Multi-Class Pesticide Quantitation with a Comprehensive Workflow

Alessandro Cavaglioni, Laboratory Manager, ISVEA s.r.l., Poggibonsi, Siena, Italy

Alessandro Cavaglioni has a BS in Chemistry from the University of Siena. After brief experience at Emory University during PhD studies, he started in 1998 as laboratory manager at ISVEA, a new commercial analytical laboratory. As laboratory manager at ISVEA, he gained strong experience with food and beverages controls, mainly focusing on wine through a number of analytical techniques: LC–MS, GC–MS, ICP-MS, IC–MS. He started working on pesticide analysis in 2008 with LC-MS/MS. As lab manger, he is responsible for the full workflow evaluation of methods development and participates in several collaborative projects with public and private members.

Debora D’Addona, LSMS Application Specialist for the Sales Support Team, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Milan, Italy

Debora has a BS in Chemical and Pharmaceutical Technology and a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Florence. Following post-doctoral positions at the ICMU Bin Dijon and Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, she worked in academia to develop new drugs for cancer. She joined Thermo Fisher Scientific in 2012 as an HPLC specialist for biopharma and then moved to GC–GCMS as an application specialist. In the past year, she was involved in training and method development for customers, mainly in food and environmental laboratories. In 2016 she joined the group of LSMS South as Sales support specialist for the new TSQ family. She was involved locally in all the development process and testing of the new Pesticides Explorer solution.