Editorial Board Member - JFSC
Viorica Lopez-Avila
Research ScientistAgilent Technologies
United States
BIOGRAPHY:
Dr. Viorica Lopez-Avila has a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering/Technology of Organic Substances from the Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest Romania, a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA, USA, and a certificate in Biotechnology from the University of California in Santa Cruz, CA, USA. She is nationally recognized for her contributions to the identification of organic compounds by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry and for sample preparation techniques such as supercritical fluid extraction and microwave-assisted extraction technology, and also has in-depth experience with analytical methodologies applicable to proteomics. Dr. Lopez-Avila has co-authored 120 publications in scientific journals and books, 5 issued patents, 21 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reports, and was the Editor-in-Chief of the Wiley’s Current Protocols in Field Analytical Chemistry. She has given numerous presentations at national and international meetings, taught short courses on environmental analysis, and is currently an adjunct professor at University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Canada.
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Development of analytical methods for drugs-of-abuse, explosives, chemical warfare agents, and poisons
Innovative technologies in forensic chemistry and biochemistry
Application of advanced instrumental techniques in forensic analysis
Other Editorial Board Members - JFSC
NIKOLAS P. LEMOS
Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
University of California
United States
Kola Abimbola
College of Arts and Science
Howard University
United States
Laura Hammond
University of Huddersfield
United Kingdom
KEWAL KRISHAN
Department of Anthropology
Panjab University
India
MATEJ TRAPECAR
National Forensic Laboratory
Slovenia
Paisarn Muneesawang
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Naresuan University
Thailand
Kristian Linnet
Department of Forensic Medicine
University of Copenhagen
Denmark
ADELIA C BOVELL-BENJAMIN
Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences
Tuskegee University
United States
Ronn Johnson
Department of Psychiatry
Creighton University Medical School
United States