Silvia Díaz Cruz

Dra. Silvia Díaz-Cruz, PhD in Analytical Chemistry in 2001 and European Doctor in 2002 by the University of Barcelona. Assistant Professor at the University of Barcelona between 2000 and 2003. Post-Doctoral Researcher Ramón y Cajal at the Institute of Environmental and Chemistry Research at the Spanish National Research Council (IIQAB-CSIC) from 2004 to 2009. Since 2012 is Researcher (Cientifico Titular) at the Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research (IDAEA), Environmental Chemistry Department. Barcelona (Spain).
In her first decade as researcher she specialized in the electrochemical study by voltamperometry and polarography with Au, Hg and C electrodes, of the interactions and speciation between heavy metals (Pb, Cd, Co, Zn and Cu) and mammalian metallothioneins and their peptide fragments.
Her line of research over the last 16 years has focused on the development and application of analytical methods based on advanced chromatography (gas and liquid chromatography) coupled to mass spectrometry (GC/LC-MS), including high resolution MS (HRMS) for the study of the presence, fate, elimination, toxicity and risk assessment of organic emerging pollutants, their metabolites and other transformation products, in environmental and biological samples.