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 Gate profile, Google Scholar profile, ORCID ID: 0000-0003-4966-3246
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
Publications
M. Jeziorek, G. Kania, I. Stanimirova, K. Konikowska, A. Szuba, A. Chachaj, Insights into diet, psychological distress, and personality traits among patients with lower-extremity lymphedema and overweight/obesity in comparison to patients with lifestyle-induced overweight/obesity and patients with normal body weight, Obesity Research & Clinical Practice (in press)
IF=2.5I. Stanimirova, D.Q. Rich, A.G. Russell, P.K. Hopke, Sources and their contributions of ambient PM2.5 concentrations in an industrial area of Atlanta from 1998 to 2016, Atmospheric Environment, 342 (2025) 120944 (Open access)
IF=4.2I. Stanimirova, D.Q. Rich, A.G. Russell, P.K. Hopke, Spatial variability of pollution source contributions during two (2012-2013 and 2018-2019) sampling campaigns at ten sites in Los Angeles Basin, Environmental Pollution, 354 (2024) 124244
IF=8.9I. Stanimirova, M. Daszykowski, P.K. Hopke, The role of chemometrics in improving clinical data analysis and diagnostics, TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry, 173 (2024) 117642
IF=13.1I. Stanimirova, D.Q. Rich, A.G. Russell, P.K. Hopke, Common and distinct pollution sources identified from ambient PM2.5 concentrations in two sites of Los Angeles Basin from 2005 to 2019, Environmental Pollution, 340 (2024) 122817
IF=8.9A. Chachaj, I. Stanimirova, M. Chabowski, A. Gomułkiewicz, P. Hodurek, N. Glatzel-Plucińska, M. Olbromski, A. Piotrowska, A. Kuzan, J. Grzegrzółka, K. Ratajczak-Wielgomas, A. Nowak, E. Szahidewicz-Krupska, B. Szostko, J. Wiśniewski, M.A. Bromke, M. Podhorska-Okołów, A. Gamian, D. Janczak, P. Dzięgiel, A. Szuba, Association of the skin lymphangiogenesis parameters with arterial hypertension status in patients: an observational study, Advances in Clinical and Experimental Medicine (in press)
IF=2.1 (Open access)M. Daszykowski, S. Krzebietke, H. Czarnik-Matusewicz, I. Stanimirova, L. Pieszczek, P. Zarczynski, The effective monitoring of eleven crucial parameters that describe the condition of cultivated Haplic Luvisol soils using Fourier-transformed near-infrared spectroscopy, Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems, 243 (2023) 105000
IF=3.9 (Open access)M. Daszykowski, M. Kula, I. Stanimirova, Quantification and detection of ground garlic adulteration using Fourier-transform near-infrared reflectance spectra, Foods, 12 (2023) 3377
IF=5.2 (Open access)I. Stanimirova, D.Q. Rich, A.G. Russell, P.K. Hopke, A long-term, dispersion normalized PMF source apportionment of PM2.5 in Atlanta from 2005 to 2019, Atmospheric Environment, 312 (2023) 120027
IF=5A. Chachaj, I. Stanimirova, M. Chabowski, A. Gomułkiewicz, P. Hodurek, N. Glatzel-Plucińska, M. Olbromski, A. Piotrowska, A. Kuzan, J. Grzegrzółka, K. Ratajczak-Wielgomas, A. Nowak, E. Szahidewicz-Krupska, J. Wiśniewski, M.A. Bromke, M. Podhorska-Okołów, A. Gamian, D. Janczak, P. Dzięgiel, A. Szuba, Sodium accumulation in the skin is associated with higher density of skin lymphatic vessels in patients with arterial hypertension, Advances in Medical Sciences, 68 (2023) 276–289
IF= 2.7 (Open access)S. Krzebietke, M. Daszykowski, H. Czarnik-Matusewicz, I. Stanimirova, L. Pieszczek, S. Sienkiewicz, J. Wierzbowska, Monitoring the concentrations of Cd, Cu, Pb, Ni, Cr, Zn, Mn and Fe in cultivated Haplic Luvisol soils using near-infrared reflectance spectroscopy and chemometrics, Talanta, 251 (2022) 123749 (Open access)
IF=6.556I. Stanimirova, M. Daszykowski, Assessment of the kernel Gram matrix representation of data in order to avoid the alignment of chromatographic signals, Molecules, 26 (2021) 621
IF=4.927 (Open access)I. Stanimirova, M. Banasik, A. Ząbek, T. Dawiskiba, K. Kościelska-Kasprzak, W. Wojtowicz, M. Krajewska, D. Janczak, P. Młynarz, Serum metabolomics approach to monitor the changes in metabolite profiles following renal transplantation, Scientific Reports, 10 (2020) 17223 (Open access)
IF=4.379M. Daszykowski, J. Orzel, I. Stanimirova, A. Poliwoda, D. Prukala, P. Mlynarz, Studying the stability of Solvent Red 19 and 23 as excise duty components under the influence of controlled factors, Fuel Processing Technology, 206 (2020) 106465 (Open access)
