Alfredo Sanz-Medel

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 is a well known international speaker and received several European Awards, including the latest European Award for Plasma Spectrochemistry in 2011 and the 2011 EuCheMS Lecture.