Professor Trevor Brown
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Job title: Professor of Applied Materials Chemistry; Programme Leader for Heritage Conservation
Email: t.m.brown@derby.ac.uk
Phone No: 01332 591752
Room: KR N106a
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Recent publications
- Brown T M, Dronsfield A T, Fowler J H and Hill S W (2000) 'The thermal decomposition of alkyl cobaloximes: a correction to the literature' Inorg. Chim. Acta 299, 277
- Brown T M, Cooksey C and Dronsfield A T (2000) 'Perkin's mauvine - a fortuitous discovery?' Education in Chemistry 37, 75
- Brown, T M, Dronsfield, A T and Walker, S (2001) 'Azo-dyes - a colourful story' Education in Chemistry 38, 12
- Brown T M, Cooksey C J and Dronsfield A T (2001) 'Indigo - forever in blue jeans' Education in Chemistry 38, 69
- Brown, T M, Cooksey, C and Dronsfield, A T (2001) 'Synthetic Alizarin - the dye that changed history' Dyes in History and Archaeology 16/17, 34
- Brown T M, Dronsfield, A T and Morris, P J T (2003) 'A reaction that changed organic chemistry' Education in Chemistry 40 129
- Brown, T. M. (2004) 'Conquering TB, the 'captain of death'' Education in Chemistry 41 15
- Brown , T. M, Dronsfield A. T. and Morris, P.J.T (2004) 'Una reazione che cambio la chimica organica' La Chimica Nella Scuola 16 78
- Ahmed, I, Brown, T M and Dronsfield, A T (2005) 'Woodward-Hofmann theory: it all happened by chance' Education in Chemistry 42 78
- Brown, T M, Dronsfield A T and Ellis, P M (2005) 'Pain Relief: from coal tar to paracetamol' Education in Chemistry 42 102
Department: Forensic Science
Faculty: Education, Health and Sciences
School: School of Science
Teaching responsibilities
- Heritage Conservation (Programme Leader) - degradation and conservation mechanisms for a wide range of historic materials, modern analytical techniques, conservation ethics, historic technologies, legal protection of heritage, re-use of industrial archaeology
- Sports Science - the use and detection of performance enhancing drugs; the use of modern composite materials in sports equipment
- Forensic Science - pharmacology and analysis of drugs of abuse; analysis of materials often associated with crime scenes - paint, glass, toxic substances, explosives
- Environmental Geochemistry and Health - organic pollutants
- Geography, Earth, Environment and Sport final year placement officer
Research interests
- Analysis and interpretation of archaeological material
- History of chemistry
Membership of professional bodies and advisory committees
Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry (Chartered Chemist) and meetings' secretary for the East Midlands Regional Committee.
Recent Conferences
- 'The Source of 16th and 17th century glass in Northern Europe. A new analytical perspective using EPMA, ICP-OES, ICP-AES and TIMS', 35th International Symposium on Archaeometry, Beijing, China, May 2005 (with Professor Julian Henderson, University of Nottingham)
- 'Investigating and Conserving Glass', 5th V&A Conservation Science Summer School, The University of Derby July 2005
Additional Interests and Activities
- 'Listening to the Past' - invited public lecture at the Nottingham University Centre for Local History, December 2006.
- The National Trust 'Science in Trust' Advisory Committee
- Joint Organiser of the V&A Summer School at the University of Derby
- Research student supervision
- MPhil (1991) M. Murphy A study of legionella oxidants in copper-based heat exchangers.
- PhD (1992) R. Ellis Investigation of cobalt complexes of Schiff's bases and dioximes. Radical precursors and molecular recognition
- PhD (1996) S. Riley Exploring enantioselective recognition using chiral cobalt complexes.
- PhD (1996) A-S. Wilkinson Studies in cobaloxime chemistry
- Post-doctoral fellows (1993-1996) funded by EPSRC and Rolls Royce plc
- Dr R Mazhir and Dr S Dunn Preceramic polymers
Undergraduate qualifications
- BSc (Hons) Chemistry (Class 1), University of Exeter (1971)
Postgraduate qualifications
- PGCE (Chemistry), University of Nottingham (1981)
- MSc (Distinction) Conservation Science, De Montfort University (1996)
Research qualifications
- PHd Synthetic studies in the thia-annulene series, University of Exeter (1974)
