Postdoctoral researchers
Dr Like Xu
Research Associate (2020-2022)
Project tile: Assessment of human exposure to antibiotics from environmental and therapeutic sources via water fingerprinting
Funder: Medical Research Council
Project No: MR/S013717/1
Project website: Strategies to reduce the burden of Antibiotic Resistance in China
Dr Adegbenro Peter Daso
Research Associate in Environmental and Analytical Chemistry (2020-2022)
Project tile: UKWIR CIP3 Antimicrobial Resistance Project
Funder: UK Water Industry Research Limited
Project No: 07478
Dr Kathryn Proctor
Research Associate (2019-2022)
Project tile: GREENER: InteGRated systems for Effective ENvironmEntal Remediation
Funder: European Commission
Project No: Grant agreement ID: 826312
Project website: GREENER
Dr Marjorie Gibbon
Research Associate (2020-2021)
Project No: EP/V028499/1
Funder: UK Research and Innovation, Global Challenges Research Fund
Dr Tom Watkinson
Research Associate (2017-19)
Project title: Protein biomarkers for the monitoring of community-wide public health via analysis of wastewater
Funder: Engineering and Physical Sciences research Council
Project: Developing Resilient Nations – Towards a Public Heath Early Warning System via Urban Water Profiling (ReNEW) EP/P028403/1
Dr Luigi Lopardo
Research Associate (2017-18)
Visiting Researcher (2018-19)
Project tile: Community-wide exposure routes and risks from environmental endocrine disrupting chemicals
Funder: Leverhulme Trust Project No: RPG-2013-297 (project details)
Dr Erika Castrignanò
Research Associate (2016-18)
Visiting Researcher (2018-19)
Project tile: Impact of stereochemistry of antimicrobial agents on their environmental fate, biological potency and the emergence of resistance
Funder: Natural Environment Research Council
Project No: NE/N019261/1 (project details)
Dr María Dolores Camacho-Muñoz
Marie Curie Postdoctoral IEF Fellow (2014-16)
Project tile: Chiral veterinary medicines in the environment
Funder: European Commission, Marie Curie Actions
Project No: 629015 (project details)
Dr Bruce Petrie
Research Officer in Environmental Analytical Chemistry (2013-16)
Project tile: Holistic Approaches to Sustainable Water Supply
Funder: Engineering and Physical Research Council IAA and Wessex Water Partnership Development Award
Dr Axel Rydevik
Post-doctoral Research Fellow (2014-16)
Project tile: Urban water profiling for community-wide human exposure assessment from environmental endocrine disrupting chemicals in personal care and consumer products
Funder: Leverhulme Trust
Project No: RPG-2013-297 (project details)
Dr Zhugen Yang
Marie Curie Experienced Researcher in Biosensors (2013-15)
Project tile: Multichannel biosensors for human biomarkers (in collaboration with Prof Ch. Frost and Dr P. Estrela)
Funder: European Commission, Marie Curie Actions
Project No: 317205 (project details)
Dr John Bagnall
Postdoctoral researcher (2011-12)
Project tile: Enantioselective occurrence and fate of chiral drugs in the environment
Funder: Natural Environment Research Council
Project No: NE/I000534/1 (project details)
PhD students
Dr Felicity Caroline Tomiko Elder
PhD student (2016-2021)
Project title: Fate of antibiotics in urban water cycle and its impacts upon the evolution of antimicrobial resistance
Funder: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and Astra Zeneca
Dr Elizabeth Holton
PhD student (2017-2022)
Project title: Development of diagnostic tools to measure indicators of disease and antimicrobial resistance via urban water profiling
Funder: Engineering and Physical Sciences research Council
Project: Developing Resilient Nations – Towards a Public Heath Early Warning System via Urban Water Profiling (ReNEW) EP/P028403/
Andrew Kannan
PhD student (2017-2023)
Project title: New diagnostic tools in water fingerprinting for public and environmental health assessment
Funder: Engineering and Physical Sciences research Council
Project: ENTRUST: Wastewater fingerprinting for public health assessment
Dr Natalie Sims
PhD student (2017-2022)
Project title: Medicinal Products in the Environment: novel strategies reducing environmental exposure
Funder: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and Wessex Water
Dr Rawiwan Wattanayon
PhD student (2017-2023)
Project title: Tackling global challenges – a new framework towards effect-directed analysis to assess freshwater quality
