Dr. Mark P. Barrow CChem MRSC
Reader
ResearcherID: C-3145-2009
Employment
Reader: August 2022 - Present
Associate Professor: January 2019 - August 2022
Principal Research Fellow: June 2017 - January 2019
Senior Research Fellow: June 2013 - June 2017
Research Fellow (permanent position, independent researcher and funding): June 2006 - June 2013
Research Fellow (postdoctoral research, supervisor: Prof. Peter J. Derrick): July 2000 - June 2006
Education
PhD, Chemistry (supervisor: Dr. Thomas Drewello): October 1996 - December 2000
BSc (Hons.), Chemistry: October 1993 - July 1996
Early education in Brighton, UK and in Palo Alto, California, USA
Professional memberships
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), Member with Chartered Chemist status (CChem MRSC)
American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS)
British Mass Spectrometry Society (BMSS)
Energy Institute (EI)
External roles
RSC: Analytical Methods: Instrumental Analysis Expert Working Group: November 2020 - Present
BMSS: General Secretary: October 2022 - Present
BMSS: Education Officer: October 2019 - September 2022
BMSS: Elected Committee member and trustee: October 2015 - Present
Faraday Discussions, organizing committee ("Challenges in Analysis of Complex Natural Mixtures"): July 2018 - May 2019
ASMS: Workshop coordinator, “Energy, Petroleum, and Biofuels”: 2015-2017
ASMS: Conference session chair, “Energy, Petroleum, and Biofuels”: 2016
BMSS: Annual conference session chairs: 2015, 2016, 2018
“Fuel” (journal), guest editor: 2017
Reviewer for funding bodies:
American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund (ACS PRF), Alberta Innovates, Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), British Council, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), European Commission, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
Reviewer for ~35 journals, including:
ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, Algal Research, Analyst, Analytical Chemistry, Analytical Methods, Chemical Reviews, Chemosphere, Ecotoxicology and Environmental Science, Energy & Fuels, Environmental Chemistry, Environmental Science and Technology, Environmental Science: Processes and Impacts, Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology, European Journal of Mass Spectrometry, Faraday Discussions, Fuel, Fuel Processing and Technology, Industrial and Engineering Chemical Research, International Journal of Mass Spectrometry, iScience, Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry, Journal of Hazardous Materials, Journal of Mass Spectrometry, Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, Mass Spectrometry Reviews, Mass Spectrometry Reviews, Nature Communications, Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, Recent Patents on Corrosion Science, Science of the Total Environment, Sustainable Energy and Fuels, Talanta, Water Air & Soil Pollution, Water Research
Examiner for PhD:
University of Eastern Finland, University of Southampton, University of Warwick (internal), University of Bristol
Research supervision
Current: 1 PDRA, 4 PhD students, 1 MChem project student
Previous supervision: 1 PDRA, 2 PhD students completed, 6 MAS CDT (Masters/PhD) project students, 1 ASI (Masters) student, 3 AS:MIT (Masters) project students, 6 URSS (undergraduate) project students, 7 MChem project students, and provided training and guidance for other ICR Lab PhD students (13) and PDRAs (4)
Funding
Total: ~£5.8 million in funding (of which ~£1.1 million as PI, mostly from industry)
Grants:
2020 EPSRC (ID: EP/V007718/1): “Hyperfine Resolution and Advanced Structural Analysis to Enable Next-Generation Molecular Science” (Co-I, awarded £3,101,722)
2020 EPSRC (ID: EP/V007688/1): “EPRSC Resource Only Strategic Equipment: the Warwick Analytical Science Centre” (Co-I, awarded £953,764)
2017 Newton Fund Institutional Links (ID: 275910721): “Fingerprints typification of biofuel samples by ultra-high resolution mass spectrometry using an ultra-high resolution FT-ICR MS” (PI, awarded £86,986.18)
2016 EPSRC GCRF award: “Environmental petroleomics: water quality in Colombia” (PI, awarded £49,381)
2016 Monash Warwick Alliance: joint PI, £6,337 to Warwick, $3,000 AUD to Monash
2016 Australian Bicentennial Scholarship & Fellowship Awards, £2k
2012 BBSRC (ID: BB/J019690/1), “Yield Improvement of oilseed rape through genetic manipulation of rhizosphere exudation,” (Research-CoI, awarded: £512,416)
Software
2020: KairosMS (https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.analchem.9b05113)
2019: Rhapso (https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.analchem.9b03846)
2017: Themis (https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.analchem.7b02345)
Research world record
2019: Largest number of unique molecular formula assignments within a single sample (244,779 assignments without chromatography or MS/MS) (https://doi.org/10.1039/C9SC02903F).
