Showing profile for Dr. Richard Ansell

Position: Senior Lecturer in Physical and Analytical Chemistry Institution: University of Leeds Department: School of Chemistry Address: Woodhouse Lane  Leeds, West Yorkshire  United Kingdom, LS2 9JT

Web: http://www.chem.leeds.ac.uk/People/Ansell.html
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Personal statement:
I have been working in the field of molecular imprinting since 1994, when I started a 3-year postdoctoral position with Prof. Klaus Mosbach at the University of Lund. Prior to that, I was an undergraduate and then PhD student at the University of Cambridge, completing my project in the Institute of Biotechnology, with Prof. Chris Lowe, on artificial redox coenzymes. After Sweden I was a Marie-Curie fellow at the University of Regensburg in Germany (with Prof. Stefan Seeger), then appointed Lecturer at the University of Leeds in 1999. At Leeds, molecular imprinting has been one of my main research interests, along with coenzyme technology, new separations methods, self-assembling molecules and photoelectrochemical processes. Within molecular imprinting, my main interests have been fluorescence-based sensing, improving the imprinting process by the use of novel monomers, and MIPs for solid-phase extraction. I have developed extensive experience at characterising the pre-polymerisation mixture using NMR. My research group fluctuates between 3 and 6 members.