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Brian Brookman
Brian Brookman Consulting Ltd
Brian Brookman
Brian Brookman Consulting Ltd
Brian Brookman, formerly the Chief Scientific Officer for LGC’s global proficiency testing (PT) business, and now working as an independent consultant on PT, has over forty-five years’ experience in analytical science, the past thirty years in the field of analytical quality, particularly concerned with PT. He has been involved, around the world, in various training and consultative projects concerned with developing PT and the accreditation of PT providers.
Brian is very active at the national, European and international level with respect to the development and harmonisation of good practice in PT. He is currently Chair of the ILAC Accreditation Issues Committee 17043 Working Group, Chair of the Eurachem PT Working Group, Chair of the EA-Eurolab-Eurachem (EEE) Joint Working Group on PT in Accreditation and Chair of the UK Working Group on PT. He was an ILAC liaison on the ISO/CASCO Working Group that revised ISO/IEC 17043, and is an ILAC liaison on the ISO Committee responsible for the development of ISO 13528.
Raquel Múrtula
IELAB
Raquel Múrtula
IELAB
Raquel Múrtula Corbí is a Pharmacist and expert in microbiology in the environmental field for more than 20 years. As technical manager of the microbiology department in ielab, since 2007 she is focused on the development, certification and commercialization of microbiological reference material. She is also in charge of the management of microbiological proficiency testing schemes. Raquel is member of Eurachem-PT and EEE-PT working groups since 2015, author or coauthor of 15 scientific publications and participant of several conferences.
Caroline Laurent
BIPEA
Caroline Laurent
BIPEA
With a technical education in biology and a graduate of the Ecole Supérieure de Gestion de Paris, C. LAURENT held the position of General Manager for 10 years within a software publishing group for medical biology laboratories. Her overall professional background combines both technical responsibilities and business development. The medical environment being a highly regulated sector, she is particularly familiar with standardization and quality processes in general. With a strong service culture and experienced in managing multidisciplinary teams, C. LAURENT, as Director of BIPEA since 2013, she aims at pursuing Proficiency testings & associated services’ development and progress.
Kees van Putten
QLIP
Kees van Putten
QLIP
In 1981 graduated with specialization, analytical chemistry. After five and a half years at the laboratory of the Ministry of Finance (Amsterdam), he started working at TNO-Nutrition in Zeist in 1987 where he was employed in various analytical chemical and technological positions. Due to its strong affinity with statistics and his increasing role in proficiency testing, he became project manager proficiency testing at TNO-Quality of Life in Zeist in 2006.
In 2008 he became project manager proficiency testing for DUCARES B.V., an independent and autonomous TNO company and a leading research and contract laboratory.
In 2019 he is appointed as senior scientist at Trilogy Europe B.V., established in Arnhem the Netherlands. Since December 2023 as senior product specialist at Qlip, a quality assurance company in dairy, Zutphen the Netherlands
He is specialized in proficiency testing, reference material, QC, statistics, analysis, auditing and consultancy, but also experienced in giving lectures, active in various NEN working groups and is a member of the Eurachem PT and RM working group.
Marzia Mancin
IZSVE
Marzia Mancin
IZSVE
Marzia Mancin is a Lead Statistician at the Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie (IZSVe), where she provides statistical consulting and develops methodologies for national and international projects in the field of food safety and veterinary public health. With over 20 years of experience, she has been deeply involved in the design, implementation, and evaluation of proficiency testing (PT) schemes.
Her work focuses on statistical methods for laboratory quality control, and she serves as the statistical lead for both international PT schemes (FAO and WOAH) and national programmes (AQUA). Marzia is a technical expert for ISO/IEC 17043 and ISO 13528 for Accredia, and a member of the ISO/TC 69 Technical Committee and the Eurachem Proficiency Testing Working Group.
She has co-authored over 50 peer-reviewed publications and is actively involved in scientific dissemination and professional training.
Piotr Robouch
European Commission
Piotr Robouch
European CommissionPiotr Robouch is a Senior Scientist at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, with more than two decades of experience in the development, coordination, and evaluation of proficiency testing across multiple sectors, including GMO analysis, food contact materials, feed additives, and food allergens. Contributed to the drafting of previous editions of ISO 17043 and ISO 13528, and has extensive expertise in the statistical interpretation of proficiency testing results. Serves as Vice-Chair of the Eurachem Proficiency Testing Working Group and acts as editor of the Eurachem PT leaflets. An experienced trainer, regularly delivering advanced courses on the statistical evaluation of proficiency testing data.