John has 35+ years’ experience of mass spectrometry (MS) and chromatography and has led and managed the MS Facility since 1988, during which time over 1000 users have been trained in the use of modern MS. He has 117 peer-reviewed publications, H-index is 35, and has delivered innovative approaches to MS and chromatography-MS, e.g. the first academic open access MS instrumentation in 1995, open access LC-MS, GC-MS and then SFC-MS in 2014 John has supervised 22 students who graduated with PhDs, and is currently supervisor to four PhD students, and second supervisor to a further five PhD students. All of his PhD studentships have been jointly funded by industry, spanning the pharmaceutical, agrochemical, petrochemical and polymer chemistry sectors.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), Chartered Chemist, Chartered Scientist, Member of RSC Analytical Division Council (2014-20), Chair of the RSC Separation Science Group (2009-) and President of the International Mass Spectrometry Foundation (2018-22). He is the only person to have been Chair of the BMSS and the RSC Separation Science Group.

John is also a diligent PhD examiner who is frequently called upon (19 Universities – both UK and abroad) and presently is external examiner at Robert Gordon University (Analytical MSc). In 2016-17 he was awarded the BMSS lectureship, a role he took very seriously, giving 18 lectures across the UK targeted at PhD students, covering over 4500 miles (mainly by train!) and in 2021 John was presented with the British Mass Spectrometry Society medal.

John’s research ability is to apply his skills in analytical science to a broad range of challenging problems and systems. He is enthusiastic about collaborative working and applying new technologies, and applying his research approaches to a range of applications new environmental projects, whilst others aligns to the petrochemical industry, agrochemicals and pharmaceutical (including therapeutic oligonucleotides).

He is director of the SW Regional GCxGC-HRMS facility, and in the process of enabling the equivalent SW Regional LCxLC-IMS-HRMS facility that should be commissioned early 2025.

Eamonn obtained his MSci in Chemistry from the University of Bristol and DPhil at the University of Oxford within the laboratory of Professor Dame Carol Robinson in 2015.
He joined King's College London as a postdoctoral researcher in Professor Paula Booth’s group in 2015 and was awarded a BBSRC Future Leader (now called Discovery) Fellow between 2016-19. In 2019, Eamonn became a Lecturer in Chemical Biology, starting his independent research group, and Senior Lecturer in 2022.
Eamonn is now a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow and Associate Professor in Molecular Biosciences at the University of Southampton, where he leads leads the Molecular & Precision Biosciences research theme.

Ralph is Head of NMR Spectroscopy and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Manchester, providing NMR characterisation, analysis, training and advice to academic and commercial users and collaborators from around the world. He has active industry and research council funded research programmes in the development of novel techniques in high resolution NMR spectroscopy, and their application to problems in chemistry, biochemistry, and medicine. In many cases this work leads to new pulse sequences and software tools. Ralph leads a technical team that provides NMR data from 14 instruments for around 200,000 samples per annum to over 600 research scientists. Ralph sits on the committees of several groups including the RSC NMR Discussion Group, Technology Specialists Network, and the UK Magnetic Resonance Managers Group.