**About the Editor**

## **Miguel Angel Gonz ´alez-Curbelo ´**

Dr. Miguel Angel Gonz ´ alez-Curbelo holds the position of full professor in the Department ´ of Basic Sciences at Ean University in Bogota, Colombia. He earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry from ´ the University of La Laguna (ULL) in the Canary Islands, Spain, in 2014. During his doctoral studies, he completed a pre-doctoral research stay at the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) under the supervision of Dr. Steven J. Lehotay, the father of the QuEChERS method. Dr. Gonzalez-Curbelo's scholarly contributions comprise approximately 50 publications in international ´ journals and books, with his work focused on the development of environmentally friendly analytical methodologies for the determination of various contaminants in environmental and food samples through the employment of chromatographic techniques.
