Prof John Dean

Professor

Department: Applied Sciences

John R Dean Staffprofile Northumbriauniversity255 John R. Dean was appointed as Lecturer (1988), Senior Lecturer (1990), Reader (1994), Principal Lecturer (1998) and Associate Dean (2004) at Northumbria University. He was awarded a personal chair by Northumbria University in August 2004. In 1998 he was awarded a D.Sc. (London) in Analytical and Environmental Science and was the recipient of the 23rd SAC Silver Medal in 1995 (awarded by the Royal Society of Chemistry Analytical Division).

John obtained his BSc (Hons) in Chemistry from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (now Manchester University), an MSc in Analytical Chemistry and Instrumentation from Loughborough University. This was followed by a PhD, DIC at Imperial College, London under the supervision of Professor R.D. Snook. Postdoctoral research followed at the then Food Science Laboratory of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF) in Norwich in conjunction with Professor L.C. Ebdon at the University of Plymouth.

John is a Chartered Scientist, Chartered Chemist and Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. He has been principal or co-investigator of externally funded research grants with a total value in excess of £1.5M and has published extensively (over 180 papers, book chapters and books) in analytical and environmental science. He has supervised over 26 PhD students. John is a current member of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Analytical Division Council as well as a past chair of the North East Region (RSC) Analytical Division.

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Key Publications

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Impact of vented and condenser tumble dryers on waterborne and airborne microfiber pollution, Cummins, A., Malekpour, A., Smith, A., Lonsdale, S., Dean, J., Lant, N. 24 May 2023, In: PLoS One
Winter beans: the use of an unmanned aerial vehicle for monitoring and prediction of crop performance, Ahmed, S., Nicholson, C., Rutter, S., Marshall, J., Perry, J., Dean, J. 25 May 2023, In: Open Science Journal (OSJ)
Extraction Techniques for Environmental Analysis, Dean, J. 1 Apr 2022
Health Risk Assessment of Lead in Soils from an Historic Industrial Site in North-East England, Ma, R., Dean, J. 11 Jan 2022, In: Separations
Plant Poisons in the Garden: A Human Risk Assessment, Bowerbank, S., Gallidabino, M., Dean, J. 13 Oct 2022, In: Separations
The impact of fabric conditioning products and lint filter pore size on airborne microfiber pollution arising from tumble drying, Lant, N., Defaye, M., Smith, A., Kechi-Okafor, C., Dean, J., Sheridan, K. 6 Apr 2022, In: PLoS One
Applied aerial spectroscopy: A case study on remote sensing of an ancient and semi-natural woodland, Ahmed, S., Nicholson, C., Muto, P., Perry, J., Dean, J. 15 Nov 2021, In: PLoS One
New insights into health risk assessments for inhalational exposure to metal(loid)s: the application of aqueous chemistry modelling in understanding bioaccessibility from airborne particulate matter, Deary, M., Amaibi, P., Dean, J., Entwistle, J. 23 Jan 2021, In: Geosciences (Switzerland)
The Use of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle for Tree Phenotyping Studies, Ahmed, S., Nicholson, C., Muto, P., Perry, J., Dean, J. 18 Sep 2021, In: Separations
A critical evaluation of the use and ‘misuse’ of As and Pb bioaccessibility data in human health risk assessments, Dean, J., Amaibi, P., Okorie, A., Entwistle, J. 1 Oct 2020, In: Environmental Research

PGR Supervision

Ibrahim Aderemi Salaudeen Evaluation of Pollution Load on Contaminated Land in North East England using a UAV with Multispectral Image Camera Start Date: 01/10/2022
Blake Kesic Development of an enhanced benchtop analytical pipeline for smokeless powder profiling to improve source-level association and attribution Start Date: 23/09/2022
Rahab Al Balushi Development of next-generation analytical and data treatment approaches for enhancing possibilities in forensic profiling of chemical residue Start Date: 23/09/2022
Alysha Green Strengthening the interpretation of chemical data in the forensic analysis of explosive evidence Start Date: 23/09/2022
Samantha Bowerbank LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY ANALYSIS OF COMPOUNDS FROM COMPLEX MATRICES Start Date: 01/02/2016 End Date: 29/04/2022
Chamila Denawaka Evaluation of Multi-Capillary Column Gas Chromatography Ion Mobility Spectrometry for the Detection of Volatile Compounds Start Date: 01/10/2011 End Date: 12/11/2015
Fraser Lough Application of Volatile Organic Compound Detection to Enzyme Activity Screening and Bacteria Identification Start Date: 01/10/2013 End Date: 15/06/2017
Najat Bahroun Detection of Salmonella in Food Samples Using Exogenous Volatile Organic Compound Metabolites Start Date: 18/02/2013 End Date: 24/08/2017
Ryan Thompson Detection of microbial volatile compounds and their application in the identification of pathogenic organisms Start Date: 01/10/2016 End Date: 22/10/2020
Patrick Amaibi Assessment of Human Exposure to Arsenic From Former Industrial Sites Start Date: 29/10/2012 End Date: 11/11/2016
Katherine Stapleton Investigation of the Detection and Occurrence of Volatile Organic Compounds Responsible for Laundry Malodour Start Date: 02/11/2009 End Date: 20/06/2013
Emma Tait The Development and Evaluation of Unique Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) Profiles Using Enzyme Substrates as a Novel Method for Bacterial Detection / Identification Start Date: 01/09/2009 End Date: 25/04/2013
Aishath Ahmed Use of unmanned aerial vehicle for environmental monitoring purposes and precision agriculture. Start Date: 02/03/2020
Madusha Peththawadu Garment longevity and microfiber release through the laundry process Start Date: 01/10/2016

Qualifications

Chemistry PhD November 01 1988
Fellow (FRSC) Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 2015
Principal Fellow (PFHEA) Higher Education Academy (HEA) 2015

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