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).
Ronald Belcher Memorial Award
Talanta (Pergamon Press)
Awarded in 1988 for outstanding achievements of a young analytical researcher.
Lloyd Smythe Medal
Analytical Chemistry Division, Royal Australian Chemical Institute
Awarded in 2009 for excellence in pure or applied scientific work in analytical science in Australia.
Medal of the Japanese Association for Flow Injection Analysis
Japanese Association for Flow Injection Analysis
Awarded in 2010 for for outstanding contributions to research in the area of Flow Injection and Sequential Injection Analysis,
Grimwade Prize in Industrial Chemistry
La Trobe Institute for Molecular Sciences, La Trobe University
Awarded in 2017 for outstanding contributions to Chemistry research.
Environmental Chemistry Medal
Analytical and Environmental Chemistry Division, Royal Australian Chemical Institute
Awarded in 2017 for excellence in scientific work in Australia that has involved substantial environmental chemistry.