IF=7.033J. Orzel, B. Krakowska, I. Stanimirova, M. Daszykowski, Detecting chemical markers to uncover counterfeit rebated excise duty diesel oil, Talanta, 204 (2019) 229-237
IF=5.339I. Stanimirova, A. Woznica, T. Plociniczak, M. Kwasniewski, J. Karczewski, A modified weighted mixture model for the interpretation of spatial and temporal changes in the microbial communities in drinking water reservoirs using compositional phospholipid fatty acid data, Talanta, 160 (2016) 146-156
IF=4.035M. Horochowska, I. Stanimirova, B. Czarnik-Matusewicz, Studying the influence of Enflurane, Isoflurane and Sevoflurane on the DPPC lipid bilayer using the analysis of variance and parallel factor analysis, Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems, 153 (2016) 146-152
IF=2.381A. Ząbek, I. Stanimirova, S. Deja, W. Barg, A. Kowal, A. Korzeniewska, M. Orczyk-Pawiłowicz, D. Baranowski, Z. Gdaniec, R. Jankowska, P. Młynarz, Fusion of the 1HNMR data of serum, urine and exhaled breath condensate in order to discriminate chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and obstructive sleep apnea syndrome, Metabolomics, 11 (2015) 1563-1574
IF=3.855
(Open Access - This article is freely available online to anyone, anywhere at any time)J. Orzel, I. Stanimirova, B. Czarnik-Matusewicz, M. Daszykowski, Prediction of hydrophilic antioxidant capacity of tomato pastes from the IR and fluorescence excitation-emission spectra of extracts and intact samples, Talanta, 138 (2015) 64–70
IF=3.511B. Krakowska, I. Stanimirova, J. Orzel, M. Daszykowski, I. Grabowski, G. Zaleszczyk, M. Sznajder, Detection of discoloration in diesel fuel based on gas chromatographic fingerprints, Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, 407 (2015) 1159-1170
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(Open Access - This article is freely available online to anyone, anywhere at any time)A. Stawarska, A. Białek, I. Stanimirova, T. Stawarski, A. Tokarz, The effect of conjugated linoleic acids (CLA) supplementation on the activity of enzymes participating in the formation of arachidonic acid in liver microsomes of rats – probable mechanism of CLA anticancer activity, Nutrition and Cancer: An International Journal, 67 (2015) 145-155
IF=2.635M. Orlowska, I. Stanimirova, D. Staszek, M. Sajewicz, T. Waksmundzka-Hajnos, T. Kowalska, Optimization of extraction based on the thin-layer chromatographic fingerprints of common thyme, Journal of AOAC International, 97 (2014) 1274-1281
IF=1.233A. Białek, A. Stawarska, A. Tokarz, K. Czuba, A. Konarska, M. Mazurkiewicz, I. Stanimirova, Influence of maternal diet enrichment with Conjugated Linoleic Acids on fatty acids profile and delta-6 and delta-5 desaturase activity in livers and hepatic microsomes of their offspring with 7,12-dimethylbenz[a]anthracene induced mammary tumours, Acta Poloniae Pharmaceutica, 71 (2014) 747-761
IF=0.693
(Open Access - This article is freely available online to anyone, anywhere at any time)S. Deja, I. Porębska, A. Kowal, A. Ząbek, W. Barg, K. Pawełczyk, I. Stanimirova, M. Daszykowski, A. Korzeniewska, R. Jankowska, P. Młynarz, Metabolomics provides new insights on lung cancer staging and discrimination from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis, 100 (2014) 369-380
IF=2.829A. Martyna, G. Zadora, I. Stanimirova, D. Ramos, Wine authenticity verification as a forensic problem. An application of likelihood ratio test to label verification, Food Chemistry, 150 (2014) 287-295
IF=3.334I. Stanimirova, Practical approaches to principal component analysis for simultaneously dealing with missing and censored elements in chemical data, Analytica Chimica Acta, 796 (2013) 27-37
IF=4.387I. Stanimirova, M. Kazura, D. de Beer, E. Joubert, A.E. Schulze, T. Beelders, A. de Villiers, B. Walczak, High-dimensional nested analysis of variance to assess the effect of production season, quality grade and steam pasteurization on the phenolic composition of fermented rooibos herbal tea, Talanta, 115 (2013) 590-599
IF=3.498J. Polak, M. Bartoszek, I. Stanimirova, A study of the antioxidant properties of beers using electron paramagnetic resonance, Food Chemistry, 141 (2013) 3042-3049
