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Elena E. Stashenko is Laureate Full Professor at the School of Chemistry of Industrial University of Santander (UIS), in Bucaramanga (Colombia). She is the General Director of the Center for Chromatography and Mass Spectrometry (CROM-MASS) and of the Research Center for Biomolecules (CIBIMOL). She has been Graduate Program Coordinator and Director of Research for the School of Sciences at UIS. During the last 30 years she has directed the undergraduate and graduate research projects of over 270 new professionals in Chemistry, Biology, and Chemical and Mechanical Engineering.
Elena Stashenko completed her undergraduate and Doctoral studies in Chemistry at UDN and MGU (Moscow, Russian Federation), and has been visiting Professor at University of California (Davis, CA, U.S.A.), Braunschweig University (Germany), University du Quebec (Canada), and the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (Melbourne, Australia). Elena Stashenko is Full Member of the Colombian Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences (ACCEFYN); Member of the Latin American Chromatography Committee (COLACRO); Member of the Board of Directors of the Colombian Association for the Advancement of Science (ACAC); Member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Separation Science, Journal of Essential Oil Research, and of Scientia Chromatographica.
Elena Stashenko was the founder of the National School of Chromatography (1998) in Colombia, where she has been the main speaker in over 130 courses offered to professionals and practitioners of chromatography and mass spectrometry from industry, research centers, Academia, and Government Laboratories.
During the last 15 years, Elena Stashenko has been the Director of CENIVAM, the Research Center of Excellence for the Agro-Industrialization of Tropical Aromatic and Medicinal Vegetal Species (CENIVAM), a collaborative project of 15 research groups from ten universities. She is currently the Scientific Director of Bio-Reto XXI 15:50, a 4-year Research Program (15 projects, 2019-2022) on Essential Oils and Bio-Economy.
Her research work has been published in over 200 scientific articles of national and international specialized journals. She is the author of books on essential oils, she edited a book on aromatic plants, and she is author of six different chapters on essential oils and their analysis, in free access (Intech) and commercial (Wiley) technical books.
Her work has received awards in Colombia and abroad; among them: “Frontier Award: Chemistry for Life”, from the European Society of Separation Science; “Researcher of Excellence”, from the Colombian Association for the Advancement of Science (ACAC); “COLACRO Medal”, from the 10th COLACRO; Scopus (Elsevier) – 2013, “National Chemistry Award in Analytical Chemistry”, from the Colombian Chemistry Association, ASQUIMCO; and “National Phytochemistry Prize”, from the National Phytochemistry Congress.
The Analytical Scientist publication included Elena Stashenko in 2016 among the 50 most influential women in the analytical sciences.
