On Jun. 12, Heinz Wilhelm Siesler from University of Duisburg-Essen Visited Jiangsu University. Prof. Heinz Wilhelm Siesler was appointed part-time professor of Jiangsu University. At the ceremony, Chen Long, the vice President, granted prof. Heinz Wilhelm Siesler a letter of appointment, pinned a Jiangsu University emblem for him. After the ceremony, prof. Siesler made a lecture entitled The Near-InFrared Region, A Plea for an Under＆#118alued Wavelength Range of Vibrational Spectroscopy.

Heinz Wilhelm Siesler is a tenured professor of Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Duisburg-Essen. Prof. Siesler holds a PhD in Chemistry, University of Vienna, Austria. He has more than 40 years of experience in Feasibility studies with handheld Raman, mid-/near-infrared spectrometers. During this period, He was won prizes, including Eastern Analytical Symposium Award in Near-Infrared Spectroscopy, Somerset, NJ, USA; Tomas Hirschfeld Award in recognition of outstanding contributions in the field of Near-Infrared Spectroscopy, PITTCON 2000, New Orleans, USA ; Büchi Award in Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (shared with Prof. Dr. S. Tsuchikawa, University of Nagoya, Japan) for outstanding contributions in the field of Near-Infrared Spectroscopy, Essen, Germany.

Prof. Siesler has finished more than 200 publications in peer-reviewed journals (including three monographs) and more than 250 lectures worldwide (including many plenary, key-note and invited lectures). Prof. Siesler has raised more than 5 million Euros research/project funds from industrial and public sources.

Prof. Siesler is a member of numerous international conference committees and has organized several international congresses in the field of vibrational spectroscopy. In 2012 he has been appointed a Fellow of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy (USA) and a Member of the NIR Working Group of the European Pharmacopoeia Commission (Strasbourg, France).

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