Research page of Prof. Ivana Stanimirova

Institute of Chemistry, University of Silesia in Katowice
9 Szkolna Street
40-006 Katowice, Poland

tel.: (+48) 32 359 15 68
e-mail: istanimi at us.edu.pl
Room 68

Research keywords

exploratory data analysis (clustering, data mining), handling missing data and outliers, design of experiments (DoE), data modeling, the fusion of data from multiple sources (analysis and modeling of multiblock data), N-way data processing (PARAFAC, Tucker3), analysis of designed/structured data (ANOVA, ASCA, ANOVA-PCA)

Research topics

multivariate calibration, outlier detection, dealing with: missing and below detection limit data in PCA and
missing and below detection limit data in PLS, robust multivariate techniques: robust PCA, robust SIMCA, N-Way methods (PARAFAC, TUCKER3, PARAFAC2), data fusion (processing data containing different blocks of variables), STATIS, Multiple Factor Analysis, all aspects of environmental data analysis, tracing the origin of food products using chemometric techniques

Curriculum vitae

16.05.2017: doctor of science in chemistry granted by Institute of Chemistry, University of Silesia in Katowice, Katowice, Poland

September 2009: scientific stay at Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research (IDAEA), Spanish Council of Scientific Research, Barcelona, Spain, with Prof. Roma Tauler, founded by the UPGOW project

05-08.2009: scientific stay at Laboratory for Chemometrics, Department of Chemistry at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, with Prof. Peter Wentzell

October 2005-till now: the adiunkt position, Institute of Chemistry, University of Silesia in Katowice, Katowice, Poland

September 2005: Obtaining of the Ph.D. degree at the Department of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium)
Title of the Ph.D. thesis: "Exploratory analysis of environmental data".
Promotors: Prof. D.L. Massart, Prof. Y. Vander Heyden and Prof. B. Walczak

2001-2005: Ph.D. student at the Department of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium)

1997-2001: Employed at the Institute of Physical Chemistry, Bulgarian Academy of Science, Sofia, as a researcher. Scientific field of interest: physical chemistry, electrochemistry subject of investigations: electrochemical deposition on n- and p- type semiconductor substrates

1997: Graduated from the Faculty of Chemistry, University of Sofia "St. Kliment Okhridski", Sofia, Bulgaria; Qualification: Master of Chemistry
Specialization: Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry
The topic of the MSc thesis: "Receptor Modeling of coastal sediment data" under the supervision of Prof. V. Simeonov

Selected scientific activities

Editor of Acta Chromatographica

Member of the Commission of Chemometrics and Metrology in Chemistry, Committee of Analytical Chemistry of Polish Academy of Sciences

On an everyday basis, acts as a referee for the chemistry journals: Acta Chromatographica, Analytica Chimica Acta,Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems, Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, Talanta, BMC Bioinformatics, Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry, Atmospheric Environment, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis, Vibrational Spectroscopy, Molecules.

Awards

2014: Individual award granted by the Rector of University of Silesia in Katowice, Katowice, Poland

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Courses for a broad audience

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