Geoforensics and Information Management for crime Investigation (GIMI)

Project Staff - Andrew Morrisson

Dr Andrew Morrisson

Associate Head
School of Life Sciences
The Robert Gordon University
Aberdeen UK AB25 1HG

+44 (0)1224 262815 phone
+44 (0)1224 262828 fax

a.morrisson@rgu.ac.uk

Current research activities

Dr Andrew Morrisson is Associate Head of the School of Life Sciences at the Robert Gordon University Aberdeen.After graduating in Chemistry from Imperial College London, he completed his PhD at the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute in Aberdeen working on laser remote sensing of environmental pollutants. He then ran the SERC-funded high resolution Fourier Transform Infrared facility at Aberdeen University for 5 years before being appointed to the staff at RGU. During his time at RGU he has developed research interests in chemical speciation, chemometrics and the application of capillary electrophoresis in a variety of areas.

Since 2001 he has been the Subject Leader in Forensic Science at RGU with responsibility for implementing undergraduate and postgraduate teaching programmes and coordinating research and consultancy in forensic science, application of analytical chemistry and chemometric techniques to forensic science. He is currently a member of the Forensic
Institute board (FIRN).

Key relevant publications

• A R Morrisson, J S Park and B L Sharp. (1990) Application of High-performance Size-exclusion Liquid Chromatography to the study of Copper Speciation in waters extracted from sewage sludge treated soils. Analyst, 115,1429-1433.
• Whale, G.A., Sutcliffe, I.C., Morrisson, A.R., Pretswell E.L. and N. Emmison (2004). Purification and characterisation of lipoglycan macroamphiphiles from Propionibacterium acnes. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 86: 77-85
• Peter Kusch, Gerd Knupp and Andrew Morrisson. Analysis of Synthetic Polymers and Copolymers by Pyrolysis - Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry in Horizons in Polymer Research by Robert K. Bregg (Ed). Nova Science Pub Inc (2006) ISBN: 1594544123.