Calibration of an Analytical Measuring System - is it a Problem?

Prof. Wolfhard Wegscheider
General and Analytical Chemistry at the Montanuniversitaet Leoben, Austria
Eurachem Chair 2014-2016 General

Wolfhard Wegscheider is Professor of General and Analytical Chemistry at the Montanuniversitaet Leoben Austria. He received his education from the Graz University of
Technology majoring in Technical Chemistry with a specialisation in Biochemistry and Food Chemistry. His diploma thesis and doctoral thesis were in Analytical Chemistry with an
emphasis on trace analysis and environmental analysis. As Fulbright Scholar he worked in Denver, CO, mainly on energy-dispersive X-ray fluorescence spectrometry.
Much of his research centers on the development of chemometric procedures for analytical chemical problems. He is also co-author of the textbook on Analytical Chemistry featuring the DAC FECS-Curriculum that was first published in March 1998 and a member of the editorial board and contributor to the Encyclopedia of Analytical Sciences (Academic Press).

W.W. is member of several learned societies such as GDCh, GOECh, CITAC, Co-operation on International Traceability in Analytical Chemistry, EURACHEM where he is also member of the Working Group on Education and Training, of the Working Group on Measurement Uncertainty and Traceability and of the EURACHEM Executive. In both, EURACHEM and CITAC he also served as Chairman. After a term as President he currently is Member of the Board of Directors of the Austrian Society of Analytical Chemistry – ASAC. In 2010 he has been appointed Fellow of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC).

He is a consultant to the Austrian Federal Ministry for Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management, a lead auditor in the Austrian Accreditation of Laboratories System and an Editorial Advisor of Journals such as MIKROCHIMICA ACTA, SPECTROCHIMICA ACTA ELECTRONICA, CHEMOMETRICS AND INTELLIGENT LABORATORY
SYSTEMS and ACCREDITATION AND ANALYTICAL QUALITY ASSURANCE.

From 1995 to 2001 he served as Dean of Graduate Studies of Montanuniversitaet Leoben, and from 2003 to 2011 as Rektor (President) of this Institution. Presently he is chair of the Board of Trustees of OeAD GmbH, the Austrian Agency for International Cooperation in Education and Research, and has resumed the position of Chair of Eurachem (www.eurachem.org) for the period 2014 – 2016.

He is married to Susanne W., a professional pharmacist and has one son, Stefan and two daughters, Beate and Eva, and three grandchildren.