Funder: The Royal Thai Embassy
Dr Jack Rice
PhD student (2014-18)
Project tile: Quantitative proteomics in molecular diagnostics of public health: the quest for biomarkers of infectious disease
Funder: University of Bath and Engineering and Physical Sciences research Council
Dr Kathryn Proctor
PhD student (2014-18)
Project tile: Life-cycle of medicinal products in urban water: new (bio)analytical approaches and environmental risk assessment
Funder: Natural Environment Research Council
Project No: NE/L009579/1 (project details)
Dr Luigi Lopardo
PhD student (2014-17)
Project tile: Community-wide exposure routes and risks from environmental endocrine disrupting chemicals
Funder: Leverhulme Trust Project No: RPG-2013-297 (project details)
Dr Erika Castrignanò
Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher in Environmental Sciences (2013-16)
Project tile: Enantiomeric profiling of chiral biomarkers
Funder: European Commission, Marie Curie Actions
Project No: 317205 (project details)
Dr Sian Evans
PhD student (2011-14)
Project tile: Stereoselective degradation of chiral drugs during wastewater treatment
Funder: Engineering and Physical Research Council
Project No: EP/I038608/1 (project details)
Dr Grace Lewis
PhD student (2011-14)
Project tile: Low cost junction sensors for water quality monitoring (in collaboration with Prof Frank Marken)
Funder: Natural Environment Research Council
Project No: NE/I019456/1 (project details)
Dr Amir Ikhlaq
PhD student, University of Huddersfield (2008-2011)
Project tile: Catalytic ozonation for the removal of anthropogenic organic contaminants in water
Dr David Baker
PhD student, University of Huddersfield (2008-2011)
Project tile: Analysis of drugs of abuse in the environment by liquid chromatography coupled with tandem mass spectrometry – state of the environment and drug use assessment at the community level
MRes students
Oriol Escursell
MRes student, Centre for Sustainable Chemical technologies (2017)
The quantification of whey protein fractions from casein fractions in microfiltered pasteurised skimmed milk with Professor Barbara Kasprzyk-Hordern and Dr Michael Bird— 2nd MRes project
Vicky De Groof
MRes student, Centre for Sustainable Chemical technologies (2017)
Project title: The fate of micropollutants in anaerobic digestion with Professor Barbara Kasprzyk-Hordern and Dr Marta Coma
Garyfalia Zoumpouli
MRes student, Centre for Sustainable Chemical technologies (2017)
Project title: Transformation of pharmacologically active compounds in natural engineered water treatment simulating microcosms with Professor Barbara Kasprzyk-Hordern and Dr Jannis Wenk
Natalie Sims
MRes student, Centre for Sustainable Chemical technologies (2017)
Project 1: Medicinal products in the environment: novel strategies reducing environmental exposure with Professor Barbara Kasprzyk-Hordern and Dr Tom Arnot.
Project 2: Sustainable treatment processes for the removal of pharmacologically active compounds from water with Dr Tom Arnot, Professor Barbara Kasprzyk-Hordern and Professor Rod Scott
Daniel Scott
MRes student, Centre for Sustainable Chemical Technologies (2016)
Project title: Transformation mechanisms of antibiotics in the environment and their impact on evolution of antimicrobial resistance (in collaboration with Professor Ed Feil)
Barbara Mielcarek
MRes student, Chemistry (2016)
Project tile: Separation of chiral pharmaceuticals on cyclodextrins using chiral chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry
Shawn Rood
MRes student, Centre for Sustainable Chemical Technologies (2015)
Project title: Sustainable treatment processes for the removal of pharmacologically active compounds from water (in collaboration with Dr Tom Arnot and Professor Rod Scott)
Martha Easton
MRes student, Chemistry (2011/12)
Project title: Enantiomeric separation of chiral environmental pollutants in water using Solid Phase Extraction and Liquid Chromatography coupled with Mass Spectrometry
Evangelia Tzelepi
MRes student, Chemistry (2010/11)
Project title: Quadrupole time-of-flight spectrometry in the quantitive analysis of micropollutants
Dr Anyela Ramirez Canon
MRes student, Centre for Sustainable Chemical Technologies (2010)
Project title: Detection of micro-pollutants in water (in collaboration with Dr Tom Arnot)
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)
Amy Williams
MChemFT student, Chemistry (2018-19)
