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…
Every year students vote for their favorite teachers in all of the institutes at the University of Tartu. We are pleased to announce that this year Dr. Koit Herodes was selected as the best teacher from the Institute of Chemistry!…
On June 14, 2022, six EACH students successfully defended their master’s theses at Uppsala University (UU), Sweden. The topics varied from proteomics to screening of contaminants in recyclable paper, and from method development to data treatment strategies. In addition to…
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 May 13, 2022 the on-line course (MOOC) Estimation of measurement uncertainty in chemical analysis offered by University of Tartu finished successfully. Eventually, altogether 851 people registered from 103 countries. 405 participants actually started the course (i.e. tried at least one graded…
On Tuesday, March 22, 2022 the web course Estimation of Measurement Uncertainty in Chemical Analysis was launched for the ninth time as a MOOC (Massive Online Open Course)! Currently, 843 participants from 103 countries are registered – the largest number…
Since this January, Victor Augusto Xavier Da Silveira (from Brasil), a first-year EACH student has been a team member of the PRG project “Development of laser-based pen-type probe-MS system for the analysis of cultural heritage objects” led by associate professor…
As a result of a recent development in our group, it is now, for the first time, possible to rigorously measure acidity of acids in biphasic systems (aqueous phase at equilibrium with a water-immiscible phase) by using biphasic pKa values…
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…
Marvy Girgis (now a Forensic Chemist And Toxicologist at Forensic MedicineAuthority in Egypt) who graduated from EACH in 2020 reflects on his life after his studies: I am very grateful to EACH programme for everything I have learned. It was…
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…
The year 2021 proved to be as difficult as 2020. Nevertheless, the recent graduates of EACH prove that the programme is well designed for a career boost. One of the best arguments for this is the high employability rate of…
On September 2nd, 2021, master’s students at UCBL defended their theses. Among the students were also the EACH students from the UCBL study-track: Lovely Kris Acuram, Adrián Venegas Reynoso, and Jude Anthony Billones (see picture) who succesfully defendeid their theses…
We are glad to announce that the admission for Excellence in Analytical Chemistry (EACH) Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree programme intake 2022 is open! EACH is an international two-year joint master degree programme that educates specialists in analytical chemistry well…
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 August 17, five EACH students – Sajana, Jelena, Miloš, Luca and Rustem (see picture), defended their master’s theses at AAU. Together with Peter (see picture), who had his defence already on June 10, the biggest batch of EACH students…
This week is the first study week for the new students of Applied Measurement Science (AMS) and EACH Erasmus Mundus Joint Programme (EACH). Altogether 17 (2 AMS and 15 EACH) students started their studies. The countries of origin of the students are very…
On June 14th, 2021, six EACH students from the Uppsala study track successfully defended their master’s theses. The scope of the defended topics ranged from developing novel methods for the analysis of protein-based therapeutics from plasma to analysis of amine…
On May 13, 2021, the online course (MOOC) Estimation of measurement uncertainty in chemical analysis offered by the University of Tartu finished successfully. Eventually, altogether 950 people registered from 97 countries. 501 participants actually started the course (i.e. tried at…
On Apr 29, 2021 the webinar “Mobile Phase pH in Liquid Chromatography” took place. Altogether 101 people participated from 41 countries, ranging from Portugal to Philippines and from Peru to Nepal. It is well known that in liquid chromatography, mobile…
This year the Estonian Research Council has presented 49 female Estonian scientists to the AcademiaNet database. From the Unversity of Tartu, seven names were given, including Dr Signe Vahur (on the picture), a research fellow in our Chair of Analytical…
It is well known that in liquid chromatography, mobile phase pH is an important parameter, significantly affecting the retention of acidic and basic analytes. Yet, mobile phase pH is tricky to measure because mobile phases are usually aqueous-organic mixtures and…
On Tuesday, March 23, 2021, the web course Estimation of Measurement Uncertainty in Chemical Analysis was launched for the eighth time as a MOOC (Massive Online Open Course)! Currently, 925 participants from 97 countries are registered – the largest audience…
A highly interdisciplinary study ranging from computational chemistry to cultural heritage has now been published – Experimental and Computational Study of Aminoacridines as MALDI(-)-MS Matrix Materials for the Analysis of Complex Samples, J. Am. Soc. Mass Spectrom. 2021. 9-aminoacridine (9-AA)…
