Juan Luis Benedé Veiga, graduated in Chemistry from the University of Valencia (2010) and PhD in Chemistry from the University of Valencia (2016). He currently works as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Analytical Chemistry of the Faculty of Chemistry at the University of Valencia. He is a member of the GICAPC research group. His research areas focus on miniaturized sample preparation techniques and chromatographic separation techniques. In this field, he has participated in several research projects, has published more than 60 publications in journals in the area of ​​analytical chemistry, as well as in more than 50 communications at national and international conferences.

María Celia García Álvarez-Coque completed her Chemistry degree at Univ. Valencia in 1976, receiving Awards in both her undergraduate and PhD studies. She also received the National End of Studies Award in Chemistry and Cañada Blanch PhD Award. In 1977‒1980, she worked at Dep. Analytical Chemistry (Univ. Valencia) with a research grant from Dirección General de Universidades, and was Assistant Professor from 1977 to 1983. In 1983, she secured a permanent Professor position after successfully passing a national competitive examination held in Madrid. She then undertook a post-doctoral stay at the Univ. Florida (Gainesville, USA) in 1986-1987, supported by Generalitat Valenciana. She was promoted to Full Professor in June 1997 and became Emeritus Professor in September 2024.

Initially focusing on spectroscopy (fluorimetry, phosphorimetry, and thermal lens spectrometry), she later specialised in liquid chromatography. In 1992, she founded the FUSCHROM group (FUndamental Studies in CHROMatography, http://www.uv.es/fuschrom). Her expertise includes modelling retention behaviour and optimisation in chromatography, separation kinetics, secondary equilibria, design of novel separation strategies, and analytical method development for pharmaceutical, clinical, and food samples.

She has taught in the Chemistry and Pharmacy degrees, as well as in several Master, Doctorate and Postgraduate programs at Univ. Valencia, and in 1995 and 1998 in an Analytical Chemistry Master at Univ. Nacional Autónoma de León (Nicaragua). Since 1995, she has led 10 national research projects, and in 2016-2019 a PROMETEO Project funded by Generalitat Valenciana. In September 2024, the FUSHCHROM group received one of the 3 Consolidated Group grants in Chemical Science and Technology in the Valencian Community, funded by Generalitat Valenciana, with José Ramón Torres as main researcher.

She has supervised 30 PhD students (3 still ongoing), with 8 receiving Doctorate Awards, and one honoured with the International Massart Award in Chemometrics 2006 by the Belgian Society on Chemometrics; 3 of her PhD. students obtained a Marie Curie post-doctoral fellowship and 3 more a Ramón y Cajal contract. Thirteen of these students have held or currently hold professorial positions in several Spanish and foreign universities, and one is senior researcher in the CSIC; 3 PhD students and 2 collaborators have been promoted to Full Professors.

She has published 313 articles (two more have been submitted), 95% in international journals with at least 50% in the first quartile of the Journal Citation Report in the field of Analytical Chemistry (almost 25% in the first decile), and other 25% in the second quartile. Her published articles include 8 in Analytical Chemistry, 94 in Journal of Chromatography A, 30 in Analytica Chimica Acta, 13 in Analyst and Microchemical Journal, 11 in Talanta, 5 in Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry and Separation and Purification Reviews, 3 in Trends in Analytical Chemistry, and 2 in Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems; 27 are reviews or tutorial articles. She has also contributed to 24 book chapters (22 international), and co-authored the books Micellar Liquid Chromatography with Alain Berthod (Marcel Dekker), and Quimiometría with Guillermo Ramis (Síntesis). She frequently is invited to collaborate in international books, encyclopedias, and scientific journals.

Her contributions to editorial boards include Analytica Chimica Acta (2005-2007), Current Chromatography (2015-2020), Separation and Purification Reviews (since 2005), and Journal of Chromatography A (since 2006). Since 1980, she has presented 220 communications at 62 international symposia and 131 communications at 46 national symposia, including 39 oral presentations, 4 keynotes, and one tutorial at HPLC'2005 in Stockholm. She co-taught with José Ramón Torres a 6-hour course at HPLC'2013 in Amsterdam. Her career has garnered 6 awards and 4 finalist recognitions at symposia. She chaired the jury of the Miguel Valcárcel Awards in 2019 and 2022, granted by the Spanish Analytical Chemistry Society.

Her collaborations span diverse universities and companies, standing out particularly her work with Guillermo Ramis (Univ. Valencia), Elisabeth Bosch and Martí Rosés (Univ. Barcelona), Benjamín Monrabal (PolymerChar, Paterna, Valencia), James Winefordner (Univ. Florida), Alain Berthod (Univ. Lyon 1), Desiré Luc Massart (Vrije Univ. Brussel), Michael Abraham (Univ. College London), Peter Schoenmakers and Bob Pirok (Univ. Amsterdam), José Antonio Navarro (Novartis, Switzerland), and Sanka Atapattu (CANAM Bioreserach, Canada). She was granted with 6 consecutive six-year research periods (up to 2012) and 6 five-year teaching periods (up to 2007). In 2017, the VESTIGIUM Project (http://www.vestigium.es) ranked her among the top 100 scientists of the Valencian Community for the 21st-century.

Héctor Martínez-Pérez-Cejuela is a member of CLECEM group (Analytical chemistry, University of Valencia). He received his Chemistry Bachelor’s degree in 2017, his master’s degree in 2018 and he is doing his thesis at this moment at the Department of Analytical Chemistry in the University of Valencia under the supervision of Ernesto F. Simó and José M. Herrero. His currently researching area is based on the developing of new materials using metal-organic frameworks with analytical application.

