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Simon Hird
Head of LC-MS at the UK's Food and Environment Research Agency (Fera). Have worked for Fera and precursors since 1995.
Environmental Science BSc. 1st Class (Hons) Plymouth Polytechnic
PhD. in Organic Biogeochemistry University of Plymouth
Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry and a Charted Chemist
Member of the Britsh Mass Spectrometry Society
After studying at Plymouth for 7 years, Simon joined M-Scan in 1990, a comercial mass spectrometry consultancy in the UK and was responsible for environmental and petrolem areas of contract research and testing, mainly where oil and the environment clashed! He joined a government agency, the Central Science Laboratory (precursor to Fera), in Aberdeen in 1995 with responsibilities for the determination of petrochemical residues in the environment, mainly using GC-MS and GC-HRMS. After a re-organisation of the laboratory, Simon relocated to York, in the North of England, where he was introduced to LC-MS. Apart from a brief experience with isotope ratio mass spectrometry, he has never left the technique. Since 2005, Simon has managed a team of 20 specialists working on 20 LC-MS/MS instruments involved with the determination of a various types of residues and contaminants in foodstuffs and the environment.
Please note phone number is +44 1904 462567
Contact Information: simon.hird@fera.gsi.gov.uk; 190-446-2567
Head of LC-MS at the UK's Food and Environment Research Agency (Fera). Have worked for Fera and precursors since 1995.
Environmental Science BSc. 1st Class (Hons) Plymouth Polytechnic
PhD. in Organic Biogeochemistry University of Plymouth
Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry and a Charted Chemist
Member of the Britsh Mass Spectrometry Society
After studying at Plymouth for 7 years, Simon joined M-Scan in 1990, a comercial mass spectrometry consultancy in the UK and was responsible for environmental and petrolem areas of contract research and testing, mainly where oil and the environment clashed! He joined a government agency, the Central Science Laboratory (precursor to Fera), in Aberdeen in 1995 with responsibilities for the determination of petrochemical residues in the environment, mainly using GC-MS and GC-HRMS. After a re-organisation of the laboratory, Simon relocated to York, in the North of England, where he was introduced to LC-MS. Apart from a brief experience with isotope ratio mass spectrometry, he has never left the technique. Since 2005, Simon has managed a team of 20 specialists working on 20 LC-MS/MS instruments involved with the determination of a various types of residues and contaminants in foodstuffs and the environment.
Please note phone number is +44 1904 462567
Contact Information: simon.hird@fera.gsi.gov.uk; 190-446-2567