006 she is member of the editorial advisory board of Analytica Chimica Acta. She is member of the Royal Dutch Chemical Society and the Analytical Chemistry division.
Jordi Díaz is a professor at the Institut Químic de Sarrià – Ramon Llull University, and President of the Spanish Society of Chromatography and Related Techniques (SECyTA).
Dr. Paola Dugo is a full Professor of Food Chemistry and vice-rector for Research at the University of Messina (Italy). Her research focuses on innovative chromatographic techniques and multidimensional techniques in combination with mass spectrometry for the study of complex natural matrices and food products. She served as Coordinator of the Italian Group of Food Chemistry of the Italian Chemistry Society (2019-2021) and is now part of the board. She is editor of Journal of Chromatography A (Elsevier).
Sebastiaan Eeltink received his PhD degree in Chemistry in 2005 from the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. From 2005-2007 he conducted two years of post-doctoral research at the University of California, Berkeley, USA, and he was a guest scientist at The Molecular Foundry in the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Here, he developed novel column formats, including coated capillary columns and monolithic structures in microfluidic chips. The main application was proteomics research. In 2007 he joined Dionex (currently Thermo Fisher Scientific), a manufacturer of high-tech analytical instruments, and served as a scientific consultant for this company until 2021. In 2009, Sebastiaan received the Odysseus award from the Research Foundation Flanders to establish his research group within the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, where he is now a full professor.
Nestor Etxebarria is since 2011 Professor at the Dept. of Analytical Chemistry of the UPV/EHU. He is currently a member of the IBeA Research Group. During his PHD, he did an internship at the KTH. Later, during his postdoc stage as a Marie Curie fellow at the JRC-IRMM, he worked on the implementation of instrumental neutron activation analysis (INAA) for the quality control of the production of reference materials. Once back at the UPV/EHU, he focused the research activities on the analysis of organic microcontaminants and ecotoxicology. He is co-author of more than 195 publications in international journals and co-author of four chemistry and analytical chemistry textbooks in Basque. He was the PI of three projects of the Spanish Ministry, and he is currently working in BlueAdapt EU project and HOBE project.
Núria Fontanals Torroja is a Senior Researcher in the Analytical and Organic Chemistry Department at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona since 2007. Her research career has combined the preparation of materials for different extraction techniques and their evaluation and application in analytical fields using chromatographic techniques followed by mass spectrometry detection to enhance the sensitivity and selectivity in the determination of challenging contaminants in complex samples, mainly from environmental origins. She is the Secretary of the Governmental Committee of the Spanish Society of Chromatography and Related Techniques (SECyTA).
Ana M. Garcia-Campaña is full Professor at the University of Granada (UGR) in Spain, and responsible for the research group "Quality in Food, Environmental and Clinical Analytical Chemistry" (FQM-302). Her research areas are focused on the use of advanced analytical platforms based on liquid chromatography and capillary electrophoresis coupled with mass spectrometry, fluorescence or ion mobility spectrometry for food and environmental quality control and safety, monitoring contaminants, including natural toxins and residues of veterinary and human drugs and pesticides. Developments of innovative and sustainable analytical methodologies and sample treatments, as well as biomarker studies in biological fluids related to the contaminant exposition have being carried out. She has published more than 225 articles, edited several books and co-authored book chapters (h-index of 51, Web of Science). Currently she is Vice-rector of Postgraduate Studies and Continuing Education of the University of Granada and Vicepresident of the Spanish Society of Chromatography and Related Techniques (SECyTA).
Ester Heath is currently a researcher at the Jožef Stefan Institute and a Professor of Ecotechnology at the International Postgraduate School Jožef Stefan in Ljubljana, Slovenia. After earning her PhD in Chemistry – Environmental Organic Analysis in 1998 from the University of Ljubljana, she spent two years as a postdoctoral researcher at McGill University in Montreal, QC, Canada. Prof. Heath has been the Head of the Group for Organic Analysis within the Department of Environmental Sciences at the Jožef Stefan Institute for 20 years. Her research focuses on the application of organic analytical chemistry to the occurrence, cycling, and effects of residues of contaminants of emerging concern in environmental, food, and health-related matrices. Prof. Heath also serves as the Slovene representative to the Division of Chemistry in the Environment of the European Chemical Society and is an Editor of the Springer journal Environmental Science and Pollution Research. In 2022, she received the Zois Award for her outstanding achievements in the use of organic analysis in the fields of environment, food, and health.