The equilibrium acidity scale (pKa scale) in acetonitrile (MeCN) has been supplemented by numerous new compounds and new ΔpKa measurements and has been published in Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2021, 1407–1419 (Open access). The pKa scale now contains altogether 231 acids…
The 2021 edition of the web course (MOOC) Estimation of Measurement Uncertainty in Chemical Analysis will be running from March 23 to May 4, 2021. Registration is now open! The full course material (as well as the registration link) is…
Altogether 791 people were registered from 86 countries. 338 participants actually started the course (i.e. tried at least one graded test at least once) and out of them 221 successfully completed the course. The overall completion rate was 28%. The…
The year 2020 was anything but ordinary. The EACH programme, among many others also had to quickly adapt to the new situation and regulations dictated by the COVID pandemic. And it managed well! One of the best proofs for this…
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…
On November 6, 2020, Huian Liu, an EACH graduate from the first intake successfully defended his PhD thesis “Development of gas chromatography in high pressure condition” at Univeristy of Claud Bernard Lyon 1 under the supervision of Prof. Jérôme Randon.Below,…
We are glad to announce that the admission for Excellence in Analytical Chemistry (EACH) Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree programme intake 2021 is open! EACH is an international two-year joint master degree programme that educates specialists in analytical chemistry well…
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,…
On the 3rd of September, 2020, EACH master students successfully defended their master’s theses! The topics of the theses demonstrated the wide scope of the field of EACH studies. They ranged from the application of near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy to liquid…
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,…
We are glad to announce that the EACH programme received the Erasmus Mundus grant for the next four intakes (starting from intake 2021). More information about the admission process and dates will be available on this web page (in section…
On the 8th of June, 2020, eight EACH master students successfully defended their master’s theses via the web. The defenders and the members of the committee were caught on a screenshot. Defenders: Varun Vashneel Sharma, Hark Karkee, Larissa Silva Maciel,…
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…
Over the summer of 2019, the third intake of EACH students successfully graduated from the programme (defence at UU, defence at AAU, defence at UCBL ). Only a few months later the majority of the recent graduates – 13 out…
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,…
The educational section of a leading analytical chemistry journal Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, the ABCs of Education and Professional Development in Analytical Science has published a paper about the EACH programme: EACH (Excellence in Analytical Chemistry), an Erasmus Mundus Joint…
Marko Bertic, an EACH graduate from intake 2016 reflects on life in Lyon: Immediately after arriving in France, I realized that all the classes I took in Tartu would be used in one way or another. Already on the first…
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),…
EACH students from Intake 2018 have just finished their first study-year at the University of Tartu and are preparing for their departure to their second-year universities. Before they leave Estonia, they have put together a video…
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…
From 7th to 10th of May 2019 four members of UT Analytical Chemistry group – Dr Signe Vahur, Dr Anu Teearu-Ojakäär, PhD students Pilleriin Peets and Eliise Tammekivi – attended the 7th international TechnArt conference in Bruges, Belgium. TechnArt is…
On May 14, 2019 the on-line course (MOOC) Estimation of measurement uncertainty in chemical analysis offered by University of Tartu finished successfully. Eventually altogether 590 people registered (270 in 2014, 489 in 2015, 757 in 2016, 363 in 2017, 521…
During Apr 22 to May 4 we had the pleasure to host visiting scholar, prof. Todd Pagano from the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), USA. He conducted, for the second time, a two week-intensive course Principles and applications of fluorescence…
Choosing the best possible ion source is a very important step in liquid chromatography mass spectrometry (LC/MS) method development. In a recent paper ESI outcompetes other ion sources in LC-MS trace analysis Anal. Bioanal. Chem. 2019 Asko Laaniste from the…
I was that lucky person, who got accepted to EACH program in 2016. And by saying lucky – I mean it. EACH was not only a kick-off point in my career, but it was a life changing experience. Our journey…
On Tuesday, March 26, 2019 the web course Estimation of Measurement Uncertainty in Chemical Analysis was launched the sixth time as a MOOC (Massive Online Open Course)! Currently 530 participants from more than 80 countries are registered! As was the…
