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Anyone wishing to contribute articles or web pages to our web site, or with information or suggestions for improvements and additions, is encouraged to contact us by email to Thomas (suppress the Nospam first)
Richard Payling has founded these websites and has actually written most of the pages. Richard was native from Newcastle in New South Wales, Australia. He had a broad interest in science. In his earlier years he mostly worked on electron spectroscopy, at BHP in Australia. Still at BHP he purchased one for the first rf-GDOES instruments commercially available. At this time he got infected by the "glow virus", and spent much time in developing this analytical technique, writing scientific articles and books on the subject. After leaving BHP, he worked as consultant for Horiba Jobin Yvon in France, where he could concentrate on spectroscopic analytical methods and his favourite the glow discharge. Dick created this site, because he genuinely trusted that spreading knowledge, scientific knowledge, will eventually make the world a better place to live in.
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Lara Lobo Revilla currently works on her PhD in Chemistry at the University in Oviedo Spain. She spends most her working hours with Tofito, the rf-gd-TOFMS. Tofito is currently subject of a European project EMDPA, Elemental and Molecular Depth Profile Analysis. Lara contributed to the Spectroscopy Net following training organised in Antwerp 2007.as part of Gladnet activities. Lara, togehter with Karl Preiss summarised the course on
Atomic Spectroscopy given by Prof. Edward Steers and made the badic ideas of the course available for the general public. The photo shows Lara meeting a few photons during the experimental session of the training course. She may be more familiar with ions and the speed of the photons when leaving the spectrometer was rather surprising for her.
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Elisa Barisone is an Italian national, born in Asti - spumante, palio,
sagre....
After graduating in Physics in Alessandria, she first worked in the
field of nuclear medicine in Turin (Mauriziano “Umberto I” Hospital) and
than joint the CERN for two years as a stipend of the "Association for
the development of Piemonte". During her work at CERN she was mainly
interested in mechanical properties of newly developed materials used in
the Large Hadron Collider. She employed a large variety of techniques,
ranging from optical microscope to tensile testing at liquid helium
temperature.
She joins Gladnet as Early Stage Researcher at EMPA in Thun (Switzerland) for working on her PhD subject: Pulsed RF GD analysis of
non-conductive thin films and she also has enrolled as a post-graduate
student at the Université Paul Sabatier, in Toulouse France.
In her spare time, she enjoys cooking Italian food and having “Fiestas”
with nice and funny people listening jazz and blues music.
Elisa contributed to The Spectroscopy Net with some comments on Einstein coefficients .
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Lydie Salsac, is trained as a materials
engineer specialised in thin film characterisation and thin
film development. Lydie is French, but did her masters at EMPA in Switzerland working
on the effect of hydrogen on an argon glow discharge. During
her studies and practical work she has gained experience in
several different surface characterisation techniques including,
SEM, AFM and GD-OES/MS. Having finished her studies she recently found a new job opportunity. Over the last years she
has also been strongly involved in social work, mainly dealing
with young children. In her spare time she enjoys playing
piano or reading a book, if it is a thriller.
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Karl Preis studied technical physics at the Technical University in Graz/Austria. He made his master thesis at the Subsecond Thermophysics Group at the Institute for Experimental Physics at the Technical University Graz. After receiving his degree he started working on his PhD thesis at voestalpine Stahl in Linz in Austria. There he is working on the characterisation of different steel surfaces by using GD – OES. http://www.voestalpine.com/ag/en.html.
Karl contributed to the page on
atomic structure . His contribution is based on the lectures held at the Gladnet training course in Antwerp.
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Giovanni Lotito has performed his physics diploma and master studies at the University of Rome " La Sapienza" where he graduated as a master of science in physics. At that time Giovanni worked on nano electrodes for molecular electronics at the Italian research centre ENEA - Casaccia near Rome. One of the techniques used for the fabrication of nano-electrodes was Pulsed Laser Ablation.
After receiving his degree he decided to join GLADNET as a Marie Curie RTN early stage researcher working for Tofwerk AG
in Thun Switzerland, on coupling laser ablation and glow discharges. More information about his research project is available on the Gladnet website.
Giovanni together with Aranka Derzsi contributed to the
optics part of The Spectroscopy Net
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James Whitby originally trained as a chemist in the UK but has since spent longer working in disguise as a physicist. For most of this time he has used mass spectroscopic techniques to measure elemental isotope ratios in extraterrestrial material, but he occasionally dabbles in optical spectroscopy. His biggest (only) claim to fame is to have been awarded a Guinness Book of Records certificate for radiometrically dating the Universe’s oldest water. He currently lives in Switzerland where the beautiful scenery compensates for the lack of English beer and deep fried food.
James contributes to The Spectroscopy Net web-sites as part of his acitivities within in the European projects EMDPA and Gladnet.
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Geoffrey Tyler is a specialist for the
ICP analysis technique. He is English, has worked many years
for Varian in Australia, where he improved his accent. Geoff
lives today in France and works for Horiba
Jobin Yvon, where he met Dick. His contribution to the web-sides
has been very valuable. He has particularly participated in
creating the ICP
part of the spectroscopy net. However, Geoff is not only
interested in ICP, he also enjoys telling good jokes.
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Thomas Nelis takes currently care of The
Spectroscopy Net, Glow-Discharge.com and Gladnet.eu. He has recently (12.07) moved to Toulouse, France to join the Laboratory LAPLACE. He tries to concentrate on glow discharge physics and plasma diagnosis. Until then he worked
at EMPA, Materials Science
and Technology, in Thun, Switzerland. In Thun he worked on glow discharge and Raman spectroscopy. Thomas carries a German
passport but claims being of European nationality. On this point,
it is not quite clear whether he is ahead or far behind historic
evolution, usually the latter option applies. In his spare time
he enjoys drinking water as long as it is highly alloyed. His
preferred beers are Päffgen Kölsch and Tanglefoot
bitter.
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