Chief Technical Officer
Thirty years of experience in environmental, pharmaceutical, food and nuclear industries. For 20 years worked in Canadian and International Industries. For eight years Ghani Shakhashiro was the former leader of the reference materials group at the Environment Laboratories of the Seibersdorf Laboratories of the International Atomic Energy Agency in Austria. He was responsible for preparation and certification of Reference Materials certified for trace elements and radionuclides. He organized worldwide proficiency tests to evaluate and improve performance of analytical laboratories. Invited speaker to several international conferences on environmental radioactivity and reference materials.
Selected publications:
IAEA-447: A new certified reference material for environmental radioactivity measurements, Applied radiation and isotopes,DOI Number: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2012.01.024.
Shakhashiro, A., Tarjan, S., Ceccatelli, A., Kis-Benedek, G., Betti, M.
Fallout radionuclide-based techniques for assessing the impact of soil conservation measures on erosion control and soil quality: an overview of the main lessons learnt under an FAO/IAEA Coordinated Research Project. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 107, 78-85.
Dercon, G., Mabit, L., Hancock, G., Nguyen, M.L., Dornhofer, R., Bacchi, O.O.S., Benmansour, M., Bernard, C., Froehlich, W., Golosov, V.N., Haciyakupoglu, S., Hai, P.S., Klik, A., Li, Y., Lobb, D.A., Onda, Y., Popa, N., Rafiq, M., Ritchie, J.C., Schuller, P., Shakhashiro, A., Wallbrink, P., Walling, D.E., Zapata, F., Zhang, X., 2012.
Emergency Response Proficiency Test for Japanese Laboratories: Determination of Selected Radionuclides in Water, Soil, Vegetation and Aerosol Filters. IAEA-TEL-2011-08, IAEA Analytical Quality in Nuclear Applications Series, 2013, IAEA/AQ/29.
Pitois, A., Shakhashiro, A., Tarjan, S.
Technically enhanced naturally occurring radionuclides (TENORM) in phosphogypsum: Comparison CCRI(II)-S5, BIPM Consultative Committee on Ionized Radiation, Journal of Metrologia, v. 47, 2010, 06018, doi: 10.1088/0026-1394/47/1A/06018.
Shakhashiro A., Sansone U., Wershofen H., Bollhöfer A., Kim C.K., Kim C.S., Korun M., Moune M., Lee S.H., Tarjan S.
Radionuclide activity measurements in environmental samples of water, soil and grass: CCRI(II)-S4, BIPM Consultative Committee on Ionized Radiation, Journal of Metrologia, 2009, 46, Tech. Suppl., 06004.
Shakhashiro A., Sansone U.
Comparison of different approaches to evaluate proficiency test data, International Workshop on Combining and Reporting Analytical Results: the Role of (Metrological) Traceability and (Measurement) Uncertainty, Rome, Italy, March 6-8, 2006 (Royal Society of Chemistry special publication, no. 307), Cambridge, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2007, p. 220-228.
Shakhashiro, A., Fajgelj, A., Sansone, U.
The IAEA’s ‘ALMERA Network’ proficiency test on the determination of gamma-emitting radionuclides: a test of results comparability, Applied radiation and isotopes, v. 66, 2008, p. 1722-1725.
Shakhashiro, A., Trinkl, A., Sansone, U.
Matrix materials for proficiency testing: optimization of a procedure for spiking soil with gamma-emitting radionuclides, Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, 2007, 387(7), p. 2509-2515, doi 10.1007/s00216-006-0772-z.
Shakhashiro, A., Gondin da Fonseca Azeredo, A. M., Sansone, U., Fajgelj, A.
The new IAEA reference material: IAEA-434 technologically enhanced naturally occurring radioactive materials (TENORM) in Phosphogypsum Applied Radiation and Isotopes, v. 69 (1), 2011, p. 231-236, doi:10.1016/j.apradiso.2010.09.002.
Shakhashiro, A., Sansone, U., Wershofen, H., Bollhöfer, A., Kim, C. K., Kim, C. S., Kis-Benedek,G., Korun, M., Moune, M., Lee, S. H., Tarjan, S., Al-Masri, M. S.
The new IAEA-372 grass-certified reference material for 40K and 137Cs, Applied radiation and isotopes, v. 66, 2008, p. 1718-1721.
Shakhashiro, A., Sansone, U., Arnold, D., Dryak, P., La Rosa, J. J., Jerome, S. M., Makarewicz, M.,Mentcheva, J., Sato, K., Tarjan, S.
Method Validation Procedures for Environmental Radiochemical Measurements at AECS , Accreditation and Quality Assurance Journal, Volume 9, 6, 361-368, DOI: 10.1007/s00769-003-0756-z, 2004.
Al Masri,M. S., Shakhashiro, A.,Abba, A.
Preparation of In-House Reference Soil Sample Containing High Levels of Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials From the Oil Industry, Applied radiation and isotopes 2004 Dec; 61(6): 1397-402.
Al Masri, M. S., Aba, A., Al-Hamwi, A. , Shakhashiro, A.
CCQM key comparison CCQM-K75: Determination of toxic metals in algae, Metrologia, v. 48 (2011), 49 p., doi: 10.1088/0026-1394/48/1A/08002.
Shakhashiro, A., Toervenyi, A., Gaudino, S., Rosamilia, S., Belli, M., Turk, G. C.
Results of an IAEA inter-comparison exercise to assess Cs-137 and total Pb-210 analytical performance in soil Applied radiation and isotopes, v. 67 (1), 2009, p. 139-146.
Shakhashiro, A., Mabit, L.
A soil sampling intercomparison exercise for the ALMERA network Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, v. 100, 2009, p. 982-987, doi:10.1016/j.jenvrad.2009.08.002.
Belli, M., De Zorzi, P., Sansone, U., Shakhashiro, A., Gondin da Fonseca Azeredo, A. M., Trinkl, A., Benesch, T.
