Associate Members

Dr Edo Johann Becker obtained his PhD in the field of spectroscopic studies of the polar arctic atmosphere whilst working at the Alfred-Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Potsdam, Germany. He then spent two years at the Centre for Marine and Atmospheric Sciences in Sunderland investigating the formation of aerosols over boreal and coastal areas using particle counters and volatility analysers.

Leaving academia in 2000 he started to work for BP Chemicals in Hull for 17 years in diverse areas such as technical product support, development of new catalysts using high-throughput technology and technical coordination of pilot plant programmes, but spent the bulk of his time on the deployment of cutting edge spectroscopic process analytical technology (PAT) for the analysis of liquid, gaseous and solid processes in petrochemical, biofuels and refinery streams. He has also worked on the development of novel process analytical tools, like the use of non-invasive ultrasonic process analysers.

Since 2018 Edo Becker works as a technical consultant for the application of PAT in the manufacturing industry in Hamburg, Germany, closely cooperating with two innovative British companies in the field of PAT, SPECAC and Keit Spectrometers. Edo is representing them at conferences and exhibitions in Germany by presentations and exhibition booths.

He also works part-time as the quality manager of the national German oil stockholding organisation, the EBV in Hamburg, where his responsibilities include the maintenance of the national crude oil equivalents inventory of crude oil and crude oil products stored in caverns and tank farms across Europe. In his role at the EBV Edo organises the annual meeting of quality managers from various global stockholding organisations, in which all matters with regards to testing the degradation of crude oil products and new testing standards are discussed. Edo is a member of the board of the German Standards Office (DIN) for the development of analytical standards for automotive fuels and heating oils and is a member of the research board for the German research association for crude oil and coal (DGMK) in the field of new heating oils.

Edo has published or is co-author on several papers and is named as the inventor on 4 patents in the area of chemical engineering and process analysis.