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Armando da Costa Duarte graduated in Chemical Engineering at University of Oporto (1977) and obtained a PhD in Public Health Engineering at University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1981).

In 1977 started working at the University of Aveiro and in 1995 was appointed as Professor of Environmental & Analytical Chemistry lecturing on the quality of data, provided by a plethora of methods based on Analytical Chemistry, for supporting decisions on environmental protection, and sustainable development.

In 2006, the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) awarded him a prize for Scientific Excellence, and from 2013 to 2016 was a Member of the FCT Scientific Council for Natural and Environmental Sciences.

As a Researcher, he has been particularly interested in the application of fit-for-purpose analytical methods for decoding complex samples and characterization of the environmental quality, with more than 500 scientific publications with more than 21000 citations and reaching an h-index of 72 (Scopus).

Chiara Cordero (orcid.org/0000-0003-3201-0775) since July 2021 is Full Professor of Food Chemistry (CHIM/10 - Food Chemistry) at the Dipartimento di Scienza e Tecnologia del Farmaco of the University of Torino (Turin, Italy). In 2008 Prof. Cordero was Research Fellow the Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Lebensmittelchemie - DFA (German Research Center for Food Chemistry) at the Lehrstuhls für Lebensmittelchemie der Technischen Universität München - Garching (Germany) under the supervision of Prof. Peter Schieberle; in 2019 Visiting Professor at Poznan University of Life Sciences, Poznan, Poland and in 2020 Visiting Professor at Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa.

Hher research interests focus on: (a) development of innovative and advanced instrumental configurations for comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography (GC×GC) coupled to mass spectrometry (MS) for food-omics investigations (profiling and fingerprinting approaches); (b) discovery of food intake markers (food metabolomics, nutrimetabolomics and volatilomics) in bio-fluids after diet-induced derangements; (c) development and application of miniaturized, fully automated and solvent-free sample preparation approaches (Solid Phase Microextraction SPME, Stir Bar Sorptive Extraction SBSE) for sensomic characterization of food. In 2008, Chiara received the "Leslie S. Ettre” Award for “original research in capillary gas chromatography with an emphasis on environmental and food safety" and in 2014 received the “John B. Phillips Award” for her research activity in the field of comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography. In 2016 Chiara was included by The Analytical Scientist in the “Women Power List” as one of the 50 most influencing women in the analytical sciences. In 2022 she received the Scientific Achievement Award for her research in comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography (https://www.gcxgc-symposium.com/saa-2022).

José-Luis Capelo is co-head of the bioscopegroup (www.bioscopegroup.org). His CV comprises (up to August 2022): 280 manuscripts; 220 congress communications (orals and posters); 23 projects; 2 Patents, 1 license agreement and 3 books (1 authored and 2 edited). He has organized and chaired 60 international conferences and presently is involved in the direction of 7. He was member of the advisory board of Talanta from 2006 to 2014, and he is Editor in Chief of the on-line Journal JIOMICS (www.JIOMICS.com) since its creation in 2011. He is presently mentoring or co-mentoring a total of 3 doctoral theses and he has mentored 3 post-doctoral grants, 10 doctoral grants, 9 masters and 8 final projects. His current research interest is devoted to developing new methodological approaches in personalized medicine using new proteomics approaches as well as to unravel bacterial resistance to antibiotics using nanotechnology. H index 42 (Google Scholar). Citations about 6700. He is considered worldwide within the best 2% of researchers of his area of expertise (Stanford University, USA). J. L. Capelo, PhD, gets his bachelor’s degree in chemistry by the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain), his doctorate in Analytical Chemistry by University of Vigo, UVIGO (Spain, award to the best doctoral thesis 2002) and his Post-Doc from the Instituto Superior Técnico de Lisboa (Portugal). His academic career comprises assistant to staff and lecturer at the UVIGO; research fellow at the Chemistry Department of the New University of Lisbon, CD-FCT-UNL, research fellow at the CD-UVIGO, and assistant professor at the CD-FCT-UNL. Currently he is Associate Professor at the CD-FCT-UNL.

