Challenges in Modern Analytical Chemistry
Challenges in Modern Analytical Chemistry
In the International Year of Chemistry, Belgrade was the meeting place for analytical chemists from 57 countries from all over Europe and overseas. The 16th European Conference on Analytical Chemistry was held 11–15 September 2011. Organized by the Divisions of Analytical Chemistry of the Serbian Chemical Society and the European Association for Chemical and Molecular Sciences, the conference had as its theme “Challenges in Modern Analytical Chemistry.”
The event attracted almost 600 participants from academic, industrial, and governmental backgrounds. The Congress Centre SAVA in Belgrade, located in one of the modern quarters in New Belgrade but still very close to the old historic and charming city center, appeared to be an excellent venue for the conference as it enabled networking on both a scientific and social level.
Ten plenary lectures built the framework of the conference:
Jonas Bergquist (Uppsala, Sweden), “Diving Deep into the Chemistry of the Human Brain”
Gareth Brenton (Swansea, UK), “The Role of Accurate Mass Measurement in Chemical, Analytical and Medical Mass Spectrometry”
Jana Hajslova (Prague, Czech Republic) “Metabolomic Fingerprinting/Profiling Employing High Resolution Mass Spectrometry: a Challenging Strategy in Food Analysis”
Gary Hieftje (Bloomington, Indiana, USA), “New Tools for the Analytical Laboratory”
Wolfgang Lindner (Vienna, Austria), “The Power of Selectivity in Chromatography”
Ryszard Lobinski (Pau, France), “Biological Trace Element Analysis, Speciation and Metallomics”
Marco Mascini (Sesto Fiorentino, Italy), “Peptide and Oligonucleotides Aptamers as New Ligands for Analytical Chemistry”
Boris Mizaikoff (Ulm, Germany), “Miniaturized Mid-Infrared Sensors—How Small is Still Useful?”
Alfredo Sanz-Medel (Oviedo, Spain), “The Expanding Scope of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry: Isotopes, Elements, Molecules and Nanoparticles via Mass Spectrometry”
Luisa Torsi (Bari, Italy), “Bio-Electronic Device as Ultra-Sensitive Analytical Sensors”
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| Poster sessions offered an excellent networking opportunity. |
The plenary sessions were complemented by 21 keynote sessions and 3 poster sessions. All in all, 135 oral and 560 poster presentations were delivered, featuring core topic areas of analytical chemistry. The impressive number of young scientists created an excellent atmosphere for enthusiastic discussions of cutting-edge analytical chemistry.
A special issue devoted to Euroanalysis 2011, with full research papers, will appear in Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry.
Two prestigious awards were presented at the conference: the Robert Kellner award went to Jonas Berquist (sponsored by Springer) and the EuCheMS award went to Alfredo Sanz-Medel. Six posters were selected as the best in terms of scientific originality and overall presentation, which were awarded by Springer. Sixty-six students received grants for their participation, of which, 16 were awarded by IUPAC and 50 by the Serbian Chemical Society. EUROanalysis 17, with the theme “Analytical Chemistry for Human Well-Being and Sustainable Development,” is scheduled for 25–29 August 2013 in Warsaw, Poland. See more details at euroanalysis2013.pl.
Slavica Razic <slavica.razic@pharmacy.bg.ac.rs> is a professor in the Department of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Belgrade in Serbia.
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- Masthead
- IYC2011 + 1 and more
- Contents
- What Is IUPAC’s Place in an Ever-Changing World?
- Alan Alda on Radiance: The Passion of Marie Curie
- A Science Solution to Closed-Mass System Products
- A Report from the 2011 World Chemistry Leadership Meeting
- Reports from San Juan, Part II
- Engineered Nanoparticles and the Environment: Physicochemical Processes and Biotoxicity
- Terminology and Nomenclature of Inorganic and Coordination Polymers
- Definitions of Transfer Coefficient and of Partial Charge Transfer Coefficient in Electrode Kinetic
- Provisional Recommendations
- The Chemical Element–Chemistry’s Contribution to Our Global Future
- What is IUPAC Nomenclature?
- Challenges in Modern Analytical Chemistry
- MacroMolecular Complexes
- Translating Food Chemistry into Health Benefits
- Novel Materials and their Synthesis
- Is the Future of Paper Money . . . Plastic?
- Chemistry Education
- Heteroatom Chemistry
- Coordination Chemistry
- Pesticide Chemistry
- Catalysis in Organic Synthesis
- Nanostructured and Biorelated Materials
- Analytical Chemistry for the Environment, Health, and Water
