Powerful algorithms and AI are now opening up completely new perspectives on data and are rapidly advancing analytical chemistry. At the same time, the demands on data quality and efficient and robust data and quality management are growing. Systematic quality assurance is a key prerequisite for ensuring the reliability, comparability and traceability of analytical results.
The Chemometrics & Quality Assurance working group of the GDCh Division of Analytical Chemistry actively accompanies these developments and sees itself as a forum for all those who not only want to collect data in analytics, but also want to optimise its use. In particular, it is aimed at experts who work with univariate and multivariate methods on issues such as classification, pattern recognition, machine learning or the management of large analytical chemistry data sets - or who want to specifically expand their expertise in these areas.
Shortlink to this page: www.gdch.de/chemometrik
We offer a variety of practical formats to impart knowledge, promote dialogue and make trends visible. Complete information on our events can be found at: https://chemometrics.gdch.events/home
Doctoral Seminars. The seminars offer doctoral students the opportunity to present their research work, train their presentation and discussion skills and network with industry and academia. As chemometric teaching in Germany is rather limited, a further aim of these seminars is to impart relevant chemometric fundamentals. To this end, renowned experts are invited as keynote speakers. The scientific programme is supplemented by alternating excursions and workshops.
Themed workshops. We organise an annual workshop that focuses on a relevant topic in depth. Example topics include methods for handling data as well as concepts and standards for the sustainable, transparent and efficient use of information. For the workshops, we specifically invite experienced experts to present current developments, proven methods and practical examples.
Guidelines. Within the working group, the Guidelines Task Force is developing a policy paper with recommendations for multivariate calibration when analysing spectroscopic data. Interested parties are welcome to contact the task force via the email address
Conferences & trend reports We organise sessions at conferences and prepare contributions and trend reports that present developments in chemometric and analytical data analysis in a comprehensible way.
History. The Chemometrics & Quality Assurance Working Group was founded in 1991 - at that time under the name Chemometrics & Laboratory Data Processing - through the merger of the Chemometrics Working Group of the Chemical Society of the GDR and the GDCh Working Group on Laboratory Automation and Data Processing.
Dr Claudia Beleites (Chair), Chemometrix GmbH, Wölfersheim
Prof Dr Stephan Seifert (Deputy Chair), Chemometrix GmbH, Wölfersheim
Prof. Stephan Seifert (deputy chair), University of Hamburg
Dr Joscha Christmann (secretary), Symrise AG, Holzminden
Dr Andrea Paul. Andrea Paul (Assessor), Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing, Berlin
Permanent guest of the Board of Directors
Marcel Dahms, LightGuard GmbH, Dresden
Contact the Management Board: ak-chemometrik@go.gdch.de
Board of Directors 2020-2023
Dr Claudia Beleites (Chair), Chemometrix GmbH, Wölfersheim
Dr Andrea Paul (Deputy Chair), Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM), Berlin
Dr Jörg Kraft (Secretary)
Prof. Jörg Kraft (Secretary)
Prof. Dr Gerald Steiner (Chair), Dresden University of Technology
Permanent guest of the Executive Board
Prof. Dr Philipp Weller, Mannheim University of Applied Sciences
... with multi-variate methods and support vector machines
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