Handbook of Trace Analysis

Irena Baranowska is a full professor at the Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice, Poland. For 20 years she has been Head of the Department of Analytical Chemistry at Chemical Faculty. She was vice-president of the Committee of Analytical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences (9 years) and presently is a member of its Presidium. Irena Baranowska also was a member of a section in the State Committee for Scientific Research (KBN) in Warsaw and currently she is member of team of experts in National Science Centre in Krakow. She was awarded the Wiktor Kemula medal for outstanding scientific achievements in analytical chemistry. Her research focuses on analysis of organic compounds, especially pharmaceuticals and their metabolites, as well as endogenous compounds in clinical and environmental samples. She has supervised 19 PhD theses, is reviewer of 21 applications for the title of professor, 30 habilitation dissertations and 45 PhD theses.

“This handbook will be useful to both students and scientist who want to broaden their horizons with procedures and techniques used in the world of trace analysis and to people that have been just introduced to this complicated world. It will be of particular interest to analytical chemists, biochemists, physical chemists and radiochemists.” (Panayot Petrov, Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, Vol. 409, 2017)

• Part I General issues.- Characteristic and specificity of trace analysis.- Quality evaluation of analytical results - errors classification, uncertainty estimation.- Part II Application.- Trace analysis of selected organic compounds.- Analysis of drugs impurities.- Part III Special aspects.- Inorganic and bioinorganic speciation analysis - selected problems.