Kieran O’Daly
MChemIT student, Chemistry (2018-19)
Stan Morris
BSc(Hons) Natural Sciences with Year long work placement (2018-19)
Mathias Berlinger
BSci Student, Chemistry (2018)
Erasmus student, Vienna University of Technology
Dominic Macias
MChemFT student, Chemistry (2017-18)
Project title:
Stuart Roberts
MChemIT student, Chemistry (2017-18)
Project title:
Sarah Hodgen
BSc student, Natural Sciences (2017-18)
Project title: Antibiotics and Antibiotic Resistance Genes in the Aquatic Environment
Andrew Kannan
MChemIT student, Chemistry (2016-17)
Project tile: Understanding AMR: antibiotics and antibiotic resistance genes in the aquatic environment
David Adams
MChemIT student, Chemistry (2016-17)
Project tile: Identification of new metabolic biomarkers of human exposure to endocrine disruptors in personal care products
Luke Lloyd
Natural Sciences student, Chemistry (2016-17)
Project tile: Stereoselective Fate and Toxicity of Chiral Drugs in the Environment
Ben Smith
MChemIT student, Chemistry (2015-16)
Project tile: Development of multi-residue methods for the analysis of pharmaceuticals in plants
Andrew Cummins
MChemIT student, Chemistry (2015-16)
Project tile: In vitro transformation of endocrine disruptors in human liver
James Nicholas
MSci student, Natural Sciences (2015-16)
Project tile: Removal of pharmacologically active compounds from water using algal beds
Kathryn Proctor
MChemFT student, Chemistry (2013-14)
Project tile: Development of methods for the analysis of biomarkers of infection in urban water
Jack Rice
MChemIT student, Chemistry (2013-14)
Project tile: Stereoselective fate and toxicity of ephedrines in river microcosms
Beth Humphrey
BSc student, Natural Sciences (2012-13)
Project title: Enantioselective toxicity of chiral drugs to Daphnia magna
Bethan Rhodes
MSci student, Natural Sciences (2012-13)
Project title: Enantioselective effects of chiral drugs to Tetrahymena thermophile and Selenastrum capricornutum
Paul Davies
MChemFT student, Chemistry (2011-12)
Project tile: Development of a novel and robust method for the enantiomeric extraction of chiral pharmaceutical and illicit drugs from solid matrices by microwave-assisted-extraction and liquid chromatography coupled with triple quadrupole mass spectrometry
Matthew Wort
MChemIT student, Chemistry (2010-11)
Project tile: Enantiomeric analysis of pharmaceuticals in river water by chiral liquid chromatography coupled with quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry
Visiting students
Idera Ayodeji Fabunmi
Visiting PhD student from University of Lagos, Nigeria (2018)
Yizhe Zhang
Visiting PhD student from Tsingua University, China (2018)
Edward Archer
Visiting PhD student form Department of Microbiology, Stellenbosch University (2015-2017)
Ana Causanilles Llanes
Visiting PhD student form KWR Watercycle Research Institute, the Netherlands (May 2015 – June 2015)
Dr Nikolaos Rousis
Visiting PhD student form Istituto Di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri, Italy (October 2014 – November 2014)
Dr María Jesús Andrés-Costa
Visiting PhD student form Faculty of Farmacy, University of Valencia, Spain (September 2014 – March 2015)
Project title: Stereoselective transformation and effects of fluoxetine in river microcosms
Dr Nicola Mastroianni
Visiting PhD student form the Institute for Environmental Assessment and Water Research, IDAEA-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain (September-December 2014)
Project title: Stroreoselective transformation of illicit drugs during wastewater treatment
Dr Marie Mardal
Visiting PhD student form Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology Saarland University, Germany (July 2014)
Dr Pablo Vazquez-Roig
Visiting PhD student form Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Valencia, Spain (May-July 2012)
Project title: Analysis of amphetamines in wastewater with the usage of chiral chromatography and tandem mass spectrometry
Dr Rebeca López Serna
Visiting PhD student from Department of Environmental Chemistry, IDAEA-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain (Feb-May 2012)
Project tile: Multi-residue enantiomeric analysis of pharmaceuticals and their active transformation products in the Guadalquivir River basin (South Spain) by chiral liquid chromatography coupled with tandem mass spectrometry
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