Dr Carsten Engelhard
We are happy to welcome Dr Carsten Engelhard from the University of Münster as a contributor to the JAAS News Blog.
Carsten has expertise in ICP-MS, ICP-AES, and glow discharge techniques, particularly as they relate to biological systems.
Welcome Carsten!
(Carsten Engelhard, University of Münster)
Prof. Luisa Orsi was recently awarded the 2010 Heinrich-Emanuel-Merck Award for Analytical Science. The award includes a monetary reward of 15.000 € and was presented on August 31st 2010 at the 3rd EuCheMS Chemistry Congress. This year more than 3000 scientists from all over Europe and the world attended the meeting, which is held in Nuremberg, Germany.
Prof. Luisa Torsi (Picture: University of Bari)
Luisa Orsi is awarded for her exceptional research on chemical and biological sensors based on organic thin-film field effect transistors. A most well deserved recognition. Congratulations!
Merck grants the prize since 1988 to mark the centennial of the first standardization of analytical methods by Merck chemist Dr. Karl Krauch. The award bears the name of Heinrich Emanuel Merck, who defined the company’s commitment to quality by the claim “I shall always guarantee the purity of my preparations”.
Further reading: EuCHeMS: http://www.euchems-congress2010.org/
(Carsten Engelhard, University of Münster, 16.09.2010)
Both the 22nd ICP-MS User meeting and the 9th Symposium on Mass Spectrometry Methods for Trace Element Analysis were held in Berlin, Germany recently. More than hundred-twenty participants from Austria, Germany, Japan, and Switzerland attended. The joint meeting was organized by the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM), EUROLAB-Deutschland, and the German Society for Mass Spectrometry (DGMS). The local organizing committee was headed by Jochen Vogl, Wolfgang Pritzkow and supported by EUROLAB.
2011 European Winter Plasma Conference Travel Award Winner Marion Brunner (second on the left) with jury members Jochen Vogl (BAM), Patrick Klemens (AHF Analysentechnik), and Jörg Bettmer (Universidad de Oviedo), from left to right. Picture: EUROLAB-D, Birgit Nüsser
Jörg Bettmer, Jochen Vogl, Bodo Hattendorf, Norbert Jakubowski, and Thomas Prohaska chaired well-attended sessions on speciation analysis, instrumental developments, solid sample analysis, and isotope analysis. In the exhibition hall booths from instrument companies and suppliers as well as poster presentations by young scientist could be visited during coffee breaks.
One young scientist is awarded a prize for the outstanding oral or poster presentation during the conference. This year, the 2011 European Winter Plasma Conference Travel Award (sponsored by AHF Analysentechnik AG) was awarded to Marion Brunner (BOKU Vienna) for her talk on provenance analysis in foodstuff and green coffee beans by trace element and isotope fingerprinting with MC-ICP-MS.
The symposium on mass spectrometry methods for trace element analysis was first organized by Klaus G. Heumann in 1987. Since that time, ICP-MS users from academia and industry meet biannually to discuss hot topics in elemental and isotopic analysis. The next meeting will be held at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna, Austria, in 2012.
Further reading: http://www.eurolab-d.bam.de/ms-symposium/
Participants of the meeting. (Picture: EUROLAB-D, Birgit Nüsser)
(Beatriz Fernández, University of Oviedo)
The International Glow Discharge Spectroscopy Symposium 2010 was held at CUFR Jean Francois Champollion in Albi (France), from 22 to 27 August 2010. One of the main objectives of this conference is bring together members of the European Analytical Glow Discharge Network (GLADNET, previous meetings were held in Antwerp, Dresden, Belgrade, Thun, Budapest and Oviedo) and members of the European Working Group on Glow Discharge Spectroscopy (EW-GDS). About 65 scientists participated in the conference from 14 countries worldwide.
During the week, invited lectures, oral communications and poster presentations were scheduled, where international experts, industrialists and students could share in the field of elemental analysis of materials by glow discharge. In addition, the symposium offered a special day dedicated to user-meeting and workshops. Briefly, there were 27 oral presentations, including 8 invited lectures, and several poster presentations from early stage researchers. The invited lectures were given by internationally well recognized researchers from both University and Industry, including Gary Hieftje (Indiana University), Annemie Bogaerts (Antwerp University), Kim Marshall (LECO Corporation), Jean-Pierre Boeuf (Toulouse), Arne Bengtson (Swerea KIMAB), Zdenek Weiss (LECO instruments), Patrick Chapon (HORIBA Jobin Yvon) and Volker Hoffmann (IFW Dresden). Deborah Alberts from the University of Oviedo (Spain), Varvara Efimova from IFW (Germany) and Aranka Derszi from RISSP (Hungary) were respectively awarded with the first, second and third prize for the best oral presentations of the students.
JAAS invite the participant of the conference to submit the work presented for publication in a themed issue. The submission deadline is the 1st October 2010.
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