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New Chief Chemist Appointed

March 1st, 2006

Genalysis is pleased to announce Ann Evers as our new Chief Chemist.
Ann holds a first class Honours degree in Chemistry from Birmingham University. Prior to joining Genalysis in 1988 she spent 7 years at Mintek (South Africa) working in mineral processing chemistry (particularly Platinum Group Metals) and 4 years at the University of Witwatersrand developing selective complexing agents for Base Metals.

She has wide experience in analysis of soils and waters, and in classical analytical techniques applied to mineral samples. Her R & D experience is being applied to the development and refinement of new geochemical and environmental methods. Ann is a member of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute.

At Genalysis, Ann has worked in ICP, Multi-Process and from 1989 was involved in the development of the Environmental and Special Services sections.

Ann is a NATA signatory and is the Genalysis NATA coordinator, recently organising the accreditation of the laboratory to ISO/IEC 17025.

As Chief Chemist Ann will mainly be responsible for method development and validation, technical advice to management and QA/QC.