Editorial Board Member

Dr. Megson received his PhD at Plymouth University in 2014 with Dr. Gwen O’Sullivan and Profs Maeve Lohan, Paul Worsfold and Sean Comber. He conducted postgraduate research with Dr. Eric Reiner and Dr. Paul Helm at the Ontario Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change, Ryerson University and University of Toronto (2014-16). He is currently a senior lecturer in chemistry and environmental forensics at Manchester Metropolitan University (2018) and acting director of the Ecology and Environment Research Centre (2021). He also works as a consultant for Chemistry Matters to support the production of expert witness reports to identify the sources of chemical pollution. He is a committee member of the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Environment, Sustainability & Energy Division (2016-2022) and International Network of Environmental Forensics (since 2014). He Chaired of the British Mass Spectrometry Society environment and food analysis group (2019-21) and is an invited member of BSI working group (EH3/2) Water Quality standards committee (British Standards Institution (BSI) & International Organization for Standardization (ISO). Dr. Megson has made an outstanding contribution to environmental forensics, in particular to the development of new analytical methods and fingerprinting sources of PCB pollution. His research focuses on the determination of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in environmental samples using advanced analytical techniques. He undertakes assessments on a range of samples types to establish the magnitude of legacy and emerging pollutants in the environment. These studies are undertaken with the common aim of establishing the potential health risks and identifying the major sources and pathways of contamination.

Environmental forensics, Environmental chemistry, Mass spectrometry, Multidimensional chromatography, Persistent organic pollutants, Emerging contaminants, Source apportionment