This book reviews the latest advances in mass spectrometry for detecting environmental pollutants. With high-resolution mass spectrometry instruments becoming more accessible in research labs, scientists can now expand their analytical capabilities, establishing non-target strategies to identify priority pollutants and uncover new potentially hazardous compounds in various environmental compartments.
In this book, readers will find a range of critical topics, including the use of ion mobility as a third dimension for compound confirmation in environmental samples, and the integration of high-resolution mass spectrometry analysis with market data to prioritize environmental contaminants. The book also explores effect-directed methods combined with non-target screening for identifying toxic transformation products, and the combination of passive sampling with non-target analysis for comprehensive environmental assessments. Additionally, it covers screening strategies for disinfection byproducts in drinking water and the human chemical exposome, providing insights into the quantitation of non-target data and the discovery of transformation byproducts of emerging contaminants.
Given its breadth, this book is an essential resource for scientists addressing environmental pollution, students and academics in environmental analytical chemistry, and researchers focused on water, soil, and air studies. Environmental managers and engineers designing novel pollution remediation systems will find innovative strategies to advance their work. By focusing on priority pollutants and novel screening strategies, this book equips readers with the knowledge to tackle pressing environmental challenges.
Miren López de Alda holds a PhD in Pharmacy from the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. She completed her postdoctoral research at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Maryland, USA, and has been a researcher at IDAEA-CSIC since 1998. Dr. López de Alda's research focuses on analyzing priority and emerging pollutants in the environment by target and non-target HRMS-based techniques to evaluate their presence, origin, fate, and impact on both the environment and human health, and on analyzing wastewater for epidemiological and reuse purposes. She has participated in 47 research projects, published 222 scientific articles and 33 book chapters, and has made more than 350 contributions to national and international conferences. Her work has been cited 17000 times, and she has an H-index of 81.
Cristina Postigo holds a PhD in Sciences from the University of Barcelona, Spain. She spent two years as a postdoctoral researcher at the US Environmental Protection Agency in Triangle Research Park, NC, USA, followed by a tenure at IDAEA-CSIC in Barcelona, Spain, from 2015 to 2021. In 2022, she began a tenure-track position as a Ramon y Cajal researcher at the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Granada, Spain.
Bozo Zonja holds a PhD in Chemical Sciences from the University of Barcelona, Spain (2017). He was a Marie Curie Fellow at the IDAEA-CSIC Institute in Barcelona and later a postdoctoral researcher at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala, Sweden. Since 2021, he has been a Mass Spectrometry Specialist at Waters Corporation, and is based in Geneva, Switzerland. Dr. Zonja's expertise lies in mass spectrometry, with a particular focus on developing new analytical methods for identifying unknown chemicals and transformation products, structural elucidation of transformation products, and suspect screening/non-target analysis using high-resolution mass spectrometry. He has contributed to 8 research projects, published 20 scientific articles, and authored 4 book chapters. His work has been cited 1200 times, and he has an H-index of 15.
