Announcements
6 June 2023
Interview with Dr. Chris Douvris—Winner of the Toxics 2022 Outstanding Reviewer Award
Name: Dr. Chris Douvris
Email: cdouvris@nyit.edu
Short Biography: Dr. Chris Douvris is a native of Athens, Greece, and serves as an Associate Professor of chemistry at the New York Institute of Technology in Long Island, New York, USA. He received his B.Sc. from the University of Ioannina, Greece, with a dissertation on analytical chemistry, and he also earned M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees at the University of Illinois, Chicago, in inorganic chemistry. Prior to his current position, he served as an Assistant and Associate Professor at McNeese State University in Lake Charles, Louisiana, USA. In his free time, Chris enjoys playing sports and spending time with his baby daughter, Anna.
We want to congratulate Dr. Chris Douvris for winning the Toxics 2022 Outstanding Reviewer Award.
The following is an interview with Dr. Chris Douvris:
1. Could you give a brief introduction of yourself to the readers?
I currently serve as an Associate Professor of chemistry at the New York Institute of Technology, USA, and before that I served as an Assistant and Associate Professor at McNeese State University in Louisiana, USA. In addition to teaching chemistry courses to future medical students of our institution, I have a group of students who conduct research in chemistry.
2. What is the focus of your current research, and why did you choose this research field?
One direction of my research is analytical chemistry, with a focus on ICP-MS and ICP-OES analyses of various samples, and another one is inorganic chemistry, with a focus on the synthesis, characterization, and applications of inorganic compounds. I chose these two areas because I was always fascinated with the synthesis of new molecules, as well as the fact that I was always curious about the exact concentrations of trace elements in important environmental samples.
3. Could you please share with us your experience as a reviewer for Toxics?
My experience and motivation are that many manuscripts have been substantially improved after the review process. The reviewing process is a great benefit for authors in terms of publishing the best version of their work. The authors and reviewers should always work together for the improvement of a given manuscript.
4. What qualities do you think reviewers need?
The reviewers need to know the components of an ideal scientific presentation in the form of an article, as well as the experimental data that are needed to make a presentation credible. For example, a trace element determination work needs to have validation of the collected data via an appropriate reference standard. I believe the experiment is the most important component of a scientific article and the reviewer should first focus on that.
