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Kate Kemsley read Physics at Magdalen College, Oxford. After graduating, she worked for some years as a Patent Examiner at the European Patent Office, before returning to the UK and to academia. Her PhD and early career was in applied molecular spectroscopy (infrared, Raman) and the design of novel sensors, including a novel, patented probe head for infrared sensing using attenuated total reflectance. Subsequently she began to focus on quantitation using spectral data, and the emerging discipline of chemometrics - a branch of statistics particularly useful for handling the large datasets produced by modern analytical techniques. Applications of these methods have included several important food authentication issues - detection of adulteration in edible oils; processed fruits; meat products; coffee. | |
The arrival of ‘omics technologies in recent years has opened up new opportunities for the chemometrics specialist. Kate’s interests have expanded to include the application of multivariate statistics to many more high-dimensional data types. These include a wide range of spectral data types, especially those used in connection with metabolomics (nmr, GC-, LC-MS), and digital images, in particular the data produced by 1-d electrophoresis. She also has a long-standing interest in electromyography and the processing of digital waveforms. |
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Kate has been Principal Investigator on various grants from the BBSRC, UKRC, MAFF and DEFRA-LINK, as well as a number of confidential industrial consultancies. Currently these can be arranged through IFR Extra Ltd. She is author or co-author of around 80 peer-reviewed articles, as well as numerous conference proceedings, posters and book chapters. |
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