Frédéric Lynen is a full professor and head of the Separation Science Group at Ghent University. He earned his PhD in Chemistry there in 2002 and completed postdocs at the University of Stellenbosch and the Pfizer Analytical Research Centre. His research interests range from the development of multidimensional separation tools to data mining and structural elucidation. This includes the synthesis of greener, temperature-responsive stationary phases allowing purely aqueous liquid chromatography, enhanced multidimensional LC, or more universal detection. His group develops retention models to support the structural elucidation of unknowns in conjunction with high-resolution mass spectrometry. He is also active in both targeted and non-targeted analyses of complex samples of various natural and synthetic origins. He has authored over 170 journal articles in the field of separation sciences and was awarded the Jubilee Medal by the Chromatographic Society in 2019 for his work.

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Marek Tobiszewski, Assoc. Prof. (Gdańsk University of Technology) obtained his PhD in 2012 and habilitation in 2017. His research interests includes analytical chemistry, especially the analytics of organic compounds in environmental and food samples and green chemistry. His interests include solvent based microextraction process 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.

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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.

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Elia Psillakis is Full Professor in Water Chemistry at the School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Crete. Her research focuses on green and sustainable analytical chemistry, sample preparation techniques, and the environmental fate of organic pollutants. In 2007, she received a Fulbright Award and used it at Caltech, USA. In 2025, she was awarded both the Silver Jubilee Medal (The Chromatographic Society) and the Robert Kellner Lecture Award (EuChemS-DAC). In 2021, she featured in the Top 100 Power List of the magazine “The Analytical Scientist”. To date, her investigations have resulted in six book chapters more than 100 publications in ISI Journals, with more than 10500 citations (h-index=52) and six “Top cited article” awards. She is Editor-in-Chief of “Advances in Sample Preparation” from Elsevier and Specialty Chief Editor of “Environmental Analysis” for Frontiers in Analytical Science (Frontiers). Professor Psillakis leads the EuChemS-DAC Sample Preparation Study Group and Network, and is the Founder and Director of the spin-off company ExtraTECH Analytical Solutions. From 2014-2016, she was the Deputy Rector of Academic Affairs and Research at the Technical University of Crete and has served twice as the Director of postgraduate studies.

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Günter Gauglitz is Professor of Analytical Chemistry at the Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry (Eberhard-Karl-University Tübingen, Germany) since 1987. He was chairman of the IUPAC commission Spectroscopy (2000-2003), chaired the Division of Analytical Chemistry of the GDCh (2004-2007). He has been a member of the DFG expert panel on chemistry and a member of the Board of the GDCh (2004-2007). He is a German representative at Analytical Division of EuCheMs since 2010. In 1997, he received the Wallac-Award of the Society of Biomolecular Screening, in 2006, the Pregl Medal of the Austrian Chemical Society, in 2012, the Carl Duisberg Plakette of the GDCh, and in 2014, the Clemens Winkler medal of the GDCh Division Analytical Chemistry. His scientific focus is on optical chemical and biochemical sensing, optical spectroscopy, characterization and modification of surfaces, experiments at interfaces, and data evaluation using chemometric methods, with approx. 300 publications in peer-reviewed journals. He is the author of books on "Practice in UV/Vis spectroscopy", "Theory and practice in photokinetics", "Photochemical principles of photoresists for circuit boards" and is the Editor of the “Handbook of Spectroscopy”. He has supervised more than 90 PhD theses, covering applications in environmental, computational, and health-care analytics. He was a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal “Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry” (2001-2022) and of the Journal “Trends in Analytical Chemistry” (1995-2024).

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Dr. Agnieszka (Agi) Smolinska is an Associate Professor at Maastricht University, the Netherlands, specializing in volatile organic compounds (VOCs), chemometrics, and machine learning for biomedical applications. With over 16 years of experience, she applies advanced chemometrics to metabolomics, non-invasive diagnostics, and multi-omics research. Her interdisciplinary projects span clinical, analytical, and computational sciences, addressing challenges in respiratory, gastrointestinal, and liver diseases. She leads a research team and the NUTRIM Big Data Analysis Advice Committee, guiding innovations in data-driven healthcare. Dr. Smolinska has authored over 100 peer-reviewed publications, received multiple grants and awards, and has actively contributed to scientific education, mentoring, conference, advancing biomarker discovery and precision medicine in academic and industrial settings.

