Master's degree
Anal. Chem.
Research groups
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The group's research focuses on the development of analytical methodology for the detection, separation, characterization and determination of peptides, proteins, glycoproteins, oligonucleotides, metabolites and other bioactive molecules in biological, biopharmaceutical and food samples. At the same time, methods of pretreatment of novel combined samples or assembled in line to the techniques of separation of high resolution and the mass spectrometry are developed, and the interpretation of the results generated with chemometric tools of multivariate analysis of data is developed. The methodology developed is focused on the treatment of complex analytical problems mainly related to biomedicine, the pharmaceutical industry, the agri-food industry and forensic chemistry.
Staff: Fernando Julián Benavente Moreno, Estela Giménez López, Laura Pont Villanueva, Victoria Sanz Nebot
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This research group develops methodologies for the characterization of compounds that are candidates for drugs, and for environmental pollutants, based on the determination of physical-chemical properties (such as ionization, solubility or lipophilicity), using chromatographic, electrophoretic, potentiometric and calorimetric techniques. In addition, the interactions between drugs and plasma proteins are studied.
Staff: Susana Amézqueta Pérez, Elisabeth Fuguet Jordà, Clara Ràfols Llach, Martí Rosés Pascual, Xavier Subirats Vila
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The lines of research of this group are devoted to studies on the presence, degradation and transformation of organic pollutants in the environment and in food. On the other hand, we also work on the establishment of analytical methodology for the determination of emerging contaminants using separation techniques coupled to mass spectrometry.
Staff: Encarnación Moyano Morcillo, Lluís Puignou García, Francisco Javier Santos
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Some of the research lines of this group consist of radiological control and control of quality in radioactivity measures, as well as in the prediction of environmental risk episodes of contamination, remediation of contaminated soils and the management of radioactive waste high activity In addition, one also works on the material characterization of works of art.
Staff: Hector Bagan Navarro, Anna Rigol Parera, Àlex Tarancón Sanz, Miquel Joan Vidal Espinar
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The group's research is focused on the development of electrochemical sensors based on screen-printed electrodes modified with selective (bio)molecules (amino acids, peptides, crown ethers...) and nanomaterials (nanoparticles, nanoallotropes of carbon and 2D materials of the pnictogen group, among others). These sensors can work individually or in multi-sensor arrays. For data processing, chemometric techniques of multivariate calibration and discriminant analysis are used. Likewise, the group's research includes liquid chromatography with UV-vis and amperometric detection, and also spectroelectrochemical measurements. This diversity of techniques makes it possible to investigate hybrid strategies of data detection and data fusion. As for the applications, these are mainly related to the determination of persistent and emerging pollutants, and to the characterization, identification and authentication of food products.
Staff: Julio Bastos Arrieta, José Manuel Díaz Cruz, Miquel Esteban Cortada, Clara Pérez-Ràfols, Núria Serrano Plana
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The lines of research of this group consist, on the one hand, in the development and validation of chemometric analysis methods, especially those related to the multivariate curve resolution, and their application in very different applied contexts of the area of analytical chemistry. On the other hand, the analytical and chemometric methodology developed allows to cover areas as diverse as the determination and characterization of agri-food products, the interpretation of hyperspectral images for chemical and -omics studies, complex structures of DNA (i-motif and G-quadruplex) or the monitoring, modeling and control of industrial processes.
Professors: Anna de Juan Capdevila, Raimundo Gargallo Gómez, Santiago Hernández Cassou, Rodrigo Rocha de Oliveira, Javier Saurina Purroy
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The group's current research interests focus on the development of analytical procedures to study elemental speciation in environmental, biological and food matrices with special emphasis on sample treatment/extraction methods (preparative HPLC, SPE, QuEChERs) and the subsequent determination using atomic (ICP-MS) and molecular (ESI-MS) mass spectrometry techniques coupled to chromatographic systems (HPLC, CCC), as well as conducting methodology validation and feasibility studies new reference materials.
Staff: Dolores Barron Bueno (Department of Food Science and Gastronomy), José Fermín López Sánchez, Àngels Sahuquillo Estrugo
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Part of the research of this group consists in the establishment of analytical methodology, based on chromatographic techniques with mass spectrometry detection, for the determination of veterinary drugs in environmental and food samples, as well as in the sorption study of Drugs in soils and the possibility of remediation of contaminated soils. In addition, methods are developed for the characterization and determination of organic matter dissolved in drinking water, and in the recovery of rare earths from different materials.
Staff: José Luis Beltrán Abadía, José Francisco García Martínez, Mercè Granados Juan, Óscar Núñez Burcio, Sonia Sentellas Minguillon