
Chiara Cordero
Beyond Resolution: GC×GC as an Enabler of Predictive, Purpose-Driven Analytical Science
Chiara Cordero (orcid.org/0000-0003-3201-0775) is Full Professor of Food Chemistry at the Department of Drug Science and Technology, University of Turin (Italy). She was Research Fellow at the Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Lebensmittelchemie (DFA), Technical University of Munich (Germany), and Visiting Professor at the Poznan University of Life Sciences (Poland, 2019 and 2023) and Stellenbosch University (South Africa, 2020).Her research focuses on the development of instrumental platforms based on comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography (GC×GC) for food-omics applications (profiling and fingerprinting), data processing tools for GC×GC interpretation, discovery of food quality markers (food metabolomics and volatilomics), and intake markers in biofluids (nutrimetabolomics and volatilomics). She also works on the design of miniaturized, fully automated, solvent-free sample preparation strategies for sensomic food characterization.In 2008, she received the “Leslie S. Ettre Award” for original research in capillary gas chromatography with emphasis on food and environmental safety. In 2014, she was awarded the “John B. Phillips Award” for achievements in GC×GC. In 2016, The Analytical Scientist included her in its “Women Power List” of the 50 most influential women in analytical science. In 2022, she received the Scientific Achievement Award in GC×GC, and in 2024, the “Giovanni Dugo Medal” from the Italian Chemical Society (GISS) for research in food analysis.