Maria Luisa Astolfi

Researcher
Biography
Since April 2025, Maria Luisa Astolfi has been a Tenure-Track Researcher (RTT) in Analytical Chemistry (Scientific Disciplinary Group: 03/CHEM-01, Scientific Disciplinary Sector: CHEM-01/A). From 2020 to 2025, she was a fixed-term type A researcher (RTD-A, SDG 03/CHEM-01, SDS CHEM-01/A) at the Department of Chemistry, Sapienza University of Rome. She has obtained the Italian National Scientific Qualification (ASN) for both Associate and Full Professor roles (SDG 03/CHEM-01, SDS CHEM-01/A). From 2010 to 2019, she carried out research support activities in the analytical field—specifically elemental analysis, data quality, and optimization of analytical procedures—at the Department of Chemistry, Sapienza University of Rome. In 2009, she earned her Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry of Real Systems from Sapienza University of Rome. From 2005 to 2009, she held a scholarship, a research collaboration contract, and a Filas internship at the Department of Chemistry, Sapienza University of Rome. In 2005, she obtained her degree in Chemistry from the same university. She is the author of 92 publications in international journals, one patent, and over 100 conference contributions. According to the Scopus database (Scopus Author ID: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=14007716500), her work has received 1,908 citations and her h-index is 26. She serves as a reviewer for several international scientific journals and is a member of the Editorial Board of multiple journals, including Plos One, Open Chemistry, Methods and Protocols, Analytica, and Frontiers in Analytical Science. She is currently Guest Editor for several special issues.
Research activity
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Analytical chemistry
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The researches mainly concern the development and validation of analytical methodologies for the evaluation of contaminants at trace level in environmental and biological matrices with the use of various instruments (inductively coupled plasma with optical detection, ICP-OES and inductively coupled plasma with mass detection, ICP-MS detection; atomic fluorescence spectroscopy – AFS; automatic instrumentation dedicated to Mercury Analysis - Automatic Mercury Analyzer – AMA; Ion chromatography; Ultraviolet–visible spectroscopy).
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