Dr. Herrero-Martínez is a Full Professor at the University of Valencia since 2018. He obtained his PhD in Chemistry from the same university in 2000. He has held academic positions at the University of Barcelona and the University of Amsterdam. He has published around 200 research articles, a book, and several book chapters, with an h-index of 36. He has led and participated in regional, national and international R&D projects. His research interests comprise the development of smart materials and 3D printing for sample preparation purposes and new stationary phases for separation techniques.
Prof. Dr. Elena Ibañez is a Full Research Professor at the Institute of Food Science Research (CIAL) belonging to the CSIC in Madrid, Spain. She received her PhD in Analytical Chemistry at the UAM, Spain and carried out her postdoctoral training at Brigham Young University, USA and at the University of California at Davis, USA. Elena's main activity includes the study and development of new green extraction processes based on the use of compressed fluids to isolate and analyze bioactive compounds from natural sources such as food and agricultural by-products, plants and algae. She has participated in 53 research projects with competitive financial support from governmental organizations and private companies; she has received different national and international awards, co-authored more than 310 publications, 36 book chapters and 19 patents.
Prof.dr. Hans-Gerd Janssen obtained an MSc. and PhD degree in analytical chemistry from the Eindhoven University of Technology. After working for some years at that University as an assistant- or associate professor, he joined Unilever in 1999 as group-leader chromatography and mass spectrometry. He has been active as a board member in several national committees including the Section for Analytical Chemistry of the Royal Dutch Chemical Society and the Dutch Working Group on Separation Methods. He also is active in several international scientific and organising committees for symposia and he is a member of the editorial board of several journals. In 2004 Hans-Gerd was appointed part-time professor Analytical Separations at the University of Amsterdam. In 2019 he moved to Wageningen University where he now holds a similar part-time position. His research focuses on the development of new chromatographic methods for the analysis of complex food-related samples. Prof. Janssen was awarded the 2019 GC×GC scientific achievement award for his work on comprehensive GC, and the 2023 AOCS Dutton award for his contributions in analytical chemistry applied to oils and fats.
Martina Marchetti-Deschmann is a researcher at the University of Vienna.
Prof. Marini is full professor of Analytical Chemistry at Sapienza University of Rome. His research activity is focused on all aspects of chemometrics, ranging from the application of existing methods to real-world problems in different fields to the design and development of novel algorithms. He received the Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems Award in 2012. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems and serves as Associate Editor for Chemometrics in Wiley’s Encyclopedia of Analytical Chemistry. He is currently the leader of the Chemometric study group of DAC-EuChemS and vice-President of Italian NIR Society (SISNIR).
ICREA Research Professor and leader of the ICN2 Nanobioelectronics and Biosensors Group, Arben Merkoçi obtained his PhD at the University of Tirana (Albania) in ion selective electrodes. Since 1992 he has carried out research as a postdoctoral fellow and research professor at different universities. His research is focused on the integration of biological molecules and other species with micro- and nanostructures to design novel (bio)sensors. He is a member of the Academy of Sciences of Albania and director and coordinator of NANOALB, the regional network of nanoscience and nanotechnology. He is Co-Editor-in-Chief of Biosensors and Bioelectronics, the principal international journal devoted to research, design development, and application of biosensors and bioelectronics, and a member of the editorial board of Electroanalysis, Microchimica Acta, and other journals.
Prof. Maria Montes-Bayón holds a bachelor in Chemistry (1993, University of Oviedo, Spain), bachelor-thesis in Analytical Chemistry (1994, University of Plymouth, UK and Oviedo) and a PhD (1999, University of Oviedo; awarded) degree. In the year 2000, she joined the research group of Prof. Joseph A. Caruso at the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cincinnati (Ohio, USA) as Postdoctoral Fulbright Fellow. She got back to Oviedo with a Senior Researcher contract and was promoted in 2008 to Associate Professor and in 2017 to Full Professor of Analytical Chemistry. Her main research interests are: a) Development of quantitative strategies for determination of molecular biomarkers of clinical relevance at the single cell level using ICP-MS; b) Evaluation of encapsulated metallodrugs for their potential use in chemotherapy using mass spectrometry: a focus on cellular resistance mechanisms; and c) analytical tools to study biomedical aspects of nanoparticles: biogenic nanoparticles and metal nano-debris from metallic implants. She has co-authored 184 publications and is associate editor of the journal Metallomics (RSC/OUP) since 2015. Currently, she has been elected as President of Spanish Society for Analytical Chemistry since 2022. In 2013 she was awarded with the Bunsen-Kirchhoff award and in 2023 with the Lester W. Strock award.
