Portrait of Eric Ziemons

Lecturer in Pharmaceutical Green Analytical Chemistry.

Could you briefly describe your background, your research topics and your conception of university teaching?

Involved in university life since October 2000, I successfully defended my doctoral thesis in the Pharmaceutical Analytical Chemistry Laboratory of the ULiège Department of Pharmacy in 2006. I obtained the degree of Doctor in Pharmaceutical Sciences with the highest distinction. I then spent a post-doctoral period at Servier Research and Development Limited, Post Marketing Analytical Department in Wexham, England. My research focused on quality control in the broad sense of the term, and on combating drug adulteration using vibrational spectroscopy, in a GMP environment and in compliance with the relevant standards.

My research activities are naturally centered on vibrational spectroscopy and hyperspectral imaging in the near infrared, Raman and surface-excited Raman scattering fields, applied to pharmaceutical analysis, with the life cycle of methods and the concept of "green analytical chemistry" as structuring elements. More recently, they have also turned their attention to the biomedical field, without losing sight of the growing importance of chemometric tools for the analysis of complex, large-scale spectral and hyperspectral data.

In terms of teaching, its articulation and structure should enable bachelor's students to develop mainly skills linked to the scientific approach, a sense of responsibility and pharmaceutical expertise. Indeed, students have access to an almost infinite amount of information at their fingertips through search engines, databases and artificial intelligence. The difficulty today lies more in separating the wheat from the chaff than in knowledge as such, even if it remains the basic foundation. It is therefore essential to develop our students' capacity for rigorous reasoning as early as possible, with the help of a critical mind that is still in its infancy.

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