**About the Editors**

#### **Victoria Samanidou**

Dr Victoria Samanidou is a Full Professor and Director of the Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Her research interests focus on the development of sample preparation methods using novel sorptive extraction approaches prior to liquid and/or gas chromatographic analysis. She has co-authored more than 250 original research articles and reviews in peer-reviewed journals, 65 editorials/in view and 51 chapters in scientific books (h-index 40). She is an editorial board member of more than 30 scientific journals and a guest editor in more than 29 Special Issues. She has peer reviewed ca 700 manuscripts for ca 150 scientific journals.

In 2016, she was included in top 50 power list of women in Analytical Science (https://theanalyticalscientist.com/power-list/the-power-list-2016). In 2021, she was included in the "The Analytical Scientist"2021 Power List of top 100 influential people in analytical science. https://theanalyticalscientist.com/power-list/2021. In 2020, she was included in the 2% top world scientists in the field of Analytical Chemistry (career—2019, as well as single year 2019) published in PLOS Biology based on citations from SCOPUS. In 2021, she was again included in the list of World Top 2% Scientists, for her whole career up to now as well as for the single year 2020. The list is prepared by the Stanford University (USA) and it is based on standardized citation indicators. She is the Leader of Working Group 1 Science and Fundamentals of EuChemS-DAC SamplePreparation Study Group and Network, since 2021. Since 2016, she has been the President of the Steering Committee of the Association of Greek Chemists-Regional Division of Central & Western Macedonia.

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#### **Natasa Kalogiouri**

Natasa Kalogiouri is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry of the Department of Chemistry, at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She received her Bachelor's degree from the Department of Chemistry of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 2011. She continued her studies in the same Department, from where she received a Master's Degree in 2013 on "Advanced Chemical Analysis". In 2017, she was awarded a Doctorate Title by the Department of Chemistry of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, where she has worked on the development of high-resolution mass spectrometric methods for the investigation of food authenticity. As a Postdoctoral Researcher she received a grant from the State Scholarships Foundation (IKY), and her research focused on the development of novel analytical methods with the use of green sample preparation techniques combined with advanced chemometric tools to guarantee food quality and authenticity. She has published 36 scientific papers and 2 Chapter Books. She has served as a Guest Editor in four Special Issues in MDPI journals. She is a member of the Association of Greek Chemists and Member of European Chemical Society-Division of Analytical Chemistry (EuChemS-DAC). Her research interests focus on microextraction sample preparation techniques, high-pressure liquid chromatography, high-resolution mass spectrometry, gas chromatography, targeted and nontargeted screening determinations, and chemometrics.

ORCHID: 0000-0001-6183-7857

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