**About the Editors**

## **Victoria Samanidou**

Dr Victoria Samanidou is 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 sorptive extraction prior to chromatographic analysis. She has co-authored 203 original research articles in peer reviewed journals and 60 reviews, 67 editorials/in view, and 54 chapters in scientific books (h-index 42, Scopus Author ID 7003896015, 5940 citations, Web of Science Researcher ID AAE-4121-2020). She is an editorial board member of more than 30 scientific journals and guest editor in more than 30 Special Issues. She has peer reviewed more than 701 manuscripts for 149 scientific journals.

In 2016, she was included in the top 50 power list of women in Analytical Science, as proposed by Texere Publishers.

In 2020, 2021, and 2022, she was included in the 2% top world scientists in the field of Analytical Chemistry (career -, as well as single year) published in PLOS Biology based on citations from SCOPUS.

In 2021, she was included in the "The Analytical Scientist" 2021 Power List of top 100 influential people in analytical science.

In 2016, she was elected as President of the Steering Committee of the Association of Greek Chemists—Regional Division of Central & Western Macedonia.

#### **Irene Panderi**

Irene Panderi (Eirini Panderi) is a pharmacist with a PhD in Pharmaceutical Analysis. She is a Professor and Director of the Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Analysis at the Faculty of Pharmacy, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in Greece. She has over 20 years' experience in leading research in the fields of Pharmaceutical Analysis and Analytical Chemistry developing novel analytical methods for the analysis of drugs, metabolites and bioactive compounds in pharmaceuticals, cosmeceuticals, biological fluids and human tissues. These methods are applied to clinical testing, toxicology studies, doping control, and quality control of drugs. She is a member of the American Society of Mass Spectrometry, the Panhellenic Society of Pharmacists, the Panhellenic Society of Medicinal Chemistry, and the Hellenic Society of Mass Spectrometry and the Scientific Committee on Consumers Safety, EU (SCCS, DG-Sante). She is author and co-author of more than 95 original research articles in peer-reviewed journals, more than 30 opinions in international journals, and 8 reviews and chapters in scientific books with H-index 23 (Scopus). She has supervised 5 completed PhD thesis, 55 completed MSc theses, and several dissertation theses, and she is supervisor of 9 ongoing MSc theses and 2 ongoing PhD theses. She is a member of the editorial board several scientific journals, and she has served as a reviewer of more than 300 scientific articles in 30 international scientific journals.
