On Friday, Aug 29, 2014 the defence of PhD thesis Acidity and basicity in non-aqueous media: importance of solvent properties and purity prepared by Karl Kaupmees took place. Karl’s thesis is focused on solvent characteristics, that influence the pKa measurements…
On Friday, Aug 29, 2014 the defence of PhD thesis Novel Tools for Water Quality Monitoring – From Field to Laboratory prepared by Teemu Näykki took place. Teemu Näykki works as team leader at the Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE). The…
On Friday, August 8, 2014 the MSC Euromaster Summer School 2014 finished. This year’s summer school took place in Casablanca (Morocco) and was hosted by the ESITH educational centre. Around fourty students from ten countries participated. As in previous years,…
The EU EACEA has made the decision to select the EACH programme for funding by the the Erasmus+ (formerly known as Erasmus Mundus) International Joint Master Degree (JMD) programme scheme. With this it is now clear that the EACH programme…
During July 05-07, 2014 the XXVI Laulupidu (Song Festival) and XIX Tantsupidu (Dance Festival) took place in Tallinn, Estonia, attracting altogether more than 150 000 people. Such festivals are organized every 5 years and the first Song Festival took place…
On April 23, 2014 the in situ Interlaboratory comparison measurement (ILC) of dissolved oxygen concentration Fieldoxy 2014, organised jointly by the Finnish Environmental Institute (SYKE) and University of Tartu (UT) took place in the Gulf of Finland, on board of…
Five AMS master’s students successfully defended their theses today (on June 9, 2014). On picture, from left: Petrică Artene, Roland Hoxha, Kaspars Laizans, Astrid Pung and Shanshan Wu. Traditionally for AMS the topics of the theses were diverse ranging from…
On May 17, 2014 the spring seminar of the Applied Measurement Science programme took place. Students presented and discussed the progress of their master’s theses. _ _ _ As is usual for the AMS programme, a very wide range of…
During May 19-21, 2014 the Eurachem Workshop on Quality in Analytical Measurements is taking place in Lisbon (Portugal). The workshop covers all main issues in ensuring the quality of analytical results, ranging from traceability to validation and from measurement uncertainty…
On Apr 16, 2014 the MOOC Estimation of measurement uncertainty in chemical analysis offered by University of Tartu finished successfully. The course eventually had 270 participants from more than 40 countries. 141 participants successfully completed the course, making the completion…
On Monday, March 03, 2014 the web course “Estimation of Measurement Uncertainty in Chemical Analysis” was launched as a MOOC (Massive Online Open Course). This is the first MOOC created at University of Tartu. The course has turned out to…
The online course of Measurement Uncertainty Estimation in Analytical Chemistry (), which will be running as a MOOC during 03.03.14-13.04.14 has this morning got the 100th registered participant. The geographic diversity is wide: all six inhabited continents are represented! Registration…
Different chiral 1,1’-bi-2-naphthol (BINOL)-derived acids and their analogues (see image on the right) were recently introduced as a highly efficient class of metal-free Brønsted acid organocatalysts, capable also of enantioselective (chiral) catalysis. These catalysts have been successfully used for a…
We are glad to announce that the on-line course Estimation Measurement Uncertainty in Chemical Analysis will during the Spring semester 2014 be offered as a free on-line course (so called MOOC) to students from all over the world. The course…
On Dec 27, 2013 Postimees, a prominent Estonian Daily newspaper, has awarded its annual title “person of the year 2013” to Mart Noorma – the initiator and scientific mentor of the Student satellite project ESTCube-1. This title is each year…
On Nov 7, 2013 Ivo Leito gave presentation titled Measurement Science in Chemistry Education at University of Tartu in Opatija (Croatia) at the conference “Laboratory Competence 2013” organized by CroLab – the Croatian Association of Laboratories. The presentation contains information…
On Oct 24, 2013 a seminar “Quality assurance and validation of analytical methods in the laboratory” was organized jointly in helsinki by the Finnish Chromatography society and Finnish Mass spectrometry society. Ivo Leito from University of Tartu made a presentation…
