Dr Mark D. Tarn

Profile

I am Senior Research Fellow at the University of Leeds, working on microfluidic platforms for ice nucleation studies and the study of ice-nucleating particles in the high latitudes. I obtained an MChem degree and a PhD in analytical chemistry from the University of Hull (UK). I then worked as a post doc at KIST Europe (Germany) on the development of detection systems for capillary electrophoresis. Prior to my position at Leeds, I was a postdoc on a project involving miniaturised quality control testing in positron emission tomography (PET) radiotracer production at the University of Hull.

I now work within the Ice Nucleation Group in the Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science (ICAS) at the University of Leeds, supervised by Professor Ben Murray.

Responsibilities

• ICAS External Seminar Organiser

• A microfluidic device for quantification of atmospheric ice-nucleating particles (FluidIce)
• Analysis of ice-nucleating particles and their biological content in the eastern Mediterranean using microfluidic devices
• Can Antarctic dust and biology be aerosolised and affect the region’s clouds and climate?
• Compositional analysis of Southern high latitude ice-nucleating particles
• Contrasting the ice-nucleating activity of Northern and Southern high latitude dusts
• Does dust from Antarctica make ice in clouds and influence global climate?
• Using Minecraft to teach microanalytical chemistry to school students

Qualifications

• PhD Chemistry, University of Hull, 2011
• MChem Chemistry with Forensic Science and Toxicology (1st Class hon.), University of Hull, 2007
• PGDip Postgraduate Diploma in Research Training, University of Hull, 2010

Professional memberships

• Royal Society of Chemistry (MRSC)
• The Aerosol Society

Research groups and institutes

• Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science