Atomic Absorption Spectrometry

Alfredo Sanz-Medel is Professor of Analytical Chemistry and head of the Analytical Spectrometry Research Group (University of Oviedo, Spain). He was an associate member of IUPAC and was president (1989 to 1999) of the now-called Spanish Society of Applied Spectroscopy. He served on the editorial board of several scientific journals and is now Editor in the""Book Section"", Monographs in Analytical Spectroscopy (RSC, UK) and Editor of Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry (Springer). He is the author or co-author of more than 600 international scientific journal publications,several books, holds seven patents, and supervised over 60 PhD theses. He isa well known international speaker and received several European Awards.

Rosario Pereiro is Professor of Analytical Chemistry (University ofOviedo). She had a postdoctoral fellowship at Indiana University (USA) andwas a visiting scientist at the University of Manchester (UK), at Clemson University (USA), and at the Graz University of Technology (Austria). Shehas supervised 15 PhD theses and over 30 Master theses. She has authoredor co-authored over 150 peer-reviewed journal articles, 15 book chapters, the book Atomic Absorption Spectrometry: An Introduction (2008), and holdssix patents.