Joanna Szpunar graduated from the Technical University of Warsaw (Poland), received her PhD and DSc (habilitation) from the University of Warsaw (Poland) and was nominated as a professor in 2007. Since 1997, she has been working at the French National Scientific Council (CNRS) laboratory in Pau, France. Her research interests concern bioinorganic speciation analysis and hyphenated techniques for metallomics. Joanna Szpunar is author or co-author of a book and co-author of 175 articles in international journals (H-factor 62, 9693 citations (Google Scholar 25/05/2020)) and more than 50 plenary and invited lectures at international meetings. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and a member of the Advisory Boards of Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, Metallomics and Separations.