Philip White PhD, Scientist, researcher and lecturer with an interest in environmental and forensic sciences, analytical methodology and mass spectrometry with over 15 years of laboratory experience in a variety of areas. Philip completed his undergraduate degree in chemistry and pharmaceutical science in 2008 in GMIT. He then completed a PhD in the area of environmental chemistry with Technological University Dublin (TUD) in 2014 while working as part of the Water Framework Directive (WFD) analytical team at the Marine Institute. This work included the method development and analysis of pesticides and herbicides in a variety of environmental matrices including water, sediment and bio-monitor organisms such as fish and molluscs as well as in passive samples. Philip began working as a lecturer and researcher in ATU in 2016. Since then, he has supervised a number of PhD and Masters students, mainly in the area of environmental science, while lecturing to mainly 4th year students in analytical science and developing a programme on Environmental Forensics. He is a former chair of the Irish Mass Spectrometry Society (IMSS 2017 - 19) and also works as a principle investigator on commercial projects for outside companies and semi state bodies.
Paul Nathanail
Paul Nathanail has served as an expert witness for over 20 years in a variety of legal contexts, including common law, planning, environmental prosecutions and criminal offences. He is a Chartered Geologist and Specialist in Land Condition who brings a high degree of scientific rigour to his work tempered by a keen eye of which details matter, why and how much on a case by case basis. His career has been marked by the need to appreciate and accommodate uncertainty in decision making, including in his work as an expert witness.
Stuart Harrad
Stuart Harrad is Professor of Environmental Chemistry in the School of Geography, Earth, and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK. Stuart's research addresses multiple aspects of the environmental fate and behaviour of halogenated persistent organic pollutants and related contaminants. A particular focus is elucidating the magnitude and pathways of human exposure to such contaminants, spanning surveys of indoor air, dust, and drinking water through to novel in vitro studies of human dermal uptake of contaminants using three dimensional human skin equivalent models. Another important strand of investigation covers aspects of the presence of chemical contaminants in the waste stream. Stuart has published ~250 papers in peer-reviewed journals, leading to H-indices of 66 (WoS) and 79 (Google Scholar). He is a member of the UK government’s Hazardous Substances Advisory Committee.