Dr Gerhard Schlemmer

Received his Ph.D. in Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry (Dr. rer.nat.) in 1982 from the University of Braunschweig, Germany.

He was assistant lecturer at Braunschweig University for 3 years.

Between 1982 and 2001 he worked in various positions in applied research, product management, product support and market analysis at Bodenseewerk Perkin Elmer, Überlingen, Germany. He was involved in major developments in the field of method development and instrumentation in Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy.

From 2002 to 2011 he was an employee of Analytik Jena AG, Jena and Überlingen, Germany. He was head of the branch office AJ Überlingen for 8 years and director of Research and development of the Analytik Jena Corporation for 5 years.

 At this time his responsibilities covered atomic spectroscopy (AAS, CSAAS, ICP-OES), molecular absorption and fluorescence, elemental analysis and products for life science.

His publication activities include more than 80 papers, 4 book contributions and two monographs.

He was organizer of numerous symposia, conferences and tutorial courses worldwide.

He was chairman of the „Deutsche Arbeitskreis für Analytische Spektroskopie (DAAS) “the German Spectroscopy Society within the German Chemical Society (GDCh) for four years, vice chairman of the DAAS “Analytische Fachgruppe” of the GDCh for 8 years and board member of the executive board of the German Chemical Society (GDCh), a society with more than 30000 scientific members for 4 years.

In 2007 he received the Jerzy Fijalkowski Award of the Polish Spectroscopic Society and in 2010 the Medal of the Ioannes Marcus Marci Spectroscopic Society of the Czech Republic, both awards in recognition of outstanding contributions in Analytical Spectroscopy.

Since 2012 he is consultant for research and development of analytical instruments and scientific analytical projects in the field of Instrumental Analytical Chemistry.

In this function he was working on a regular consulting basis with various instrument manufacturers in Europe, China, and United States of America, mainly in the field of elemental optical spectroscopy.