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Rosa Maria Marcé

New materials for the selective extraction of contaminants from environmental samples
Prof. Rosa Maria Marcé is Full Professor in Analytical Chemistry of the Analytical and Organic Chemistry Department at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV) in Tarragona since 2010 and Distinguished Professor of URV since 2018.Her main interest is the development of new chromatographic methods to determine contaminants of emerging concern in environmental samples. This interest includes the development and application of new and sustainable materials for the sorptive extraction techniques to align with the Green Analytical Chemistry. These materials improve the selectivity of the analytical methods and the retention of challenging compounds, such as the polar and ionic ones. These materials, combined with high-tech liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry techniques significantly contribute to solve analytical problems of environmental samples.The developed methods have been applied to monitor pollutants in air, waste and surface water, sludge, dust, biota, etc. In addition, the data from monitoring studies has been valuable to evaluate the effectiveness of wastewater and drinking water treatments, to assess the drug consumption from their concentration in wastewater (named waste water epidemiology) or to calculate the health risk posed by their presence due to intake, inhalation or dermal contact, among others. She has supervised more than 25 doctoral theses. The results of her research have been published in more than 280 papers in peer-reviewed journals and 15 book chapters.