Is chemistry popular with students in Greece?
Yes it is. However, biology is also becoming an even more popular choice so I think that we have to look into updating and creating joint programmes between chemistry and biology, like a lot of universities in the UK have done. Even if you have a very good knowledge of chemistry, current science requires that you are able to expand it into other areas and biology is one of these areas. We need people to understand both chemistry and biology and what’s happening at that interface. What’s the most exciting research in your lab at the moment? Apart from continuously trying to characterise novel arsenic, selenium and antimony species, we are now developing a novel hyphenated technique that involves coupling a nanoelectrospray ion mobility spectrometer with an ICP-MS. The idea behind this is that nanoparticles can be separated by size, ranging from three to 150 nanometres, using the ion mobility spectrometer. The element composition can then be determined in the ICP-MS. We do this because t
