Research Page of Juan Antonio Fernández Pierna

CIVIL STATUS:
- Born 24 June 1973 in Zaragoza (Aragon - Spain).
- Spanish nationality
EDUCATION:
- 1998 Ph.D. student in Pharmaceutical Sciences.
  »Department of Pharmaceutical & Biomedical Analysis - Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
- Degree in Physical Chemistry-granted after 5 years.
  »University of Zaragoza ( Spain ).
- Diploma in the treatment of industrial and urban waste.
  »Fostering unit-city hall of Zaragoza ( Spain ).
- Course: "chemistry in vegetable tinned"
  Chemistry association in Aragón and Navarra (ANQUE)
EXPERIENCE:

1999 Research stay in TOTALFINA refinery (15/9-15/10/1999).
»Le Havre (France)

1997 Research project for Iberyeso-BPB (4 months).
»Gelsa (Zaragoza-Spain)
RESEARCH TOPICS:

Chemometrics (Multivariate Calibration, Modeling, inhomogeneities detection).

Analytical chemistry (Near-Infrared Spectroscopy, Signal processing).
PUBLICATIONS:

"An improved algorithm for clustering tendency"
J.A. Fernández Pierna & D.L. Massart
Analytica Chimica Acta 408 (2000) 13-20
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"Direct Orthogonalization: some case studies"
J.A. Fernández Pierna, D.L. Massart, O.E. de Noord, Ph. Ricoux
Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems 55 (2001) 101-108
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"Methods for outlier detection in prediction"
J.A. Fernández Pierna, F. Wahl, O.E. de Noord & D.L. Massart
Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems 63 (2002) 27-39
Special issue "Chimiométrie 2000"
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"Inhomogeneity detection in prediction with PLS"
J.A. Fernández Pierna, L. Jin, M. Daszykowski, F. Wahl, D.L. Massart
Proceeding in the 2^nd International Symposium on PLS and related methods October 2001, Capri (Italy).
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Submitted to "Special issue PLS-2001"Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems

"An evaluation of the PoLiSh-Smoothed regression and the Monte-Carlo Cross-Validation for the determination of the complexity of a PLS model"
S. Gourvenec, J.A. Fernández Pierna, D.L. Massart & D. N. Rutledge
Proceeding in the 2^nd International Symposium on PLS and related methods October 2001, Capri (Italy).
Submitted to "Special issue PLS-2001"Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems

"Susceptibility testing of pathogenic fungi with itraconazole: a process analysis of test variables"
B. Rambali, J. A. Fernández Pierna, L. Van Nuffel, F. Woestenborghs, L. Baert, D.L. Massart and F. C. Odds
Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (JAC) (2001) 48, 163-177

"Preliminary results of an interlaboratory study of chemometrics software and methods on NIR data. Predicting the content of crude protein and water in forages"
Discussion paper from the members of a chemometric working group.
I. Ruisánchez, F.X. Rius, S. Maspoch, J. Coello, T. Azzouz, R. Tauler, L. Sarabia, M.C. Ortiz, J.A. Fernández, D. Massart, A. Puigdomènech and C. García.
Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems 63/2 (2002) 93-105

"The law of mixtures method for multivariate calibration"
L. Jin, J.A. Fernández Pierna, F. Wahl, D.L. Massart
Submitted to Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems

"Estimation of partial least squares regression (PLSR) prediction uncertainty when the reference values carry a sizeable measurement error"
J.A. Fernández Pierna, L. Jin, N. M. Faber, F. Wahl, D.L. Massart
Submitted to Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems
ORAL PRESENTATIONS:

"Une amélioration de l'algorithme d'Hopkins"
8th forum of pharmaceutical sciences (6-7 May, 1999) Spa, Belgium

"Direct Orthogonalization and Orthogonal Signal Correction"
ChemoAC (21 Oct, 1999) Brussels, Belgium

"Uncertainty estimation and convex hull for outlier detection in prediction"
SMT project (16 Oct, 2000) Antwerp, Belgium

"The Natural Patterns (NP) approach and methods for outlier detection in prediction"
with M. Daszykowski, ChemoAC (7 Nov, 2000) Brussels, Belgium

