Salvatore BARRECA

Salvatore BARRECA is a Fixed-term Assistant Professor of Analytical Chemistry (CHIM/01) at the University of Catania, Department of Chemical Sciences. His research focuses on environmental and food analysis, sample preparation techniques, and photochemical remediation methods.

Key research areas include:

• Environmental pollution and water quality monitoring
• Chromatography and mass spectrometry applications
• Photochemical and photocatalytic degradation of pollutants
• Chemical risk assessment in food and environmental matrices
• Development of analytical methods for trace contaminants
• Endocrine disruptors and emerging pollutants

Recent work emphasizes perovskite solar cell environmental safety, fluoride analysis in beverages, and heavy metal quantification in food products. His publications demonstrate expertise in hyphenated analytical techniques (UHPLC-Q-TOF-MS, LC-MS/MS) and environmental biomonitoring.

Salvatore is associated with Marco Arculeo's Lab at the University of Catania. He has contributed to patents related to photochemical water purification systems while maintaining active research collaborations across Italy and international institutions like Goethe University Frankfurt and Masaryk University.