José Ramón Torres Lapasió obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry and a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Valencia, where he was awarded the Doctorate Award in 1996. He subsequently undertook post-doctoral research at several national and international institutions. He held a faculty position at the University of Navarra and later joined the University of Valencia, where he has been a member of the Department of Analytical Chemistry since 2000. His teaching activity covers undergraduate, graduate and Master’s level courses in the Faculties of Chemistry and Pharmacy.

He was awarded a research contract within the first call of the Ramón y Cajal Programme (2001–2006), obtaining final I3 certification. In 2006, he secured a permanent position as Profesor Contratado Doctor and, following success in the National Habilitation examination, was appointed Profesor Titular de Universidad at the University of Valencia in 2007. He has supervised ten PhD theses, one of which received both an Extraordinary Doctorate Award and an international distinction in Chemometrics.

His research is focused on Chemometrics applied to chromatography, particularly on modelling, optimisation and signal processing for the analysis of complex samples. He is a founding member of the FUSCHROM research group at the University of Valencia and actively develops scientific software to support his research. His academic activity has been recognised with four consecutive six-year research periods (up to 2020) and four five-year teaching periods (up to 2021).

He has authored 131 peer-reviewed scientific articles, mainly published in first-quartile journals of the Journal Citation Reports in Analytical Chemistry, with approximately half in the first decile. His publications include articles in leading journals such as Analytical Chemistry, Journal of Chromatography A and Analytica Chimica Acta. He has also contributed 13 chapters to internationally published books and authored 8 review or tutorial articles, several by invitation. He regularly serves as a reviewer for high-impact scientific journals and has received “Top Reviewer” distinctions.

He has presented 187 scientific contributions at national and international conferences, including oral presentations and posters, and has received several awards and finalist distinctions. His research activity includes participation in multiple national and regional competitive projects, acting as principal investigator in several of them. He is currently the principal investigator of a consolidated research group project funded by the Generalitat Valenciana (2024).

Dr. C. Azorín is postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Analytical Chemistry of the University of Valencia (UV). He holds a B.Sc. degree in Chemistry (2019, Extraord. Award), a M.Sc. degree in Experimental Techniques in Chemistry (2020), as well as a PhD in Chemistry (2024).

RESEARCH/ His work has been devoted towards (i) the development of analytical methodologies based on microextraction for the analysis of complex matrices and (ii) the miniaturization and adaptation of microextraction techniques for the simultaneous analysis of a large number of complex and low-volume samples. His work has resulted in significant advances in the optimization of analytical techniques, improving sensitivity and efficiency in the analysis of complex and low volume samples. His work has been placed at the research group for the analytical control of cosmetic products (GICAPC) at the UV (Spain). He has also performed a research stay (3 months) at the university of Porto (Portugal). He has co-authored 10 scientific articles published in high impact journals and has collaborated in the publication of 1 book chapter in an international book published by Elsevier. In addition, he has actively participated in 17 communications in national and international scientific conferences, of which 11 were oral presentations and 6 posters, being presenting author in 7 of them. He has also contributed as a member of working teams in 2 funded projects, in national and regional calls.

KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER / Concerning work with industry, he has participated in 6 contracts / technical assistances for companies in the cosmetic sector for the transfer of analytical technologies, helping to improve the efficacy, quality and safety of products through the development and application of advanced methods for the determination of substances of interest. 

TRAINING AND ASSESSMENT/ Throughout his career, he has taught 101 hours of teaching in several subjects of the Degree in Chemistry at the UV, contributing to the training of new professionals in the area of Analytical Chemistry. He has also supervised internship students and final degree and master's degree theses. 

OTHER RELEVANT ACTIONS / He has participated in the review of articles for high impact journals, such as Microchemical Journal and Advances in Sample Preparation, contributing to the evaluation of the scientific quality in his field.

[Biography, english version]

Pau Peiró Vila holds a Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from Tusculum University (U.S.), graduating magna cum laude in 2016. He obtained his Master’s degree in Advanced Chemistry from the University of Valencia in 2021. He later worked as an R&D Technician at Christeyns, where he specialised in chemical formulation, data analysis, and project management.

Currently, he is a PhD student with an ACIF grant awarded by the GVA in the Department of Analytical Chemistry at the University of Valencia, under the supervision of Professors José Ramón Torres Lapasió and Maria Celia García Álvarez-Coque. His research focuses on designing strategies to optimise the separation of complex samples in HPLC through computational methods and retention modelling.

He has six publications in JCR (83% Q1), 17 citations, and an h-index of 3, as well as nine conference presentations (44% oral, 30% international). His poster at the International Symposium on Chromatography (ISC) in Liverpool (October 2024) was selected among the 10 finalists.

He undertook a three-month research stay at the Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences at the University of Amsterdam under the supervision of Bob Pirock and Tijmen Bos. His research focused on automating the tracking of chromatographic peaks under different experimental conditions in HPLC using UV-DAD detectors.

In 2023, he participated in the MOTIVEM programme, organised by the University of Valencia and ADEIT, where his team’s project was awarded first place in the scientific category. The project aimed to give a second life to rice field waste by transforming it into biodegradable filters to protect L'Albufera from pollutants. In 2024, he took part in the “Chemistry in Schools” programme, visiting four secondary schools in the Valencian Community. This programme promotes science in schools by explaining what chemistry is, the research conducted at the Faculty of Chemistry, and demonstrating a series of chemical experiments.

He has taught several laboratory courses in the Bachelor’s in Chemistry at the University of Valencia, including Analytical Chemistry I (60 hours), Analytical Chemistry II (36 hours), and the Chemical Analysis Laboratory (24 hours) in the Bachelor’s degree in Food Science and Technology. Additionally, he has collaborated in supervising laboratory work, training seven undergraduate and Master’s students in experimental techniques and the use of computational and programming tools.