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Dr Costanza Cucci is Senior Researcher at the “Nello Carrara” Institute of Applied Physics of the Italian National Research Council (IFAC-CNR) of Florence (Italy). She received a Physics degree and a PhD in Conservation Science from the University of Florence. Since 2000 she has been conducting her research activity in Photonics and Applied Spectroscopy covering different applicative areas. Currently her research interests lie in non-invasive spectroscopic methods for Cultural Heritage, particularly in applications of imaging spectroscopy and hyperspectral imaging to artworks and archaeological assets, with a focus on tailored methods for data analysis using Deep Learning and Machine Learning techniques. She is member of the scientific Committee of the International Association for Spectral Imaging (IASIM). She is also an expert member of the CEN (European Committee for Standardization) Technical Committee “Exhibition lighting of cultural property”.

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Ivo Leito works as professor of analytical chemistry at Institute of Chemistry, University of Tartu. His main research directions are on the borderline of analytical chemistry with other disciplines: chemistry of superacids and superbases; metrology in chemistry; liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry; sensors and their metrological characterization; applications of instrumental methods in analysis of historical objects. He teaches analytical chemistry and metrology in chemistry at all study levels and organizes short training courses for practitioners on different topics of analytical chemistry and metrology in chemistry.

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Javier Hernández-Borges is Full Professor of Analytical Chemistry (2022) of the Department of Chemistry at the University of La Laguna (ULL) in Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain). He obtained his Bachelor in Chemistry at the ULL in 2001 as well as his PhD with European mention at that university in 2005, after which, he carried out a postdoctoral stay at the Institute of Chemical Methodologies of the National Research Council of Italy (2006-2007), obtained a Juan de la Cierva contract at the Canarian Institute of Agrarian Research (2007-2008) and a Ramon y Cajal contract at the ULL (2009-2013). Afterwards, he was promoted to Associate professor (2014) and Associate Professor with tenure (2017). He has published around 150 papers in international indexed journals and 34 book chapters, most of them dealing with analytical method development, in particular, with the determination of microplastics, pesticides, antibiotics, phthalates and estrogenic compounds residues in environmental and food matrices using mainly chromatographic and electromigration techniques also coupled to mass spectrometry detection. He has directed 9 PhD Thesis, 7 of them awarded with the ULL’s PhD Extraordinary Award. Since 2018, he is coordinator of the Applied Analytical Chemistry Research Group (AChem) at the ULL, which incorporated from the very beginning a pioneer research line at the university devoted to microplastics research, trying to follow a multidisciplinary approach. In particular, his group has been studying the presence of microplastics in air, soils, food, coastal and deep-sea sediments and also in the water column, monitoring environmental contaminants in microplastics, and determining the microplastic content in different living organisms as well as improving analytical methodologies for microplastics determination and analysis.

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Dr. Dimitra Lambropoulou is Chemist and a Professor on Environmental Chemistry in the Environmental Pollution Control Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh). She is a member of the ENVIGREEN group of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Innovation (CIRI) of AUTh. Her main research interests are the development and application of novel sample preparation techniques coupled to advanced mass spectrometry approaches in the field of environmental chemistry, design and application of new materials in analytical and separation sciences, occurrence, transport, fate and effects of emerging contaminants (endocrine disruptors and pharmaceutical products, illicit drugs, polar pesticides, transformation products, nanomaterials and microplastics) in the environment (in waste and natural water), identification and structure elucidation of organic contaminants by high resolution mass spectrometry, application of “omics” techniques (Suspect Analysis & Non Target Analysis) to environmental problems, wastewater-based epidemiology. She is also interested in the development of effective degradation and purification processes for the mineralization of organic micropollutants such as Advanced Oxidation Processes (AOPs). She has published more than 240 ISI papers (plus 2 books and 18 book chapters) that have received more than 11250 citations (Scopus, h index 59). She serves as Associate Editor for the journal Science of Total Environment and as editor in the journals Total Environment Advances and Current Opinion in Environmental Science & Health. She has been included in the list of World Top 2% Scientists for 2019-2022 which is compiled by the Stanford University (USA) based on standardized citation indicators.

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Prof.dr. Hans-Gerd Janssen obtained an MSc. (1987, cum laude) and PhD degree (1991) 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, or is, 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. He has more than 220 publications in the area of chromatography, mass spectrometry and food analysis.

