since 1981. She has been head of this Department for 12 years. Her research interests include trace analysis, molecular spectroscopy, kinetic methods of analysis (with special emphasis on multicomponent analysis, stopped-flow methodology, kinetometrics, chemiluminescence spectroscopy, immunoassay and micellar catalysis) and environmental analysis. She has published extensively on these topics and is co-author of a monograph on Kinetic Methods in Analytical Chemistry and the biannual reviews of the ACS on this subject, as well as of several textbooks.