At the recent Balticum Organicum Syntheticum conference Ivo Leito made a presentation titled How to make maximum use of the available pKa data in non-aqueous solvents? (Photo on the left) The presentation started with how acid and base strengths, typically…
This week is the first study week for the new students of the EACH Erasmus Mundus Joint Programme (EACH). This year, altogether 17 students started their studies. The students’ countries of origin are very diverse: Mexico, Philippines, Vietnam, Poland, Cuba,…
On February 8, 2024 the on-line course (MOOC) LC-MS Method Validation offered by the University of Tartu finished successfully. Eventually, altogether 1014 people registered from 109 countries. Around half of them, 508 participants actually started the course (i.e. tried at least…
The 2024 edition of the web course (MOOC) Estimation of Measurement Uncertainty in Chemical Analysis will be running from March 19 to May 2, 2024. Registration is now open! The full course material (as well as the registration link) is…
Thursday 01.02.2024 was the last working day of the Excellence in Analytical Chemistry (EACH) Winter School 2024. The three days of the of the Winter School saw lots of interactions between 1st and 2nd year students, between students and alumni,…
On Jan 30, 2024, the eighth Winter School of the Excellence in Analytical Chemistry (EACH) programme started in Åbo (Turku, Finland). Altogether 33 students from 15 countries (Mexico, Philippines, Thailand, Costa Rica, Brazil, Vietnam, Pakistan, Nigeria, Estonia, India, Ecuador, Azerbaijan,…
Number of participants and countries updated on 22.11.2023! On Tuesday, November 21, 2023 the web course LC-MS Method Validation was launched for the fifth time as a MOOC (Massive Online Open Course). There are 973 1013 registered participants (the first…
During 9-11.10.2023 the 23rd conference in the EcoBalt series – EcoBalt 2023 – took place in Tallinn, co-organised by the National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics and the University of Tartu. With around 200 participants from 21 countries it…
The eighth edition of the online course LC-MS Method Validation is open for registration (registration link is here)! The course will be offered as a Massive Open On-line Course (MOOC) during Nov 21, 2024 – Feb 02, 2024. This is…
At the EcoBalt 2023 conference, there is right now the gettogether of EACH students and alumni, in the framework of the “Data Quality in Analytical Chemistry” mini-cinference series. Altogether around 40 current EACH students and alumni are participating! As for…
Last Friday, June 9th, 2023, Andre Leesment successfully defended his PhD thesis titled Quantitative studies of Brønsted acidity in biphasic systems and gas-phase. The opponent was Prof. Kiyohiko Sugano from the Ritsumeikan University, Japan. Experiments for measuring acidity of medicines,…
On February 10, 2023 the on-line course (MOOC) LC-MS Method Validation offered by the University of Tartu finished successfully. Eventually, altogether 903 people registered from 104 countries. Less than half, 376 participants actually started the course (i.e. tried at least one…
Thursday 02.02.2023 was the last day of the Excellence in Analytical Chemistry (EACH) Winter School 2023. The past two days of the of the Winter School saw students building analytical instruments (pH meters and photometers) with Arduino kits (photo on…
On Jan 31, 2023, the eighth Winter School of the Excellence in Analytical Chemistry (EACH) programme started in Lyon (France). Altogether 30 students from 16 countries participate (Group photo above). This year’s Winter school is strongly focused on building analytical…
On Tuesday, November 22, 2022 the web course LC-MS Method Validation was launched for the fifth time as a MOOC (Massive Online Open Course). There are 904 registered participants (the largest number ever in this course) from 104 countries, ranging…
We are glad to announce that the admission for Excellence in Analytical Chemistry (EACH) Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree programme intake 2023 is open! EACH is an international two-year joint master degree programme that educates specialists in analytical chemistry well…
During our Winter School at Krusenberg Manor outside Uppsala held January 17-19 this year, visiting scholar prof. Magnus Palmblad did a workshop with the students related to cheminformatics, specifically on ontologies and semantic method annotations for published articles related to…
This week is the first study week for the new students of Applied Measurement Science (AMS) and EACH Erasmus Mundus Joint Programme (EACH). Altogether 19 (3 AMS and 16 EACH) students started their studies. The countries of origin of the students are very…
On Friday 22.07.2022 The MSC Euromaster Summer School 2022 (Chęciny, Poland) finished. It was the 15th summer school of the Measurement Science in Chemistry consortium. The hallmark of the MSC Summer schools is “learning by doing” and combining learning with…
During July 11-23, 2022 the 15th MSC Summer School is taking place in the European Center for Geological Education of the Warsaw University (Chęciny, Poland). Group photo of the Summer school is on the left (Photo on the left by…
Recently, a collaborative study on the Solid-State Composite reference electrodes was published in the journal of Membranes 2022, 12, 569. Slim Blidi, EACH alumnus and the first author of this publication, provides here a short overview of this novel research.…
On February 11, 2022 the on-line course (MOOC) LC-MS Method Validation offered by the University of Tartu finished successfully. Eventually, altogether 850 people registered from 97 countries. Less than half, 380 participants actually started the course (i.e. tried at least one graded test…
The 2022 edition of the web course (MOOC) Estimation of Measurement Uncertainty in Chemical Analysis will be running from March 22 to May 3, 2022. Registration is now open! The full course material (as well as the registration link) is…
Wednesday 19.01.2022 was the last day of the Excellence in Analytical Chemistry (EACH) Winter School 2022. In spite of being shorter than usual (because of COVID, of course), it appears to have been a memorable experience for all participants. Perhaps…
