Portrait : Giorgia Purcaro

Giorgia Purcaro has a degree in Food Science and Technology and a Ph.D.in Food Science at the University of Udine (Italy). She spent her post-doc at the University of Messina working on advanced chromatographic techniques.

In 2011 she won an Italian grant for young scientists that she spent as a research assistant at the University of Udine working on food contaminants using advanced chromatographic techniques.

In 2015 she was appointed as R&D Director of Chromaleont, where she led a team of researcherscarrying out projectsin tight collaboration between the University and private companies. After two years, animated by the desire to complete her formation she moved to Dartmouth College (USA) to learn more on data handling of metabolomics data.

Finally, in August 2018 she was appointed at the University of Liége as Analytical Chemistry professor at the Gembloux Agro Bio Tech Department.

Her main research fields are on advanced analytical techniques in separation science, with particular emphasis for multidimensional comprehensive gas chromatography (GC×GC) and liquid-gas chromatography (LC-GC).  Moreover, she works towards miniaturization of the sample preparation step and to prove the reliability and robustness of advanced analytical separation tools to be applied in many fieldsof applications at a routine level.

In 2010 she won the Ettre award for the most outstanding contribution in the field of separation science by junior scientist.

in 2015 she won the Phillips award for her outstanding contribution to the field of GC×GC, in honour of the inventor of the technique. In 2015 she was included in the list “Top40under40” published by The Analytical Scientist magazine.