"Détection des outliers en prédiction"
Chimiométrie 2000 (6 Dec, 2000) Paris, France

"SMT Chemometrics Network: Status in area 2"
SMT meeting (30 May 2001) Bergen, Norway

"The Law of Mixtures method for Multivariate calibration"
with L. Jin
ChemoAC (8 Nov, 2001) Brussels, Belgium

"Uncertainty estimation in prediction using PLS"
ChemoAC (24 Apr, 2002) Brussels, Belgium
POSTER PRESENTATIONS:

"An improvement in the Hopkins algorithm for clustering tendency"
9th ChemoAC meeting (24-25 March, 1999) Brussels-Belgium

"Direct Orthogonalization and Orthogonal Signal Correction"
ChemoAC (21-22 Oct, 1999) Brussels, Belgium

"An improved Hopkins algorithm for clustering tendency"
5th Chemometrics Symposium, (22 Oct. 1999) Machelen, Belgium

"Amélioration de l'algorithme d'Hopkins pour la detection de clusters"
Chimiométrie 99, (2-3 Dec. 1999) Paris, France

"Multivariate detection"
ChemoAC meeting (11-12 Apr. 2000) Brussels-Belgium

"SMT project'Network for Intercomparison of Chemometric Software and methods'"
ChemoAC meeting (11-12 Apr. 2000) Brussels-Belgium

"Applications of Orthogonal Signal Correction"
J. Luypaert, J.A Fernández
ChemoAC meeting (11-12 Apr. 2000) Brussels-Belgium

"Uncertainty estimation and convex hull for outlier detection in prediction"
CAC-2000 (16-20 Oct. 2000) Antwerp-Belgium

"Methods for outlier detection in prediction"
ChemoAC meeting (7-8 November 2000) Brussels-Belgium

"The law of mixtures method for multivariate calibration"
J.A Fernández, F. Wahl
ChemoAC meeting (25-26 Apr. 2001) Brussels-Belgium

"Applications of PoLiSh-smoothed PLS regression"
S. Gourvénec, J.A. Fernández
ChemoAC meeting (25-26 Apr. 2001) Brussels-Belgium

"An evaluation of Parallel Co-ordinate Geometry"
J. Luypaert, J.A Fernández
ChemoAC meeting (25-26 Apr. 2001) Brussels-Belgium

" Inhomogeneity detection after non-linear mapping and dbscan"
L. Jin, J.A Fernández, F. Wahl
ChemoAC meeting (25-26 Apr. 2001) Brussels-Belgium

"The law of mixtures method for multivariate calibration"
J.A Fernández, L. Jin, F. Wahl
VI Chemometrics Symposium organized by the Belgium Society of Chemometrics (12 October 2001) Brussels-Belgium

"Some applications of the law of mixtures method"
J.A Fernández, L. Jin, F. Wahl
ChemoAC meeting (7-8 Nov, 2001) Brussels-Belgium

"Verification of PLS-strategy. Example of antioxidant capacity of green tea. Part I. Clusters and outliers"
M.H. Zhang, J. Luypaert, J.A. Fernández Pierna
ChemoAC meeting (24-25 Apr, 2002) Brussels-Belgium

"Detection of prediction outliers with OPTICS compared with other methods"
L. Jin, J.A. Fernández Pierna, F. Wahl
ChemoAC meeting (24-25 Apr, 2002) Brussels-Belgium

"Prediction of outliers with the negative coefficient method"
L. Jin, J.A. Fernández Pierna, F. Wahl
ChemoAC meeting (24-25 Apr, 2002) Brussels-Belgium
MEMBERSHIPS:

Member of the Spanish Chemist Association.
»ANQUE
COORDINATES:

Faculteit Geneeskunde en Farmacie
Farmaceutisch instituut
Dienst Farmaceutische en Biomedische Analyse (FABI)
Laarbeeklaan 103
B-1090 Brussels Belgium
TEL: (+32) 2 477 47 28
FAX: (+32) 2 477 47 35
EMAIL: juanfern@vub.vub.ac.be

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Creation	Juan Antonio Fernandez	8/2/1999
Last Update	Juan Antonio Fernandez	01/08/2002
	hits on this page since	8/2/1999
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