Dr. Mira Ristić was born on January the 4th 1959. in small place near Imotski in Dalmatia, Croatia. She completed high-school (gymnasium) in Imotski and attended the Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology at the University of Zagreb. Upon graduation Mira was for some time teaching assistant in thermodynamics, then she employed at the Ruđer Bošković Institute. In this Institute she started to work on the problem of denitration of simulated radioactive waste liquids followed with the investigation of glasses for immobilization of radioactive wastes.
Our good friend and colleague Göstar Klingelhöfer passed away suddenly and unexpected. 0n January 8, 2019. Coming just back from a travel to China, he was full of plans for new projects. Göstar was probable the best known Mössbauer spectroscopist. With his engagement in planetology science and the high success with the investigations on Mars, he is responsible that Mössbauer spectroscopy is nowadays known also outside of our community. His talks, which he gave on nearly every Mössbauer conference were always highlights.
Prof. Moshe Paz-Pasternak passed away on Saturday, Oct. 27, 2018. He received his PhD from the Weizmann Institute of Science (1967), and held postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Illinois, Urbana, before becoming a staff member at the School of Physics and Astronomy of the Tel Aviv University (Senior Lecturer 1970, Associate Prof. 1976, Full Prof. 1983).
On Wednesday April 25,2018 Prof. Dr.habil. inż. Krzysztof Piotr Ruebenbauer passed away unexpectedly at the age of 70. Until last he was active in Mössbauer Spectroscopy. Only recently he became the first president of the new found Polish Society of Mössbauer Spectroscopy, which was a matter close of his heart.
Eddy De Grave (Feb 16, 1951 – Jan 24, 2018) obtained in 1973 his licentiate (master) degree in physics at the University of Ghent. From then on he started a scientific career at the former Laboratory of Magnetism as a Research Assistant at the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research (NFWO/FWO). In 1983 he became a Research Associate, in 1987 a Senior Research Associate and by 1991 he was Research Director. After the FWO research staff became part of the University, he became Senior Lecturer in 2000 and Professor in 2010.
Dr. Gopal K. Shenoy, the distinguished member of the international Mössbauer community and one of the founders of the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne passed away on 29 November 2017. Our deepest sympathies go to Gopal's family and colleagues. An appreciation of Gopal by Ercan Alp follows.
At its meeting in Saint Petersburg on 06 September 2017, IBAME, the International Board on the Applications of the Mössbauer Effect met a decision on the venue of the International Conference on the Applications of the Mössbauer Effect in 2021 (ICAME 2021).
The conference will take place in Braşov, Romania and will be organised by the National Institute of Materials Physics (NIMP), Bucharest-Magurele. The exact date of the event will be decided later.
It is a great pleasure to inform you that Ralf Röhlsberger unanimously was elected Secretary of IBAME. With this decision the executive board is complete and will start to work.
At its meeting in Hamburg on 17 September 2015, IBAME, the International Board on the Applications of the Mössbauer Effect met a decision yesterday, 17 September on the venue of the International Conference on the Applications of the Mössbauer Effect in 2019 (ICAME 2019).
The conference will take place in Dalian, China and will be hosted and organised by the Mössbauer Effect Data Center at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in September 2019. The exact date of the event will be decided later.
