BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH · Prof. Coral Barbas

Centre for Metabolomics and Bioanalysis (CEMBIO)
Universidad San Pablo CEU
Madrid, Spain

Coral Barbas is currently Full Professor of Analytical Chemistry at Pharmacy Faculty, Universidad San Pablo CEU, Madrid (Spain) and Director for the “Centre for Metabolomics and Bioanalysis” (CEMBIO) at this Faculty. She is also Director for CEU International School of Doctorate (CEINDO); Visiting Professor at Imperial College London, Department of Surgery and Cancer. As previous appointments she was Vice-Chancellor for Research at Universidad CEU San Pablo and Marie Curie Fellow at Kings College London and visiting Professor at Bialystok Medical University.
She is the author of more than 300 papers, with current research interests in all the steps in metabolomics workflow: experimental design, sample pretreatment, analytical methods for targeted and untargeted metabolomics, method validation, data treatment, compound identification and interpretation. Her researcher is focused on multiplatform analysis with GC-MS, LC-MS and CE-MS of all kind of biological samples searching for disease biomarkers, prognostic biomarkers, mechanisms of action of a drug, diet, etc.
Her awards include Angel Herrera Research Award and Teaching Award, the medal of Bialystok Medical University and she was named to the 2016 Power List, the 50 Most Influential Women in Analytical Chemistry in the World, The Analytical Scientist and recently she has received the award of the Belgian Society of Pharmaceutical Sciences (BSPS 2018) and a Honoris causa doctorate in Bialystok Medical University Member of different boards of international Committees and Editor for Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis.