SENIOR LECTURER IN ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Department of Analytical Chemistry, Nutrition and Food Science
Faculty of Chemical Sciences
Phn: (34) 923 294 500 ext: 6232
Office C1506
email: efl@usal.es
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I have developed my research activity at the University of Salamanca since I started my doctoral thesis, with a grant from the Research Personnel Training Plan (PFPI) and for which I received the extraordinary doctorate award at this University. The research line in which it was framed consisted of the use of membranes for the introduction of complex samples in a liquid chromatograph, specifically of fossil fuel samples in which phenolic compounds were determined. I was an Assistant at the University School at the University of León for 1 year, to later rejoin the University of Salamanca, where I have been a tenured professor since 2002, and I belong to the Research Group Recognized by the University of Salamanca (GIR 87), later Unit of Consolidated Research of the Junta de Castilla y León (UIC 282). During 2005 I carried out a research stay at the University of York, financed by the Program for the Stay of University Professors in Foreign Higher Education and Research Centers.
The lines of research in which I have worked over the years are related to the development of rapid methodologies for the determination of analytes using separative and non-separative techniques, associated with gas chromatography and mass spectrometry. Likewise, the reduction of the sample preparation steps was sought, using the generation of headspace (HS) and extraction by means of packed sorbents (MEPS), coupled with a programmed temperature vaporizer (PTV). Regarding HS I have worked with two modalities: static and multiple. The analytes for which determination methods have been proposed have been very varied, such as chlorophenols, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, parabens, residual solvents, aldehydes or polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, of interest in also very diverse fields, such as the environment, pharmaceutical or the biological. The result of this research has been published in the form of more than 40 articles in international journals (83% of them in the first quartile of publications in Analytical Chemistry) and has led to presentations at national and international conferences.
During this period, I have been co-director of a doctoral thesis and tutor of two undergraduate projects (theses), three final degree projects (TFG) and seven final Master’s projects (TFM).
I have also been director of the Master in Supramolecular Chemistry at the University of Salamanca since its beginimng and during its first two academic years.
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