Research group prizes
2022: Best PhD student talk at CENTA meeting: Benedict Gannon
2021: Best PhD student talk at Postgraduate Symposium: Hugh E. Jones
2021: PhD student poster at Postgraduate Symposium, honorary mention: Latifa Alostad
2020: Faculty Post-Doctoral Research Prize: Diana Catalina Palacio Lozano
2019: Nev Haskins Oral Prize for Early Career Researcher talk at the “Advances in Hyphenated Mass Spectrometry” conference: Diana Catalina Palacio Lozano
2018: Barber Prize for best student talk at annual British Mass Spectrometry Society conference: Mary J. Thomas
Media
2022: Article in The Analytical Scientist ("Complexity Resolved?:" https://theanalyticalscientist.com/fields-applications/complexity-resolved)
2019: Interviewed for Chemistry World article (“Stitched spectra distinguish over 240k elemental compositions in petroleum sample,” August 2019: https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/stitched-spectra-distinguish-over-240k-elemental-compositions-in-petroleum-sample/3010872.article)
2019: Article in Spectroscopy Europe ("New mass spectrometry method for characterisation of the most challenging complex mixtures:" https://www.spectroscopyeurope.com/article/new-mass-spectrometry-method-characterisation-most-challenging-complex-mixtures)
2019: Article in The Analytical Scientist ("Record Breakers:" https://theanalyticalscientist.com/techniques-tools/record-breakers)
2019: Interviewed for The Chemical Engineer ("Record-breaking analysis")
2019: Interviewed for Tribology & Lubrication Technology ("Composition of Mineral Oil")
2015: "Ultrahigh Resolution Mass Spectrometry: Determining the Molecular Composition of Petroleum," Petro-Industry News (Annual Buyer's Guide 2015: )
2011: Interviewed for comment in Chemistry World article (“Monitoring oil sand toxicity,” March 2011: https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/monitoring-oil-sand-toxicity-/3002582.article
2010: Interviewed for Chemistry World article (“A Barrel Load of Compounds,” May 2010: https://www.chemistryworld.com/features/a-barrel-load-of-compounds/3004452.article
Publications
A list of publications can also be found within the group web pages: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/chemistry/research/barrow/barrowgroup/publications/
Approximately 101 peer-reviewed journal publications, 4 book chapters, and 56 confidential reports for industry (Note: industrial collaborations have often precluded publication.)
h-index (as of December 2022): 34 (Google Scholar), 31 (Scopus), 30 (Web of Science/Publons)
Undergraduate and postgraduate teaching
Director: "Analytical Sciences and Instrumentation" MSc course: 2022 - Present
Module leader: CH915 (Principles and Techniques in Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis): 2022 - Present
Module leader: CH3F2 and CH3G5 (Advanced Analytical Chemistry): 2019 - Present
Module leader: CH401 (Research Project & Methodology): 2019 - 2022
CH3F7 (Energy): 2016 - Present
CH155 (Chemistry Laboratory and Assessed Work): 2018 - Present
CH162 tutorials (Introduction to Physical Chemistry): 2019 - Present
CH3G0 (Extended Laboratory): 2018 - Present
CH921 (Frontier Instrumental Techniques for Molecular Analytical Science): 2014 - Present
CH908 (Mass Spectrometry): 2012 - Present
CH159 (Maths for Chemists): 2014 - 2016