Starting from last week the Analytical chemistry group of University of Tartu has the pleasure to host Dr Monika Lindner and Hendrik van Thienen from the group of professor Benjamin List – a worldwide known guru in the field of…
This year’s General Assembly of the Erasmus Mundus Association took place in Vienna, Austria, from 23-25 February. Our programme was represented by Nikola Obradović, EACH Programme Represantative (PR) within EMA. As always, the General Assembly brought together students from…
During 24-26.02.2019 the Suprachem 2019 conference took place at University of Würzburg (Germany). The UT Analytical chemistry chair was represented by two posters: Optimization of the reaction pathway for the synthesis of substituted 1,3-bis(carbazolyl)urea anion receptors by Alo Rüütel and…
A stack of papers to be read, two coffee mugs; one which reminds me of my time at Åbo, a lonely apple, a to-do list, and a pair of headphones sit on my cluttered desk. My eyes occasionally wander towards…
On Feb 15, 2019 the on-line course (MOOC) LC-MS Method Validation finished successfully! Altogether 426 (424 in 2018, 303 in 2017) people were registered from 70 countries (71 in 2018, 61 in 2017) countries. 227 (236 in 2018, 224 in…
The 2019 edition of the web course (MOOC) Estimation of Measurement Uncertainty in Chemical Analysis will be running during Mar 26 – May 7, 2019. Registration is open! The full course material (as well as the registration link) is accessible…
In the morning of the fourth Winter school day (24.01.19) Dr. Franck Baco-Antoniali from EACH associated partner Axel’One gave an overview of the specifics of industrial analysis and process control and its differences from the traditional chemical analysis. In some…
In the morning of the third Winter school day came the information long awaited by the students – their assigned study tracks of the second year. It took quite some discussions both among the consortium committee members and with students…
The second day of the EACH Winter school was full of excitement: student teams performed measurements of glucose with amperometric sensors. This is a highly important measurement for diagnosing and monitoring diabetes, as enhanced blood glucose level is the key…
On Jan 21, 2019, the fourth Winter School of the EACH programme started in Åbo/Turku (Finland). Altogether 37 students from more than 20 countries participate. The Winter School offers a diverse set of activities to the participants. There are lectures…
The students from the second intake of the EACH programme successfully defended their theses over the summer of 2018 (Please see here: defence at UU, defence at AAU, and defence at UCBL). We have carried out a small survey and…
On Dec 3, 2018 Ivo Leito gave a presentation at the Sample Treatment 2018 conference (Caparica, Portugal) about the EACH programme and specifically about how is sample treatment included in the EACH programme. A key feature of the presentation was…
“Long may bicycle rain” “Welcome to Uppsala, the city of nature, student nations, unique tradition and a place where you can not survive if you don’t have a bicycle” is the sentence that we heard several times when we arrived…
Today, On Nov 16, 2018 the General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) unanimously decided to fundamentally remake the SI system of measurement units. Perhaps the most important change is that the kilogram will not be defined via a physical…
We are glad to announce that the 2019 admission is officially open to the 5th 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…
On Nov 05, 2018 Ivo Leito gave a presentation Unified pH about the pan-European research network of fundamental pH Research UnipHied (www.uniphied.eu) at the 7th Baltic Electrochemistry Conference organized by the University of Tartu. The presentation started with explaining the…
On Oct 26, 2018 Ivo Leito gave presentation titled Analytical chemistry education activities at University of Tartu at the EcoBalt 2018 conference in Vilnius (Lithuania). The presentation contains information about the on-line courses LC-MS Method Validation and Estimation of Measurement…
We are glad to announce that the third 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 27,…
During 29.09-10.10.2018 the EACH programme has been hosting visiting scholar, Prof. Narendra Nath Ghosh from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus (India). He conducted an intensive course Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology and their Applications…
Recently the Analytical chemistry group of University of Tartu participated in a cutting-edge research endeavor: characterizing the acidity of some extremely efficient strongly acidic organocatalysts. In the case of the Mukaiyama aldol reaction the best of them (1) worked at…
On September 6, 2018 the master thesis defence took place at University Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL). Dmitriy Chikhirev, Abhishek Sonu, Malika Beishanova and Marco Bertic (left to right on the photo) successfully defended their master’s theses! Congratulations to all…