Mr. Admer Rey C. Dablio is a 35-year-old bachelor who is a native of Cagayan de Oro City. He currently holds a Plantilla position as Supervising Science Research Specialist at the Standards and Testing Division of the Industrial Technology Development Institute (ITDI) at Bicutan, Taguig City, a research and development institute under the Department of Science and Technology (DOST). He performs chemical tests for various measurands for various sample matrices, currently the Division’s Head of the Marketing and Promotions Committee, and the Head and Over-all Technical Manager of the Chemistry Laboratory. He is the Division’s Quality Manager for its Laboratory Quality Management System (LQMS) based on Philippine National Standard (PNS) ISO/IEC 17025 version 2017, an international standard for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories. He also holds the designation as the Institute’s Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Manager for the CPD programs of the Institute, providing CPD units to accredited CPD programs by the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) for various regulated professions.
Aside from his roles at DOST, Mr. Dablio is also involved in various inter-agency technical working groups or committees. He is a management and technical assessor of the Philippine Accreditation Bureau (PAB) of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) for the PNS ISO/IEC 17025 version 2017 laboratory accreditation for 12 years where he served as Team Leader, Team Member and Technical Assessor. He is one of the authors of the 2017 PNS for Drinking Water as one of the members of the Department of Health (DOH) Technical Working Group. He also contributed in the promulgation of a number of PNS under the Bureau of Philippine Standards (BPS) under DTI, e.g. Nanotechnology, Concrete and Reinforced Concrete, and Cement and Lime. His other involvements are on working groups on technical barriers to trade, national environmental health, and on the bill on the proposed law on the compliance of the Philippines to the Chemical Weapons Convention.
This young gentleman graduated from the B.S. Chemistry undergraduate program of Xavier University-Ateneo de Cagayan, Cagayan de Oro City on 2010, where he received his Honorable Mention and Most Outstanding Chemistry Graduate awards. He also had experiences teaching chemistry courses at his alma mater and at the Mindanao University of Science and Technology (MUST), currently University of Science and Technology in Southern Philippines (USTP), both at Cagayan de Oro City as part-time instructor from 2011 to 2014, teaching Biochemistry, Physical Chemistry, Quantum Chemistry, General Chemistry, Spectroscopy, and Organic Chemistry. He graduated in 2021 the Certificate Course on Productivity and Quality Management under the Development Academy of the Philippines (DAP) wherein he was awarded the Most Outstanding Productivity and Quality Management Study. He completed units of Master of Science in Chemistry at the University of the Philippines – Diliman. He also represented the Philippines as sole participant of the country to the 13th International Training Program on Competence of Laboratories and Their Management Systems at Noida, India in February 2023, organized by the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), wherein he excelled as the Class Valedictorian among 33 participants coming from 17 countries.
This young gentleman does not only conduct analytical chemical testing at the Department of Science and Technology, but he also conducts research studies on nanotechnology, metrology, trace metals and metalloids speciation, and chemical migrations. He is a project leader of the characterization of volcanic ashfall samples from the January 2020 eruption of Taal Volcano, helping the local construction industry in Region IVA. A number of government agencies and private organizations have also utilized his expertise as Resource Speaker for various technical and management topics, e.g. regional and Research and Development Institutes (RDIs) laboratories of the DOST system, Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) of DENR, Department of Agriculture (DA) laboratories, and various private testing and calibration laboratories. He is one of the most in-demand resource speaker or subject matter expert of DOST-ITDI in various technical and management topics for laboratory operations, like laboratory quality management system, risk and opportunity management, internal quality audit, root cause analysis and corrective actions, method validation/verification, internal quality control, measurement uncertainty, decision rules and statement of conformity, among others. His competence as an analytical chemist is also evident as seen in his very satisfactory results in various local and international proficiency testing and interlaboratory comparisons for several years. He is involved as a member of the Working Group on the harmonization of test methods within the ASEAN region for food safety and quality parameters through the Association of Official Analytical Collaboration (AOAC) International Southeast Asia (SEA) Section. Also, he is the only Filipino in the Technical Committee (TC) 11 Testing, Inspection and Certification of the International Measurement Confederation (IMEKO), a world-renowned association of experts in measurement science and metrology based in Europe. In fact, he is the first Filipino to ever hold an officer position under one of the Technical Committees of IMEKO.
Admer has already received a number of professional awards for several years. He is an awardee of the DOST Science Education Institute (SE) Icons Award for Chemistry in 2013; one of the DOST’s 25 Most Outstanding Scholar-Graduates in 2012; Most Outstanding Alumnus for Professional Service in Chemistry of Xavier University – Ateneo de Cagayan’s Alumni Association in 2014; a Civil Service Commission (CSC) awardee for Group Service Delivery in Region 10 in 2013; DOST OneLab nationwide best practice awardee for the conversion of chemical wastes into useful internal quality control material; the man behind ITDI’s latest tagline “Inspired by Technology, Driven by Innovation;” and approved signatory of various laboratory accreditations and recognitions. His latest awards are the Development Academy of the Philippines (DAP) Most Outstanding Quality and Productivity Study in 2021; 2023 PRC Region 10 Most Outstanding Chemist; and on June 2024, his team under the DOST OneLab received the Governance Project of the Year – Science and Technology awarded by GovMedia at the Marina Sands, Singapore.
Aside from his busy and long credentials in the technical world, Admer never failed to maintain his active lifestyle. He is a proud Filipino mountaineer who have already completed 121 mountains to date, since 2012, conquering the top five (5) highest mountains in the Philippines multiple times, and finished Asian Trilogy, the highest mountains in Southeast Asia: Mount Kinabalu in Malaysia in 2018, Mount Fuji in Japan in 2024, and Mount Yushan in Taiwan on January 2025. He is a well-travelled Bachelor, completing 79 out of the 82 provinces of the Philippines. He is the Chairperson of the Training Committee of the Metropolitan Mountaineering Society (MMS), a 31-year-old organization for mountaineers and outdoor sports enthusiast. He uses Chemistry to teach mountaineers in the protection of the environment and responsible care of mountaineering gears and tools. He is a strong advocate of the Leave-No-Trace (LNT) principle, promoting mountaineering and outdoor ethics.
Mr. Dablio is the current Chairperson of the DOST-ITDI Gender and Development Focal Point System (GFPS) Technical Working Group (TWG). He leads the Institute in the conduct of activities on gender mainstreaming. He introduced a number of innovative ideas on various activities to promote gender equality, equity, and inclusivity, making the Institute a gender sensitive and gender responsive Institute. His innovations have now been used by other DOST agencies as benchmark to enhance their gender and development mainstreaming initiatives.
Mr. Dablio is indeed a complete package, not only serving the Chemistry Profession in the Philippines and the science community worldwide, but also a true public servant promoting servant leadership, gender equality, environmental protection, healthy and active lifestyle, mental health, and quality service.
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