Dr. Agapios Agapiou is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Chemistry of the University of Cyprus (UCY). He received a Diploma and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece in 2001 and 2006, respectively. From 2007 to 2013 he worked at the Laboratory of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry of the School of Chemical Engineering, NTUA. In September 2014 he was elected Lecturer at the Department of Chemistry of UCY. His research focuses on hyphenated analytical techniques (e.g., GC-MS) for the analysis of complex mixtures (e.g., Volatile Organic Compounds) in biomedical, environmental, food, forensic, safety, and security applications. Dr. Agapiou is currently involved in the EU projects ‘ONELAB’ and ‘intoDBP’.  He has published more than 70 peer-reviewed journal articles. He also serves in several editorial boards of analytical chemistry journals. 

Geraint Morgan is highly active in analytical chemistry and the space technology translation agenda at The Open University, having developed instruments for the Rosetta and Beagle2 space missions. Since successfully analysing a comet, he has since led research teams to develop a wide range of bespoke, high impact, sector disruptive solutions to terrestrial challenges, including developing the award-winning air quality monitoring system for use on all future UK submarines and instruments for the world’s largest flavours and fragrance company.  Funding from academia-industry programmes, has allowed him to work with end-users to develop novel sniffing solutions (mainly GC-MS and GCxGC-MS) for a diverse range of commercial partners.  As a result, he has recently signed a formal Collaboration Agreement with LECO Instruments. In partnership with the Scotch Whisky Research Institute (SWRI) and IBM Research UK his team is developing methods to authenticate Scotch whisky and with funding from the Partnership for Clean Competition his team are developing sports anti-doping screening tests. Taff is a Founder/Director of 4 start-up companies and is a named inventor on two patents.  He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce and a Fellow of the  Royal Astronomical Society.

Fernando Mauro Lanças is the leader of the Chromatography Group and a full Professor at the Institute of Chemistry of the University of São Paulo in São Carlos, Brazil. He started and is Chairman of several meetings, including COLACRO and SIMCRO, and is co-Chairman of WARPA. Prof. Lanças advised ca. 130 Ph.D. and Master Thesis; published ca. 400 peer-reviewed papers, 7 books, and several book chapters. Lanças is the Director of the IIC (International Institute of Chromatography), Editor-in-Chief of Acta Chromatographica, and Associate Editor of J. Chromtogr. Sci. and Guest Editor of several periodicals in his research area. 

At the moment, Prof. Lanças's primary research interest is focused on the complete miniaturization of sample preparation-chromatography-mass spectrometry, including new materials, instrumentation, and applications and their entire online automation towards the Unified Chromatography.

Dr. J.M.F. Nogueira is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon (UL), Lisbon (Portugal). In 1990, he received a degree in Chemistry and a PhD in Analytical Chemistry (UL) in 1995. He worked several months at the Research Institute for Chromatography and University of Gent (Belgium) during his PhD project. Currently, he is researcher at the ‘Centro de Química Estrutural’ and head of the ‘Chemistry for the Environment’ group. His main research activity focuses on the development and application of innovative analytical methodologies involving chromatographic, electromigration and hyphenated techniques. He is author and co-author of more than one hundred and sixty SCI articles (h-index: 45) and chapters of international books, as well as supervisor of academic graduation and post-graduation projects and referee in international scientific journals. In 1999, he founded the Chromatography group of the Portuguese Chemical Society being president during several years. He has been chairman and co-chairman of national and international meetings on chromatography, as well as invited to be chairperson and speaker in scientific sessions. In 2017, he was awarded with the “Dr. Janusz Pawliszyn” medal for the outstanding work in the field of Sample Preparation during the IX WARPA (Brazil). In 2020 and 2021, he was part of the World’s Top 2% Scientists list in the field of Analytical Chemistry.

