**About the Editors**

#### **Julia Kuligowski**

Julia Kuligowski is a senior researcher at the Neonatal Research Group of the Health Research Institute La Fe (Valencia, Spain) and Short-Term Scientific Mission Coordinator of the Pan-European Network in Lipidomics and EpiLipidomics (CA19105). She is an expert on metabolomics and lipidomics, as well as the development of quantitative bioanalytical methods. For over ten years, she has been working on liquid and gas chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry, as well as vibrational spectroscopy, employed as research tools focusing on the analysis biofluids from newborns as well as from human milk. Currently, she is leading research projects supported by national and international funding sources on the impact of inhaled nitric oxide on oxidative and nitrosative stress, as well as the benefits of human milk on preterm infant health. She is involved in the Metabolomics Quality Assurance and Quality Control Consortium (mQACC) and has published over 120 papers in peer-reviewed, international journals, as well as over 10 book chapters.

#### **M ´aximo Vento**

Maximo Vento MD PhD, Professor of Pediatrics, is presently an Emeritus Investigator and ´ Principal Investigator of the Neonatal Research Group at the Health Research Institute La Fe (Valencia, Spain) and Chairman of the European Board of Neonatology under the auspices of the European Society for Paediatric Research. His main areas of interest comprise the physiology and pathophysiology of the fetal to neonatal transition and postnatal stabilization, oxygen metabolism and toxicity, infection, nutrition, and respiratory conditions from an experimental and clinical perspective in the neonatal, in both term and preterm infants. He has pioneered the use of modern analytical techniques for developing biomarkers to assess and predict outcomes in the most relevant conditions during the perinatal period. As a result, he has published more than 400 peer-reviewed articles in relevant international journals, as well as 50 book chapters.
