116N ANALYST, SEPTEMBER 1993, VOL. 118 Key Appointment to Boost Nottingham’ Trent’s Scientific Research Profile Professor Colin Creaser has been appointed Head of the Department of Chemistry and Physics at The Nottingham Trent University. He has joined Nottingham Trent from the University of East Anglia where he was Leader of the Analytical Chemistry Group. One of Professor Creaser’s key aims for the future is to develop and expand the department’s research activities. He is at the forefront of research in the field of ion trap mass spectrometry, a technique that enables the detection of trace amounts of environmental pollutants such as dioxins. It also allows the detection of substances such as veterinary drug residues in food samples. Professor Creaser’s team of post-graduate and post-doc- toral researchers from the University of East Anglia will also be joining the department later this summer, along with a team of four researchers from Brunel University.These moves will bring additional scientific equipment worth over &Yi million to Nottingham Trent. Commenting on his appointment, Professor Creaser said, ‘I am delighted to have joined Nottingham Trent at what is a very exciting and challenging time as it takes its place as one of the leading “new” universities’. ‘The Department of Chemistry and Physics here is already known for the quality of both its teaching and its research. I hope to build on the work currently underway, develop new areas of specialist interest and help raise the department’s profile in the national and international community’.Other priorities for Professor Creaser will be to build on the department’s strong record for forging international links and to develop more opportunities for students to focus on environmental themes in their courses. Born in Surrey, Professor Creaser was brought up in Uganda but returned to the UK to attend school in Bucking- hamshire and Sussex. After gaining his B.Sc. and Ph.D. at the University of Kent, he spent two years in the US conducting post-doctoral research at the University of California at Santa Barbara. On returning to the UK in 1978, he joined the Physico- Chemical Measurements Unit at the Harwell Laboratory, where he was responsible for the mass spectrometry service. Six years later he moved to the University of East Anglia. Professor Creaser is a member of the Royal Society of Chemistry and serves on the council of its Analytical Division.Future Issues will lnclude- Determination of Mercury Levels in Human Urine and Blood by Ultraviolet-Visible Spectrophotometry-Hiromi Aikoh and Takashi Shibahara Simultaneous Determination of Ammonia Nitrogen and L-Glutamine in Bioreactor Media Using Flow Injection- Bernhard 0. Palsson, Bing Q. Shen, Mark E. Meyerhoff and Marek Trojanowicz Rapid Screening of Fish Tissue for Polychlorinated Dibenzo- p-dioxins and Dibenzofurans-Thomas L. King, John F. Uthe and Charles J. Musial Determination of Phosgene (Carbonyl Chloride) in Air by High-performance Liquid Chromatography With a Dual Specific Detection System-Weh S. Wu and Virindar S. Gaind Measurement of the Sorption of Actinides on Minerals Using Microanalytical Techniques-Mark M.Cowper, John A. Berry, Hugh E. Bishop, Peter R. Fozard, John W. McMillan and Simon A. Mountfort Fluorescence Detection of the Glutathione S Conjugate With Aldehydes by High-performance Liquid Chromatography With Post-column Derivatization-Mitsuaki Sano, Masahiro Fujita, Kazunori Takeda and Isao Tomita Use of Pattern Recognition for Signatures Generated by Laser Desorption-Ion Mobility Spectrometry of Polymeric Materials-Michael Simpson, R. Saatchi, David R. Anderson, Cameron W. McLeod and Michael Cooke Reflux Pre-digestion in Microwave Sample Preparation- Helen J. Reid, Stanley Greenfield, Tony E. Edmonds and Rafiq M. Kapdi Determination of Trace Elements in Laboratory-reagent Grade Sodium Salts by Atomic Absorption Spectrometry and Inductively Coupled Plasma Atomic Emission Spectrometry After Preconcentration by Column Solid-phase Extraction- Anka Alexandrova and Sonja Arpadjan Inorganic Modifiers in Ion-pair Chromatographic Separation of Dicyanoaurate(1)-John J. Byerley, Emmanuel 0. Otu and Campbell W. Robinson Detection of Ephedrine and Phenylpropanolamine in Urine Using a Polarization Fluoroimmunoassay-David L. Colbert, Sergei A. Eremin, A. V. Smirnov, Gerard Gallacher and David S. Smith Comparison of Capillary Zone Electrophoresis With Standard Gravimetric Analysis and Ion Chromatography for the Determination of Inorganic Anions in Detergent Matrices- Emma L. Pretswell, Andrew R. Morrisson and John S. Park