Elia Psillakis is Full Professor in Water Chemistry at the School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Crete. Her research focuses on green and sustainable analytical chemistry, sample preparation techniques, and the environmental fate of organic pollutants. In 2007, she received a Fulbright Award and used it at Caltech, USA.In 2025, she was awarded both the Silver Jubilee Medal (The Chromatographic Society) and the Robert Kellner Lecture Award (EuChemS-DAC). In 2021, she featured in the Top 100 Power List of the magazine “The Analytical Scientist”. To date, her investigations have resulted in six book chapters more than 100 publications in ISI Journals, with more than 10500 citations (h-index=52) and six “Top cited article” awards. She is Editor-in-Chief of “Advances in Sample Preparation” from Elsevier and Specialty Chief Editor of “Environmental Analysis” for Frontiers in Analytical Science (Frontiers). Professor Psillakis leads the EuChemS-DAC Sample Preparation Study Group and Network, and is the Founder and Director of the spin-off company ExtraTECH Analytical Solutions. From 2014-2016, she was the Deputy Rector of Academic Affairs and Research at the Technical University of Crete and has served twice as the Director of postgraduate studies.