Webcast: Tracing nutrient markers and potential contaminants in food with XRF

Pascal Lemberge is an XRF applications specialist at Thermo Fisher Scientific. His current role is to support sales and marketing as well as R&D through application development, analysis of customer samples, demonstration of instruments, and training. With several years of EDXRF experience, he also provides input for the R&D group and is involved in the development of new hardware and software features. Pascal obtained a PhD at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, with a concentration on spectrum evaluation and multivariate calibration techniques for EDXRF. During a short post-doctoral fellowship, he participated in the development of a new EDXRF instrument that would serve as a quality control tool in the silicon wafer industry. For a 6-year intermezzo, he was a development chemist at Chevron, working on new recipes that improve the corrosion inhibition characteristics of coolants for the automotive industry. In 2009, he returned to the XRF world by joining Thermo Fisher Scientific to support and further develop their ARL QUANT’X EDXRF spectrometer.