Antonio Carretero

Dr Antonio Segura Carretero is a full professor in the Analytical Chemistry Department of the University of Granada (Spain) and Coordinator of Research of the CIDAF (Research and Development Centre for Functional Food). After defending his doctoral thesis in 1996 (the first thesis at the University of Granada in the line of Molecular Phosphorimetry and Extraordinary Doctoral Award), earned a post as a full-time associate professor in the Analytical Chemistry Department of the University of Granada, taking on a full teaching load plus research and management duties. In the next three years, during the summer, he stayed three times, for four months each, at: the University of Córdoba with Dr Valcárcel and Dr Rios, where he began analytical studies using capillary electrophoresis, Journal Chromatography A 816 (1998) 243-249); at the University of Oviedo with Dr Sanz Medel, developing luminescent sensors for contaminants (within the framework of the European Project MEMOSEA); and at the University of Plymouth with Dr Paul Worsfold, delving into the development of luminescent methodologies. In this same period, he was developing three lines of work (molecular luminescence, chemical sensors, and separation techniques) which have constituted the foundation of his research CV within the framework of the new research group that he formed with his thesis director Dr Fernández Gutiérrez and which have been financed with successive projects and/or contracts in which he was/is the main researcher.