IF=3.334I. Stanimirova, R. Tauler, B. Walczak, A comparison of positive matrix factorization and the weighted multivariate curve resolution method. Application to environmental data, Environmental Science & Technology 45 (2011) 10102-10110
IF=5.25I. Stanimirova, K. Michalik, Z. Drzazga, H. Trzeciak, P.D. Wentzell, B. Walczak, Interpretation of ANOVA models using PCA to assess the effect of a maternal anticancer treatment on the mineralization of rat bones, Analytica Chimica Acta, 689 (2011) 1-7
IF=4.310I. Stanimirova, C. Boucon, B. Walczak, Relating gas chromatographic profiles to sensory measurements describing the end products of the Maillard reaction, Talanta, 83 (2011) 1239-1246
IF=3.722A.J. Charlton, M.S. Wrobel, I. Stanimirova, M. Daszykowski, H. Grundy, B. Walczak, Multivariate discrimination of wines with respect to their grape varieties and vintages, European Food Research and Technology, 231 (2010) 733-743
IF=1.585I. Stanimirova, B. Üstün, T. Cajka, K. Riddellova, J. Hajslova, L.M.C. Buydens, B. Walczak, Tracing the geographical origin of honeys using the GCxGC-MS and pattern recognition techniques, Food Chemistry, 118 (2010) 171-176
IF=3.458M. Dumarey, A.M. van Nederkassel, I. Stanimirova, M. Daszykowski, F. Bensaid, M. Lees, G.J. Martin, J.R. Desmurs, J. Smeyers-Verbeke, Y. Vander Heyden, Recognizing paracetamol formulations with the same synthesis pathway based on their trace-enriched chromatographic impurity profiles, Analytica Chimica Acta, 655 (2009) 43-51
IF=3.757I. Stanimirova, A. Kita, E. Malkowski, E. John, B. Walczak, N-way exploration of environmental data obtained from sequential extraction procedure, Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems, 96 (2009) 203-209
IF=2.111E. Deconinck, A.M. van Nederkassel, I. Stanimirova, M. Daszykowski, F. Bensaid, M. Lees, G.J. Martin, J.R. Desmurs, J. Smeyers-Verbeke, Y. Vander Heyden, Isotopic ratios to detect infringements of patents or proprietary processes of pharmaceuticals: Two case studies, Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis, 48 (2008) 27-41
IF=2.629I. Stanimirova, B. Walczak, Classification of data with missing elements and outliers, Talanta, 76 (2008) 602-609
IF=3.206I. Stanimirova, A. Kubik, B. Walczak, J.W. Einax, Discrimination of biofilm samples using pattern recognition techniques, Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, 390 (2008) 1273-1282
IF=3.328
(Open Access - This article is freely available online to anyone, anywhere at any time)I. Stanimirova, M. Polowniak, R. Skorek, A. Kita, E. John, F. Buhl, B. Walczak, Chemometric analysis of the water purification process data, Talanta, 74 (2007) 153-162
IF=3.374M. Daszykowski, I. Stanimirova, A. Bodzon-Kulakowska, J. Silberring, G. Lubec, B. Walczak, The start-to-end processing of two-dimensional gel electrophoretic images, Journal of Chromatography A, 1158 (2007) 306-317
IF=3.641M. Daszykowski, K. Kaczmarek, I. Stanimirova, Y. Vander Heyden, B. Walczak, Robust SIMCA - bounding influence of outliers, Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems, 87 (2007) 121-129
IF=2.063I. Stanimirova, M. Daszykowski, B. Walczak, Dealing with missing values and outliers in principal component analysis, Talanta, 72 (2007) 172-178
IF=3.374I. Stanimirova, S. Serneels, P.J. Van Espen, B. Walczak, How to construct a multiple regression model for data with missing elements and outlying objects, Analytica Chimica Acta, 581 (2007) 324-332
IF=3.186I. Stanimirova, K. Zehl, D.L. Massart, Y. Vander Heyden, J.W. Einax, Chemometric analysis of soil pollution data applying the Tucker N-way method, Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, 385 (2006) 771-773
IF=2.591S. Gourvenec, I. Stanimirova, C.A. Sabi, C.Y. Airiau, D.L. Massart, Monitoring batch processes with the STATIS approach, Journal of Chemometrics, 19 (2005) 288-300
IF=1.875M. Daszykowski, I. Stanimirova, B. Walczak, Q.-S. Xu, F. Daeyaert, M.R. de Jonge, J. Heeres, L.M.H. Koymans, P.J. Lewi, H.M. Vinkers, P.A. Janssen, D.L. Massart, Improving models for biological activity of HIV Reverse Transcriptase inhibitors: aspects of outlier detection and variable selection, Talanta, 68 (2005) 54-60
IF=2.391M. Daszykowski, I. Stanimirova, B. Walczak, D. Coomans, Explaining a presence of groups in analytical data in terms of original variables, Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems, 78 (2005) 19-29