We are glad to introduce the Online Course of Measurement Uncertainty Estimation in Analytical Chemistry! It has been set up at University of Tartu during 2013 and its version 1 is now accessible from the address This is an…
On Jun 28, 2013 the Report on method for improved gravimetric Winkler titration (by Irja Helm, Lauri Jalukse, Ivo Leito) has been published by University of Tartu in the framework of the European Metrology Research Programme (EMRP), project ENV05 “Metrology…
The research work on accurate measurement method of binding constants in supramolecular chemistry carried out by Kristjan Haav (left) in the framework of his AMS master’s thesis has gained international recognition: it has been published by the Journal of Organic…
On Friday, Aug 30, 2013, the introductory meeting for first-year AMS students was held. Sergei Jurtšenko gave overview of the AMS programme, timetable of autumn semester 2013 and some practical aspects of studying in Tartu. The PDF file of this…
Roland Hoxha (in the middle on the photo), an AMS student who participated in the Measurement Science in Chemistry (MSC) Summer shool 2013 in Lyon said the following about this experience: “Summer school was really a great experience for me.…
Shanshan Wu (third from left on the photo), an AMS student who participated in the Measurement Science in Chemistry (MSC) Summer shool 2013 in Lyon said the following about this experience: “This is an unforgettable Summer I never had before,…
On Friday, Jul 12, 2013 the MSC Summer school visited the Alps and ascended from Chamonix to a nearby mountain – Aiguille du Midi – with the height of slightly over 3800 m. This is a big advancement from the…
Two young scientists – Karin Kipper and Riin Rebane – from UT analytical chemistry research group participated in the recent HPLC2013 conference in Amsterdam. Both of them presented the most recent results of their work. The presentation of Karin Kipper…
On July 08, 2013 the sixth MSC Euromaster Summer School 2013 started in Lyon (France). Altogether 34 students from more than ten countries participate in the Summer school, among them three students from the AMS programme of University of Tartu:…
On Jun 17, 2013 The kick-off meeting of the EMRP project Metrology for Moisture in Materials (SIB64 METefnet) took place in MIKES (Helsinki). Around 70% of industries use drying at some stage of their production process. Active ingredients in pharmaceuticals,…
Ten AMS master’s students successfully defended their theses today (on June 10, 2013). On picture, from left: Hedi Sinijärv, Sander Sannik, Karen Atabekjan, Yingjian Hou, Kristjan Haav, Kamarniso Vrandecic, Pippa Hayes, Agnes Ivanov, Galyna Gryliuk, Agnes Suu. Traditionally for AMS…
Definitions of the International vocabulary of metrology (VIM 3) are the foundation of the language spoken by measurement people. The definitions have been carefully elaborated with the involvementof a number of top experts. Nevertheless, if a near-perfect definition is aimed…
The ESTCube-1 satellite was successfully launched early in the morning of 07.05.2013! Some hours later on the same day it was officially announced that the satellite works. Three AMS students (Kaspars Laizans, Martynas Pelakauskas, Mykola Tverdokhlib) are participating or have…
Hydrogen bond (HB) is by its importance a unique chemical phenomenon in nature and has been widely studied from almost any possible viewpoint. HBs have an enormous role in the structure (proteins, nucleic acids, cellulose fibers, etc) and functionality (enzyme…
An important direction in making measurement instruments is making them simpler, cheaper and accessible to many people. An interesting development in this direction has been made at SYKE (the Finland Environmental Administration): the Secchi3000 Turbidity analyser, in which a standard…
During 17-22.02.2013 The first Analytical Chemistry Winter school “Novel analysis methods”, organized by the St. Petersburg’s State University, took place near St. Petersburg. Ivo Leito participated in the event and gave a short lecture about Liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry…
