ELENA E. STASHENKO is a member of the Editorial Committee of several international journals, a member of Colombia’s National Scientific Council, a Senior Researcher of the Ministry of Science and Technology, a member of the Colombian Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences, a member of the Colombian Association for the Advancement of Science, and a member of the Latin American Chromatography Committee (COLACRO). She is a founder and lecturer at the National School of Chromatography, where she has taught more than 150 specialized courses on separation sciences to practicing professionals from research laboratories and industry. She received, in 2020, recognition for a life and career in Public Health in Colombia, granted by the Colombian Association of Public Health. She was selected by The Analytical Scientist magazine, in 2016, as one of the 50 most influential women, worldwide, in Analytical Sciences. In 2021, she was selected by the same magazine as one of the 10 most influential scientists in Latin America in the field of Analytical Sciences.