Dr. Håkan Emteborg has a PhD in Analytical Chemistry from Umeå University, Sweden (1995). He is the author/co-author of about 80 publications. Since 2003, he has worked as a scientific project manager at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre in Geel, Belgium (EC-JRC). Since 2005, he has been managing the Reference Material Processing Facility at the EC-JRC. This facility has a wide range of different equipment for stabilising and homogenising mainly raw materials of biological origin for the preparation of candidate reference materials. He also leads the Reference Material Production Laboratory, which encompasses a wide range of analytical techniques. His main research interests are focused on the development of new innovative types of reference materials and the process of analytical techniques.