43rd IUPAC Council Meeting
Nominee for Bureau
Paul De Bièvre
(Belgium)
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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