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The scientific contributions of my team have mainly focused on the extraction of minor compounds of interest from food matrices (olive oil, tropical fruits, etc.) and their subsequent characterization using innovative analytical methodologies based on both targeted and non-targeted metabolomic approaches (in all cases, mass spectrometry has a crucial role). The work carried out has allowed us, for example, a) to develop methodologies of great potential and usefulness in the olive oil industry and in the tropical fruit sector; b) to exhaustively characterize avocado extracts and olive oil products and by-products, c) to identify and isolate compounds with interesting bioactivity, and d) to discriminate food extracts on the basis of their geographical origin, botanical variety and agro-technological parameters of production. All this research experience is supported by more than 120 scientific articles and 19 book chapters. I have been a collaborating researcher in a total of 32 R&D projects financed in public calls (4 of them European) and 8 R&D contracts of special relevance with companies and/or administrations (being principal investigator in 8 of them). I have an H-index of 40 and about 5200 total citations (receiving an average citations/year over the last 5 years of more than 375 citations/year).

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Martina Marchetti-Deschmann is a Full Professor for Mass Spectrometric Methods and the head of the Institute of Chemical Technologies and Analytics at TU Wien. She obtained her PhD in Chemistry from the University of Vienna and has over 25 years of experience in Analytical Chemistry. Her research focuses on mass spectrometry and hyphenated techniques, with a particular emphasis on mass spectrometry imaging. Martina is recognized internationally for her innovations in correlative, untargeted, multimodal imaging. She has published over 153 peer-reviewed articles, holds four patents, and has received several prestigious awards for her work in mass spectrometry.

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Encarnación Moyano obtained her PhD in 1995 in Analytical Chemistry (University of Barcelona) and obtained a position as Associate Professor at the same institution in 1997. Since 2019, she holds the position of Full Professor at the University of Barcelona. Her scientific contributions have focused on developing innovative analytical methodologies that integrate both separation techniques. These methodologies are applied to the detection of environmental and food contaminants, addressing existing challenges and limitations in current analytical approaches. She has developed analytical methods that couple liquid chromatography (LC) and gas chromatography (GC) with mass spectrometry using low-resolution, high-resolution and tandem mass spectrometry, utilizing atmospheric pressure ionization techniques such as electrospray, APCI, and APPI in both LC-MS and GC-MS applications. Additionally, she have researched and developed methods based on Ambient Ionization Mass Spectrometry (AIMS), including techniques such as DESI and DART, for the direct analysis of samples and to enhance the throughput of control laboratories. More recently, she has begun exploring ion mobility-mass spectrometry (IM-MS) to improve the analysis of complex samples containing closely related compounds, including isobaric and isomeric species. Her dedication to advancing mass spectrometry and promoting its application in Spain culminated in her tenure as President of the Spanish Society of Mass Spectrometry (SEEM) from 2014 to 2021. Currently, she leads a delegation within SEEM focused on educational initiatives, organizing activities for young scientists in the field of mass spectrometry.

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Koen Janssens is full professor at the University of Antwerp in Belgium and is responsible for courses on Analytical Chemistry, Instrumental Analysis and Advanced X-ray based materials characterization for students in the Chemistry, Physics and Bio-engineering programmes. Koen Janssens obtained his PhD in Analytical Chemistry in 1989. Since then, he has been actively making use of strongly focused X-ray micro- and nano-beams, produced in large accelerator complexes called Synchrotron Storage Rings, for non-destructive materials analysis. A combination of X-ray fluorescence spectrometry, X-ray absorption spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction usually is employed to characterize these materials in 2D or 3D imaging mode. He also applies these techniques for better understanding naturally occurring alteration and degradation processes in cultural heritage materials such as historic glass, inks and painters’ pigments. Next to microscopic investigations of small samples, non-invasive macroscopic imaging is performed using mobile scanning equipment. Such imagery has proven to be useful for art historians and art conservators in order to understand better both the past and future of works of art. K. Janssens is (co)author of ca 380 scientific papers (h-index: 57) and has served as (co)editor of four scientific books, dealing with non-destructive analysis in the cultural heritage area. He has organised several conferences on analytical chemistry, X-ray micro beam analysis and its applications. From 2015-2021 he was vice-dean of the Faculty of Science of the University of Antwerp. He is currently a member of the Council of the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF, Grenoble, FR) and of the Belgian Federal Council for Research Policy.

