González-Sabaté, Lucinio
Associated Professor of Analytical Chemistry, University Ramon Llull. He was a pioneer in introducing formal optimization methods in Analytical Chemistry in Spain. He is an expertise on optimizing analytical protocols and pilot-plan studies. We works usually with pharmaceutical and food-based companies to design experiments either for laboratory analyses and new developments. He has a long-standing experience teaching optimization methods.
Sanz Medel, Alfredo
Professor of Analytical Chemistry. He was a pioneer in introducing Atomic Spectrometry methods in Spain. He is a world-reputed Atomic Spectroscopist who introduces/develops many novel, state-of-the-art atomic techniques. He is a member of the editorial board of ABC and also of the editorial board of the RSC for a series of monographs on Atomic Spectrometry (leaded by Prof. Neil Burnett). He currently develops and tests cutting-edge instruments, even for some commercial firms. He published many papers and books. In 2007 he won the Robert Kellner award (The Robert Keller Lecture will be given at the Euroanalysis 2007).
Andrade-Garda, Jose
Dr in Chemistry, 1995. Since 1999 he is an Associated Professor at the Department of Analytical Chemistry, University of A Coruña. Fields of expertise: Quality Control and Chemometrics. In Chemometrics, main interests are in multivariate regression and pattern recognition methods (either, unsupervised and supervised). In the Atomic Spectrometry arena, he applied formal optimisation techniques to optimize analytical protocols (experimental design and Nelder and Mead simplex) and applied multivariate regression tools to cope with spectral and chemical interferences in ETAAS (traditional sample introduction and slurry-based).
Ferré-Baldrich, Joan
Dr. Joan Ferré is an Associate Professor of Analytical Chemistry at the Rovira i Virgili University in Tarragona (Catalonia, Spain). He is member of the Group of Chemometrics, Qualimetrics and Nanosensors at the same University and partner of the Virtual Institute for Chemometrics and Industrial Metrology (VICIM). He has published more than 50 chemometric papers, covering topics such as the estimation of the net signal in multivariate calibration, which is highly relevant to develop multivariate figures of merit in multivariate regression models. At present, his main research area is supported by the European Integrated Project TRACE: Tracing Food Commodities in Europe (EU 006942), in which he is developing probabilistic classification methods to verify the origin of food. He is an editorial adviser of Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems.
Costa-Fernández, José
Since 2000 he is a lecturer on Analytical Chemistry at the University of Oviedo. He has recently made a post-doc stay with Proffesor Gary M. Hieftje (Dept. of Chemistry, University of Indiana, USA). His interests are time-of-flight mass spectrometry (Tof-MS) and ICP. Particularly, he works on coupling both techniques. At present, his most relevant research topic is the combination of capillary electrophoresis to ICP-TOFMS to carry out speciation of metallic species in environmental samples.
Pereiro-García, Rosario
She is an Associated Professor of Analytical Chemistry, University of Oviedo. She has published relevant papers on Atomic Spectrometry and co-authored several books. In 2007 she will publish a book on Atomic Spectrometry, co-authored with Prof. Sanz-Medel. Her main working field is to develop molecular and atomic sensors. Particularly, she works on implementing new low-cost, portable, analytical instruments based on fibre optics for luminescent measures (phosphorescence at ambient temperature). Such devices will be relevant for in situ and screening analyses. She also looks for new strategies to improve selectivity and sensitivity of imprinted polymers.
Boqué-Martí, Ricard
Dr. Ricard Boqué is an Associate Professor of Analytical Chemistry at the Rovira i Virgili University in Tarragona (Catalonia, Spain). He is member of the Group of Chemometrics, Qualimetrics and Nanosensors at the same University and partner of the Virtual Institute for Chemometrics and Industrial Metrology (VICIM). He has published more than 50 chemometric papers, covering topics such as the estimation of figures of merit in multivariate calibration (IUPAC project 2004-041-1-500), validation of analytical methods that generate second-order data and development and application of classification techniques to multiway data. He is presently participating in the European Integrated Project TRACE: Tracing Food Commodities in Europe (EU 006942), in which he is developing probabilistic classification methods to verify the origin of food. He is also editorial adviser of Analytica Chimica Acta.
Fernández-Ruano, Laura
Associated Professor of Applied Statistics, University Ramon Llull. She made her PhD (1997) on experimental designs applied to Analytical Chemistry problems. She currently works with Chemists and Chemical Engineers to design experimental estrategies to solve optimization problems in industrial production. She also works with statistical analysis of finnacial and econometric data.
Tomás-Morer, Xavier
Professor of Analytical Chemistry and Applied Statistics, University Ramon Llull. He was a pioneer in introducing Chemometrics in Spain. He is an expertise on experimental designs and formal optimization methods (Simplex, Evop, latin squares, etc.). He has been teaching Chemometrics for more than 20 years and has a long-standing experience on industrial optimization and pilot-plants studies.
Carlosena-Zubieta, Alatzne
Dr. Alatzne Carlosena is an Associate Professor of Analytical Chemistry at the University of A Coruña. She currently works on atomic spectrometry, particularly quantification of trace metals in samples of environmental interest. She published many papers on slurry-sampling ETAAS. There, robust analytical protocols were developed based on multivariate chemometric optimization methods (namely, experimental design and simplex optimization). At present she monitors several heavy metals of special concern in residual fuel oil (tar balls), sea water and sediments after the disaster of the Prestige tanker off the Galician coast (2002, which released around 63,000 tons of a heavy fuel oil). This research is supported by the Galician and Spanish Governments.
Cal-Prieto, María
María Jesús Cal received her Ph.D. degree on 2002. At present she is a Researcher at the Laboratory of Endesa-As Pontes, Spain. Endesa is the main supplier of electric energy in Spain, and the Power Station it holds in As Pontes (Galicia, Spain) is one of the biggest coal power stations throughout Europe. She also collaborates with the Department of Analytical Chemistry of the University of A Coruña. She currently works on atomic spectrometry, particularly quantification of trace metals in samples from the production facilities (coal, fly ash, mud, etc). She recently made a Post-doc stay in the National Geological Survey of Spain (Madrid) where she worked with MS-ICP and ICP-OES
Gómez-Carracedo, Maria
Researcher at the Department of Analytical Chemistry, University of A Coruña. She got her Ph.D. on 2005, special award. Her research areas cover characterization of refinery products by infrared spectroscopy and multivariate regression modelling, particularly partial least squares and artificial neural networks. She also works on variable selection by genetic algorithms.
Jose Andrade-Garda is based in the Department of Analytical Chemistry at the University of A Coru±a where he specializes in quality control and chemometrics. Within the field of chemometrics, his main interests are multivariate regression and pattern recognition methods. In the atomic spectrometry arena, he has applied formal optimization techniques to optimize analytical protocols and used multivariate regression tools to cope with spectral and chemical interferences in ETAAS.
