Associate Chief Editor

Yolanda Picó is a Full Professor of Nutrition and Food Chemistry and Researcher at the Desertification Research Centre (CIDE) at the University of Valencia. She is the coordinator of the Food Safety and Environmental Research Group (SAMA-UV). Her scientific trajectory accumulates more than 30 years of experience in the fields of Environmental and Food Chemistry, developing analytical methods to contribute significantly to the improvement of the environment and determining the impact of climate change and human development in the presence of traditional and emerging contaminants. Throughout her career, she has published more than 300 articles included in SCI and more than 20 book chapters and is the editor of 5 international books, some of them translated, among other languages, into Chinese and several special issues of prestigious international journals. All this activity has been financed with autonomous, national, and intentional projects that she has led as a responsible researcher, including a Prometheus project of the Generalitat Valenciana. She has participated as an expert in national and international advisory committees [e.g., Panel of Plant Protection Products and their Residues of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA, 2009-2012), Advisory Board of the Water Join Programme Initiative (Water JPI, 2019-) and of Catalan Institute of Water Research (ICRA, 2019-)]. She was also an evaluator in the 5th, 6th, and 7th Framework Programmes and the Horizon 2020 of the European Union. She is editor in chief of Data, in brief, and associate editor of the journal Science of the Total Environment, Journal of Environmental Management, Environmental Nanotechnology, Monitoring, and Management.

Water quality, Water pollution, Exposure assessment, Human health effects, Dietary exposure, Food safety, Endocrine disruptors, Pharmaceutical residues