On Jan 17, 2022, the fifth Winter School of the Excellence in Analytical Chemistry (EACH) programme started in the Krusenberg Manor, at the outskirts of Uppsala (Sweden). Altogether 28 students from 17 countries participate. In spite of the continuing COVID…
On Tuesday, November 23, 2021 the web course LC-MS Method Validation was launched for the sixth time as a MOOC (Massive Online Open Course). There are 854 registered participants (the largest number ever in this course) from 97 countries. Both…
We are glad to announce that the sixth edition of the online course LC-MS Method Validation is open for registration at the address ! The course will be offered as a Massive Open On-line Course (MOOC) during Nov 23,…
On Jan 18, 2021, the sixth Winter School of the EACH programme started. Altogether 33 students from 21 countries participate. As is typical to the COVID-19 era, this year’s Winter School takes place on-line and with a limited scope.…
On Tuesday, November 24, 2020 the web course LC-MS Method Validation was launched for the fifth time as a MOOC (Massive Online Open Course). There are 788 registered participants (the largest number ever in this course) from 86 countries, ranging…
We are glad to announce that the fifth edition of the online course LC-MS Method Validation is open for registration at the address ! The course will be offered as a Massive Open On-line Course (MOOC) during Nov 24,…
This week is the first study week for the new students of Applied Measurement Science and EACH Erasmus Mundus Joint Programme. Altogether 21 students started their studies. The countries of origin of the students are very diverse: Vietnam, Philippines, USA,…
On May 12, 2020 the on-line course (MOOC) Estimation of measurement uncertainty in chemical analysis offered by University of Tartu finished successfully. Eventually altogether 843 people registered (270 in 2014, 489 in 2015, 757 in 2016, 363 in 2017, 521…
The UT Analytical Chemistry group is well known for its acid-base studies, especially pKa measurements, in non-aqueous media. Up to recent time the measured data have been scattered among a number of publications containing pKa measurements. Now the pKa data of…
On Tuesday, March 24, 2020 the web course Estimation of Measurement Uncertainty in Chemical Analysis was launched the seventh time as a MOOC (Massive Online Open Course)! Currently 828 participants from 92 countries are registered – the largest audience the…
The 2020 edition of the web course (MOOC) Estimation of Measurement Uncertainty in Chemical Analysis will be running during Mar 24 – May 5, 2020. Registration is open for one week! The full course material (as well as the registration…
On Feb 14, 2020 our LC-MS Method Validation web course (MOOC) finished successfully! Altogether 515 (426 in 2019, 424 in 2018, 303 in 2017) people were registered from 77 (70 in 2019, 71 in 2018, 61 in 2017) countries. 267…
Besides XRF, the two important topics at the 2020 Winter school were Capillary electrophoresis, coupled with mass spectrometry (CE-MS), taught by prof. Christian Neusüß, and practitioner’s view on working in a GMP/GLP compliant facility, taught by Dr. Masahiko Shimmo. Although…
On Jan 20, 2020, the fifth Winter School of the EACH programme started in Viimsi (Estonia). Altogether 35 students from more than 19 countries participate. The Winter School offers a diverse set of activities to the participants. There are lectures-seminars…
On Tuesday, November 26, 2019 the web course LC-MS Method Validation was launched for the fourth time as a MOOC (Massive Online Open Course). There are 511 registered participants (the largest number ever in this course) from 77 countries, ranging…
We are glad to announce that the 2020 admission is officially open to the 6th intake of the Excellence in Analytical Chemistry (EACH) Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree programme! This international two-year joint master degree programme educates specialists in analytical…
We are glad to announce that the fourth edition of the online course LC-MS Method Validation is open for registration at the address ! The course will be offered as a Massive Open On-line Course (MOOC) during Nov 26,…
In a recent minireview, published in Eur. J. Org. Chem. an important part of our group’s acid-base chemistry research has been summarized: the pKa values of bases (pKaH values) determined over the years in acetonitrile have now been rigorously united…
On September 5, 2019 the master thesis defence took place at University Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL). Mark Justine Zapanta, Giorgi Tsiklauri, Daniela Pinto Pérez, Yijiao Yao, Jovana Petrovic, Irina Diane Castaños and Nur Eka Fitriani (left to right in…
On August 19, 2019 the master thesis defence session of the third intake of the EACH programme took place at Åbo Akademi University (AAU)! Jose Antonio Wrzosek Cabrera, Davit Tediashvili and Hiu Mun Man successfully defended their master’s theses (third…
This week is the first study week for the new students of Applied Measurement Science and EACH Erasmus Mundus Joint Programme. Altogether 21 students started their studies. The countries of origin of the students are very diverse: Vietnam, Philippines, Estonia,…
On Saturday 20.07.2019 The MSC Euromaster Summer School 2019 (Lyon, France) finished. It was the 12th summer school of the Measurement Science in Chemistry consortium. The hallmark of the MSC Summer schools is “learning by doing” and combining learning with…
Starting from July 07, 2019 the MSC Summer School 2019 is taking place in Lyon (France), organized by the University Claude Bernard Lyon 1. Five students from the University of Tartu take part in the summer school: Dariya Tukhmetova (Kazakhstan),…
On June 10, 2019 the master thesis defence of the third cohort of the EACH programme took place at Uppsala University! Angelique Sanchez Dafun, Diana Visanu, Allen Jun Penez Anies, Mohan Ghorasaini, Shidong Chen, Fadillah Putri Patria and Daniel Papp…
During May 18-22, 2019 the EACH programme again had the pleasure of hosting visiting scholar, Dr. David F. Thompson from the Keele University (UK). He conducted an intensive course Introduction to Forensic Analysis. This lecture series started with some basic…
During May 20-21, 2019 the Eurachem 2019 Scientific workshop Validation of targeted and non-targeted methods of analysis took place in Dorpat Conference Centre in Tartu. This workshop also marks the 30th anniversary of Eurachem. This workshop is the first event…