Manchester NMR Methodology Group

Graduate Student

Research
New Methods in Liquids NMR

My research areas include
- Pulse sequence development: Pure-shift methods.
- Using univariate, multivariate and hybrid methods to extract information from DOSY data.
- Implementing NMR processing methods in MATLAB: The DOSY Toolbox.

Biography

While studying for my MCHEM at Manchester, I completed a final year project in NMR processing methods with the group. Appetite whetted, I joined the group as a doctoral student with dual themes of resolution enhancement for the NMR technique: fleshing out and extending my masters work in the processing of DOSY data and the development of pure shift NMR experimental methods.

Following the PhD I moved to Cambridge for a PDRA in collaboration with Imperial College London, where I applied rapid imaging techniques coupled with relaxometry and diffusometry to a rock-core acidization rig with in-line differential pressure sensing. These data were used to support modelling work into reactive transport at ICL.

During the PDRA, I spent 3 months as a visiting scientist at Schlumberger Cambridge Research, developing hardware for the simultaneous visualisation and rheometric characterisation of complex particle-laden fluid flows, returning after finishing up at Cambridge University to complete the work. In a brief escape from NMR, I joined a Cambridge start-up, creating and developing ultrasonic dispensing system concepts and prototypes for surface and fabric coating applications. Subsequently lured back to Schlumberger, I now lead a small NMR group at SCR, leveraging my NMR background and practical skillset to develop sensing and measurement solutions to energy sector problems.

Publications
2013 Filter diagonalization method for processing PFG NMR data

2012 Decoupling Two-Dimensional NMR Spectroscopy in Both Dimensions: Pure Shift NOESY and COSY

2011 Local Covariance Order Diffusion-Ordered Spectroscopy: A Powerful Tool for Mixture Analysis