IF=1.770I. Stanimirova, M. Daszykowski, E. Van Gyseghen, F.F. Bensaid, M. Lees, J. Smeyers-Verbeke, D.L. Massart, Y. Vander Heyden, Chemometrical exploration of an isotopic ratio pharmaceutical data set of acetylsalicylic acid, Analytica Chimica Acta, 552 (2005) 1-12
IF=2.760I. Stanimirova, V. Simeonov, Modeling of environmental four-way data from air quality control, Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems, 77 (2005) 115-121
IF=1.770I. Stanimirova, B. Walczak, D.L. Massart, Multiple Factor Analysis in environmental chemistry, Analytica Chimica Acta, 545 (2005) 1-12
IF=2.760I. Stanimirova, M. Daszykowski, D.L. Massart, F. Questier, V. Simeonov, H. Puxbaum, Chemometrical Exploration of the Wet Precipitation Chemistry from the Austrian Monitoring Network (1988-1999), Journal of Environmental Management, 74 (2005) 349-363
IF=1.163I. Stanimirova, B. Walczak, D.L. Massart, V. Simeonov, C.A. Saby, E. Di Crescenzo, STATIS, a 3-way method for data analysis. Application to environmental data, Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems, 73 (2004) 219-233
IF=1.899I. Stanimirova, B. Walczak, D.L. Massart, V. Simeonov, A comparison between two robust PCA algorithms, Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems, 71 (2004) 83-95
IF=1.899I. Stanimirova, P. Simeonova, V. Simeonov, Assessment of the Atmospheric Polution in the Industrial Region of Devnia, Bulgaria, Chemical and Engineering Ecology, 10 (2003) 381-388
IF=---V. Simeonov, J.W. Einax, I. Stanimirova, J. Kraft, Environmetric modeling and interpretation of river water monitoring data, Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry 374 (2002) 898-905
IF=1.948V. Simeonov, I. Stanimirova, S. Tsakovski, Multivariate statistical interpretation of coastal sediment monitoring data, Fresenius J. Anal. Chem. 370 (2001) 719-722
IF=1.649I. Stanimirova, S. Tsakovski, V. Simeonov, Multivariate statistical analysis of coastal sediment data, Fresenius J. Anal. Chem. 365 (1999) 489-493
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Book chapters
Stanimirova, M. Daszykowski, Exploratory analysis of metabolomic data, in: J. Jaumot, C. Bedia, R. Tauler (Eds.), Comprehensive Analytical Chemistry, Elsevier, 2018: pp. 227–264. doi:10.1016/bs.coac.2018.08.005.
I. Stanimirova, Missing and censored data in chromatography, in: Chemometrics in Chromatography, Ł. Komsta, Y. Vander Heyden, J. Sherma (Eds.), CRC Press, 2018, ISBN 9781498772532
I. Stanimirova, M. Daszykowski, Introduction to exploratory and clustering techniques, in: Chemometrics in Chromatography, Ł. Komsta, Y. Vander Heyden, J. Sherma (Eds.), CRC Press, 2018, ISBN 9781498772532
I. Stanimirova, M. Daszykowski, B. Walczak, Robust methods in analysis of multivariate food chemistry data, In Federico Marini, Ed.: Chemometrics in Food Chemistry, Vol. 28, Chennai: Elsevier, 2013, pp. 315-340
M. Daszykowski, I. Stanimirova, B. Walczak, Robust methods in QSAR, in Recent Advances in QSAR Studies: Methods and Applications, M.T.D. Cronin, J. Leszczynski, T. Puzyn (Eds.), Springer, 2010
I. Stanimirova, M. Daszykowski, B. Walczak, Metody uczenia z nadzorem - kalibracja, dyskryminacja i klasyfikacja, in A. Parczewski and D. Zuba, Eds., Chemometria w analityce, IES, Kraków, 2008 (ISBN 83-87425-13-3)
Patents
R. Sitko, B. Zawisza, M. Daszykowski, I. Stanimirova, Determination of FAME in fuels, P.394663
Given lectures
I. Stanimirova, P.K. Hopke, A comparison of particulate pollution sources identified in Los Angeles and Rubidoux, California from 2005 to 2019, The 22nd Conference of the Czech Aerosol Society, Celadna (14 November 2023), Czech Republic
I. Stanimirova, P.K. Hopke, A strategy for source apportionment analysis, Conferentia Chemometrica 2023, Sopron (12 September 2023), Hungary (invited lecture)
I. Stanimirova, Analysis of metabolomic data obtained from designed experiments, Metabolomics Circle 2017, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Wrocław (17 November 2017), Poland
I. Stanimirova, A. Woznica, A modified weighted mixture model for the interpretation of compositional data, Conferentia Chemometrica 2017, Gyöngyös-Farkasmály (5 August 2017), Hungary (invited lecture)
A. Martyna, G. Zadora, I. Stanimirova, D. Ramos, A. Parczewski, Verification of food products authenticity supported by chemometric and statistical tools - a forensic problem, Euroanalysis, Warsaw (29 August 2013), Poland
