Principle activities
Our mission
To lead in scholarship, research, and teaching in the multi-disciplinary arena of measurement science.
Our research and teaching are concerned with the measurement of phenomena ranging from nano-scale molecular processes in biological cells right through to macro-scale chemical processes in industrial reactors, including areas such as environmental monitoring, disease diagnosis, drug and explosive detection and molecular imaging for health-care and the life-sciences. To meet the measurement demands of these systems the group is researching new analytical methodologies and instrumentation exploiting a wide range of advanced chemical, biochemical and physical sensors that utilise optical spectroscopies, complex mass spectrometries such ion mobility and secondary ion mass spectrometry, laser generated ultra-sound, laser trapping, polymer microfabrication, microfluidics, optical fibre sensing and PET tomography.
See: Centre for Instrumentation and Analytical Science (CIAS) website
