Professor Pilar Campins Falcó, full university professor in Analytical Chemistry of Universitat de València, was born in Sueca on 1959. After studying Chemical Sciences at the Faculty of Chemistry of Universitat de València (1976-1981) she got a PhD in 1985 with the thesis “Estudio químico-analítico de las biguanidas” (“Chemical-analytical study of the biguanides”) with which she obtained a Special Award. On 2002 she got a place as full university teacher on Analytical Chemistry at the Faculty of Chemistry of Universitat de València, were she had already been a research fellow of the university teaching staff training programme, assistant professor and tenured lecturer since 1987.

Pilar, who gave lectures in the Faculties of Chemistry, Biology, Pharmacy and in the School of Engineering in undergraduate and graduate levels, possesses a teaching experience of more than twenty-five years.

She is an author of numerous research works that has published in magazines such as Analytical Chemistry, Journal of Chromatography A, and Trends in Analytical Chemistry, among others. And she has directed about twenty research projects, most of which have been subsidised by public bodies in competitive calls, and related to clinical studies about synthetic drugs and tumor markers, and environmental studies related to priority and emerging pollutants.

Through her research, Pilar has contributed to introduce new concepts about the calibration, exactitude, and quality of the analytical results, multi-residue analysis, and liquid chromatography. She leads a consolidated research group, MINOTA, created in 1988, and she has established collaborations with research groups of the UV belonging to other departments and research institutes, and with other universities of Spain and Europe.

Pilar, author of about 180 scientific publications in the way of articles and many books' chapters, has directed ten doctoral thesis and has participated, with communications and talks, in different congresses and scientific conferences.

Her research task focuses on the minituarisation of analytical techniques for the characterisation of pollutant in environmental samples, in sensors for the monitoring and in the clinical and forensic control of the environment and in chiral analysis and green methods of analysis.

Pilar, who has been Vice-Dean of the Faculty from 2003 to 2009, is now, since 2009, Dean. She has been member of, among others, the Committee of Experimental Sciences of ANECA, of the Consultive Board of the UV and the Teaching Staff Committee. He is a member of the Governing Board of the UV. She is evaluator of the ANEP, AGAUR and member of the Committee of Experimental Sciences of AQUIB.