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[Biography, version in Valencian]

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.

Professor and researcher focused on the development of biosensors and pathogen detection systems, combining theoretical and experimental approaches to improve and optimize biosensing processes. His career includes research in physical chemistry and electrochemistry, collaboration with industry, and co-supervision of doctoral theses, with a strong emphasis on translating results into innovative technological solutions.

Prof. Emilio Pardo Marín. PhD in Chemistry from the University of Valencia (UV), under the supervision of Prof. Francisco Lloret (2006), in the field of Molecular Magnetism. Subsequently, this training served as the foundation for the development of new examples of Multifunctional Materials during my postdoctoral stays (2008-2009) at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris, France). Since my return to the University of Valencia in 2010, I founded the research team MUPOMAT (www.mupomat.com), focusing on the development of new porous coordination polymers and their application in catalysis and environmental decontamination. As of October 2024, I am a Full Professor in the Department of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Valencia.

I am the co-author of 4 patents, 3 book chapters, and 157 scientific articles published in indexed international journals, which have been cited more than 9,000 times (with an average impact factor of 58.3), in the most prestigious journals in the fields of Chemistry (Nature Catalysis, Accounts of Chemical Research, J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem., etc.) and Materials Science (Nature Materials, Advanced Materials, etc.), with more than 90% of them in the first quartile (Q1). Furthermore, part of this work has been featured on the covers of prestigious scientific journals (9 covers: Small, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Chemistry European Journal, Inorganic Chemistry, etc.), and a significant number of these articles have been classified as 'Hot' or 'VIP' (Very Important Papers), indicating their importance. In this regard, I have an h-index (Hirsch) value of 53 (Google Scholar, April 2024). I appear in the 'Essential Science Indicators' ranking at position 5133 worldwide in the field of Chemistry. Additionally, I have contributed more than 90 presentations at national and international scientific meetings (many of them oral contributions and invited lectures).

I have three recognized active research periods (sexenios) by the CNEAI. Finally, I have participated in a total of 32 R&D projects funded by private, regional, national, and international foundations, serving as the principal investigator in 9 of them. Notably, I was awarded a European project by the European Research Council (ERC Consolidator Grant) with a budget of €1,886,000.00.

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).