Brief curriculum vitae
Pilar Bermejo Barrera (Santiago de Compostela, 1956), has been a professor of Analytical Chemistry since 1991 in the Department of Analytical Chemistry, Nutrition and Food Science of the Faculty of Chemistry. In 1978, he graduated in Chemistry from USC, and received his doctorate from the same university in 1981. He completed his postdoctoral training at the University of Plymouth, United Kingdom. She was a professor at the Faculty of Chemistry, at the Faculty of Pharmacy and at the Higher Technical School of Engineering.
Coordinator of the research group, GETEE, Group of Trace Elements, Spectroscopy and Speciation. His research activity focuses on the development of analytical methods for the study of Speciation and Bioavailability of Trace Elements in all types of samples. Other relevant lines are related to studies on Metallomics and Metalloproteomics, and on Analytical Nanometrology and Nanotechnology. He has published more than 350 scientific research articles, 28 international book chapters and monographs on Analytical Chemistry. Director of 40 PhD Theses, she coordinates numerous, both national and international, research projects, as well as different research contracts with public and private entities.
Member of national Scientific Societies: RSEQ, SEQA, SEA, SEQC and international ones such as RSC, ACS and FESTEM. Member of the Editorial Committee of several international magazines, assessment and accreditation agencies such as ANEP, ANECA, MICINN, ENAC, RESEARCH COUNCIL OF NORWAY, FONDECYT among others.
She was vice-dean of the Faculty of Chemistry in the period 1989-1996. During this period she was coordinator of the Erasmus ECTS pilot program in the area of Chemistry, the ECTN network (European Chemistry Thematic Network) and the TASSEP program (Transatlantic Science Student Exchange Programme). Between 1998 and 2006 she was Director of the Department of Analytical Chemistry, Nutrition and Food Science. Dean of the Faculty of Chemistry between 2014 and 2022, and president of the Spanish Conference of Deans of Chemistry. In 2018 he joined the Royal Galician Academy of Sciences as a full member.