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Soledad Cárdenas is Full Professor of Analytical Chemistry at the Department of Analytical Chemistry (University of Córdoba) and Head of the Research Group Affordable and Sustainable Sample Preparation. Her research line has the innovation in sample preparation as the driving force. The investigation currently being developed deals with the sustainability of sample preparation. In this regard, the immobilization of the polymeric phases, nanoparticles, or composite materials over other lignocellulosic substrates (paper, cotton or wood) is the master research line. They are used in different microextraction formats or directly analyzed by ambient mass spectrometry (either by direct infusion or paper spray). In parallel, these extraction units are also being integrated in samplers to be used for the on-site extraction of the analytes from environmental compartments (air, water). These samplers are characterized by their simplicity and affordability to deepen the relationship between science and society, being inspirational tools for citizen science. Since 2023 she is Editor of Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry.

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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.

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Kim H. Esbensen, Ph.D, Dr. (hon), has been professor at three universities (National Geological Surveys of Denmark and Greenland (2010-2015), Aalborg University, Denmark (2001-2010), Telemark Institute of Technology, Norway (1990-2000) and professeur associé, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi. In 2015 he started phasing out this 30+ year academic career for a quest as an independent consultant, but as he could not terminate his love for teaching, he is still very active as an international guest professor on several continents. He is a member of several scientific societies, has published 250+ peer-reviewed papers and is the author of a widely used textbook in Multivariate Data Analysis (chemometrics).

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Frantisek Svec received both a B.S. degree in chemistry and a Ph.D. degree in polymer chemistry. In 1976 he joined the Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry at the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in Prague. In 1992, he accepted an invitation to join the faculty of Cornell University. Since 1997, he has been appointed at the University of California, Berkeley and affiliated with the Molecular Foundry of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He was also a professor at the Beijing University of Chemical Technology from 2014-2017. In 2017, he accepted his current position at the Faculty of Pharmacy at Charles University in Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic. Dr. Svec has authored more than 550 publications with over 25,000 citations and an h-index close to 100. He has edited 2 books and authored 75 patents. For 20 years, he was the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Separation Science and the Separation Science Plus. F. Svec is best known for his research on monoliths and their use in many different applications. He has received numerous awards and honors for this pioneering work. He is currently focusing on the development of novel sample sorbents for preparation using organic polymers in fiber format.

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Peter Eichhorn holds a degree in Chemistry from TU Braunschweig and a PhD in Environmental Chemistry from the University of Mainz. He completed his first postdoctoral fellowship at IIQAB-CSIC in Barcelona, followed by a second postdoctoral appointment at the State University of New York at Buffalo, where he focused on studies related to the environmental fate of organic pollutants in soil and animal wastes. In 2006, Peter joined the ADME/DMPK group at Almirall, contributing to discovery projects for new chemical entities (NCE) as a function representative. In 2021, he transitioned to the Biologics group at Almirall, where he served as a PK/PD scientist involved in antibody projects at discovery and early clinical stages. Since May 2024, Peter has been part of the NBE DMPK Department at Merck Healthcare KGaA, where he is responsible for defining the DMPK strategy. His responsibilities include developing pharmacokinetics (PK) and modeling and simulation strategies to de-risk the clinical development plan, as well as establishing bioanalytical strategies for both preclinical and clinical phases and conducting immunogenicity risk assessment

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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 and the Chief Editor of Journal of Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems, CHEMOLAB. 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 Kowalski Prize from the journal J.of Chemometrics, Wiley. He has been the recipient of the Eu-ERC Advanced Grant award, the Radboud Excellence Initiative Professorship Visiting Award, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Honorary Doctor of the University of Silesia and the Chemometrics Lifetime Achievements Award.

