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Activities 2009

Annual Report 2009

The DAC Board has a strong vision to reinforce international cooperation, especially with the analytical divisions of other European societies and in particular divisions of analytical chemistry from Germany and Austria.

The Board continued to work on the mapping of analytical science education at Swiss Universities (ETH, Universities and Universities of Applied Sciences). International visibility of high-level analytical research in Switzerland is strongly supported by the DAC Board through travel grants to Ph.D. students and postdocs to present their work at high-level conferences.

The DAC Board members have prioritized new activities that will be realized as soon as funds from the newly created SCS Foundation become available, in particular ‘Maturaarbeiten’ and the support of the organization of analytical symposiums in Switzerland.

The Applica 2009 Conference was hold from the 16 to 17 June 2009 in Olten. The organizers, Dr. Roland Looser and his team, have set up an attractive program around protein and environment analytics, which obtained a very good response from the numerous participants.

The DAC owns shares in the Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry (ABC) journal. In the reporting year, the Polish Chemical Society accepted the terms offered to become the first Central European co-owning society of ABC. Through integration ABC is developing as a strong European analytical journal. With a 16% rise of the impact factor to 3.328 (2008) ABC belongs now to the top 10 journal in analytical chemistry. As a service to our members and thanks to the excellent work of Dr. Ernst Halder, our webmaster, all DAC members can access the ABC journal online via our website.

Thanks to the work of Dr. Veronika Meyer, the Highlights of Analytical Chemistry in Switzerland column in CHIMIA again received a strong response. We thank Veronika R. Meyer for her hard work and congratulate her on the success of the publication!

As every year, our Division offers a strong educational program of courses covering a wide range of analytical fields. Over 300 people were trained in around 50 courses hold in French and German. We thank the Training Team and all the trainers for the excellent program and the tremendous work that made this program attractive and successful. The program of upcoming courses can be seen on our website http://www.sach.ch/ausb_d.html.

As the new chairman of the DAC, elected in September, I would like to thank in particular Dr. Fritz Erni, the former chair of DAC, for his leadership and strong commitments over many years, all our Division members and especially our Board members for their support, dedication and excellent cooperation.

Prof. Gérard Hopfgartner, President