Fields of Research

Separation science
Analytical spectrometry
Metabolomic chemistry
Quality assurance, chemometrics, traceability and metrological chemistry
Flow analysis
Nonlinear optics and spectroscopy

Research Objectives

Expanding knowledge in the chemical sciences
Essential oils
Expanding knowledge in the biomedical and clinical sciences
Industrial instruments
Industrial chemicals and related products
Scientific instruments
Information systems, technologies and services

Career Best Publications

Research Publications

Characterisation of complex perfume and essential oil blends using multivariate curve resolution-alternating least squares algorithms on average mass spectrum from GC-MS; Talanta
Comprehensive characterisation of ylang-ylang essential oils according to distillation time, origin, and chemical composition using a multivariate approach applied to average mass spectra and segmented average mass spectral data; The Journal of Chromatography A
Data handling and data analysis in metabolomic studies of essential oils using GC-MS; Journal of Chromatography A
Multidimensional gas chromatography in essential oil analysis. Part 2: Application to characterisation and identification; Chromatographia
Multidimensional gas chromatography in essential oil analysis. Part 1: Technical developments; Chromatographia
Radical scavenging activity and metabolomic profiling study of ylang-ylang essential oils based on high-performance thin-layer chromatography and multivariate statistical analysis; Journal of Chromatography B
Random Forests machine learning applied to gas chromatography – mass spectrometry derived average mass spectrum data sets for classification and characterisation of essential oils; Talanta
Smartphone-based handheld Raman spectrometer and machine learning for essential oil quality evaluation; Analytical Methods

Research Projects

On-line monitoring system for Furacell tm process control; Australian Institute of Mathematics & Science Pty Ltd (AMSI)

Research Candidate Supervision