Prof(a). Heidi Goenaga Infante

Lecture topics: ''Metrological Advances for Particle Number Concentration: From Nanomaterials to Microplastics''

Heidi’s scientific career of over twenty five years of experience on elemental and speciation analysis started with the award of a PhD from Oviedo University, Spain. This was followed up by a Postdoctoral Research fellowship at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. She joined LGC as senior researcher in speciation analysis in 2003. Currently, she is a Science Fellow of LGC. She is also the Chief Scientist and Director of Chemical Metrology of the National Measurement Laboratory hosted by LGC. Her Metrology research interests mainly lye in trace element speciation analysis, metal-omics/protein research, the characterisation of nanomaterials, quantitative bio-imaging and the characterisation of reference materials and standards. Heidi Goenaga-Infante is the UK representative at the Inorganic Analysis Working Group of the CCQM, the international Consultative Committee for Metrology in Chemistry. She is chair of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry. She is the LGC representative at ISO TC 24 (Particle characterisation). She is the EURAMET representative for inorganic analysis at the CCQM Key Comparison Working Group and the LGC representative at the EURMET TC MC Strategy group. She has acted as the coordinator of the EU EUROPEAN Metrology Research Proposal (EMRP) NanoChop “Chemical, Optical and

Biological characterisation of nanomaterials in biological samples”. She is the leading author of over a 185 scientific research papers and 8 book chapters. Heidi was awarded the 2020 Lester W. Strock Award from SAS and the 2023 European Award for Plasma Spectrochemistry. Heidi is a visiting Professor at Strathclyde University, UK and Honorary Senior Research Fellow of the University of Liverpool, UK.