
Joseph Wang
University of California San Diego (UCSD), USA
Joseph Wang is a Distinguished Professor of Chemical and Nanoengineering, a SAIC Endowed Professor and the Director of the Center of Wearable Sensors (CWS) at the University of California San Diego (UCSD), La Jolla USA. Before joining UCSD at 2008, Wang served as the Director of the Center of Bioelectronics at the Biodesign Institute of ASU (Tempe, AZ). Dr. Wang has made pioneering contributions to the fields of wearable sensors, biosensors, electroanalytical chemistry, remote in-situ environmental sensors, multi-modal sensors, and microscale robots. ...He is a member of the US National Academy of Inventors, and of the European Academies of Engineering and of Science and Arts, and a fellow of the RSC, ECS and AIMBE. He has authored over 1300 research papers, 12 books, and 60 patents. Wang has been a Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher since 2015 (H Index 222). Wang holds Honorary Professor from 11 different universities and is the recipient of 3 National American Chemical Society (ACS) Awards for Analytical Chemistry (2024), Electrochemistry (2006) and Instrumentation (1999), of the Ralph Adams Pittcon Award in Bioanalytical Chemistry, of the Talanta Medal, 2021 IUPAC Analytical Chemistry Medal, the Breyer Medal (Australia), Heyrovsky Medal (Czech Republic) the Speirs Medal (RSC), and the IEEE Sensor Achievement Award, 2021.
https://joewang.ucsd.edu/

Mira Petrović
Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies, Barcelona, Spain
Mira Petrović is an ICREA (Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies) Research Professor and Deputy Director of Research at the Catalan Institute for Water Research (ICRA), where she leads the research line on contaminants in water treatment processes. She is an expert in environmental analytical chemistry, with research focused on emerging contaminants, their occurrence, fate and behaviour in water treatment and aquatic environments, and the development of advanced analytical methods based on LC-HRMS, suspect screening and non-target analysis. Her work also explores the use of wastewater biomarkers to assess human exposure to hazardous chemicals. ... She obtained her PhD in Chemistry from the Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology, University of Zagreb, Croatia, and has built an internationally recognized career in water quality and safety research. She has authored over 300 scientific papers, 30+ book chapters, and edited several books, and has coordinated and contributed to numerous European and national research projects in the field of water monitoring and emerging contaminants.
https://www.icrea.cat/community/icreas/17742/mira-petrovic/

Jürgen Popp
Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology, Jena, Germany
Jürgen Popp studied chemistry at the Universities of Erlangen and Würzburg. After obtaining his PhD in chemistry, he conducted postdoctoral research at Yale University (USA). He then returned to the University of Würzburg, where he completed his habilitation in 2002. In the same year, he was appointed to the Chair of Physical Chemistry at Friedrich Schiller University Jena, a position he has held ever since. Since 2006, he has also served as Scientific Director of the Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology (Leibniz-IPHT) in Jena....
Jürgen Popp is internationally recognized as one of the leading experts in biophotonics and optical health technologies. His research spans the entire innovation chain - from the fundamental development of photonic methods to the translation of optical technologies into clinically applicable diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. A particular focus of his work is the development and clinical implementation of Raman spectroscopic approaches in combination with innovative AI-based methods for biomedical and bioanalytical applications.
He is the author of more than 1,140 peer-reviewed publications, which have been cited over 40,600 times (h-index 88), and is the inventor of 21 patents. Jürgen Popp has delivered more than 200 invited lectures worldwide, including over 60 keynote and plenary talks, and has organized numerous international conferences and workshops, including the International Conference on Raman Spectroscopy (ICORS) in 2014.
He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Biophotonics and the Journal of Raman Spectroscopy and serves as a leading partner in many national and international research projects involving academic, clinical, and industrial collaborators. Under his leadership, the Leibniz Center for Photonics in Infection Research (LPI) was included in the German federal government’s national roadmap for research infrastructures and is supported with funding in the triple-digit million-euro range to accelerate translational photonics-based research.
Jürgen Popp is a member of the Executive Board of Photonics21 and is regularly consulted as an expert by media and policymakers. His numerous awards include the Pittsburgh Spectroscopy Award, an honorary doctorate from the University at Albany, State University of New York, the Charles Mann Award of the Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies, the SPIE Biophotonics Innovation Award and the Ellis R. Lippincott Award.
https://www.leibniz-ipht.de/en/departments/spectroscopy-and-imaging/

Sandra Babić
University of Zagreb Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Zagreb, Croatia
Sandra Babić is a Full Professor at the Department of Analytical Chemistry, University of Zagreb Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology (FKIT), Croatia. She received her PhD in 2003 from the University of Zagreb. Her research in the field of Environmental Analytical Chemistry focuses on the development of advanced chromatographic and sample preparation methods for the determination of organic micropollutants in complex environmental samples, as well as on investigation of their fate and behaviour in the environment and during advanced wastewater treatment. ...She has published more than 100 peer-reviewed scientific papers and several chapters in books. In 2024, she received the Andrija Mohorovičić Award from the University of Zagreb for scientific achievements and contributions to the promotion of science, knowledge transfer, and the education of young experts in the field of natural sciences. She had several academic responsibilities at FKIT, including Vice Dean for International Cooperation (2007 - 2009), Head of Doctoral Study programmes (2008 - 2017), and Head of the Department of Analytical Chemistry (2009 - 2011 and 2019 - 2021).
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