Division of Analytical Chemistry

Aims and objectives

The aim of the Bioanalytics study group is to search ways for bringing closer the analytical and bioanalytical chemistry community. This has proved to be a formidable task because a community of bioanalytical chemists does not appear to have formed yet. Many biochemists do analytical work but their emphasis is mostly on biochemistry itself. On the other hand there has been a growing trend for chemists and analytical chemists to do more and more bioanalytical work. Certain groups of (analytical) chemists have had a natural tendency for this, e.g., food chemists and forensic chemists. These observation underline the necessity of the aim stated above.

Membership

Prof. George Horvai – Hungarian Chemical Society, Hungary (Head of Study Group)

Prof. Guenter Gauglitz – Deutsche Bunsen-Gesellschaft für physikalische Chemie, DBG, Germany

Prof. Hendrik Emons – IRMM-JRC, European Commission, Belgium

Prof. José M. Pingarron – Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry, Spain

Prof. Raluca-Ioana van Staden – Romanian Chemical Society, Romania

Prof. Jacobus Frederick van Staden – South African Chemical Institute, Romania

Annual Reports

Year: 2006  2009  2010  2011  2012  2013  2014  2015  2016

Aims and objectives

The aim of the Chemometrics study group is the promotion of Chemometrics in Europe through the organization of dedicated sessions in in EuCheMS related conferences and of European Schools/Workshops on Chemometrics

Chemometric techniques are heavily used in analytical chemistry and they are at present gaining increasing acceptation in emerging omic analytical fields. The development of new chemometric methods continues to advance the state of the art in analytical instrumentation and methodology. It is an application driven discipline, and thus while the standard chemometric methodologies are very widely used in industry, academic groups are dedicated to the continued development of chemometric theory, method and application.

Membership

Prof. Romà Tauler – Catalan Chemistry Society, IDAEA-CSIC, Spain (Head of Study Group)

Prof. Federico Marini – University of La Sapienza, Italy

Prof. Beata Walczak – University of Silesia, Poland

Prof. Lutgarde Buydens – Radboud University of Nijmegen, Netherlands

Prof. Jean Michel Roger – IRSTEA CEMAGREF / Douglas Rutledge, AgroParisTech, France

Prof. Alexey Pomerantsev/Oxana Radionova – Institute of Chemical Physics RAS, Russia

Prof. Jan H Christensen – University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Prof. Johan Trygg – University of Umeä, Sweden

Prof. Richard Brereton – University of Bristol, England

Annual reports for download

Year: 2012  2013  2014  2015  2016

Aims and objectives

Aims of the Study Group Education are evaluation of curricula in analytical chemistry and promotion of new approaches in teaching analytical chemistry at the beginning of the 21st Century.

The attributes needed in the modern chemical industry and research have changed. This requires developments in chemistry’s coursework. Quality standards for curricula play an increasing role at the current stage of the Bologna process. Members of the SG Education participate actively in this development and promote proper approaches to this goal from within and outside Europe. Results and proposals are discussed during the Symposium Education Series at the beginning of each Euroanalysis Conference.

Membership

Prof. Reiner Salzer – Technische Universität Dresden, Germany (Head of Study Group)

Prof. Jens E.T. Andersen – DTU Chemistry, Denmark

Prof. Miltiades Karayannis – University of Ioannina, Greece

Prof. Nikoline Juul Nielsen – University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Annual reports for download

Year: 2009  2010  2011  2012  2013  2014  2015  2016

Contributions in Education in Analytical Chemistry

Aims and Objectives

The aim of the History study group is to study and publish accounts of the history of analytical chemistry in Europe with reference to individual countries, specific locations, professional bodies and personalities. One primary way to achieve this is to promote and support a lecture on material relevant to the host country at each Euroanalysis Conference and its subsequent publication.

Membership

Prof. Thorburn Burns – The Queen’s University of Belfast, UK (Head of Study Group)

Prof. K. Müller – University of Leipzig, Germany

Prof. R. Salzer – Dresden University of Technology, Germany

Prof. G. Werner – University of Leipzig, Germany

Prof. H. Deelstra – University of Antwerp, Belgium

Prof. M. Walker – Laboratory of the Government Chemist, London, UK

Annual reports for download

Year: 2009  2012  2013  2014  2015  2016

Contributions to the History of AC in Europe

Aims and objectives

Report on activities in Metrology, quality assurance, accreditation and all areas related to quality issues of analytical chemistry. Liaison to other Divisions, working groups, working parties and governmental bodies.

Accreditation of laboratories is common practice in industry and accreditation is introduced in order to sustain quality and reliability. Practices and procedures of quality assurance are considered also in science and the influence on quality of scientific results is evaluated and discussed. It is the objective of the Study Group Quality Assurance to follow the development of quality assurance and metrology in analytical chemistry with the aim of producing guides to assess quality of results, which eventually may create a new basis for decision making that may, or may not, have a significance to the way science is conducted in general. Both statistics and metrology are currently considered for renewal and improvements as to meet contemporary demands for quality in analytical chemistry.

Membership

Prof. Elin L. Gjengedal, UMB, Norway (Head of Study Group)

Prof. Jens E.T. Andersen, Botswana International University of Science and Technology (BIUST), Botswana

Prof. Hendrik Emons, IRMM-JRC, European Commission, Belgium

Annual reports for download

Year: 2012  2013  2014  2015  2016