I. Stanimirova, High dimensional nested analysis of variance of HPLC-DAD fingerprints to assess the effect of production season, quality grade and steam pasteurization on the phenolic composition of fermented rooibos herbal tea, The 36th Symposium on Chromatographic methods of investigating the organic compounds, Szczyrk (5 June 2013), Poland
I. Stanimirova, B. Walczak, Practical approaches for dealing with missing and censored data, The 13th International Conference on Chemometrics in Analytical Chemistry CAC-2012, Budapest (27 June 2012), Hungary
I. Stanimirova, Dealing with missing elements, outliers and measurement uncertainty of environmental data, Euroanalysis 2011, Belgrade (12 September 2011), Serbia (invited lecture)
I. Stanimirova, Interpretation of experimental results with the use of chemometric methods, Seminar of Department of Medical Physics and Polish Society of Medical Physics, Institute of Physics, the University of Silesia, Katowice (15 March 2010), Poland (invited lecture)
I. Stanimirova, B. Walczak, Simultaneous processing of data from multiple sources, Seventh Winter Symposium on Chemometrics, St. Petersburg (17 February 2010), Russia (invited lecture)
I. Stanimirova, Data fusion - enhancement of systems interpretability, National Research Council, Halifax, (21 August 2009), Canada (invited lecture)
I. Stanimirova, M. Daszykowski, B. Walczak, Metody uczenia z nadzorem - kalibracja, dyskryminacja i klasyfikacja, The 4th Conference: "Chemometrics - Methods and Applications", Zakopane (24 October 2008), Poland
I. Stanimirova, B. Walczak, Relating chromatographic data to sensory measurements, The 31st conference on "Chromatographic methods of investigating the organic compounds", Szczyrk (6 June 2007), Poland
B. Walczak, I. Stanimirova, Tracing origin of honeys and olive oils, Trace WP6 meeting, Ljubljana (7 March 2007), Slovenia
M. Michalska, I. Stanimirova, M. Daszykowski, B. Walczak, Zastosowanie metod chemometrycznych do eksploracji danych z kontroli jakości wody pitnej, Wiosenne konwersatorium, Katowice (4 June 2007), Poland
B. Walczak, I. Stanimirova, Analysis of mineral water data, Trace WP6 meeting, Genoa (28 September 2006), Italy
I. Stanimirova, B. Walczak, Dealing with missing data, The 3rd Conference: "Chemometrics - Methods and Applications", Zakopane (20 October 2006), Poland
I. Stanimirova, B. Walczak, N-way analysis of environmental data, The 3rd Conference: "Chemometrics - Methods and Applications", Zakopane (20 October 2006), Poland
M. Daszykowski, I. Stanimirova, B. Walczak, From Projection Pursuit to PCA, robust PCA, ICA and other approaches, The 10th International Conference on Chemometrics in Analytical Chemistry CAC-2006, Aguas de Lindoia (14 September 2006), Sao Paulo, Brazil
M. Daszykowski, I. Stanimirova, B. Walczak, Classification of samples using chromatographic data, The Jubilee 30th Symposium "Chromatographic methods of investigating the organic compounds", Szczyrk (13 June 2006), Poland
I. Stanimirova, K. Kaczmarek, M. Daszykowski, B. Walczak, Robust exploratory data analysis dealing with outliers, missing values and censored data, The 2nd annual TRACE meeting, Prague (24-26 April 2006), Czech Republic
B. Walczak, I. Stanimirova, K. Kaczmarek, Exploration of data with missing elements and outliers, TRACE meeting (16-17 March 2006), Tarragona, Spain
B. Walczak, I. Stanimirova, K. Kaczmarek, SIMCA and robus SIMCA for TRACE Toolbox, TRACE meeting, Tarragona (16-17 March 2006), Spain
I. Stanimirova, B. Walczak, D.L. Massart, Y. Vander Heyden, Exploratory analysis of environmental data, ChemoAC meeting VUB, Brussels (16-17 June 2005), Belgium
I. Stanimirova, B. Walczak, D.L. Massart, Multiple Factor Analysis, ChemoAC meeting, VUB, Brussels (9-10 December 2004), Belgium
S. Gourvenec, I. Stanimirova, C-A. Saby, C.Y. Airiau, D.L. Massart, Monitoring batch processes with the STATIS approach, "Chimiométrie 2004" congress, Paris (30 Nov.-1st Dec. 2004), France
S. Gourvenec, I. Stanimirova, D.L. Massart, Monitoring outlying batch process trajectories with "STATIS approach", ChemoAC meeting, VUB, Brussels (10-11 June 2004), Belgium
