Dr Mark D. Tarn

Profile

I am Senior Research Fellow at the University of Leeds, where I develop microfluidic platforms for ice nucleation studies and lead ice-nucleating particle aerosol field campaigns around the world. 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
• Associate Editor for the "Environmental Sensors" section of Frontiers in Lab on a Chip Technologies

Research interests

• Microfluidics and lab-on-a-chip
• Microfabrication
• Ice nucleation and ice-nucleating particle analysis
• Aerosol and atmospheric science
• Bioanalytical chemistry
• Environmental analysis
• Clinical diagnostics
• Radiopharmaceutical chemistry
• Outreach

• 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
• Community for Analytical Measurement Science (CAMS)
• UK Microsystems Network

Student education

• Atmospheric Pollution from Local to Global Scales
• Environmental Measurements
• Masters research projects
• Environmental research projects

Research groups and institutes

• Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science

Projects

<li><a href="//phd.leeds.ac.uk/project/2268--digital-microfluidics-for-automated-bioaerosol-analysis"> Digital microfluidics for automated bioaerosol analysis</a></li>