The people of VibSpec
Drs. P. (Peter) de Peinder (email)
Peter
de Peinder (1967) studied Chemistry, Major Biochemistry, at Utrecht University
and became subsequently member of the Vibrational Spectroscopy department
as a junior scientist. He joined Philips Electronics B.V. in 1999 and
became senior scientist at the Material Analysis department of Philips
Research. From 2000-2004 he was part-time scientist at Utrecht University.
During this period he was tutor on several Infrared & Raman courses
at Universities in Holland, the UK and Iran, and at several industrial
sites. His main interest at the moment is (surface) enhanced IR and Raman
spectroscopy and multivariate data analysis.
In 2004 he founded VibSpec in collaboration with professor van der Maas
to continue the courses previously run by Utrecht University, and to meet
the demands as regards training, software and consultancy services in
the field of Vibrational Spectroscopy. August 2006 he left Philips Research
and he fully focussed on his activities for VibSpec. He is a board member
of the Dutch Infrared
& Raman Discussion Group.
Since
2008 he is also a boardmember of the Section
Analytical Chemistry (SAC) of the Dutch
Royal Chemical Society (KNCV).
Prof. Dr. J. (Joop NL /John UK) H. van der Maas (email)
Professor
Joop H. van der Maas (1936) studied chemistry at Utrecht University and
subsequently carried out research in infrared spectroscopy. He became
leader of the Infrared and Raman Group in 1962, obtained his doctors degree
in 1965 and was appointed full professor of Spectrochemical Analysis in
1980. He was head of the department of Vibrational Spectroscopy until
October 2001, when he retired and became Emeritus Professor. Research
in the field of infrared was focused on functional group analysis, hydrogen
bonding, surface studies, computer supported information acquisition,
and the development of new techniques.
He is (co-)author of more than 200 scientific papers in peer-reviewed
journals, author of the book "Basic Infrared Spectroscopy" (1969),
one of the editors of "Laboratory Methods in Vibrational Spectroscopy"
(1987). Also he designed and edited “The Interpretation of Infrared
Spectra”, an audio-visual course in 8 lessons. He is founder (1990)
and Editor of Vibrational Spectroscopy (an Elsevier journal), and he is
on the Editorial Board of Material Science, an Interdisciplinary Journal
of Physics, Chemistry and Technology of Materials. He served on the board
of several Organising Committees of International Conferences in the field
of Molecular Spectroscopy, in particular Vibrational Spectroscopy. He
lectured as of the start in 1965 at the Annual International Infrared
Course at Utrecht University. Also he was and is lecturer at several Courses
on Vibrational Spectroscopy in the UK, USA, Norway, Iran and other countries.
He is a member of the Dutch Royal Society of Chemistry, the Society for
Applied Spectroscopy, and Honorary Member of the Infrared and Raman Group,
UK.
