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• EWCPS 2015

Short courses

1. R. Samuel Houk - Introduction to ICP-MS
2. Franck Vanhaecke - ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS VIA ICP - MASS SPECTROMETRY: WHAT, HOW AND WHY
3. Ewa Bulska - Quality in analytical sciences
4. Maria Montes-Bayon - From speciation analysis to metallomics
5. Detlef Guenther - Laser ablation ICP MS

Ewa Bulska

Graduated at the Faculty of Chemistry, Warsaw University. Presently Head of the Theoretical Aspects of Analytical Chemistry Group. Member of the Committee of Analytical Chemistry of Polish Academy of Sciences Head of the Commission of Atomic Spectrometry of the Committee of Analytical Chemistry of Polish Academy of Sciences Working out-side of home university in Germany, Sweden, France and Belgium.
Author or co-authors of over 140 scientific publications, co-author of several chapters, author of a book “Metrology in chemistry”, and co-authors of a number of papers focused on the metrology in chemistry. Awarded with Bunsen-Kirchoff Award (Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker); Wiktor Kemula Medal (Polish Chemical Society); W. Świętosławski Award (University of Warsaw)
Topics of interest: analytical chemistry: inorganic and bioinorganic trace analysis; environmental, clinical and food samples; archeometry; atomic spectrometry (AAS, OES, MS); atom formation process in graphite furnace and in plasmas; mechanism of matrix interferences; hydride generation with AAS, ICP and MIP OES; Investigation of speciation with GC MIP-OES, HPLC ICP-MS or solid sorbents with AAS (mercury, antimony, selenium and aluminium). Flow and flow injection system for AAS, OES and MS; The use of EPMA, SIMS, XANES and LA ICP-MS for the investigation of surface and sub-surface domain of various solids (graphite, archeological samples, plants); Isotopic dilution in ICP-MS; chemical isotope effects of Ga, In and Ge; metrology in chemistry: validation of analytical techniques; traceability in chemical measurements; uncertainty evaluation; quality system in chemical laboratories.
Members of the Editorial Board of TrainMiC® programme and the Team Leader of PL TrainMiC® team.

Detlef Günther

Detlef Günther obtained a Diploma degree in Chemistry in 1987 and a Ph.D. degree in Analytical Chemistry from the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg under supervision of L. Moenke-Blankenburg in 1990. His postdoctoral work in the Institute of Plant Biochemistry Halle was focused on development of analytical methods to characterize heavy metal-binding proteins using HPLC-ICP-MS. Next, he joined the group of H.P. Longerich at the Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. In 1995 he start working at the Institute of Isotope Geology and Mineral Resources at ETH Zürich, where in 1998 he was appointed as Assistant professor in the Laboratory of Inorganic Chemistry, in 2003 was promoted to Associate professor for Trace Element and Micro Analysis and became Full professor in 2008. Since August 2010 he is Chair of the Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences at ETH Zurich.
He is recipient of the Ruzicka Award (2002), the European Award for Plasma Spectrochemistry (2003), the Fresenius Award (2007) and the Lester Strock Award (2007). His research is focused on fundamentals and application of Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS) and Laser Ablation-Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS), which includes studies on laser-sample interaction, aerosol transport and plasma-related excitation processes. Fundamental processes of UV-ns and UV-fs laser ablation in combination with Q-ICP-MS, SF-ICP-MS, ICP-TOFMS and MC-ICP-MS as well as alternative excitation sources, such as Glow discharge are currently under investigation. The trace element, micro analysis and isotope ratio determinations have been demonstrated on a wide variety of applications.

Samuel Houk

Robert Samuel Houk, received his undergraduate training at Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania (B.S. 1974) and completed his doctoral work at Iowa State University (Ph.D. 1980). Following postdoctoral work at Ames Laboratory, he joined the Iowa State faculty in 1981. His awards include the Lester W. Strock Award, 1986; Maurice F. Hasler Award, 1993; ACS Award in Chemical Instrumentation, 1993; Wilkinson Teaching Award, 1993, the Anachem Award, 2000 and the ACS award for Spectrochemical Analysis in 2012.

Maria Montes Bayón

Maria Montes Bayón holds a permanent position as Senior Lecturer in the Analytical Chemistry Area of the Department of Physical and Analytical Chemistry at the University of Oviedo since April 2008.
In September 1993 she joined the Analytical Spectrometry Group leaded by Prof. Sanz-Medel and started with a research stay at the University de Plymouth (UK) under the ERASMUS program supervised by Dr. Hywel Evans. The results obtained during a year of research in the UK were included in her Master of Science presented in Oviedo (November 1994). Right after, she started PhD studies in Oviedo and in July 1999 she defended her Doctoral Thesis awarded with the Extraordinary Prize in the Area of Analytical Chemistry within the University of Oviedo.
In April 2000, she joined the research group of Prof. Joseph A. Caruso in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cincinnati, Ohio (USA) as Postdoctoral Fulbright Fellow until July 2002. In August of the same year she gets back to the University of Oviedo as Ramón y Cajal Researcher (Tenure) in the Spectroscopy Group until 2007. Finally, in 2008 she obtained the position of Senior Lecturer.
She is co-author of more than 80 original research publications and reviews, as well as several book chapters. She participates in different research projects (national and regional) through which the research in funded. She is member of the Advisory Board of Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry and Metallomics, both from the Royal Society of Chemistry. She is also coordinator of several ERASMUS agreements within the research Group with five European Institutions (Gdansk, Plymouth, Graz, Pau y Aberdeen).
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
The research studies she is conducting nowadays are focused on the development of analytical strategies based on mass spectrometry (elemental and molecular) for the determination of important clinical biomarkers related to:
1. The study of alterations in Fe metabolism related to Fe-containing proteins and its importance in prevalent diseases such as dibetes mellitus, glaucome or chronic alcoholism.
2.- The development of individualized chemotherapeutic treatments based on the use of Pt-drugs through selective monitoring of Pt-adducts with DNA nucleobases.
3.- The oxidative stress generated by the presence of trace metals released from prosthesis and implants (e.g. Ti), by the development of associated complications in diabetes mellitus (e.g. rethinopaty) or in chemotherapeutic treatments (e.g. cisplatin).

Frank Vanhaecke

Frank Vanhaecke (°1966) is Professor in Analytical Chemistry at Ghent University (Belgium), where he leads the ‘Atomic & Mass Spectrometry – A&MS’ research unit that focuses on the determination, speciation and isotopic analysis of (trace) elements via ICP – mass spectrometry (ICP-MS). One of the specific topics studied, is isotope ratio determination using single- and multi-collector ICP-MS in the context of elemental assay via isotope dilution, tracer experiments with stable isotopes and the use of small natural variations in the isotopic composition of metals and metalloids for provenance determination and for obtaining better insight into biological, environmental and geological problems. Frank is (co-)author of some 200 scientific papers in international journals, 15 book chapters and more than 350 conference presentations and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry RSC. In 2011, he received a ‘European Award for Plasma Spectrochemistry’ for his contributions to the field.

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