Valérie Pichon, full professor at Sorbonne University (Paris), leads the Department of Analytical Chemistry (LSABM), a part of the Department of Chemistry Biology and Innovation (CBI) located at ESPCI Paris (PSL University, CNRS) and also leads the CBI department. Her main research interests include the development and miniaturization of antibody- or aptamer-based sorbents and molecular or ionic imprinted polymers for the selective extraction of target compounds present in trace amounts in complex samples. She is the author of over 150 publications, 7 book chapters, and 3 patents. She is associate editor of the Journal of Separation Science. She has received the Analytical Chemistry Department Prize of the French Chemical Society (2001), the Silver Medal of the French National Centre for Scientific Research (2022), and recently the Senior Prize of AfSep, the French Association for Separation Sciences (2023).
Jukka Rantanen is professor and head of department at the Department of Pharmacy (University of Copenhagen). Jukka has a long experience in public-private co-operation in Europe, the US and Asia, where he has been involved in several large industry co-operation projects with 20+ international companies within fine chemical industries. Jukka is a member of the Process Analytical Technology (PAT) Working Party of the European Pharmacopoeia Commission. He is currently chairman of the Steering Committee of the EUFEPS QbD and PAT Sciences Network (EUFEPS, European Federation for Pharmaceutical Sciences). Jukka Rantanen has supervised 40+ PhD students. He has 300+ publications in scientific peer-reviewed journals and he is an editorial board member of several leading scientific journals within pharmaceutical sciences.
Dr. Romañach is Professor of Chemistry at the University of Puerto Rico – Mayagüez Campus. Throughout his entire career he has sought to develop strong industry university partnerships. The motto of his research is: “We have moved to manufacturing”. He seeks to move the analytical laboratory into pharmaceutical manufacturing for real-time monitoring of critical parameters to control and improve processes. The near infrared spectroscopic methods developed by his group have been used in two pharmaceutical processes. A total of 11 students have completed their Ph.D. in his group. He has created two courses to support his motto: QUIM 5205 – Pharmaceutical Analytical Chemistry for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, and a graduate QUIM 6835 Chemometrics course. The Theory of Sampling, first developed for the mining industry, has become a guiding light for his research. In collaboration with Professors Kim Esbensen he has pioneered the use of variographic analysis in continuous manufacturing. In collaboration with Professor Rafael Méndez he is seeking the commercialization of a new stream sampler for pharmaceutical powder mixtures.
Romà Tauler obtained his PhD in Analytical Chemistry at the University of Barcelona in 1984. He has been Associate Professor of the University of Barcelona and he is at present CSIC Research Professor at the Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Studies (IDAEA-CSIC, Barcelona). He has been the President of the Catalan Chemistry Society, 2008-2013 and the Chief Editor of Journal of Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems, CHEMOLAB until beginning of 2024. Chief Coeditor of the MAJOR REFERENCE WORK: COMPREHENSIVE CHEMOMETRICS, Chemical and Biochemical Data Analysis (Elsevier). Coeditor of the Data Analysis for Omic Sciences: Methods and Applications, Comprehensive Analytical Chemistry, Wilson & Wilson, Elsevier, Volume 82, 2018. He has received the Award for Achievements in Chemometrics, Eastern Analytical Symposium, the 2009 Kowalski Prize from the journal J.of Chemometrics, Wiley, 2009. He has been the recipient of the Eu-ERC Advanced Grant award Nr. 320337, 2013-2018, the Radboud Excellence Initiative Professorship Visiting Award, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 2021-2022, Honorary Doctor of the University of Silesia (Katowice, Poland), March 2022 and the Chemometrics Lifetime Achievements Award 2022 (Chemometrics in Analytical Chemistry, CAC 2022, Rome) September 2022.
Dr. Alex Tarancón is Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Chemistry at the University of Barcelona since 2016. His research interests focus on radiochemical analysis, particularly the development of materials and methods for selective, fast, and environmentally friendly analysis of radionuclides. His main expertise lies in scintillation and fluorescent polymers that can simultaneously retain and detect radionuclides. He is a member of the Water Research Institute at the University of Barcelona and serves as a representative in the Division of Nuclear and Radiochemistry of EUCHEMS.
