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Prof. Marcel Maeder

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Position Professor
School of Environmental and Life Sciences
The University of Newcastle, Australia
Office C221, Chemistry

Biography

I am a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Chemometrics. Additionally, I regularly serve as referee for Inorganic Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry, Analytica Chimica Acta, Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems, Inorganic Reaction Mechanisms and others.

During the last five years I have been invited to several national and international conferences to deliver plenary and keynote lectures, including a Gordon Conference in 2005 [International Chemometrics Research Meeting (similar to Gordon Research Conference), Amsterdam, May 2002; Brazilian Chemical Society Annual Conference, Salvador, April 2004; and CCBA-2004, Shanghai, October 2004, Statistics In Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Gordon Conference, MA, USA July 2005]. I have acted as session chairperson on many of those conferences.

I have established a very active collaboration with Applied Photophysics Ltd., the leading manufacturer of stopped-flow instruments. The companys commercial software for their advanced kinetic analysis has been developed in our chemometrics group.

I am and have been supervising and co-supervising some 20 PhD projects. With few exceptions, the students went overseas for post-doc positions in well-regarded research laboratories (Universities of Geneva, Lausanne, Basel, ETH Z¿rich (all Switzerland), Ottawa, New York, Lund and Sydney.) Maintaining and enhancing this type of exchange is an important aspect of this application.

An invited monograph on data analysis "Practical Data Analysis in Chemistry" is presently in print, Elsevier 2007.

Qualifications

  • Habilitation (European Equiv to Doctor of Sc), University of Basel
  • PhD, University of Basel
  • Diploma (European Equiv to B Sc), University of Basel

Research

Research keywords

  • Evolving Factor Analysis
  • chemometrics
  • coordination chemistry
  • data analysis
  • data fitting
  • equilibrium investigations
  • kinetics
  • potentiometry
  • spectrophotometry
  • transition metal ions in aqueous solution

Research expertise

chemometrics

data analysis

data fitting

EFA

matlab programming

spectrophotometry

potentiometry

coordination chemistry

equilibrium investigations

kinetics

transition metal ions in aqueous solution

Languages

  • French
  • German

Fields of Research

Code Description Percentage
030699 Physical Chemistry Not Elsewhere Classified 40
030199 Analytical Chemistry Not Elsewhere Classified 30
030299 Inorganic Chemistry Not Elsewhere Classified 30

Centres and Groups

Centre

Memberships

Editorial Board.

  • Journal of Chemometrics

Invitations

Statistics in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
Gordon Resaerch Conference, United States (Conference Presentation - non published.)
2005
Practical Data Analysis in Chemistry
Elsevier , Netherlands (Invitation to write Monograph on Data Analysis)
2007
6th Iranian Chemometrics Workshop
The Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Iran, Iran (Islamic Republic of) (Conference Presentation - non published.)
2007
Brazilian Chemical Society Annual Conference
Brazilian Chemical Society Annual Conference, Brazil (Conference Presentation - non published.)
2004
Visiting Professor
University of Barcelona, Spain (Visiting Professor)
2000

Administrative

Administrative expertise

head of discipline

research group coordination

services to science, reviewing manuscripts, grant applications

editorial board of Journal of Chemometrics

Teaching

Teaching keywords

  • analytical chemistry
  • atomic absorption
  • coordination compounds
  • data analysis
  • environmental chemistry
  • equilibria
  • group theory
  • inorganic chemistry
  • instrumental methods
  • kinetics
  • optical methods
  • spectrophotometry
  • spectroscopy
  • structural analysis
  • thermodynamics
  • titrations

Teaching expertise

analytical chemistry

spectrophotometry

titrations

equilibria

instrumental methods

data analysis

optical methods

atomic absorption

inorganic chemistry

coordination compounds

spectroscopy

structural analysis

thermodynamics

kinetics

environmental chemistry

general chemistry

introductory general chemistry

group theory

data analysis

Courses