Dr Victoria Samanidou is Full Professor and Director of the Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry in the School of Chemistry of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Since 2022 she is also vice president of the School of Chemistry.

Her research interests focus on the development of sample preparation methods using sorptive extraction prior to chromatographic analysis in accordance to green chemistry demands.

She has co-authored 223 original research articles in peer reviewed journals and 71 reviews, 92 editorials/in view/opinions/commentaries and 64 chapters in scientific books (h-index 51, Scopus Author ID 7003896015, 8203 citations. She is editorial board member of more than 37 scientific journals and guest editor in more than 32 special issues. She has peer reviewed more than 988 manuscripts for 189 scientific journals.

In 2016, she was included in top 50 power list of women in Analytical Science, as proposed by Texere Publishers. https://theanalyticalscientist.com/power-list/the-power-list-2016

In 2021, she was included in the “The Analytical Scientist” 2021 Power List of top 100 influential people in analytical science.

https://theanalyticalscientist.com/power-list/2021

In 2023 she was included in the Power List 2023 which is created in the spirit of the journal’s recent 10-year anniversary of The Analytical Scientist Magazine and includes, nominees who were assessed for their excellence and impact over the past decade – across four categories: Innovators and Trailblazers, Leaders and Advocates, Connectors and Interdisciplinarians, and Mentors and Educators. The list is created of 100 scientists (25 per category). In this list, she was listed in the category: Mentors and Educators.

https://theanalyticalscientist.com/power-list/2023

In the last years she is included in the list of World Top 2% Scientists, for single years and career as well, published in PLOS Biology based on citations from SCOPUS.

In November 2024 she received the Antoine LAVOISIER Award 2024, an honorary award given to a scientist for their contribution to research and application in the field of chemistry, biology and food science. (cibum.gr)

She is also vice president of the Committee of Ethics in the Research Committee of The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

She is also Leader of Working Group 1 Science and Fundamentals of EuChemS-DAC Sample Preparation Study Group and Network (2021)

https://www.sampleprep.tuc.gr/en/working-groups/wg1-science-and-fundamentals

Since 2016 till now she has been elected as President of the Steering Committee of the Association of Greek Chemists-Regional Division of Central & Western Macedonia.