European Award for Plasma Spectrochemistry
Promoting analytical plasma spectrochemical developments and applications in Europe, award sponsored by Agilent Technologies Inc.
Dr. Heidi Goenaga Infante’s scientific career spans over twenty five years of experience on elemental and speciation analysis using a wide variety of ICP-MS methodologies. For the past twelve years, she has made substantial contributions to novel fractionation analysis techniques in the areas of elemental speciation, metallomics and nanomaterials characterization. In particular, to reduce the uncertainty and improve the sensitivity of speciation measurements, push the boundaries of analytical technology to enable multi-element species quantification and characterization in very small samples (e.g. cells), and to develop high accuracy measurements for nanomaterial quantification in complex samples using complementary hyphenated ICP-MS approaches.
She has also developed novel calibration strategies using tissue-matched calibrants and internal standardization (including isotope dilution analysis) for quantitative elemental imaging of tissue relevant to critical diseases. This work is currently being extended to single cell inorganic metrology. Dr. Heidi Goenaga Infante has long been internationally recognized for her scientific contribution to ICP-MS applications in the field of speciation analysis, by both her academic peers and the international metrology community. For the past 15 years Heidi's research activities have been carried out within the National Measurement Laboratory (NML) at LGC. Heidi's contribution here has been recognized through her role as Chief Scientist within NML at LGC and as one of only four LGC Science Fellows. She is Principal Scientist and Team Leader of the Inorganic Analysis team of 15 doctoral and post-doctoral scientists, and main research supervisor of several PhD students and secondees from overseas universities and international metrology institutes. Her research activities and publication record testify to a sustained track record particularly in the life sciences which in part reflects work performed in the early stages of her career some 2 decades ago.
The 2023 European Rising Star Award for Plasma Spectrochemistry award panel, the Scientific and Organizing Committee of EWCPS 2023 wholeheartedly congratulate the winner!
The 2023 European Award for Plasma Spectrochemistry award panel, the Scientific and Organizing Committee of EWCPS 2023 wholeheartedly congratulate the winner!
Agilent Technologies, Inc. will sponsor the 2023 European Award for Plasma Spectrochemistry as well as an award specifically dedicated to younger upcoming scientist within the field of plasma spectrochemistry. Both will be presented at the European Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry, held in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
The European Award for Plasma Spectrochemistry, which promotes analytical plasma spectrochemical developments and applications in Europe, is awarded for a single outstanding piece of work or for continued important contributions in the field.
Winner will be announced before the awardees’ lectures at EWCPS 2023 by the Agilent representative, Mrs. Yuri Tanaka, ICP-MS Product Marketing Manager for Atomic Spectroscopy Division.
The European Award for Plasma Spectrochemistry is an important opportunity for researchers working in European labs to promote their work and share it with the community at the EWCPS. The winner will also receive a prize of EUR 6000.
An independent panel of five prominent European scientists in plasma spectrochemistry and one representative from Agilent Technologies have selected the winner. The award committee is constituted of the following members: the chairman of the current European Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry (ex officio, Chairman), the chairman of the previous conference, the awardees of the two previous award editions and the representative of Agilent Technologies.
Former European Award for Plasma Spectrochemistry winners are.
2003 - Detlef Günther
2005 - Jean-Michel Mermet
2007 - Klaus G. Heumann
2009 - Annemie Bogaerts
2011 - Frank Vanhaecke & Alfredo Sanz-Medel
2013 - Norbert Jakubowski
2015 - Jörg Feldmann
2017 - Joanna Szpunar
2019 - Jose Ignacio Garcia Alonso
