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  AGUIRRE PASTOR, MIGUEL ANGEL

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AGUIRRE PASTOR, MIGUEL ANGEL

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PROFESOR/A TITULAR UNIVERSIDAD
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QUIMICA ANALITICA, NUTRICION Y BROMATOLO
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Academic background

  • DOCTORADO EN QUÍMICA
    Centro de Estudios de Doctorado y Posgrado (27/03/2015)
  • Ciencias Químicas
    University Alicante (24/09/2009)
  • Licenciado en Química
    University Alicante (16/07/2007)

His research training began with a predoctoral fellowship awarded in 2008 by the University of Alicante. In 2011, he did a predoctoral stay at the Federal University of São Carlos (Brazil) for 6 months. Once the period of the predoctoral fellowship (2012) was over, he was hired by Repsol company to solve the quantitative analysis of metals in hydrocarbons, using a multiple nebulizer developed in his research group during the four years of predoctoral fellowship. The research was successfully developed and Repsol purchased the multiple nebulizer for its installation on their analytical instruments. This fact triggered the application and subsequent approval of the patent for the multicapillary nebulizer in 2014.

He obtained his PhD from the University of Alicante in 2015 and continued his work with the same university for a full-time year as a junior collaborating researcher. In 2016 he got a two-year post-doctoral fellowship from the Generalitat Valenciana, researching in the Nanosensors group of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA) led by Dr. Brian T. Cunningham. The work focused on the development of a portable device based on smartphones capable of performing the analysis of vitamin C and ibuprofen in pharmaceutical tablets, turning the smartphone into a miniaturized instrument capable of measuring the transmission spectrum of the sample. Since 2018/2019, he has been an associate professor in the area of ¿¿Chemistry at the University of Alicante and during this time he has taught in the degree in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Marine Sciences. In addition, he has also taught in the University Master's degree in Criminal Investigation and Forensic Science.

Currently, he belongs to the atomic-mass spectroscopy and analytical chemistry under extreme conditions research group and, mainly, his research focuses on the development of new analytical methodologies for elemental analysis in different types of samples (e.g., environmental, fuel, pharmaceutical, among others). These include the incorporation of multiple nebulizers in chemical analysis using on-line calibration, the use of new extractant in liquid-liquid microextraction techniques (e.g., deep eutectic solvents, magnetic ionic liquids), and, more recently, the study and development of miniaturized analytical systems based on smartphone devices.