Marek Tobiszewski, Assoc. Prof. (Gdańsk University of Technology) obtained his PhD in 2012 and habilitation in 2017. His research interests include analytical chemistry, especially the analytics of organic compounds in environmental and food samples and green chemistry. His interests include solvent-based microextraction processes and the development of easily available, simplified analytical procedures. He also deals with the assessment of greenness of chemical reagents and solvents as well as various types of chemical processes. He applies the techniques of multivariate statistics and the techniques of multi-criteria decision making for this purpose. His scientific interests combine knowledge in the field of chemical analysis, environmental chemistry, toxicology, decision-making science, and advanced statistics.
Martin Vogel is a senior scientist and lecturer at the University of Münster/Germany, where he is involved in teaching general chemistry and analytical chemistry for undergraduate and graduate students. He has been active in the Division of Analytical Chemistry of the German Chemical Society (GDCh) for many years and is currently chairman of GDCh’s Working Party Separation Science. He is also a member of the steering committee of the Division of Analytical Chemistry (DAC) of the European Chemical Society (EuChemS). Within DAC, his focus is directed especially toward educational topics. Additionally, he is currently one of the three column editors of “ABCs of Education and Professional Development in Analytical Science.”
Tobias Eifert earned his PhD in Chemistry specializing in Process Analytical Technology (PAT) at RWTH Aachen University in 2018. His research focused on optimizing reaction systems for converting sugars into platform chemicals and fuels, utilizing PAT and reaction engineering. As a Process Engineer at Evonik (2016-2019), Tobias led PAT projects, introducing process Raman spectroscopy and overseeing the PAT laboratory at the Marl site. Since 2018, he's been a Board Member of AK PAT from GDCh & DECHEMA. Currently, Tobias is an Expert PAT Innovation at Covestro (since 09/2019), coordinating global PAT innovations and leading the analyzer technology working group within the PAT Community.
Professor Roland Kallenborn is an international renowned scientist and University teacher in the field of organic analytical chemistry, environmental chemistry and environmental risk assessment, bioaccumulation and food web responses to environmental contaminants. He is an environmental chemist working on method development for identification, characterisation and mitigation of organic environmental pollutants (including contaminants of emerging concern and their transformation products). Currently, his research focuses on the elucidation of pollutant profiles in Urban Agriculture, food processing and Arctic environments. He applies modern trace analytical methods in an interdisciplinary context in his research strategies. For his work he applies quantitative validated analytical methods for the determination of legacy and new priority anthropogenic pollutant. He works with advanced chromatographic separation techniques with sensitive mass spectrometric detection (LC/MS, GC/MS, GCxGC-MS). Kallenborn is author/ co-author of 140 per reviewer publications, 12 books/ monographs (author, chapter author and editor), 20 contract reports, 10 popular science papers and more than 300 presentations (poster/ oral) in international conferences and seminars. He serves as editor/ editorial board member for the IF registered scientific Journals “Current Chromatography”, “Fresenius Environmental Bulletin”, “Ecotoxicology and Chemistry”, “Environmental Science and Pollution Research” (Springer) and “Chemosphere” (Elsevier)..
Miquel Esteban is Professor of Analytical Chemistry from 1993 at the Department of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Chemistry of the University of Barcelona (UB), Spain. PhD by UB in 1984, he did several research stages at KFA-Jülich (Germany), Wageningen University (Netherlands) and as Invited Researcher at JRC-IRMM (Belgium). He was awarded as Adjunct Professor in Novosibirsk State University (Russia) and Honorary Professor in Universidad Nacional de San Agustín (Perú). His main interest is in several aspects of electroanalytical chemistry, electrochemical sensors and application of chemometrics to electrochemical data. He has published more than 200 scientific papers, several chapters in books and encyclopedia, and is the co-author of the book ‘Chemometrics in Electroanalysis’ (Springer, 2019). He had many academic responsibilities at UB, among them Head of the Department of Analytical Chemistry (2004-08) and Head of the Department of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Chemistry (2016-20 and 2024-5). He has been Coordinator at UB (2007-12) and Program Coordinator (2012-20) of the Erasmus Mundus Master in Quality in Analytical Laboratories (EMQAL) awarded inside the Erasmus+ Program. He has also experience in European programs for International Cooperation (TEMPUS and CBHE programs). He has taught seminars, postgraduate and PhD courses in many universities of Latin America and Asia on Electroanalytical Chemistry and International Cooperation on Higher Education.
