ALFREDO SANZ-MEDEL is Professor of Analytical Chemistry and head of the Analytical Spectrometry Research Group (University of Oviedo, Spain). He was an associate member of IUPAC and was president (1989 to 1999) of the now-called Spanish Society of Applied Spectroscopy. He served on the editorial board of several scientific journals and is now Editor in the "Book Section," Monographs in Analytical Spectroscopy (RSC, UK) and Editor of Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry (Springer). He is the author or co-author of more than 600 international scientific journal publications, several books, hol...