Murphy's Law and common mistakes in applied spectroscopy

在过去的10-15年里，商业光谱仪器的日益可用性导致用户数量急剧增加。这在学术界和工业界都是如此。然而，现代设备的用户友好性给人的印象是方法很简单。因此，一些实验室没有建立起适当的专业知识水平。这解释了文献中越来越多的论文包含关于光谱本身或数据解释的重大错误。这将设置当前项目的起点。它旨在识别，分析和量化常见错误及其影响。重点是三个方面：1）错误使用设备造成的错误，2）数据处理造成的错误，3）数据评估造成的错误。除了科学分析外，还将经常举办讲习班，以加强科学交流并迅速传播研究结果。

The increasing availability of commercial spectroscopy instruments resulted in a strngly increasing number of users over the last 10-15 years. This is true in academia as well as in the industry. The user friendliness of modern devices however gives the impression that the methods are simple. As a consequence, the right level of expertise has not been built up in some labs. This explains the increasing number of papers in the literature that contain significant errors either regarding the spectroscopy itself or the data interpretation. This sets the starting point of the current project. It aims at identifying, analyzing, and quantifying common mistakes and their impact. The focus is on three areas: 1) mistakes occuring from the wrong use of equipment, 2) mistakes occuring from the data processing, and 3) mistakes occuring from the data evaluation. In addition to the scientific analysis, there wil be frequent workshops in order to enhance the scientific exchange and disseminate the findings rapidly.