Dr Paul Francis
  Phone   +61 3 522 71294
Email   paul.francis@deakin.edu.au
Position   ARC Future Fellow
Campus   Geelong
Research grouping   Chemistry and Forensic Sciences

In 2007, Dr Francis was awarded the inaugural Robert Cattrall Early Career Medal from the Analytical
Chemistry Division of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute, for excellence in pure or applied analytical
chemistry research, and in 2005 he received the Gordon Kirkbright Award from the Association of British
Spectroscopists for his research into near-ultraviolet and near-infrared chemiluminescence.

Research interests

  1. The chemistry, spectroscopy and analytical application of chemiluminescence reactions
  2. Rapid screening of illicit drugs using flow-analysis and microfluidics
  3. New methodology to determine the antioxidant status of foods and biological fluids

Career

Lecturer in Chemistry (School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University; 2010-).
Postdoctoral Research Fellow (School of Life and Environmental Sciences, and the Institute for Technology Research and Innovation, Deakin University; 2004-2009).

Key publications

C.M. Hindson, P.S. Francis, G.R. Hanson, T.A. Smith, J.L. Adcock, and N.W. Barnett (2010) The mechanism of permanganate chemiluminescence Analytical Chemistry 82, 4174-4180

T. Slezak, J.M. Terry, P.S. Francis, C.M. Hindson, D.C. Olson, D.K. Wolcott and N.W. Barnett (2010) Autocatalytic nature of permanganate oxidations exploited for highly sensitive chemiluminescence detection Analytical Chemistry 82, 2580-2584

S. Mohr, J.M. Terry, J.L. Adcock, P.R. Fielden, N.J. Goddard, N.W. Barnett, D.K. Wolcott and P.S. Francis (2009) Precision milled flow-cells for chemiluminescence detection Analyst 134, 2233-2238

J.M. Terry, J.L. Adcock, D.C. Olson, D.K. Wolcott, C. Schwanger, L.A. Hill, N.W. Barnett and P.S. Francis (2008) Chemiluminescence detector with a serpentine flow-cell Analytical Chemistry 80, 9817-9821

B.A. Gorman, P.S. Francis, D.E. Dunstan and N.W. Barnett (2007) Tris(2,2' bipyridyl)ruthenium(II) chemiluminescence enhanced by silver nanoparticles Chemical Communications 395-397

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Teaching areas

Chemistry
Analytical Chemistry
Instrumental Analysis
Spectroscopy


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22nd September 2011