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Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Andrea Baptista obtained her degree in Chemistry from the Universidad de los Andes in Mérida, Venezuela, where she completed her thesis at the Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research (IVIC). She later earned a Ph.D. from the National University of Córdoba in Argentina, focusing on the study of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) of biogenic and anthropogenic origin in urban air, such as aldehydes and terpenes. Her research also encompassed the kinetics and degradation processes of VOCs, during which she developed and applied advanced analytical techniques, including GC-MS, GC-FID, HPLC-DAD, and FT-IR.
Currently, she holds a postdoctoral research fellowship dedicated to the study of plant secondary metabolites, with a particular emphasis on terpenes analyzed through GC-MS. Her work also includes the extraction and characterization of polyphenols using HPLC-DAD, highlighting their antioxidant properties and exploring diverse innovative applications.