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Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)
Gavin O’Connor was born in Dublin and completed a Diploma in analytical chemistry at Athlone Institute of Technology, Ireland, in 1993. He continued his studies in analytical chemistry to B.Sc. level in the UK before completing his PhD in mass spectrometry at the University of Plymouth in 1998. From here he took up a position in the Chemical Metrology group at LGC (the UK’s Designated Institute for chemical and bio-measurement) where he developed reference methods for the certification of reference materials using isotope dilution mass spectrometry (IDMS). In 2013 he moved to the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre, were he worked on the reference methods for priority food allergens. In 2018 he took up a joint appointment as Head of Department of Biochemistry at Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), the National Metrology Institute of the Federal Republic of Germany, and Professor of Biochemical Metrology at TU Braunschweig.
Activities
Gavin O’Connor is a Fellow of the UK’s Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC, CChem.). He was Chair of the British Mass Spectrometry Society from 2016 to 2018, having previously been Meetings Secretary and General Secretary. From 2010 to 2013, he was EURAMET Convenor of the Organic Analysis sub-committee on Metrology in Chemistry, and from 2011 to 2014 he was an Intercontinental Advisory Board member for Accreditation and Quality Assurance. In 2010, Gavin O’Connor was an invited lecturer on the NIST sponsored MSc on Metrology in Chemistry at the University of Maryland, and between 2000 and 2013 the UK representative on Organic Analysis, BIPM Consultative Committee for Amount of Substance: Metrology in Chemistry and Biology (CCQM). His ResearcherID for publications is D-9767-2016.
Focus
Gavin O’Connor is Head of Department for Biochemistry at Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) and Professor of Biochemical Metrology at the Technical University of Braunschweig. Having previously worked at LGC in the UK and the European Commission’s, Joint Research Centre, his research has focused the provision of metrologically traceable results for the characterization of reference materials using IDMS. The focus of the Department of Biochemistry at PTB is on the development of high accuracy measurement procedures for clinically relevant targets.
Methods
World Metrology Day is celebrated annually on the 20th of May and this year’s focus on health provides an opportunity to emphasize the importance of comparable and reliable measurement (…)
World's first optical atomic clock with highly charged ions
Optical atomic clocks are the most accurate measuring instruments ever built and are becoming key tools for basic and applied research, for example to test the constancy of natural constants or for height measurements in geodesy. Now, researchers at the QUEST Institute at the Physikalisch-T ... more
Scientists from the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) have implemented a novel pressure measurement method, quasi as a byproduct of the work on the "new" kelvin. In addition to being new, this procedure is a primary method, i.e. it only depends on natural constants. As an independ ... more
Don't Give the Slightest Chance to Toxic Elements in Medicinal Products
Lead, cadmium, mercury, and arsenic do not belong in medicinal products. International requirements for the quality of medicines have therefore become more stringent and introduced new control requirements. Hence, it makes sense to use high-accuracy reference solutions with defined contents ... more
The importance of traceability in laboratory medicine
World Metrology Day is celebrated annually on the 20th of May and this year’s focus on health provides an opportunity to emphasize the importance of comparable and reliable measurement results in laboratory medicine. more
How the Avogadro constant was measured for the last time
Since the 20th of May 2019, the mass unit kilogram is no longer defined by the international kilogram prototype but by the numerical value of the Planck constant, the most important fundamental constant in quantum physics. For this definition, the Planck constant needed to be measured with ... more
Natural constants take center stage
The 20th of May 2019 is a special day. From that day on, the old definitions of what a kilogram, a mole, an ampere and a kelvin represent, are history. The future of the International System of Units will see natural constants play the star roles. more
André Henrion, born in 1957, studied chemistry at Humboldt-University in Berlin, where he received his doctorate in 1988 in the field of Physical Organic Chemistry. After working at the Academy of Sciences in Berlin for a short period he moved on to the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt ... more
Rüdiger Ohlendorf, born in 1959, studied chemical engineering with a focus on instrumental analysis at the Münster University of Applied Sciences. After working at ISAS (Institute for Spectrochemistry and Applied Spectroscopy) and at Schering AG, he moved on to the Physikalisch-Technische B ... more
Christine Brauckmann, born in 1985, studied chemistry at the Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster and received her diploma degree there. In 2012, she completed her PhD in analytical chemistry with its focus on speciation analysis and started working at the Physikalisch-Technische Bund ... more
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