23rd BrJAC Webinar

Abstract: 3D-printing has opened up new avenues in the field of millifluidics and fostered the launching of the new generation of FIA so-called 3D printed µFIA. In this webinar, the impact of 3D printing on the performance of FIA and its sequels in terms of sampling, sample preparation, separation and detection will be discussed in detail with representative examples in the environmental and bioanalytical fields.

Biography: Dr. Manuel Miró is Full Professor in Analytical Chemistry at the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB) since 13th September 2017 at the age of 42. Since 2012 he is the Principal Investigator (IP) of the research group FI-TRACE (Flow Injection and Trace Analysis, www.fitrace.es) at UIB. He has conducted research stays at the Technical University of Berlin, Technical University of Denmark, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Science in Vienna, The University of Melbourne and Abo Akademi University in Finland. Since 2007 he is the Reviews Editor of Analytica Chimica Acta (ranked #2 in multi-scope analytical chemistry category, IF:6.911) and IUPAC member (subcommittee VI) on Chemical and Biophysical Process in the Environment. In 2020, he was appointed core member of the European Working Group on Sample Preparation from EuChemS-DAC (Division of Analytical Chemistry). He is also Associate Editor of the 3rd Edition of the Encyclopaedia of Analytical Sciences, Elsevier, since 2016. He has also been recently appointed Executive Editor of the journal Analytical Science by Springer.

He has published 215 peer-reviewed publications including 12 book chapters in International Publishers and one preface since 2000, from which 25 articles in the top-tier Analytical Chemistry journal (ranked #1 in multi-scope analytical chemistry category, IF: 8.008) are worth mentioning. He has published 169 articles in Q1 journals of which 47 articles were in D1 (first decile) reporting innovative analytical platforms for trace analysis in the environmental domain. He has been the corresponding author of 108 articles, with a Hirsch (h) Index=42, a total number of citations of over 5600, and an average citations/article of 26.

Dr. Miró has given 69 oral communications (54 as invited (Plenary or Keynote) and 6 as Opening Lecturer) in international on environmental science and analytical chemistry. He has also presented 176 poster communications in national and international conferences.

Dr. Miró has supervised 10 PhD thesis (and 2 ongoing) at National and International Universities (2 co-supervised at the Universidade Federal de Bahia (Brazil), 2 at Technical University of Denmark, 1 at Chiang Mai University (Thailand), 1 at Mahidol University (Thailand) and 4 at UIB, all with European/International Distinction, and two of them as a sole supervisor). He has also supervised short research visits of 39 national and international students at UIB.

He has participated in 34 national and international science research projects, with 18 projects as Principal Investigator.

Dr. Miró has been awarded with the “FIA Award for Science” from the Japanese Association of Analytical Chemistry (2013) for "His Advances on Modern Flow Injection Analytical Methods, and Automatic Sample Processing"; and the “Career Award-2018” from Proteomass Scientific Society (Portugal) for “Outstanding contributions in the field of automation in analytical chemistry.