M. Daszykowski, I. Stanimirova, B. Walczak, F. Dayaert, P. Lewi, D.L. Massart, Robust modeling of Reverse Transcriptase HIV inhibitors, ChemoAC meeting, VUB, Brussels (10-11 June 2004), Belgium
I. Stanimirova, B. Walczak, D.L. Massart, STATIS, an alternative for 3-way data analysis, ChemoAC meeting, VUB, Brussels (15-16 January 2004), Belgium
I. Stanimirova, D.L. Massart, Exploratory Analysis of Environmental Data, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany, May 2003
I. Stanimirova, B. Walczak, D.L. Massart, Robust Principal Component Analysis, ChemoAC meeting, VUB, Brussels (21-22 November 2002), Belgium
I. Stanimirova, D.L. Massart, V. Simeonov, New chemometric approaches in environmental data mining, Technical University, Vienna (May 2002), Austria
I. Stanimirova, Electrochemical deposition of copper onto n- and p- type silicon substrates Max Planck Institute, Berlin (October 2000), Germany (invited lecture)
Given courses
Courses for a broad audience
Two-day course entitled ”Experimental design” for the PhD students and research staff of the Biotechnology Center Consortium, which has the status of a Leading National Research Center (KNOW), Faculty of Chemistry, Wroclaw University of Technology, Wrocław, Poland (21-22.11.2015)
Two-day course entitled ”Classification and discrimination methods” for the PhD students and research staff of the Biotechnology Center Consortium, which has the status of a Leading National Research Center (KNOW), Faculty of Chemistry, Wroclaw University of Technology, Wrocław, Poland (12-13.12.2015)
I. Stanimirova, B. Walczak, Classification with the SIMCA and robust SIMCA methods, "Chemometrics in food traceability studies", Chemometric toolbox roll-out, TRACE workshop, Radboud University, Nijmegen (28 June 2007), The Netherlands
Courses for students
Principles of experimental planning and optimization
Experimental planning and optimization in chromatography
Posters
M. Kula, M. Daszykowski, I. Stanimirova, Ilościowa i jakościowa analiza zafałszowań suszonego granulatu czosnku przy użyciu spektroskopii w zakresie bliskiej podczerwieni, XIV Seminarium Naukowe „Aktualne Problemy Chemii Analitycznej”, Instytut Chemii, Katowice (17 May 2024), Poland
M. Daszykowski, L. Pieszczek, I. Stanimirova, S. Krzebietke, H. Czarnik-Matusewicz, Monitorowanie zawartości niektórych metali ciężkich i estymacja istotnych parametrów określających stan gleb uprawnych za pomocą spektroskopii w zakresie bliskiej podczerwieni, XIV Seminarium Naukowe „Aktualne Problemy Chemii Analitycznej”, Instytut Chemii, Katowice (17 May 2024), Poland
I.Stanimirova, P.K. Hopke, European Aerosol Science Conference, 2-8 September 2023, Malaga, Spain
P. Matuszewski, I. Stanimirova, A comparison of several supervised methods for modelling time-course chromatographic data, Szczyrk (19-22 June 2018), Poland
J. Orzel, M. Daszykowski, I. Stanimirova, P. Młynarz, D. Prukala, Evaluating the influence of the UV radiation, temperature and time of storage upon the stability of Solvent Red 19 using the design of experiments approach, Szczyrk (19-22 June 2018), Poland
P. Matuszewski, P. Młynarz, I. Stanimirova, Porównanie metod do analizy zmian profili metabolicznych w czasie, The 12th science seminar "Actual problems in analytical chemistry", Katowice (11 May 2018), Poland
M. Gajewski, I. Stanimirova, Conferentia Chemometrica 2017, Gyöngyös-Farkasmály (5 August 2017), Hungary
M. Gajewski, I. Stanimirova, Porównanie działania dwóch algorytmów do wieloparametrowej regresji liniowej z brakującymi elementami, The 11th science seminar "Actual problems in analytical chemistry", Katowice (12 May 2017), Poland
M. Daszykowski, B. Krakowska, J. Orzel, I. Stanimirova, M. Sznajder, M. Zaleszczyk, I. Grabowski, Tracing illegal removal of fiscal markers from diesel fuel based on chromatographic fingerprints and their chemometric modelling, CAC 2016 - The 16th Chemometrics in Analytical Chemistry, Barcelona (6-10 June 2016), Spain
I. Stanimirova, Probabilistic SIMCA – a classification tool that incorporates measurement uncertainty information, CAC 2016 - The 16th Chemometrics in Analytical Chemistry, Barcelona (6-10 June 2016), Spain
M. Horochowska, I. Stanimirova, B. Czarnik-Matusewicz, Studying the effect of enflurane, isoflurane and sevoflurane on DPPC lipid bilayers using ANOVA and PARAFAC (PARAFASCA), CAC 2015 - XV Chemometrics in Analytical Chemistry, Changsha (22-26 June 2015), China
