The list below includes some of the members of JCGM/WG1.
Dr Walter Bich
Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica (INRIM), Turin, Italy
Walter Bich is since 1976 with the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Metrologia "G. Colonnetti" (IMGC) (from 2006 Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica, INRIM), where he is currently head of the Mass Section and responsible for the national mass standard and its dissemination. He has successfully introduced innovative algorithms for the estimation of mass values and of their uncertainty. He has been involved in several international comparisons and cooperative projects with European and American countries. Dr. Bich is Euromet Contact Person for Italy in the field of Mass & Derived Quantities. He represents INRIM in the working group “Mass Standards” of the CCM. He is member of the recently established CCM Ad-Hoc Working Group on changes to the SI, a member of ISO TAG 4 and of the EA Task Force for the harmonisation in the evaluation of measurement uncertainty among European Calibration Laboratories. This Task Force produced the EA 4-02 Document “Expression of the uncertainty of measurements in calibration”. He is currently chairman of the JCGM/WG1 (Joint Committee for Guides in Metrology, Working Group 1, Measurement Uncertainty), where he is also ISO representative. He is also member of the ad-hoc advisory group on uncertainties to the BIPM’s Director, established in 2001.
Prof. Maurice Cox
National Physical Laboratory (NPL), Teddington, UK
We regret to inform that for medical reasons Prof. Maurice Cox will not be able to attend the II Advanced School on Evaluation of Uncertainty in Measurement. However, he delivered his slides to other lecturers who are well prepared to fill in for him.
Dr Wolfgang Wöger
formerly with Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Braunschweig, Germany
Received Ph.D. degree in Theoretical Physics from the University of Cologne, Germany, in 1972. Worked afterwards at University in Statistical Physics, mainly Solid State Physics and Quantum Optics. Joined the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) in Braunschweig, Germany, in 1975. There, his research work concentrated on problems of data evaluation. He was head of the laboratory of physical quantities and fundamental constants, chairman of PTB-committee for statement of measurement uncertainty, chairman of the committee establishing German standards on metrology, and member of CODATA Task Group on Fundamental Constants. At present he is member of Commission C 2 Symbols, Units, Nomenclature, Atomic Masses and Fundamental Constants (SUNAMCO) of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) and represents IUPAP at the Joint Committee for Guides in Metrology (JCGM) at the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (BIPM).
Prof. Ignacio Lira
Catholic University of Chile (PUC-Chile), Santiago, Chile
He is a Civil Engineer from the Catholic University of Chile (PUC-Chile), a MSc in Nuclear Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT, USA), a MSc in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan (USA) and a PhD from the University of Michigan USA). Since 1980 he has been with the Mechanical Engineering Department at the Catholic University of Chile (PUC-Chile), where he teaches courses on engineering mechanics, thermo fluids, heat transfer, metrology and laser applications. He has participated in several research projects and has published various papers in international journals. He has written three books: applied thermodynamics; metrology and industrial quality; and measuring uncertainty (the first two in Spanish). In 1998 he spent a sabbatical leave at the National Metrology Institute of Brazil (Inmetro). He is founder and past President of the Chilean Metrology Association. He is also a member of The Institute of Physics.
Prof. Dani Gamerman
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
First degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Military Engineering Institute in 1980. M. Sc. in Statistics from IMPA in 1983. Ph. D. in Statistics from University of Warwick in 1987. Professor of Statistics at UFRJ since 1996. Author of the books Monte Carlo Markov Chain: Stochastic Simulation for Bayesian Inference, in 1997 (1st edition ) and 2006 (2nd edition) and Statistical Inference: na Integrated Approach, in 1999. Papers published in many statistical journals. Opening Lecturer at the 2004 World Meeting of Intern. Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA) and invited lecturer at the 8th. Intern. Valencia Meeting on Bayesian Statistics (2006) and 17th Intern. Workshop on Statistical Modeling (2002) and at various scientific meetings in Brazil. Invited seminars at many universities in Brazil and abroad. Associate Editor of Statistical Modeling, Journal of the Portuguese Statistical Society and Brazilian Journal of Probability and Statistics and member of the Advisory Board of the Bayesian Analysis journal. Former member of the Boards of Advisors of ISBA and ABE (Brazilian Statistical Association). Current research interests include dynamic models, spatial statistics, survival analysis, stochastic simulation, econometrics and Bayesian inference.