Teaching

TRACK COORDINATOR

Dr. Bob Pirok

E-MAIL: Bob.Pirok@uva.nl

For a scientist, the highest impact possible can be attained by teaching to the next generation. We are therefore very proud that we have embedded our research throughout our teaching activities. We have a broad expertise in teaching analytical chemistry to undergraduate, graduate and PhD students.

On this page our general teaching activities are listed.

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Research Projects & Internships

Our labs and research lines are open to students who seek internship possibilities in separation sciences, mass spectrometry, data analysis and method optimization.

We are proud that many of our alumni students are featured prominently on our publications.

Projects and literature studies are available on any of our research lines and projects. We also support many public-private projects with industry and society.

Courses

Amsterdam hosts joint-degree programs in undergraduate (BSc) and graduate (MSc) Chemisty between the University of Amsterdam and VU University Amsterdam.

We are proud to coordinate, teach and contribute to many courses throughout these educational programs and also coordinate the curriculum of the analytical sciences track of the MSc degree Chemistry.

  • Advanced Separation Sciences (MSc)

    This course builds on top of the concepts explained in the Separation Sciences course. Advanced techniques are treated, including field flow fractionation (FFF), two-dimensional liquid chromatography (2D-LC), hyphenated separations, chiral separations, supercritical fluid chromatograhy (SFC).

  • Characterization Methods for Problem Solving (MSc)

    The demands for successful applications of analytical chemistry in industry extend beyond separation technology, mass spectrometry and spectroscopy. This course will therefore introduce students to several other analytical techniques that are highly relevant to industry and society including elemental analysis and microscopy. The course also devotes attention to quality systems, regulatory systems and problem solving, and features guest lectures by experts throughout industry and society.

  • Chemometrics & Statistics (MSc)

    In this course, students learn to program chemometric and statistical methods to investigate analytical data using a high-level programming language. These include data exploration and visualization, design of experiments, validation, statistical inference, hypothesis testing, and calibration, applied to univariate and multivariate data. Students will also be able to conduct signal processing to find and process useful information from signals obtained by instrumental analytical techniques.

  • Essentials of Analytical Chemistry (BSc)

    This courses introduces undergraduate students to analytical workflows, chemometrics and statistics, and separation sciences. Techniques such as gas chromatography, liquid chromatography and capillary electrophoresis are extensively treated. A significant component of this course comprises of gaining practical experiments with all three of these techniques.

  • Protein Analysis (MSc)

    This course covers basic principles in protein analysis and the application of various analytical methods in biochemistry, molecular biology, and biotechnology. Some of the focus points of this course include qualitative and quantitative protein determination, chromatographic and electrophoretic techniques, sample treatment procedures, and affinity-based separation methods.

  • Mass Spectrometry (MSc)

    The course covers basic principles in mass spectrometry (MS) and the application of the method in chemistry, life sciences and environmental sciences. Some of the focus points of this course include structure determination, mass analyzers, molecular ionization methods, and hyphenation.

  • Separation Sciences (MSc)

    This course treats analytical separation science to great detail. Fundamental concepts of chromatography and electrophoresis are treated including retention mechanisms, band broadening processes, electrophoretic migration. The established technique comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography is also discussed.

Analytical Separation Science Textbook

The aim of this book is to teach (almost) all the important aspects of analytical separation sciences to students and practicing analysts at various points in their careers. For those new to separation science, it features Basic modules in which fundamental concepts and analytical practice are described. Master modules provide more in-depth treatments intended for graduate students. Advanced modules bring the reader to the current frontiers of separation sciences and encourage further reading.

The book features ten chapters that broadly cover analytical separation science. Emphasis is on the main analytical separation techniques of gas chromatography, liquid chromatography and capillary electrophoresis, but due attention is paid to a number of other methods and to sample preparation. Knowledge on statistics and chemometrics is provided, so that separation scientists can obtain relevant information from analytical data. Finally, the book describes how a sound understanding can be used to successfully develop optimal separation methods.

Analytical Separation Science - Bob W.J. Pirok & Peter J. Schoenmakers