Microextraction Team

By R. Lucena
Rafael Lucena is a professor of Analytical Chemistry at the University of Cordoba since 2010. He is the secretary of the Research Institute of Fine Chemistry and Nanochemistry (IUNAN).
Up to date, Rafael has coauthored 112 scientific articles  (h-index: 34, Scopus), mainly related to sample treatment in analytical chemistry. He has co-edited one particular volume in Anal. Bioanal. Chem. journal and an e-book on the topic. Rafael has also directed 8 Ph.D. Thesis (two additional ones are under development) and several Master and Degrees Thesis in this field.
In 2011, he created Microextraction Tech as a useful resource for those researchers working in the sample treatment field.
Marisol Cárdenas is a Full Professor of Analytical Chemistry.  Currently, she is Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cordoba and the leader of the FQM215 Research Group.
Her research interests comprise microextraction techniques, including developing new approaches and synthesis of novel nanomaterials based on carbon, metallic nanoparticles, and polymers. She has co-authored 229 scientific articles that have been cited 7020 times (Source: Scopus), and her h-index is  48. She has co-supervised 18 Doctoral Thesis, 12 of them with European/international mention, and 4 with doctorate award.
She collaborated with the Blog Project from the beginning, and she has written several posts.

Guillermo Lasarte Aragonés is a postdoc researcher at the FQM-215 group. His thesis was focused on the application of CO2 to different microextraction alternatives, including the development of a new modality, called Effervescence-assisted microextraction and the application in this context for the first time of the so-called Switchable Solvent, a promising green alternative. In 2016, he joined the US Naval Research Laboratory (Washington DC) as Postdoc (George Mason University), at the Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering and the Medintz Lab to expand the application of Analytical Techniques for the purification and characterization of hybrid (bio)nanomaterials and the study of newly designed Enzyme-QDs catalytic performance. In 2019, he returned to his scientific home at the University of Cordoba.
Guillermo has already participated in the blog written some posts related to his Thesis topics that you can read here and here.

Ángela I. López-Lorente is an Assistant Professor at the University of Córdoba. She has been Juan de la Cierva postdoctoral researcher at such department as well as Humboldt postdoctoral research fellow for two years at the Institute of Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry at Ulm University, Germany.
Her thesis was focused on the characterization and determination of nanoparticles. Her research topics have been extended to nanomaterials as analytical tools and the design of planar phases for microextraction and sensing platforms. She has co-authored more than 40 publications, several book chapters, and two books and co-edited a book on gold nanoparticles.
She has already joined the Microextraction Blog team.


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