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Professor Barbara Kasprzyk-Hordern is a distinguished academic at the University of Bath, holding a position in the Department of Chemistry within the Faculty of Science. She serves as Director of the Centre for Doctoral Training in Real-Time Digital Water-Based Systems for Environmental Health Protection (RED-ALERT CDT) and is affiliated with multiple research centers including the Centre for Sustainable Chemical Technologies (CSCT), Water Innovation and Research Centre (WIRC), Centre for Therapeutic Innovation, Institute of Sustainability and Climate Change, Centre for Bioengineering & Biomedical Technologies (CBio), and Centre of Excellence in Water-Based Early-Warning Systems for Health Protection (CWBE).
Her educational background isn't explicitly detailed in the provided text, but her research expertise spans environmental, analytical, and water sciences with particular focus on water pollution and novel contamination reduction technologies. Her recent work emphasizes urban water and human epidemiology, with special interest in chiral pollutants, antimicrobial resistance, and wastewater-based epidemiology.
Professor Kasprzyk-Hordern's research portfolio demonstrates a strong commitment to addressing environmental and public health challenges through advanced analytical techniques. Her work on chiral pollutants has revealed how enantiomeric composition affects environmental behavior and toxicity of pharmaceuticals. She has pioneered wastewater fingerprinting approaches to develop early warning systems for environmental and public health monitoring. The trend in her recent publications shows increasing focus on antimicrobial resistance surveillance through wastewater analysis, with applications to both clinical and environmental contexts.
- Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (2023)
Professor Kasprzyk-Hordern actively supervises doctoral students and has led numerous significant research projects including the Bath Beacon for Managing Antimicrobial Resistance, PAthways of Chemicals Into Freshwaters and their ecological ImpaCts (PACIFIC), and the Centre for Doctoral Training in Real-Time Digital Water-Based Systems. Her research group, the Environmental Chemistry & Public Health Research Group, focuses on developing novel analytical methodologies primarily utilizing liquid chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry to identify and quantify micropollutants at extremely low concentrations.
She maintains active collaborations across multiple disciplines and countries, with recent activities including keynote presentations at major international conferences on water quality, mass spectrometry applications, and antimicrobial resistance. Her work contributes significantly to multiple UN Sustainable Development Goals, particularly those related to clean water, good health, and climate action.
