Research
Research Interests
My aim is to replace the industrial habit of collecting fluid samples in bottles and delivering them to laboratories for analysis. We will replace these manual procedures by automated instruments that challenge this glacially slow, high-support-cost, lab-centric business model. The proposed new self-contained analysers will allow measurement at the point of use, thereby eliminating labor, transport time and potential contamination. This new paradigm is made possible through microfabrication. The miniaturisation and integration of solid-phase extraction, electro-chromatographic separations and full-spectrum electro-optical or electro-magnetic detection will allow the encapsulation and optimisation of existing instrumental methods into micro-fluidic, application–specific chemistry chips. Each chip is essentially a laboratory integrated into its sample’s environment.
Research groups
Research grants
µPADs On Call: Out of Hours Disease Monitoring and Early Diagnosis
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
February 2021 - August 2024
A Point-of-Care Test for Sepsis based on Calcium-induced Turbidity in Blood
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE (UK)
February 2010 - September 2013
A Point-of-Care Test for Sepsis based on Calcium-induced Turbidity in Blood
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE (UK)
September 2011 - June 2014
Research collaborations
Various
Unilever Research Port Sunlight
Development of new separation methods
Peter Dawes
Prep Australia
Development of new micro HPLC Columns
Dr Xaiodong
ThermoFisher Scientific
Separation Science
Professor Luigi Mondela
University of Messina
Separation Science
Marja-Liisa Riekkola
University of Helsinki
Electro Chromatography
Professor Jame Jorgenson
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Ultra High Preformance Chromatography
Professor David Barrow
University of Cardiff
Microfabrication