María del Coral Barbas Arribas (or Arriba) is a professor at the
Universidad CEU San Pablo in Madrid, Spain who is known for her research on
metabolomics and integration of chemical data.
Education and career
Barbas has a Ph.D. from
Complutense University of Madrid
The Complutense University of Madrid ( es, Universidad Complutense de Madrid; UCM, links=no, ''Universidad de Madrid'', ''Universidad Central de Madrid''; la, Universitas Complutensis Matritensis, links=no) is a public research university loca ...
. From 2005 until 2006 she was a
Marie Curie fellow at
King's College London
King's College London (informally King's or KCL) is a public research university located in London, England. King's was established by royal charter in 1829 under the patronage of King George IV and the Duke of Wellington. In 1836, King's ...
.
As of 2022 she is a professor of
analytical chemistry at the
Universidad CEU San Pablo and is the president of the Madrid section of the
Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry
The Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry (RSEQ) is a Spanish scientific society dedicated to the development and dissemination of chemistry, in its aspect of pure science and in its applications. It originated in 1980 after the split of the Spanish ...
.
Research
Barbas is known for her research on metabolomics, a field she was first introduced to while she was a Marie Curie fellow.
Her early research centered on the analysis of vitamins and development of chemical methods to analyze compounds such as caffeine. Her subsequent research has developed methods to analyze organic compounds in pharmaceutical drugs and foods, and defined biomarkers for diseases such as leukemia and Parkinson's disease. She is also known for defining quality assurance protocols for metabolomics data analysis and establishing workflows to analyze metabolomics data.
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Awards and honors
''
The Analytical Scientist'' named Barbas to their 2016 Power List in recognition of her contributions to chemistry.
In 2017, she was honored by ''
Acta Sanitaria'' for her chemical research linking diabetes and obesity. In 2018, she received the International Award of the
Belgian Society of Pharmaceutical Sciences.
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Analytical chemists
Women chemists
Living people
Spanish scientists
Year of birth missing (living people)