Analytical techniques and their development.
Typical interests include:
- High resolution gas chromatography
- Fast gas chromatography
- Preparative scale / fractionation in gas chromatography
- Multidimensional gas chromatography (MDGC)
- Comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography (GC×GC)
- Mass spectrometry
- Detection transducers for GC - sensitive and selective technologies for chemical analysis ~ olfactometry, flame photometry, N-, P-, halogens
- Capillary electrophoresis
- High performance liquid chromatography
- Solid-phase microextraction and related extraction techniques
- Development of systematic descriptions and predictions of separations
- Development of specialist stationary phases in LC and GC
- Novel physicochemical process monitoring by separation methods
- Aroma / sensory analysis using separations and olfactometry
- 3D printing of analytical devices
- On-site/mobile GC‒MS
Applications of analytical separations.
Typical applications include:
- Essential oils / perfume analysis
- Metabolomics
- Petroleum/petrochemical analysis
- Pesticides and pollutants
- Contaminants of emerging concern
- Fatty acids & triacylglycerols analysis
- Illicit drugs and steroids
- Food and beverages analysis – herbs, spices, wine, coffee, juices
- Traditional herbal materials
- Chemical weapons and toxins
Collaborations
External collaborative projects have involved colleagues from:
- Australia – Defence Science & Technology Organisation
- Australia – Victoria Police
- Australia – University of Melbourne
- Australia – University of Tasmania
- Thailand – Chulalongkorn University
- Brazil – UFRJ, UFRGS, UFMG, UNIT and EMBRAPA
- Portugal – New University of Lisbon
- Korea – Chung-Ang University
- Geneva – Food Quality Laboratory
- Germany - German Wine Institute, Rheinpfalz
- New Zealand – University of Otago
- Colombia – Industrial University of Santander
- Malaysia – UCSI University
- Agilent Technologies
- PerkinElmer
- BASF
- Markes / SepSolve
- France – University of Rouen
- United Kingdom – Plymouth University
- Turkey – Istanbul University of Technology
- Turkey – Dokuz Eylul University
- Indonesia – Brawijaya University
