Alberto Escarpa's Biography

Alberto Escarpa, Full Professor of Analytical Chemistry, University of Alcalá

Dr. Alberto Escarpa is Full Professor of Analytical Chemistry at the University of Alcalá since 2017. He has received several awards such the prestigious NATO post-doctoral Scholarship as postdoc researcher at the New Mexico State University (USA) in 2001 or the "Young Investigator Award" by the University of Alcala in 2003. He is the leader and founder of the group “Analytical Miniaturization and Nanotechnology” since 2003. His research activity is focused on microfluidics, biosensing, nanomaterials and micro motors.

He has co-authored more than 130 peer-reviewed articles in international journals, yielding an h-index of 38, is the coeditor and coauthor of the several books “Miniaturization of analytical systems: principles, designs and applications” (Wiley, 2009), “Food Electroanalysis” (2015, Wiley) and Carbon-based Nanomaterials in Analytical Chemistry (RSC, 2018). He has given more than 30 invited talks in highly international meetings about microfluidics and miniaturization of analytical chemistry. He is also Associate Editor of Microchimica Acta, RSC Advances and Electrophoresis and member of the Editorial board of Electrophoresis, Food Chemistry, Applied Materials Today, Microchimica Acta and Sensors.

He is also member of Royal Society of Chemistry since 2016.