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43rd IUPAC Council Meeting

Nominee for Bureau

Paul De Bièvre (Belgium)

Paul De Bievre

Education
PhD at Gent University (Belgium) 1959
Assistant, then Lecturer at Gent University 1959-1961

Professional Experience, Membership, and IUPAC Activities
Central Bureau for Nuclear Measurements (1961-1998) of the European Commission,
called since 1993: Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements
Group Leader Isotope Mass Spectrometry and Isotope Reference Materials (1976-1991)
Division Head, Adviser on Reference Materials (1991-1998)
Adviser on Traceability (1994-1998)
Adviser on "Metrology in Chemistry" (1998-2001)

Head of the Unit "Stable Isotope Measurements" at IRMM (1991-1998).

Professor Antwerpen University (1972-1998) on Stable Isotope M.ass Spectrometry

Member, IUPAC International Commission on Atomic Weights and Isotope Abundances ICAW (1971-…), then CAWIA (…-…), now CIAAW (2001-...)

Chairman, IUPAC Subcommittee on the Assessment of the Isotopic Composition of the Elements SAIC (1975-1983) evaluating our present knowledge of the isotopic composition of the elements.

Member of the IUPAC Subcommittee on Isotope Abundance Measurements SIAM

Member of the IUPAC TICE project (Table of Isotopic Composition of the Elements)

Member IUPAC Inorganic Division Committee (1985-1993)

Founder, then Chairman, then Member IUPAC Commission on Isotope-specific Measurements as References (in Div II) (1989-1998)

Project Leader of the IUPAC Project on 'Metrological Traceability of Measurement Results in Chemistry' (2001-…)

Chairman Annual Meeting of responsibles of European Nuclear Analytical Laboratories in the European Research and Development Association (ESARDA) (1976-1996).

Founder of the Regular European Interlaboratory Measurement Evaluation Programme (REIMEP) (1977) (the first Metrological International Interlaboratory Comparison for U and Pu measurements)

Founder & Chairman Joint European Project for Primary Isotopic Measurements (JEPPIM) (1998-…)

Member IAEA Advisory Groups on "Reference Materials for the Nuclear Fuel Cycle" and on the "Quality of Safeguards Measurements"

Member of the International Scientific Advisory Committee of the Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK/CEN) in Mol and President of the Departemental Advisory Committee "Nuclear Chemistry and Fuel Cycle" at the same Centre (1988-1997)

President of the Belgian National Committee on Pure and Applied Chemistry of the Belgian Academies (1988-2005). Leader of the Belgian Delegation to IUPAC (1988-2005)

Member of the Comité Consultatif pour la Quantité de Matière (CCQM)) of the "Comité International des Poids et Mesures" (CIPM) at BIPM (1995-…)

Delegate of ISO/REMCO to CCQM (at BIPM)

Founder of the International Measurement Evaluation Programme (IMEP) (1986) (the first non-nuclear Metrological International Interlaboratory Comparison); IMEP programme leader 1988-1998

Co-founder of EURACHEM (1989); Chairman EURACHEM (1993-1995)

Co-founder (1992) and Member CITAC (Co-operation on International Traceability in Analytical Chemistry).

Founder of the Nuclear Signatures International Measurement Evaluation Programme (NUSIMEP) (the first Metrological International Interlaboratory Comparison for nuclear environmental measurements)

Editor-in-Chief "Accreditation and Quality Assurance" (SPRINGER Verlag) - Journal for Quality, Comparability and Reliability in Chemical Measurement (1996-...)

Member of the External Scientific Audit Team of the MiC Programme of the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), the National Metrology Institute of Germany (July 2002),
both in Braunschweig and Berlin

External Adviser on Metrology in Chemistry in Mexico, Australia, Singapore, Chile, Brasil, Egypt, Japan, Slovenia, China, Croatia, (1996-…), Thailand

Member of the Council Committee on Reference Materials REMCO to ISO in Genève (1986-2005) (incl Chair Steering Group I: International Coordination & Harmonization)

Member of the Joint Committee on the Guides for Metrology at the BIPM (Bureau International des Poids et Mesures) in Paris, carrying out the revision of the "International Vocabulary of Basic and General Terms in Metrology" (1998-…)

Member of the Technical Advisory Group TAG 4 on Metrology to ISO (2001-…)

Over 400 published papers in all of the above fields.

Promotor of 10 PhD theses on Metrology in Chemistry by citizens of Belgium, France, Luxemburg, Germany, Hellas, Brasil.

Education & Training seminars on Metrology in Chemistry or VIM in Sydney (AU), Koebenhavn (DK), Zagreb (HR), Moskva (RU), Quito (EC), Singapore (SG), Maribor & Ljubljana (SI), Tallinn & Tartu (EE), Sao Paulo (BR), Helsinki (FI), Stockholm (SE), Teddington (UK), Santiago de Chile & Antofagasta (CL), Vilnius (LT), Praha (CZ), Warszawa (PL), Bratislava (SK), Beijing (CN), Al Qahera (Cairo, EG), Tel Aviv (IL), Torino (IT), Queretaro (MX), Daejon (KR in 2005), Bangkok (TH) (2004 & 2005), HongKong (HK) (2005)

Adviser to the Journal of the Chinese Mass Spectrometry Society (2003-…)

 

 

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