Marc has a BSc in Chemistry from the University of Bath and a PhD in Catalytic Chemistry, from the University of Reading and Queen's University Belfast. He was awarded Chartered Chemist (CChem) status by the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2010.
Marc is a leading UK scientist in the use of FTIR in emissions monitoring. He has written a standard for the Environment Agency on the quality assurance of FTIR emissions monitoring for regulatory compliance and he is overseeing the application of FTIR for the NPL emissions monitoring teams. He is the lead scientist for analysis of complex VOCs for industry, using GC Mass Spectrometry. Marc also works on open-path FTIR for various applications such as security.
Before joining NPL, Marc completed a Fellowship jointly sponsored by Johnson Matthey plc and MEL Chemicals at the Queen's University Belfast on novel catalyst discovery. He also spent time at ICI working as a formulation chemist. Since joining NPL Marc has been nominated to represent UK interests on a range of standardisation groups including several operated by CEN (Comité Européen de Normalisation).
Current interests
Marc has over ten years' experience at NPL. He leads spectrometric research in the science area of environmental measurement and his interests encompass direct measurement of emission sources and the impact of emissions on the atmosphere. Marc's focus is mainly on the techniques of Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy and mass spectrometry (MS) investigating, calibration / validation techniques, computation of synthetic spectra from fundamental spectroscopic parameters, and uncertainty evaluation. This work is carried out within the application areas of regulatory emissions (e.g. chemical plant), carbon capture and storage studies, remote sensing (e.g. of area source emissions such as those from landfill), and determining radiative balance of the atmosphere through solar observation.
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