Javier Zurita

Javier Zurita Pérez graduated from Universidad Complutense in Madrid 2009 where he started to show interest in research at the Department of Analytical Chemistry. His investigation project at that time included the detection and separation of chiral herbicides. In 2010, he became part of the Spanish research institution for food technology and nutrition (ICTAN) in which he was given the opportunity to do research on polyphenols, important biomolecules present in different food products such as coffee, cereals and fruit, and their potential to inhibit oxidative stress. In 2013, he moved to Sweden to start PhD studies at the Department of Environmental Science and Analytical Chemistry (ACES) at Stockholm University, where he developed an LC-MS/MS based methodology for the determination of amino acids in different biological and environmental matrices including flowering plants, seeds, mussels and arctic aerosols. He also worked on the detection of modified amino acids in human serum from plasma samples, which could act as a biomarker for exposure to xenobiotics, such as those linked to allergies or cancer. He joined the Wheelock Lab in August 2019 to examine the role of urinary eicosanoids in asthma.