Vasiliki Boti is a member of E.DI.P. (Laboratory Teaching Staff) at the Department of Chemistry, Sector of Industrial Chemistry & Food Chemistry, of the University of Ioannina with the academic field "Environmental Control and Protection Technologies". She is the administrator of the interdepartmental "Unit for Environmental, Organic and Biochemical High-Resolution Analysis - ORBITRAP-LC-MS". Her research field includes the development and application of extraction methodologies for the determination of toxic micropollutants in a variety of substrates while she specializes in mass spectrometry as a chemical characterization technique. She has > 44 publications in international scientific journals and two chapters in books (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.) with more than 1000 citations, > 100 publications in international and Greek conferences (h-index: 18). He has participated in >21 research projects.

Research fields and activities

• Chromatographic techniques and mass spectrometry, with emphasis on liquid chromatography coupled to high-resolution accurate-mass mass spectrometry (LC–HRMS Orbitrap).
• Advanced sample preparation techniques for the determination of toxic micropollutants and secondary metabolites in food, feed, environmental samples, wastewater and sludge.
• Development, optimization and validation of modern analytical methods according to European regulations and standards with estimation of measurement uncertainty.
• Suspect screening and non-target analysis for the identification of organic micropollutants, transformation products, and secondary or phenolic metabolites in environmental substrates and food/plant matrices.
• Identification and structural elucidation of transformation products using high-resolution mass spectrometry.
• Application of chemometric and statistical methods, including experimental design, ANOVA, PCA, clustering, heatmaps and artificial neural networks.
• Toxicity assessment approaches, including in vitro and in silico methods, environmental and human health risk assessment, with emphasis on dietary exposure.
• Study of the physicochemical behavior, environmental fate and degradation mechanisms of organic pollutants, including hydrolysis and photodegradation.
• Technologies for the removal of organic micropollutants from aquatic systems, including adsorption and advanced oxidation processes.

Distinctions and Associations

• Evaluator of MSCA (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions) proposals for the European Commission in Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry.
• Guest Editor of > 4 Special Issues on water quality, emerging contaminants, HRMS analysis, environmental protection and food safety.
• Member of the Scientific Committee of the Unit for Environmental, Organic and Biochemical High-Resolution Analysis – Orbitrap-LC-MS, University of Ioannina.
• Member of the European-Mediterranean Association of Environmental Education, Assessment and Protection and of the Association of Greek Chemists.
• Member of organizing committees of international and European scientific conferences on pesticides, micropollutants, instrumental analysis and environmental protection.
• Premium Scientific partner as member of the first PFAS Community in Greece.