Research Page of Yvan Vander Heyden
Last update: 06/01/2006
GENERAL INFORMATION
CIVIL STATUS :
- Born 21 May 1964 in Ninove
- Married.
EDUCATION :
- 1998: Doctor in de Farmaceutische Wetenschappen (Doctor in
Pharmaceutical Sciences) with a thesis on "Ruggedness/robustness
testing in Method Validation"
- 1991: Pharmacist (VUB '91)
- 1986: Graduaat in de klinische chemie (Laboratory assistent
in clinical chemistry), Industriële Hogeschool van het
Rijk - CTL, Ghent, Belgium
ACADEMIC CAREER :
- 1991: interim assistant in the Laboratory for Pharmaceutical
and Biomedical Analysis (VUB, Prof. Massart)
- 1992: Research assistant of the Fund for Scientific Research
- Flanders (Belgium) in the Laboratory for Pharmaceutical and
Biomedical Analysis (VUB, Prof. Massart)
- 1996: assistant in the Laboratory for Pharmaceutical and
Biomedical Analysis (VUB, Prof. Massart)
- 1998: scientific researcher in the Laboratory for Pharmaceutical
and Biomedical Analysis (VUB, Prof. Massart)
- 1998: lecturer (lezinghouder) at the VUB in the master degree
program in Medical and Pharmaceutical Research
- 1999: Postdoctoral Fellow of the Fund for Scientific Research
- Flanders (Belgium) in the Laboratory for Pharmaceutical and
Biomedical Analysis (VUB, Prof. Massart)
- 2001: Guest professor, faculty Medicine-Pharmacy VUB, Lectures
in the GGS Medical and Pharmaceutical Research. Title course:
Introduction to Chromatography.
- 2003: part-time staff member "docent"
- 2004: full-time staff member "docent"
PRIZES :
- 1991: Upjohn prize for best student in the last three years
of the pharmacy education
- 2003: Laureate of the prize awarded by the fifth department
of the Royal Academy for Medecine of Belgium, period 2000-2002.
Title rewarded work: Robuustheidstesten voor biomedische en
farmaceutische analysemethoden (in Dutch) (Robustness tests
for biomedical and pharamceutical analysis)
STAYS ABROAD :
- 01/03/1993 - 31/03/1993 : Stay at the Kemijski institute
(dept. prof. Zupan), Hadjdrihova 19, Ljubljana 61115, Slovenia.
- Project : Application of neural networks in chemistry.
27/06/1994 - 22/07/1994 : Stay at Sandoz (Dept Analytische R&D
van Dr. F. Erni), Basel, Zwitserland.
Project : Ruggedness experiments in HPLC.
- 05/03/2001 - 30/03/2001 : Bicocca University, Milan, Italy,
dept. prof. R. Todeschini.
Project: application of software to calculate molecular descriptors
(Dragon software). 01/09/2001 - 31/08/2002 : University of Amsterdam,
The Netherlands, dept. prof. P. Schoenmakers.
Project: Contribution to better practices in size-exclusion
chromatography.
PRESENT STATUS:
- Full-time staff member "docent"
RESEARCH DOMAIN:
- Method development and optimisation
- Method validation (robustness testing)
- Separation techniques (e.g. HPLC, CE, CEC)
- Chemometrics in separation science, QSAR, QSRR and QSSR
- Other interests: Innovations in education
MEMBERSHIP OF LEARNED SOCIETIES :
- Belgisch Genootschap van Farmaceutische Wetenschappen (Belgian
Society of Pharmaceutical Sciences)
- Société Française des Sciences et Techniques
Pharmaceutiques
ADMINISTRATIVE FUNCTIONS :
- Former Assisting academic personnel's (AAP) representative
in the "Facultaire Navorsingscommissie" (1995-2000)
- AAP representative in the Faculty Board (1999-2003)
- Member of the faculty commision "Communicatie en Voorlichting"
(2001-2002)
- 2004-2005: Secretary of the OWC/Koepel Pharmaceutical Sciences
- 2005 - : Member of the Facultaire Navorsingscommissie
MEMBERSHIP OF COMMISSIONS :
- 01/2002 - 01/2006: corresponding member of the Belgian Pharmacopeia
commission
- 01/10/2004 - 30/09/2007: member of FWO (Fund for Scientific
Research) commission Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry
- 01/11/2004 - …: member of the Scientific Committee of
Arlenda s.a.
- Conferentia Chemometrica 2005 (CC2005), Hajdúszoboszló,
Hungary, August 28-31, 2005, International Organizing Committee
member
- Drug Analysis 2006, 8th International Symposium on Drug Analysis,
May 16-19, Namur, Belgium: International Scientific Committee
member
- 10th International Conference on Chemometrics in Analytical
Chemistry CAC-2006, 10-14 September 2006 in Campinas, Brazil:
Scientific Committee member
DOCTORATE JURIES :
- Member of the jury of doctoral theses at the Universities
of Bruxelles (VUB), Leuven, Belgium (KUL), Ghent, Belgium (UG),
Nijmegen, The Netherlands (RU), and Amsterdam, The Netherlands
(UvA)
MEMBERSHIP EDITORIAL BOARDS
- 2004 - 2006: Acta Chromatographica
- 2006 - 2008: Analytica Chimica Acta
COORDINATES:
Faculteit Geneeskunde en Farmacie
Farmaceutisch instituut
Dienst Analytische Scheikunde en FarmaceutischeTechnologie (FABI)
Laarbeeklaan 103
B-1090 Brussels Belgium
TEL: (+32) 2.477.47.23
FAX: (+32) 2.477.47.35
EMAIL: yvanvdh@vub.ac.be
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