Mark Parkin Eurofins Forensic Services, UK
Mark Parkin heads up the Toxicology Laboratory at Eurofins Forensic Services and is a Visiting Senior Lecturer at King’s College London. He is responsible for the day-to-day operation of the UK’s largest forensic toxicology laboratory that covers around 95% of the forensic toxicology casework in England and Wales. He has oversight of a team of 35 forensic chemists undertaking the analysis of around 2,000 casework samples per month. He is the former chair of the London Toxicology Group and the London Biological Mass Spectrometry Discussion Group and has spent the past twenty years working in the field of evidential analysis using mass spectrometry as the principal analytical tool. His current interests are introducing full end-to-end automation to the forensic bioanalytical process and the use of machine learning for the processing of forensic data.
Vicky Hilborne University College London, UK
Dr Victoria Hilborne is a Lecturer (Teaching) at University College London (UCL), Department of Chemistry, her career spans both academia and industry. Her particular interests are embedding sustainability in chemistry education, developing analytical chemistry and data evaluation skills. Her research interests are analytical method, sensor development, data modelling and analytics in industrial processes and the environment. Vicky was awarded a BSc in Environmental Chemistry from Edinburgh University and did her PhD at London South Bank University with the Fire and Explosion research group on measuring and modelling contaminant dispersion in ventilated indoor air. She won a Pexa Award for her publication on this topic. She also gained a PGCHE qualification from London South Bank University. After leaving school, Vicky worked in paint manufacture quality control, then shampoo product development, while studying part time for a BTec HNC Chemistry. After graduating from Edinburgh University, she was a research assistant for the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology studying rural ozone then became a Health and Safety Scientist for Brewing Research International. She then worked at London South Bank University, running the analytical facilities, part time lecturer and studying part time for her PhD. Vicky was awarded a UCL Provost Teaching Award for excellence in teaching and learning in 2021.
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