Introduction

The "Olfaction & Electronic Nose symposium" was launched by the Alpha M.O.S. company (Multi Organoleptic Systems) who were one of the first in the commercialisation of Electronic Nose technology and wanted to develop further the scientific and technological exchange around this emerging technique.

The first symposium was held in 1994 in parallel to the EUROSENSORS conference in Toulouse (France). The reasons for the creation of this symposium were to strengthen information exchange with the objective to present high quality research, to promote interactions of professionals for the advancement of odour characterisation, and to analyse complex product variation.

With a growing number of participants at the 1994 and 1995 meetings held in Europe, and based on the international attendance of the symposium, it was decided in 1996 to organise the symposium in Miami, USA. Since then, due to the success of the symposium on both continents, the location was alternated from Europe in Nice in 1997 to Baltimore in the USA in 1998.

In 1999, for the first time, the symposium organisation included a scientific committee to manage the assessment of papers submitted and to organise keynote addresses on various technological advances in the area of sensor array instruments. In this process, to increase world-wide acceptance and independence of the symposium, Alpha M.O.S. decided not to organise that year's meeting and decided to entrust to an external party the organisation of the 6th symposium on "Olfaction & Electronic Nose". By achieving a balance between academic and industrial lecturers the ISOEN shall gather all the manufacturers of Sensors Arrays Systems. The symposium tries to provide technical and application information in the characterisation and control of both odours and volatile compounds using sensor detection and pattern recognition techniques.

Wolfgang Göpel Memorial Award

Since 1999 the best presentation at the ISOEN is regarded with the Wolfgang Göpel Memorial Award. This award is sponsored by the Göpel family and the Institute of Physical Chemistry (University of Tübingen).

Award winners:

  • 2007, F.L. Dickert, P.A. Lieberzeit, S. Krassnig, A. Biedermann, "Artificial Biomimetic Recognition Materials for Sensing in Complex Matrices and Pattern Analysis."
  • 2005, Barcelona
  • 2003, Riga: Matteo Pardo
  • 2002, Rome: Carmen Pinheiro "Direct Integration of Pervaporation with Electronic Nose for Improved Discrimination in the Presence of Interfering Compounds"
  • 2001, Washington: Kenneth S. Suslick "A Colorimetric Nose: Smell-Seeing"
  • 2000, Brighton: Susan S. Schiffman "Detecting microbial contamination using an Electronic Nose"
  • 1999, Tübingen: Gerhard Horner "Qualitative and Quantitative Evaluation Methods for Sensorarrays"

Conference History

  • 12th ISOEN Conference in St. Petersburg, Rissia, 03.05.-05.05.2007
  • 11th ISOEN Conference in Barcelona, Spain, 13.05.-15.05.2005
  • 10th ISOEN Conference in Riga, Latvia, 26.06.-28.06.2003
  • 9th ISOEN Conference in Rome, Italy, 29.09.-02.10.2002
  • 8th ISOEN Conference in Washington D.C., USA, 25.03.-29.03.2001
  • 7th ISOEN Conference in Brighton, UK, 20.07.-24.07.2000
  • 6th ISOEN Conference in Tübingen, Germany (including the 1st NOSE workshop), 19.09.-22.09.1999
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