M. Horochowska, I. Stanimirova, B. Czarnik-Matusewicz, Badanie działania enfluranu, izofluranu i sewofluranu na strukturę błony lipidowej dppc z wykorzystaniem metod ANOVA i PARAFAC, IX science seminar: Current problems in analytical chemistry, Katowice (15 May 2015), Poland
J. Orzel, I. Stanimirova, M. Daszykowski, A novel method for rapid evaluation of total antioxidant capacity of food commodities based on nondestructive fluorescence measurements supported by chemometric modeling, Food Analysis Congress, Barcelona (29-30 October 2014), Spain
J. Orzel, I. Stanimirova, M. Daszykowski, Modelowanie sygnałów spektroskopowych w kontekście oceny zdolności antyoksydacyjnej past pomidorowych, The 57th PTChem and SITPChem Meeting, Czestochowa (14-18 September 2014), Poland
J. Orzel, I. Stanimirova, M. Daszykowski, Ocena zdolności antyoksydacyjnej przecierów pomidorowych, VIII science seminar: Current problems in analytical chemistry, Katowice (16 May 2014), Poland
M. Orłowska, I. Stanimirova, D. Staszek, M. Sajewicz, M. Waksmundzka-Hajnos, T. Kowalska, Ekstrakcja kwasów fenolowych dla gatunku tymianek pospolity za pomocą aparatu Soxhleta i przyspieszonej ekstrakcji rozpuszczalnikiem, V Podlaskie Spotkanie Chromatograficzne, Chlewiska (15-18 September 2013), Poland
M. Orłowska, I. Stanimirova, D. Staszek, M. Sajewicz, M. Waksmundzka-Hajnos, T. Kowalska, Extraction of Phenolic Acids from Common Thyme by Means of Soxhlet Apparatus and Accelerated Solvent Extraction (ASE), The 9th Balaton Syposium on High-Performance Separation Methods, Siófok (4-6 September 2013), Hungary
M. Orłowska, I. Stanimirova, D. Staszek, K. Rykulska, S. Słomczyńska, M. Sajewicz, M. Waksmundzka-Hajnos, T. Kowalska, A comparison of the plant extraction methods upon an example of common thyme (Thymus vulgaris), the 36th conference on "Chromatographic methods of investigating the organic compounds", Szczyrk (5-7 June 2013), Poland
L. Adam, K. Drab, I. Stanimirova, A. Smolinska, L. Blanchet, L. Buydens, B. Walczak, Zastosowanie fuzji danych do analizy widm 1H-NMR, XV Polish Symposium on applications of spectroscopic methods for investigation of materials and chemical compounds, the Poznan University of Economics, Poznan (25 May 2011), Poland
I. Stanimirova, K. Michalik, Z. Drzazga, H. Trzeciak, B. Walczak, Ocena wplywu terapii nowotworowej na proces mineralizacji kosci u szczurow z wykorzystaniem modeli ANOVA i analizy czynnikow glownych, XV Polish Symposium on applications of spectroscopic methods for investigation of materials and chemical compounds, the Poznan University of Economics, Poznan (25 May 2011), Poland
K. Drab, L. Adam, I. Stanimirova, A. Smolinska, L. Blanchet, L. Buydens, B. Walczak, Analiza widm 1H-NMR przy uzyciu metody ANOVA-PCA, The 5th science seminar: Current problems of analytical chemistry, Institute of Chemistry, the University of Silesia, Katowice (13 May 2011), Poland
I. Stanimirova, R. Tauler, P.D. Wentzell, Beata Walczak, A comparison of positive matrix factorisation and the weighted multivariate curve resolution method, The 12th International Conference on Chemometrics in Analytical Chemistry, Antwerp (21 October 2010), Belgium
I. Stanimirova, B. Walczak, Fusion of multisource chemical data, The 8th Polish Conference on Analytical Chemistry, Cracow (6 July 2010), Poland
(This poster, presented in section of Chemometrics and Metrology, was given the 1st award by the Conference Comeetee)
I. Stanimirova, B. Walczak, Combining data from different sources, RENACQ-4, Beni Mellal (12-13 March 2010), Maroc
I. Stanimirova, K. Michalik, Z. Drzazga, M. Kaszuba, H. Trzeciak, B. Walczak, Application of ASCA to assess the effect of a maternal anticancer drug treatment on the mineralization of bones in rats, VI Symposium on Medical Physics, IV International Symposium on Medical Physics, Szczyrk (15-18 June 2009), Poland
M. Lelatko, I. Stanimirova, B. Walczak, Dealing with censored data in the chemometric analysis of chromatographic data, conference on "Chromatographic methods of investigating the organic compounds", Szczyrk (3 June 2009), Poland
I. Stanimirova, B. Walczak, Dealing with missing elements and outliers in PCA, SIMCA and PLS, The 11th Conference on Chemometrics in Analytical Chemistry, CAC 2008, Montpellier (31 June 2008), Montpellier, France
