Dr. Victoria Samanidou is a full professor and director of the Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece. Her research interests focus on the development of sample preparation methods using sorptive extraction prior to chromatographic analysis. She has coauthored 196 original research articles in peer-reviewed journals, as well as 57 reviews, 62 editorials, and 50 chapters in scientific books (h-index 40, Scopus Author ID 7003896015, 5268 citations, Web of Science Researcher ID AAE-4121-2020). She is an editorial board member of more than 30 scientific journals and has been a guest editor for more than 25 Special Issues. She has peer-reviewed more than 670 manuscripts for 144 scientific journals. In 2016, she was included in the top 50 women in analytical science list, as proposed by Texere Publishers (https://theanalyticalscientist.com/power-list/the-power-list-2016). In 2020, she was among the top 2% of the world's scientists in the field of analytical chemistry (for her career, as well as for the single year 2019) published in PLOS Biology, based on citations from SCOPUS. In 2021, she was included in the "The Analytical Scientist" 2021 list of the top 100 influential people in analytical science. In the same year, she was included in the Stanford University list of the world's top 2% of scientists (for her whole career, as well as for the single year 2020).