Marcela Segundo holds a BSc in Microbiology, a PhD in Biotechnology (specialty in Chemistry) and Habilitation in Pharmaceutical Sciences. She is currently member of the Executive Board of Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Porto, where she teaches in the Department of Chemical Sciences. She has been the Head of the Analytical Development Group at LAQV/REQUIMTE, Portuguese Government Associate Laboratory for Green Chemistry, Clean Technologies (2018-2024). Her current research is focused on automation of sample treatment and on development of high-throughput microchemical methods. She is in the Advisory Editorial Board of Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, Talanta and Analytica Chimica Acta. In 2016 she received the FIA Award for Science attributed by the Japanese Association for Flow Injection Analysis. Since 2023, she is the Chair of the Division of Analytical Chemistry of the European Chemical Society (EuChemS).
Snežana Miljanić is full professor of analytical chemistry and vibrational spectroscopy at the University of Zagreb Faculty of Science. She is the Head of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Zagreb Faculty of Science and vice-President of the Council for Natural Sciences of the University of Zagreb. Her research interests include infrared and Raman spectroscopy, particularly development and application of the surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) spectroscopy to study binding mechanisms of small organic molecules with various nucleic acid structures. Prof. Miljanic is the Head of the Section of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy of the Croatian Chemical Society and the delegate of the Croatian Chemical Society in the Division of Analytical Chemistry (DAC) of the European Chemical Society (EuChemS). Currently she serves as the Secretary of the EuChemS-DAC
Martin Vogel is a senior scientist and lecturer at the University of Münster/Germany, where he is involved in teaching general chemistry and analytical chemistry for undergraduate and graduate students. He has been active in the Division of Analytical Chemistry of the German Chemical Society (GDCh) for many years, and is currently chairman of GDCh’s Working Party Separation Science. He also member of the steering committee of the Division of Analytical Chemistry (DAC) of the European Chemical Society (EuChemS). Within DAC, his focus is directed especially towards educational topics. Also, he is currently one of the three column editors of “ABCs of Education and Professional Development in Analytical Science
Slavica Ražić is a full professor and head of the Department of Analytical Chemistry at the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Belgrade. She is a member of the EuChemS Executive Board and a member of the DAC-EuChemS Steering Committee). She is also a Titular member of ACD-IUPAC and its representative in the IUPAC Interdivisional Committee on Green Chemistry for Sustainable Development. Slavica's current research interests lie in the development of analytical methods for environmental samples and greener approaches to sample preparation.
She is an active member of the European Chemical Society-DAC member on behalf of the Turkish Chemical Society. She has been involved in several analytical chemistry projects related to LC methods, separation techniques, chiral separation, drug analysis, electrochemical biosensors, nanosensors, nanobiosensors, MIP sensors, DNA biosensors, enzyme biosensors, biomarkers, environmental sensors, method development, and validation of drug assay. She is the Editor of the Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis (SCI-Elsevier) and Section Editor (Analytical & Environmental) of Essential Chem (Taylor&Francis) and Regional Editor (Europe part) of Current Pharmaceutical Analysis (SCI-Bentham). Besides, she is the Editorial Board member of Talanta (SCI), Chromatographia (SCI), Biosensors & Bioelectronics X, Critical Reviews in Analytical Chemistry, Electrochimica Acta, Analytical&Bioanalytical Chemistry, Advanced Sample Prep., Green Analytical Chemistry, and so on.
Professor (UAS) Dr. Franka Kalman received her MSc in (bio)-chemical engineering from the Technical University Budapest, Hungary and her PhD in analytical chemistry from the Biotechnikum of the Martin Luther University Halle, Germany in the area of peptide analytics. In the frame of a Humboldt Fellowship (German government), she performed from 1992 - 1995 postdoctoral research at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA. Here she worked in the area of modern separation sciences with focus on capillary electrophoresis. She investigated mobility – protein structure relationships, the cis-trans isomerization of proline containing peptides using low temperature CE, and developed static capillary coatings. In 1995 she joined the central analytical department @Ciba Geigy AG, Basel, CH where she established a modern analytical development group. In 2008, she moved to Serono S.A., Corsier sur Vevey, Swiss Romandy, CH. Here she was building up a modern trouble-shooting group in the QC department using mainly LC-MS. In general, her working domain is method development / validation / batch release using instrumental analytical methods as (U)-HPLC, CE, MS mainly for (bio)-therapeutics under the GMP quality management system. She is an expert in the analysis of complex therapeutic bio-molecules as peptides, proteins, ADCs, DNA, carbohydrates etc. Since 2010 she is Professor for analytical chemistry @University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, Institute of Life Sciences, Unit of Analytical Chemistry, Sion, CH, where she is performing research e.g. in endotoxin purification and analysis mainly in the frame of EUREKA and Innosuisse projects. She teaches instrumental analytical chemistry / validation / modern separation sciences and pharmaceutical quality management.