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Claudia Paoletti did her Master in Biological Science at the University of Rome (Italy) and her Ph.D. in Plant Genetics at the University of Connecticut, USA. She was for three years at Dalhousie University (Canada) studying plant population genetics and biometry. She continued her activity at the Research Institute for Industrial Crops (Bologna, Italy) where she focused on the evaluation of risks associated to transgenic crops. She worked for 5 years at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission as sampling expert and in January 2006 she joined the GMO Unit of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) first as Team Leader and then as Deputy Head of the Unit. In 2019 she was appointed manager of the program designed to reorganize the EFSA in preparation of the new European law on food safety (entered into force in 2021). Since 2022 she manages the Innovation of Risk Assessment Methodologies programme of EFSA. She has been the Italian expert for the definition of the European Commission sampling plans for GMO detection in conventional seeds. She coordinated the European sampling research projects KeLDA and she has been the biometric officer of the EU Community Reference Laboratory for GMOs. She is expert consultant for ISO/IWA committees, OECD, CEN, the European Commission and FAO. She organised international training courses on food/feed safety for the European Commission, UNIDO, PHARE project and universities within and outside Europe. She has over 95 contributions either as book chapters, or as peer-reviewed papers. Member of Accademia dei Georgofili since 2019 and Vice-President of the International Pierre Gy Sampling Association (IPGSA) since 2022.

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Dr. Oscar Yanes earned his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (Spain) in 2006. Following this, he joined Gary Siuzdak’s lab at the Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) as a Research Associate in 2007. Since 2011, Dr. Yanes has served as the Scientific Coordinator of the Metabolomics Platform at CIBERdem (Instituto de Salud Carlos III), IISPV, and Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV). Concurrently, he holds the position of Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronic Engineering at URV, where he co-leads the MIL@b group. Additionally, he is an affiliated member of the IRB Barcelona. With almost 20 years of experience, Dr. Yanes has overseen numerous metabolomic projects, bridging the gap between experimental and computational work for biomedical applications. His expertise lies in the development of novel technologies, analytical methods, computational tools, and applications in LC-MS/MS, GC-MS, and spatial metabolomics. He has authored over 100 peer-reviewed articles in top-tier international journals, accumulating over 11,000 citations. His contributions span prestigious publications such as Nature, Science, Nature Methods, Nature Cell Biology, Nature Chemical Biology, and Cell Metabolism. Furthermore, Dr. Yanes holds significant leadership roles in the field, serving as the President of the Spanish Metabolomics Society (SESMet) and the Coordinator of the Spanish Metabolomics Network (MetaboRed).

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Joanna Szpunar graduated from the Warsaw University of Technology in 1986 and obtained, subsequently, her Ph.D (1992) and D.Sc. (habilitation) (2000) from at the University of Warsaw (Poland). She was post-doctoral fellow (1992-1994) at the University of Antwerp (Belgium) and, in 1995-1996, at the University of Bordeaux (France). Since 1997 she has been working as research engineer at the French National Research Center (CNRS). She is an honorary professor at the East China University of Technology (Nanchang, China). In 2007 Joanna Szpunar was awarded the title of professor of chemistry (Poland) and admitted fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK). Her field of expertise is bio-inorganic speciation analysis with a focus on the identification and quantification of trace element species in biological systems and in the chemistry of metal-biomolecule interactions. She is the author or co-author of one book and more than 200 scientific publications in peer-reviewed international journals. She has given over 60 invited lectures, supervised 15 Ph.D. theses and several post-doctoral fellows. She is member Advisory Boards of JAAS, Metallomics and Separations journals. Joanna Szpunar was the chair of the 2013 European Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry (Cracow, Poland). She is the laureate of the 2013 Analytical Chemistry Committee of the Polish Academy of Science Fijalkowski Award and of the 2017 European Award for Plasma Spectrochemistry.

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Dr. Elena Dominguez Vega is assistant professor and principal investigator at the Leiden University Medical Center (Leiden). Her research focus on the development of new mass spectrometric methods for the structural and functional characterization of glycoproteins of clinical and pharmaceutical interest. Recent interest focus on new selective methods for proteoform-specific affinity assessment. Over the years, Dr. Elena Dominguez Vega has closely collaborated with several pharmaceutical companies and has received multiple grants and awards in support to her research. In 2022 she was on the Analytical Scientist Top40-under-40 Power List.

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Agata Michalska is a full professor at the Faculty of Chemistry University of Warsaw (Warsaw, Poland). She has received PhD and DSc (habilitation) from the Faculty of Chemistry University of Warsaw. Her research interest is focused on ion-sensors operating using electrochemical or optical principles, in particular on understanding principle and mechanism of their operation, with interest to improve their performance and construction, among others benefiting from nanomaterials, especially nanofibers. She is an associate editor of Talanta.

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