
Raffaele Vitale from Universitat Politècnica de València (left) received the 5th Siemens Process Analytics Prize from Johanna Rühl on behalf of Siemens and German Joint Working Group „Prozessanalytik“ (Photo: M. Maiwald)
On occasion of the EuroPACT Conference 2017 in Potsdam near Berlin, Germany, the German Joint Working Group „Prozessanalytik“ in cooperation with Siemens has awarded the 5th Siemens Process Analytics Prize to a young scientist for an outstanding publication in the field of Process Analytics. The prize is endowed with € 1.500. An EUROPACT 2015 prize committee has selected the winner.
The prize was awarded on May 12th, 2017 in Potsdam to Raffaele Vitale, Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain for the outstanding publication in the field of process analytics
Abel Folch-Fortuny, Raffaele Vitale, Onno E. de Noord, Alberto Ferrer, “Calibration transfer between NIR spectrometers: New proposals and a comparative study” Journal of Chemometrics, 2017 (in Press), https://doi.org/10.1002/cem.2874
This is a very accurate and thorough paper – a very comprehensible and excellent work with importance to the community. The subject is practical oriented and represents not only a simple application study. The subject is fully within a process analytical context. The publications clearly stands out from others in that field.

Photos: M. Maiwald
Two more awards for the best posters were given to Markus Lichti and Dr. Lena Bressel. Each prize is endowed with 400 € (DECHEMA).
- Markus Lichti (Uni Kaiserslautern)
In-line acquisition of particle size distributions
- Lichti1; H. Bart1; 1 TU Kaiserslautern, Lehrstuhl für Thermische Verfahrenstechnik,
Kaiserslautern/D
- Dr. Lena Bressel (Uni Potsdam/innoFSPEC, Potsdam)
Determination of particle/droplet size distributions in highly filled dispersions by Photon Density Wave spectroscopy
- Bressel1; R. Hass1; O. Reich1; 1 University of Potsdam, Institute of Chemistry, Physical
Chemistry – innoFSPEC, Potsdam/D