Prof Barbara Kasprzyk-Hordern
Head of Group
Postdoctoral Researchers
Dr Like Xu
Visiting Fellow (2022-2023)
Dr Adegbenro Peter Daso
Visiting Fellow (2022-2023)
Dr Kishore Jagadeesan
Research Associate (2018-)
Funder: Wessex Water and Engineering and Physical Sciences research Council
Projects: Wastewater fingerprinting for public health assessment
Kishore is working as a Post-doctoral Research Associate with his research focus on wastewater fingerprinting for public health assessment. He has a BSc Chemistry from PSG College of Arts of Science, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India, and a MSc Analytical Chemistry from Madras University, India.
On completion of his studies he worked at the National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi, India as a project assistant in a project for the development of paper-based sensors for cardiac and cancer biomarkers. Later, he joined the Lund University, Sweden as a Maire Curie Early Stage Researcher (PEPMIP ITN project), where he completed his PhD in Biomedical Engineering under the supervision of Simon Ekström and Prof Thomas Laurell. His PhD research focused on the development of high-throughput methods for validating polymeric affinity materials using mass spectrometry and data analysis.
Dr Elizabeth Holton
Visiting Fellow (2022-2023)
PhD Students
Nicola Ceolotto
PhD student (2020-2024)
Project title: Medicinal products in the environment: novel strategies reducing environmental exposure
Funder: Wessex Water and Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
Emma Robertson
PhD student (2020-2024)
Project title: Speciation of emerging contaminants in wetland systems
Funder: Natural Environment Research Council
Emma has a background in Earth Science with a focus on freshwater research. She has a BSc in Environmental Earth Science from Aberystwyth University and MSc in Geochemistry from the University of St Andrews
James Boxall-Clasby
PhD student (2019-2023)
Project title: Monitoring community health through wastewater based epidemiology: new analytical framework and technological approaches toward community infectious disease diagnostics
Funder: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
Dr Natalie Sims
Visiting Fellow (2022-2023)
Rawiwan Wattanayon
PhD student (2017-2021)
Project title: Tackling global challenges – a new framework towards effect-directed analysis to assess freshwater quality
Funder: The Royal Thai Embassy
Rawi is working at Princess of Naradhiwas University, Thailand. Her research interests focus on environmental pollution. Her current research explores fate and effects of antifungal agents in the context of environmental and public health.
Undergraduate students
Eric Pinto
(Hons) Natural Sciences with Year long work placement (2019-20)
Kathie Coverley Naylor
MChem student, Chemistry with Study Year Abroad (2019-20)
Joseph Tulley
BSc(Hons) Natural Sciences with Year long work placement (2019-20)
Environmental chemistry & PUBLIC HEALTH 