**About the Editor**

**Jolanta Kumirska** is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Chemistry of the University of Gdansk, Poland. She is also Head of Team of Chemical Analytics and Diagnostics at the Faculty of Chemistry. She received her PhD degree in 2006. Her research interests include environmental science and analytical chemistry, especially determination of pharmaceutical residues in environmental samples, analysis of the fate of pharmaceuticals in the environment including ecotoxicological studies, and analysis of the mechanisms of the sorption of pharmaceuticals to soils and bottom sediments. Moreover, her research is focused on the development of analytical methods for forensic purposes, structural analysis of oligo- and polysaccharides, and the application of spectroscopic techniques for structural elucidation and analysis of structure–property–activity relationships. She is an author or co-author of more than 80 research works in peer-reviewed journals. She serves as a reviewer for numerous international journals.