Master in Science (1990) and Doctor in Science (1996) in the Chemistry Institute of São Carlos at the University of São Paulo. In 2003, PhD in Analytical Chemistry (Chemistry Institute of São Carlos of the University of São Paulo). In 2007, international PhD project at the University (Canada) with supervision of the Dr. Janusz Pawliszyn. She is an Associate Professor 3 of the Chemistry Department of the Faculty of Philosophy Sciences and Letters of Ribeirão Preto at the University of São Paulo. She is an International Member of Sample Preparation Task Force & Network - European Chemical Society / DAC. She has about 120 published articles and 7 book chapters and an H 30 index (Web of Science source). Among the current lines of research stand out the development of selective stationary phases for innovative microextraction techniques for coupling with chromatographic systems (LC-MS/MS) or directly to mass spectrometry (MS/MS) for the determination of drugs and biomarkers in biological samples for studies in neurosciences area.

Marcela Segundo holds a BSc in Microbiology and a PhD in Biotechnology. She is currently the Head of the Analytical Development Group at LAQV/REQUIMTE, Portuguese Government Associate Laboratory for Green Chemistry, Clean technologies and also member of the Executive Board of Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Porto, where she teaches in the Department of Chemical Sciences. Her current research is focused on automation of sample treatment and on development of high-throughput microchemical methods. Her scientific production (ORCID 0000-0003-2938-0214) comprises 14 book chapters, >140 peer-reviewed papers in international journals (h-index 33). In 2016 she received the FIA Award for Science attributed by the Japanese Association for Flow Injection Analysis. Since 2018, she is the Secretary of the Division of Analytical Chemistry of the European Chemical Society (EuChemS).

PhD in Analytical Chemistry from Dortmund Universität (Germany), with a postdoctoral degree from the Free University of Amsterdam (Netherlands), he works as a full professor at the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM), Brazil, where he coordinates the Laboratory for the Analysis of Pesticide Residues. (LARP) and the Research Center in Chromatography and Mass Spectrometry (CPCEM). He is member of the Advisory Committee on Chemistry of CNPq and vice-president of the Superior Council of FAPERGS. He has served since 2013 as President of the Red de Análises de La Calidad Ambiental en América Latina (RACAL) and member of the Extensive Executive Committee of the International Association of Environmental Analytical Chemistry (IAEAC), based in Costa Rica and Switzerland, respectively. Author of more than 190 peer-reviewed papers with 4,766 citations, 14 book chapters and h-index 33. He supervised 46 master's dissertations and 26 doctoral theses in the area of waste and contaminants. Awarded in 2019 with the Dr. Janusz Pawliszyn medal for the outstanding work in Sample Preparation. He is Associate Editor of Food Anal. Chem. and Scientia Chromatographica, and member of the Editorial Board of the Intern. J. Environ. Anal. Chem. and of Separations. Member of the Scientific Committee of the Brazilian Society of Mass Spectrometry since 2018.

Zita Martins is an Astrobiologist, an Associate Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Co-Director of the MIT-Portugal Program (MPP), and the Advisor for Higher Education, Science, Innovation and Digital Transition of His Excellency the President of Portugal. Her scientific interests include the detection of signatures of extra-terrestrial life on space missions, and the potential contribution of meteorites and comets to the origin of life on Earth. She graduated in Chemistry at IST in 2002 and obtained a PhD in Astrobiology at the University of Leiden (Netherlands) in 2007. She was an Invited Scientist at NASA Goddard in 2005 and 2006, and an Invited Professor at the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis (France) in 2012. In 2009 she was awarded by the Royal Society with a University Research Fellowship worth 1 million pounds, having remained at Imperial College London (United Kingdom) from 2007 to 2017. 

