About the author

“Applications of statistical methods in Measurement & Testing”

Prof. Leslie Pendrill, born 1^st October 1953 in London, UK

Books

• Person-Centered Outcome Metrology – Principles and Applications for High Stakes Decision Making, Editors WP Fisher Jr, S Cano 2022, Springer Series in Measurement Science and Technology,  ISBN 978-3-031-07465-3 https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-07465-3
  • The Role of Construct Specification Equations and Entropy in the Measurement of Memory, Jeanette Melin, Leslie R. Pendrill, pp 269-309
  • Assuring Measurement Quality in Person-Centered Care, Leslie R. Pendrill, Jeanette Melin, pp. 311-355

• Quality Assured Measurement – Unification across Social and Physical Sciences, Author: Leslie R. Pendrill, Springer Series in Measurement Science and Technology, ISBN: 978-3-030-28695-8 (e-book), https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28695-8 , Oct 2019, Google book (preview), Quotes,

• Measurement With Persons: Theory, Methods, and Implementation Areas Published: December 2011 ISBN: 978-1-84872-939-1 Publisher: Psychology Press. Edited by Birgitta Berglund, Giovanni B. Rossi, James T. Townsend and Leslie R. Pendrill. Series: Scientific Psychology Series
• Metrologia Reviewer of the year 2020

Broadcasts & Lectures_______

February 2021 Quantities & units in Health informatics, ISO/TC 215 & ISO/ TC12, BIPM workshop

June 2019 IRT or Rasch – What can and cannot be done, PM Health 2019, Kristianstad

September 2016 Reliability: Quality-assured measurement in Digital Health, DHD-16, Stockholm

November 2014 Temadag – Ångström 200 år Pendrill_Ångström_2014_141107

April 2014, Measuring People: From Elementary Counting to Better Healthcare, NIST Colloquium, http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/colloquia/20140404.cfm

July 2012 Revista Española de Metrología http://www.e-medida.es/documentos/Numero-2/entrevista-a-Leslie-Pendrill (In Spanish)

10 Febrero 2012 RTVE.ES Spain http://www.rtve.es/podcast/radio-exterior/emision-en-ingles/ English language broadcast – Leslie Pendrill, the Chairperson of Euramet Descargar(download mp3, 19 MB)

Appointments______________________________________________

2016 – 2021 Board member: Swedish Physical Society

2016 –          Scientific advisory board member: Modus Outcomes LLC

2012 –  2021 Chair: ISO TC12 “Quantities & units”

• “Meeting future needs for Metrological Traceability – A physicist’s view” L R Pendrill 2005 “Accreditation and Quality Assurance” – Journal for Quality, Reliability and Comparability in Chemical Measurement,10, 133 – 9

• “Metrology: time for a new look at the physics of traceable measurement?”, L R Pendrill 2006 Europhysics News 37, 22 – 5 Encouraging increased cooperation in research between physicists and metrologists

• December 2020 Measurement units and Natural constants – about meaningful measures and measurement L R Pendrill 2020 (in Swedish : Måttenheter och naturkonstanter – om meningsfulla mått och mätande) in Kosmos 2020, Swedish Physical Society Kosmos_2020_Särtryck1

2012 – 2016         Associate Editor NCSL International Measure Journal

2009 – 2012 Chair of European Association of National Metrology Institutes (EURAMET) which is implementing a 400 M€ Article 185 European Metrology Research Programme.

• Pendrill L R 2010 “Measure for Measure”, Public Service Review: Science and Technology – Issue 6 European integration of national metrology research programmes
• Pendrill L R 2010 “A Conversation with Leslie Pendrill: SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden and EURAMET”, MEASURE, vol 5, 21 – 27

2004 – 2008 Adjunct Professor, University of Uppsala (Sweden)

2005 – 2008 Chair IUPAP Commission 2: SUNAMCO

2002 – 2005 Secretary IUPAP Commission 2: SUNAMCO

Undergraduate___________

B. Sc (Hons. 1^st Class) Physics 1975

Post-graduate______________________________

Ph. D. Physics at University of Reading (UK) 1978

• “Collisional Perturbation of Caesium Rydberg States“, L R Pendrill 1977, J Phys B: Atom Molec Phys 10. L469-L475. Large (micrometer) atoms colliding in a vapour as detected in multiexponential time-resolved fluorescence decay following tuneable dye laser excitation

Supervisor: Prof G W Series FRS

• “George W Series Memorial Essays”, 1997 Phys. Scr. 1997 3

Post-doctoral_________________________________________

Laboratoire Spectroscopie Hertzienne, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris (France) 1979

• “New Resonances in the Atomic Spectra in Crossed Electric and Magnetic Fields” J C Gay, L R Pendrill and B Cagnac 1979, Physics Letters 72A, 315-318 Larger (millimeter) atoms in a vapour subject to Tesla magnetic fields following tuneable dye laser excitation

Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics, University of Colorado, Boulder (USA) 1980

• “Isotope shifts of individual nS and nD levels of atomic potassium” K Niemax and L R Pendrill 1980 J Phys B: Atom Molec Phys 13, L461-4 New method which for the first time could determine between isotopes excited to Rydberg states differences in individual atomic energy levels rather than in transitions

Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford (UK) 1981

• “Observation of parity non-conserving optical rotation in atomic bismuth” P E G Baird, L R Pendrill, P G H Sandars, D N Stacey and J C Taylor 1981 Proceedings of the seventh Vavilov Conference, ed S G Rautian (Sibirian Branch, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Novosibirsk) Weak interaction revealed in low-energy, atomic physics through parity non-conservation (left-hand/right-hand asymmetry)

Chalmers University of Technology, Physics, Göteborg (Sweden) 1981 – 5

• Optogalvanic studies of a neon glow discharge in magnetic fields: ion mobility measurements and detection of atomic alignment” L R Pendrill, M Pettersson and U Österberg 1983 Physica Scripta 27, 306-10

Employment________________________

Head of Research of Measurement Division at SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden 1985 – 2012.

Publications (selected)_______________

• “A compressible Fabry-Perot refractometer” M Andersson, L Eliasson, and L R Pendrill 1987 Applied Optics 26, 4835 – 4840 A decimeter-long interferometer compressed hundred nanometers by atmospheric pressure

• “Density of moist air monitored by laser refractometry” L R Pendrill 1988 Metrologia 25, 87 – 93 (1988) New method of determining gas density as complement to gas equation determination, used for example when weighing prototype kilograms in air

• “Fundamental Metrology at SP” L R Pendrill 1990 in Proceedings of Symposium “Highlights in Metrology” Borås, Sweden, May 19, 1989 Phys. Scripta 41, 733 – 36 (1990) An early EUROMET symposium

• “Macroscopic and microscopic polarisabilities of helium gas” L R Pendrill 1996 J Phys B: Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics, 29, 3581 – 6 A new estimate of the Boltzmann constant.

• “Refractometry and gas density” L R Pendrill 2004 Metrologia – Special Issue ”Density Metrology”, 41, issue 2, pages S40 – S51 Review

• “Spectral line narrowing of a photonically generated microwave frequency comb with vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser mode-locked coupled oscillators” H Music and L R Pendrill 2004, Opt. Lett. 30, 266 – 8 First observation in frequency domain of ‘lag synchronisation’

• “Optimised Measurement Uncertainty and Decision-Making in Conformity Assessment”, L R Pendrill 2007 NCSLi Measure, Vol. 2, no. 2, pp 76 – 86 Balancing the costs of testing against the consequence costs of in-correct decision-making

• L.R. Pendrill 2008, “Operating ‘cost’ characteristics in sampling by variable and attribute” Accred. Qual. Assur., 13, 619 – 631 Extending classical statistical significance tools to include measures of impact

• EURAMET 2009 EURAMET-EFCA Position Paper 090925, Position paper to EFCA (European Forum for Conformity Assessment)

• L R Pendrill, R Emardson, B Berglund et al. 2010 “Measurement with Persons: A European Network”, NCSLi Measure, (June 2010) 42 – 55 Inter-disciplinary network of researchers in metrology, physiology, psychophysics, psychology, perception, cognition and sociology dealing with Measuring Man and Man as a Measurement Instrument

• L R Pendrill 2010 “Optimised uncertainty and cost operating characteristics: new tools for conformity assessment. Application to geometrical product control in automobile industry”, Int. J. Metrol. Qual. Eng.1, 105 – 110, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/ijmqe/2010020

• L R Pendrill 2011 “Which PTs have most Impact?” – lecture. Report to 3rd International Proficiency Testing Conference Iasi, Romania 28 – 30 September 2011
• L R Pendrill and W P Fisher Jr. 2013 ”Quantifying Human Response: Linking metrological and psychometric characterisations of Man as a Measurement Instrument”, Joint IMEKO TC1-TC7-TC13 Symposium, Measurement across physical and behavioural sciences, 4-6 September 2013, Genova, Palazzo Ducale (IT), Journal of Physics: Conference Series 459, 012057, doi: 10.1088/1742-6596/459/1/012057
• L R Pendrill 2014, “Using measurement uncertainty in decision-making & conformity assessment”, Metrologia 51 S206, doi:10.1088/0026-1394/51/4/S206, Open Access
• L R Pendrill 2014, “El ser humano como instrument de medida”/”Man as a Measurement Instrument”, e-medida and NCSLI Measure J. Meas. Sci., 9, 24 – 35 (Dec 2014)
• L R Pendrill 2018, “Assuring measurement quality in person-centred healthcare”, Measurement Science & Technology, Volume 29, Number 3 , 034003 special issue Metrologie 2017, https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6501/aa9cd2,
• Paper: MST_Metrologi2017Assuring quality in person-centred healthcare_paper_Pendrill_clean_171123
• L R Pendrill 2020, L’homme comme un instrument de mesure, BIVI Metrologie, AFNOR, Rubrique Invité du mois, mai 2020, https://bivimetrologie.afnor.org/notice-details/lhomme-comme-un-instrument-de-mesure/1314755
• Leslie Pendrill, Andreas Espinoza, Johan Wadman, Fredrik Nilsask, Jens Wretborn, Ulf Ekelund & Ulrika Pahlm 2021, ”Reducing search times and entropy in hospital emergency departments with real-time location systems, IISE Transactions on Healthcare Systems Engineering, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/24725579.2021.1881660

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