Irena Maria Choma

Irena Maria Choma serves as an Associate Professor at the Department of Chromatography within the Faculty of Chemistry at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University (UMCS) in Lublin, Poland. Affiliated with UMCS since 1980, she progressed from a technical position to assistant (1981), adiunkt (1990), and finally Associate Professor (since 2014). Her office is located in room 213 of Collegium Chemicum (pl. M. Skłodowskiej 3, 20-031 Lublin), with current consultations held on Wednesdays from 10:00 to 12:00.

Her academic background includes:

• Master's degree in Chemistry with distinction from UMCS' Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry in 1981.
• PhD defended in 1990 on "Physicochemical and chromatographic properties of thermally and chemically modified porous glasses".
• Habilitation (dr hab.) granted in 2009 for the thesis "Analytical problems in the determination of antibiotic residues in milk by thin-layer chromatography".

Choma specializes in analytical chemistry with a core focus on Thin-Layer Chromatography with Direct Bioautography (TLC-DB), maintaining 100% alignment with chemical sciences. Her decades-long research centers on food quality assessment, particularly antibiotic residue analysis in milk using TLC-DB, and has recently expanded to biological activity evaluation of plant components and plant-based pharmaceuticals. This work bridges veterinary sciences, biochemistry, and antimicrobial screening, addressing critical food safety and pharmaceutical development challenges through chromatographic separation techniques.

The provided texts indicate no specific scientific awards or fellowships. However, her extensive publication record of 80 articles demonstrates significant research impact, reflected in bibliometric metrics including an h-index of 23 (Google Scholar), 18 (Web of Science), and 9 (Scopus), alongside a total impact factor of 28.501 and ministerial score of 1,760.

Though grant projects and advisee names are absent in the materials, her habilitation and sustained research output imply ongoing supervision of doctoral/master's students and secured funding. She operates within UMCS' Institute of Chemical Sciences, where her department evolved from Chemical Physics to Chromatographic Methods before becoming the current Department of Chromatography under Prof. Dorota Wianowska. Her laboratory work remains centered on TLC-DB applications for food safety and pharmaceutical analysis.