Valérie Simon has been a professor at the Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse (University of Toulouse) since 1994. She received her Ph.D. in Environmental Chemistry from INPT in 1993 and subsequently carried out research on food authentification as a post-doctoral researcher for Université Laval (Québec, Canada). Her present research interests concern analytical development to study (semi)volatile organic compounds in gaseous, liquid, and solid matrices. She is involved in research related to biomass and environmental sciences, focusing on terpenoïds, carbonyl and sulfur compounds, PAHs, and phthalates, among others. She has published 70+ scientific international papers and has participated in numerous national and EU projects/committees/networks.