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14th Annual RACI R & D Topics Conference
Tuesday 5th - Saturday 9th December 2006
Guest Speakers
We hope to once again have the medallists for the RACI Analytical Division and Environmental Division present on their work and career as award-winning scientists!
We have invited two international guest speakers to present at the conference, Dr Kevin Wilkinson from the University of Montreal, Canada and Dr Hao Zhang from the University of Lancaster, UK.
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Dr Kevin Wilkinson (Bio) - pdf (111kb)
Kevin J. Wilkinson received a Ph.D. in Environmental Chemistry from the National Water Research Institute of the University of Quebec (INRS-Eau) in 1993. Following his Ph.D., he joined the research group of Prof. Jacques Buffle at the University of Geneva as a post-doctoral fellow, prior to appointments as Lecturer (1994) and Senior Lecturer (1997). In 2005, he was appointed Associate Professor of Chemistry at the University of Montreal. His research program is focused onto relating structure to function: both for environmental biopolymers and colloids and for trace element bioavailability/biouptake. His current research interests include: (i) relating (mechanistically) chemical speciation to bioavailability; (ii) improving our understanding of the role(s) of microorganisms on the biophysicochemistry of trace elements and colloids; (iii) developing and optimising novel analytical techniques for quantifying bioavailability and colloidal/aggregate structure; (iv) characterising environmental biopolymers and (v) determining the role of diffusion in complex environmental media (biofilms, flocs, sediments). He is currently a member of the editorial boards of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry and Environmental Chemistry and titular member of the IUPAC Chemistry and Environment Division.
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Dr Hao Zhang (Bio) - pdf (65.5kb)
Dr. Hao Zhang has a BSc degree in marine Chemistry from the Ocean University of Qingdao, China and a PhD in chemistry from the University of Brussels, Belgium. She has undertaken research for more than 20 years in environmental chemistry at the Institute of Oceanography, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (1984-1987), the University of Brussels (1987-1991), Liverpool University (1992) and Lancaster University (1993-present). As well as advancing the use of AAS, ICP-MS and electrochemical techniques in environmental analysis, she pioneered the techniques of DGT and DET and has led their applications in waters, soils and sediments. Her research has advanced scientific understanding in several areas of environmental chemistry. DGT has been developed to measure metal speciation and dynamics in situ in natural waters. In soil research there have been two major developments: to investigate the kinetics of metal transfer from solid phase to solution and to mimic the major dynamic processes that control uptake of metals by plants. In sediments the focus on making measurements at high spatial resolution has provided new insights into the micro-heterogeneity of sediment processes, which is leading to the development of new 3 dimensional dynamic models of sediment biogeochemistry. While the core of the work is focused on metals, other components are being increasingly studied, including radionuclides
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