DR. JAVIER HERNÁNDEZ BORGES

Javier Hernández-Borges is Associate Professor with tenure of the Analytical Chemistry Division of the Department of Chemistry at the University of La Laguna in Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain). He has published around 130 papers in international journals and books, most of them dealing with analytical method development, in particular, with the analysis of pesticide, antibiotic, phthalates and estrogenic compounds residues in environmental and food samples by chromatographic and electromigration techniques. Concerning sample pretreatment, he has worked with sorbent and solvent-based microextraction techniques, also using new nanomaterials (carbon nanotubes, magnetic nanoparticles and metal organic frameworks, among others). He also supervises a research line related with microplastic analysis.