Fitxa persona

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.