Heidi Goenaga-Infante, BSc PhD, FRSC

Heidi’s scientific career of over twenty five years of experience on elemental and speciation analysis started with the award of a PhD from Oviedo University, Spain.

Currently, she is a Science Fellow of LGC. She is also the Principal Scientist and Team Leader of the Inorganic Analysis team of seventeen PhDs and postgraduate scientists at the National Measurement Laboratory hosted at LGC.

Her group expertise currently lies in trace element speciation analysis, metallomics research, the characterisation of nanomaterials, high accuracy isotope ratio analysis, quantitative elemental bio-imaging and the characterisation of “speciated” reference materials and standards.

Heidi Goenaga-Infante is the chair of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry.

She is the UK representative at the Inorganic Analysis Working Group of the CCQM, the international Consultative Committee for Metrology in Chemistry. She is the LGC representative at ISO TC 24 (Particle characterisation).

She is the EURAMET representative for inorganic analysis at the CCQM Key Comparison Working Group. She has acted as the coordinator of the EU EUROPEAN Metrology Research Proposal (EMRP) NanoChop “Chemical, Optical and Biological characterisation of nanomaterials in biological samples”.

 Heidi is the leading author of over 160 scientific papers.

Heidi was awarded the 2020 Lester W. Strock Award from SAS and more recently the 2023 European Award for Plasma Spectrochemistry. She is a Visiting Professor at Strathclyde University, UK.