Javier Hernández Borges

Dr. Javier Hernández-Borges is Full Professor of Analytical Chemistry (2022) of the Department of Chemistry at the University of La Laguna (ULL) in Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain). He obtained his Bachelor in Chemistry at the ULL in 2001 as well s his PhD with European mention at that university in 2005 (obtaining also ULL’s PhD Thesis Extraordinary Award), after which, he carried out a postdoctoral stay at the Institute of Chemical Methodologies of the National Research Council of Italy (2006-2007), obtained a Juan de la Cierva contract at the Canarian Institute of Agrarian Research (2007-2008) and a Ramon y Cajal contract at the ULL (2009-2013). Afterwards, he was promoted to Associate professor (2014) and Associate Professor with tenure (2017).

He has published around 145 papers in international indexed journals and 32 book chapters, most of them dealing with analytical method development, in particular, with the determination of microplastics, pesticides, antibiotics, phthalates and estrogenic compounds residues in Environmental and food matrices using mainly chromatographic and electromigration techniques also coupled to mass spectrometry detection. He has been the PI of several international, national, regional and private foundations projects. He has also directed 9 PhD Thesis, 7 of them awarded with the ULL’s PhD Extraordinary Award, as well as an important number of Bachelor’s Final Degree and Master’s Degree Projects.

Since 2018, he is coordinator of the Applied Analytical Chemistry Research Group (AChem) at the ULL, which incorporated from the very beginning a pioneer research line at the university devoted to microplastics research, trying to follow a multidisciplinary approach. In particular, his group has been studying the presence of microplastics in air, soils, food, coastal and deep-sea sediments and also in the water column, monitoring environmental contaminants in microplastics, and determining the microplastic content in different living organisms as well as improving analytical methodologies for microplastics determination and analysis. He is currently member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Adv. Sample Prep., and J. Chromatogr. Open, Associate Editor of Front. Anal. Sci. and has also been Editor of several Special Issues for JCR journals. He has been chairman of two 2 international conferences in the Analytical Chemistry area (ITP2023 and ExTech2023) as well as member of the Scientific and Organizing Committee of other National and International congresses. Since 2020 he is the President of the Territorial Section of the Canary Islands of the Royal Spanish Society of Chemistry (RSEQ) after serving for two years as Secretary. Read More Read Less