Spas Kolev is a professor of Chemistry at the University of Melbourne, Australia. His research focus is on the development of flow-based methods and instrumentation for the automatic online chemical analysis of environmental pollutants and novel extracting polymeric materials for the environmentally friendly separation and preconcentration of chemical species in industry, water clean-up, chemical analysis, and environmental monitoring. Kolev received his PhD in Analytical Chemistry from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (Hungary).