Zita Martins has been actively participating in space missions. She is Co-Investigator of two projects (OREOcube and EXOcube) of the European Space Agency (ESA) that will be installed on the International Space Station (ISS). She is a Community Scientist of the ARIEL mission (ESA), she is a member of the Hayabusa2 mission (JAXA), and a member of the Comet Interceptor mission (ESA). 

She is the Portuguese representative of the Executive Committee of the European Astrobiology Network Association (EANA), member of ESA's Life Sciences Working Group (scientific advisory team), member of ESA's Solar System and Exploration Working Group, and member of the European Space Sciences Committee (ESSC). 

She actively does science communication, having given over 100 international media interviews, and was selected by the BBC TV channel as Expert Scientist Women. Her portrait was painted for the Royal Society's exhibition on successful women in science and is now permanently on display at the Royal Society's London headquarters. In 2015 Zita Martins was appointed “Oficial da Ordem Militar de Sant'Iago da Espada” by His Excellency the President of Portugal for exceptional and outstanding merits in science.

Sónia Santos holds a BSc in Chemical Engineering and a PhD in Chemistry. She is currently Assistant Researcher at CICECO-Aveiro Institute of Materials in University of Aveiro.  Her research activity has been focused on the bioprospection of natural components, development of green extraction methodologies and in their upgrading for high value applications (e.g. antimicrobial agents in drug delivery, reducing/stabilizing agents in the green synthesis of nanoparticles, or UV-blockers in active packaging). One of her main research interests has been the development of expedite methodologies to analyze complex matrices or crude extracts by GC-MS and UHPLC-MSn. She published 74 SCI papers, h-index of 26 and +1900 citations (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6749-7619). S. Santos has been involved in the organization of several Conferences and Workshops and has been also guest-Editor of several special issues in her area.

Annalaura Mastrangelo holds First-Class Honours M.Sc. degree in Pharmacy from the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italy) in 2011, International PhD in Medicinal Chemistry and First Class Honours distinction from the University San Pablo CEU (Spain) in 2017. She worked extensively in metabolomics during her PhD in the Metabolomics and Bioanalysis Excellence Centre (CEMBIO) where she mastered the implementation of analytical chemistry methods (chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry, MS) and data science to solve complex biological questions, mainly obesity and its complications. In 2017, she joined Dr. Sancho group at Spanish National Center for Cardiovascular research (CNIC) as a postdoctoral fellow and focused her work on metabolomics-based experiments to investigate the mechanisms underlying the pathophysiology of atherosclerosis and the crosstalk of metabolic pathways and immune response to improve therapy. She is the author of one book chapter and 14 publications in international journals (JCR; among them five as first author and one as last author) in high impact journals (Q1) in the field of metabolomics, analytical chemistry and obesity. Her work has more than 640 cites, H index=12 (google Scholar).  She has participated in communication and dissemination activities: 9 oral contributions to international conferences, moderator of the "Healthcare, Pharma & Biotech" group and jury member in the #Nova111StudentList for Healthcare and Bio Science for Nova, collaborated with Fundación Bertelsmann and CNIC in the Xcelence_Escuelas que inspiran project.

André Lobo Castro has a degree in Biology (University of Aveiro, 1998). Forensic Toxicologist at the National Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences since 1999 (starting as a trainee), achieved a M.Sc. in Advanced Biomolecular Methods (University of Aveiro, 2008), and further on, a Ph.D. in Forensic Sciences (University of Porto, 2016).

Allocated to the Forensic Chemistry and Toxicology Service, his work is mainly dedicated to GC-MS(MS), biological samples preparation, LC-MS/MS, analytical validation, according to international forensic guidelines, and results forensic interpretation. Expertise in illicit substances (Drugs of abuse, New Psychoactive Substances). Supervisor of Master’s dissertations since 2009.

Is a member of The International Association of Forensic Toxicologists. Published several articles in peer-review journals, considering analytical procedures dedicated to forensic purposes, among other subjects. Is a Reviewer in analytical and forensic science Journals.