Valérie PICHON, full professor at Sorbonne University (Paris), leads the Department of analytical chemistry (LSABM), a part of the department of Chemistry Biology and Innovation (CBI) located at ESPCI Paris (PSL University, CNRS) and also leads the CBI department.Her main research interests include the development and miniaturization of antibody- or aptamer-based sorbents and molecular or ionic imprinted polymers for the selective extraction of target compounds present in trace amounts in complex samples.She is the author of over 150 publications, 7 book chapters and 3 patents. She is associate editor of Journal of Separation Science. She has received the Analytical Chemistry Department Prize of the French Chemical Society (2001), the Silver Medal of the French National Centre for Scientific Research (2022) and recently the Senior Prize of AfSep, the French Association for Separation Sciences (2023).