Forensic Science

I studied biology and chemistry in Versailles, France. I then specialised in inorganic/physical chemistry and obtained my degree and Master from Versailles. I moved cross-Atlantic to Oklahoma State University (USA) to work as a Research Assistant on materials chemistry for one year. Then, I chose to do a PhD in collaboration with Synetix, ICI at UMIST, Manchester, UK dealing with the formation mechanism of mesoporous materials and their architecture in terms of surface curvature. I carried out my first post-doctoral research at the Max Planck for Colloids and Interfaces Sciences, Golm, Germany on hybrid porous materials and then at the Institut de Sciences et d’Ingenierie Supramoleculaires in Strasbourg, in a BASF laboratory on the design of nanoporous foams.  I came back to the UK in 2007 as a Lecturer in Chemistry and Forensic Sciences at Keele University.

I have been working in the field of porous materials for the last 10 years, in six laboratories and four countries, both in industry and academia. I have developed a strong expertise in colloid chemistry, physical chemistry and polymer chemistry.

I am now working on (i) designing functional polymeric materials with potential in molecular recognition in aqueous media (ii) tackling the mechanisms of precipitation of silicic acid under very dilute conditions (In collaboration with Chris Exley, Keele).

I am a member of the Research Institute for the Environment, Physical Sciences
and Applied Mathematics (EPSAM). See also my Porous Materials Research Group page.

Year 1

• CHE-10038 : Chemical Principles for Forensics

Year 2

• CHE-20010 : Criminalistic Methods

Year 3

• CHE-30002 : Chemistry Research Project
• CHE-30011 : Forensic Science Research Project
• CHE-30012 : Trace Evidence Analysis