European Rising Star Award for Plasma Spectrochemistry
Promoting outstanding contributions of upcoming younger scientists, award sponsored by Agilent Technologies Inc.
Thibaut Van Acker from the Atomic & Mass Spectrometry – A&MS research unit of Ghent University (Belgium) is focused on both fundamental aspects of laser ablation – ICP-mass spectrometry and analytical method development to explore the capabilities of the technique for high-resolution elemental mapping applications in challenging interdisciplinary contexts. Based on a number of hardware improvements, Thibaut has brought elemental mapping – i.e. the revelation of the 2- and even 3-dimensional distribution of elements across a sample – to another level. This can currently be accomplished at a pixel acquisition rate up to 1,000 Hz and a laser spot size down to <1 μm. So far, Thibaut is (co-)author of 23 publications in peer-reviewed international journals and his work has been presented in > 30 lectures on international conferences. He has also been involved early in his career in the mentorship of Bachelor, Master and PhD students and was awarded the Junior Postdoctoral Research Fellowship granted by the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), which is securing the start of his individual carrier.
The 2023 European Rising Star Award for Plasma Spectrochemistry award panel, the Scientific and Organizing Committee of EWCPS 2023 wholeheartedly congratulate the winner!
The European Rising Star Award for Plasma Spectrochemistry promotes outstanding contributions of an upcoming young scientist at the beginning of his/her career (first 5 years) within the field of plasma spectrochemistry.
The European Rising Star Award for Plasma Spectrochemistry honors and promotes outstanding contributions of upcoming younger scientist at the beginning of their career within the field of plasma spectrochemistry.
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 Rising Star 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 winners will also receive a prize of EUR 6000 and EUR 4000, respectively.
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 Rising Star Award for Plasma Spectrochemistry winners are:
2017 - Johanna Irrgeher
2019 - Magdalena Matczuk
