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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…

The first year of the EACH program takes place in Estonia, the northest of the Baltic countries. During their studies, the EACH students also explore Estonian nature and culture. Maico Lechner (EACH intake 2021) tried out one of the most…

Recently Nikola Radoman (2017 alumnus of the first EACH intake) defended his PhD. Read below what he has to say about the experience. Nikola: „I have successfully defended my PhD thesis in Analytical Chemistry titled “Enrichment of biogenic and anthropogenic…

Every year the Chemical Society in Uppsala recognizes the best degree projects in chemistry. This year, the Grand Award was rewarded to Siyuan Qui for his 2022 Master’s thesis. His supervisor Mark Dennis Retrato (an EACH 2020 alumnus), accepted the…

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…

A recent ranking of the world universities has been published by The Times Higher Education (THE). THE is a British journal known for the most reliable rankings of the world’s universities. For the first time, the University of Tartu has…

We are glad to announce that the seventh edition of the online course LC-MS Method Validation is open for registration (here)! The course will be offered as a Massive Open On-line Course (MOOC) during Nov 22, 2022 – Feb 03, 2023. This is…

Naela Delmo (EACH 2022 graduate) wrote about her experience with the EACH programme. “As this month comes to an end, I am happy to share that I have successfully defended my master’s thesis and officially completed my degree of Master…

During the summer of 2022, the 6th edition of EACH students successfully graduated from the programme. By now, most of them have managed to secure a new position – 15 out of the 16 graduates from the intake 2020 have…

Viktoriia Turkina (EACH 2022 graduate of UCBL study-track) gives insight to her EACH journey: “There are not enough words to express my gratitude for giving me an opportunity to be a part of EACH. The day I received my admission…

The recent EACH graduates of the AAU study-track – Naela, Raegan, Angelo, Majid, Bojida, and John Paulo look back at their time in the EACH programme: “Finishing a master’s degree is incredibly challenging. Moreso, when doing it in the midst…

The new EACH and AMS intake has started exploring Tartu and with it, Estonian history and culture! Merili (in the picture – in the middle of the front row), one of the newest EACH master students wrote about their visit…

On Thursday, September 1st 2022, five EACH students at UCBL defended their master’s theses. During the last semester, Viktoriia, Thuong, Yu-Yen, Noemae, and Pamela (see picture) worked on their master’s theses at different industrial institutions such as Axel’One, Servier, Elkem…

On August 26, 2022, six EACH students – Angelo, Majid, Naela, Raegan, Bojidar, and Paulo (see picture), successfully defended their master theses at Åbo Akademi University (AAU), Finland. The electroanalytical topics the students worked on were traditional to AAU study-track…

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…

Our group recently published a new article Non-invasive analysis of natural textile dyes using fluorescence excitation-emission matrices, Talanta, 2022, 123805 led by Sigrid Selberg and Elsa Vanker. In this study, multidimensional front-face fluorescence spectroscopy measured from surfaces using a fiber…

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…

Lukas Ramašauskas (EACH 2022 graduate) wrote about his experience with the EACH programme. “The last two years were like a roller coaster for me. Changing the field from biotechnology to analytical chemistry was rather challenging and successful at the same…

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…

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…