Amer Jamil Aref Al-Malahmeh from Jordan successfully defended his master thesis on January 15, 2013. The title of the thesis was “Methodological development and validation of Sample treatment and Source preparation procedures and Liquid Scintillation counting measurements for Determination of…
On Saturday, Dec 15, 2012, the Autumn semester master’s seminar 2012 of the AMS programme was concluded with presentations from students. Most of the presentations were based on the master’s thesis topics of our students. As is typical for our…
Liquid chromatographic separation of basic analytes is often hampered by problems, such as insufficient retention, wide and asymmetric peaks, etc, especially if carried out at acidic pH. Many modern HPLC coulmns can stand pH values up to 10 without problems…
A new software package for measurement uncertainty calculation called MUkit (shortcut from: Measurement Uncertainty kit) has been recently made available by SYKE, the Finnish Environmental Administration. This is the first software package that offers direct support for laboratories in measurement…
Electrospray ion source (ESI) is the most used ion source type for connecting liquid chromatography (LC) with mass spectrometry (MS) due to its robustness and possibility to analyze a wide range of analytes. ESI is a very good LC/MS ion…
On August 31, 2012 Irja Helm successfully defended her PhD Thesis High accuracy gravimetric Winkler method for determination of dissolved oxygen at Institute of Chemistry, University of Tartu. The essence of the work is development of a highly accurate gavimetric…
On 31.08.2012 the introductory meeting for first-year AMS students was held. Sergei Jurtšenko gave overview of the AMS programme, timetable of autumn semester 2012 and some practical aspects of living and studying in Tartu. The PDF file of this presentation…
Klodian Dhoska, graduated from AMS in 2010 shared his thoughts about how the programme has influenced his life during the last two years: “Experience at Applied Measurement Programme has given to me a very good career. I am technical expert…
The MSC Summer school finished on Jul 27, 2012. Kristjan Haav, one of the participants (from the AMS programme, University of Tartu) shared his impressions. Ivo: What would you single out as the top experiences in the summer school? Kristjan:…
As a nice counterbalance to the serious and challenging programme of the summer school last weekend there was a surfing outing at the summer school. All participants had the possibility to try surfing in the Atlantic Ocean under the guidance…
On Monday, July 16, 2012 the fifth Measurement Science in Chemistry International Summer School started in Fatima (Portugal). In this edition, 48 students from thirteen countries participate. The dense and challenging programme will give the students opportunities to learn and…
Alda Andersone from Latvia defended her master thesis on June 11, 2012. The title of the thesis was “The stereoselective synthesis of 2,2,5-trisubstituted tetrahydrofurans, oriented to the preparation of lilac aldehydes and alcohols”. The thesis was awarded the highest mark…
Hanno Evard defended his master thesis on June 11, 2012. The title of the thesis was “Study of paperspray ionization and its possible applications”. The thesis was awarded the highest mark “A”. Hanno talks about the thesis: “My master thesis…
Seven AMS master’s candidates successfully defended their theses on June 11, 2012. Congratulations! The PDF files of all the theses are available for download from here. (See at the end of the list: Hanno Evard, Karlis Andersons, Alda Andersone, Eyüp…
On May 21-22, 2012 a workshop Validation, Traceability, Measurement Uncertainty: the Challenges for the 21th Century Analysts took place in Berlin. This workshop focused on the relationship between method validation, traceability and measurement uncertainty in various fields of quantitative analytical…
On March 23, 2012 an in situ interlaboratory comparison measurement of dissolved oxygen concentration EstDO-2012 was carried out at the Testing Centre of University of Tartu. Altogether 14 participants from Estonia (different institutions), Germany (IO Warnemünde), France (IFREMER) and Finland…
During Mar 13-16, 2012 Ivo Leito visited University of Shanghai for Science and Technology (USST) and gave a series of lectures/workshops for te students of USST. The lectures/workshops were the following: — A Short Journey into Modern Analytical Chemistry —…