I. Stanimirova, B. Walczak, Chemometric analysis of environmental data - a case study, II Conference on "Actual problems in analytical chemistry", Institute of Chemistry, 30 May 2008, Katowice, Poland
B. Vandeginste, N.F. Pérez, R. Boqué, J. Ferré, Y. Vander Heyden, S. Caetano, A. Durand, M. Novic, N. Groselj, B. Walczak, I. Stanimirova, L. Buydens, B. Üstün, ChemTRACE Chemometrics Toolbox for Food Traceability, TRACE 4th Annual Meeting, (23-25 April 2008), Torremolinos, Spain
A. Smolinska, I. Stanimirova, M. Daszykowski, B. Walczak, How to select representative samples in tracing origin of food products, the XXXIst edition of the conference on "Chromatographic methods of investigating the organic compounds", Szczyrk (5 June 2007), Poland
M. Michalska, I. Stanimirova, M. Daszykowski, B. Walczak, Application of chemometric methods to exploration of water quality data, Spring Conversatorium 2007, Institute of Chemistry, The University of Silesia, (24 May 2007) Katowice, Poland
I. Stanimirova, B. Walczak, Multiple factor analysis as a tool for exploring multiblock data, The 10th International Conference on Chemometrics in Analytical Chemistry CAC-2006, Aguas de Lindoia (14 September 2006), Sao Paulo, Brazil
I. Stanimirova, M. Daszykowski, K. Kaczmarek, B. Walczak, Robust exploration of data with missing elements and outliers, TRACE, the 2nd annual TRACE meeting, Prague (24-26 April 2006) Czech Republic
I. Stanimirova, B. Walczak, D.L. Massart, Y. Vander Heyden, A strategy for exploratory analysis of environmental data, ChemoAC meeting (16-17 June 2005), VUB, Brussels, Belgium
K. Zehl, I. Stanimirova, D.L. Massart, J. Einax, Projection Pursuit und PARAFAC zur Auswertung eines Mehrwege Datensatzes, ANAKON International Analytical Conference (15-18 March 2005), Regensburg, Germany
I. Stanimirova, D.L. Massart, Variable selection in Multiple Factor Analysis (MFA), ChemoAC meeting (9-10 December 2004), VUB, Brussels, Belgium
I. Stanimirova, M. Daszykowski, B. Walczak, F. Daeyaert, P. J. Lewi, D. L. Massart, Studying differences between crystal structures of HIV Reverse Transcriptase complexed with HIV inhibitors with STATIS, 9-th International Conference Chemometrics in Analytical Chemistry (New Challenges for a Maturing Science), CAC (20-23 September 2004), Lisbon, Portugal
M. Daszykowski, I. Stanimirova, B. Walczak, D.L. Massart, Projection Pursuit combined with Multivariate Regression Trees for the exploratory analysis of analytical data, 9-th International Conference Chemometrics in Analytical Chemistry (New Challenges for a Maturing Science), CAC (20-23 September 2004), Lisbon, Portugal
I. Stanimirova, M. Daszykowski, B. Walczak, F. Dayaert, P. Lewi, D.L. Massart, STATIS for analyzing differences between crystal structures of HIV Reverse Transcriptase, ChemoAC meeting (10-11 June 2004), VUB, Brussels, Belgium
M. Daszykowski, I. Stanimirova, B. Walczak, F. Dayaert, P. Lewi, D.L. Massart, Interpretation of the data structure in terms of exploratory variables by Multivariate Regression Trees and Projection Pursuit, ChemoAC meeting (10-11 June 2004), VUB, Brussels, Belgium
I. Stanimirova, B. Walczak, V. Simeonov, D.L. Massart, Insight into the 3-way data structure with STATIS, ChemoAC meeting (15-16 January 2004), VUB, Brussels, Belgium
I. Stanimirova, B. Walczak, D.L. Massart, Processing sets with different types of variables (quantitative, qualitative, ...) with Multiple Factor Analysis, ChemoAC meeting (10-11 June 2004), VUB, Brussels, Belgium
I. Stanimirova, B. Walczak, D.L. Massart, Robust Principal Component Analysis, 2nd Conference, Chemometrics - Methods and Applications, (16-19 October 2003), Zakopane, Poland
I. Stanimirova, B. Walczak, D.L. Massart, The ACT (STATIS) Method, ChemoAC meeting (26 March 2003), VUB, Brussels, Belgium
I. Stanimirova, V. Simeonov, D.L. Massart, Preferred methods for exploratory analysis of environmental data, ChemoAC meeting (21-22 November 2002), VUB, Brussels, Belgium
I. Stanimirova, V. Simeonov, D.L. Massart, Exploratory data analysis of environmental data, ChemoAC meeting (24-25 April 2002), VUB, Brussels, Belgium
I. Stanimirova, V. Simeonov, D.L. Massart, Time trend analysis of environmental data, ChemoAC meeting (24-25 April 2002), VUB, Brussels, Belgium