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Biography
Kate Kemsley read Physics at Magdalen College, Oxford. After graduating, she worked for some years as a Patent Examiner at the European Patent Offices in The Hague and Berlin, before returning to the UK and to academia.
Her PhD and early career at the UK's Institute of Food Research focused the design of novel sensors, and quantitative applications of infrared and Raman spectroscopy. Subsequently, she concentrated on multivariate statistics – a family of computational methods particularly useful for handling the large datasets produced by modern analytical techniques. Applications of these methods have included natural product integrity issues, including detecting adulteration of edible oils, processed fruits, meat products, coffee and spices.
The arrival of ‘omics and other high-throughput analytical technologies opened up new opportunities for the data scientist. Kate’s interests expanded to include the application of computational statistics and machine learning to wide range of data types, from studies involving the metabolomics platform technologies (NMR, GC-, LC-MS) through electrophoresis, hyperspectral and chemical imaging. She also has a long-standing interest in the processing of electromyograms and other time-domain digital waveforms.
Recently she has acted as a consultant for QIBExtra at Quadram Institute Bioscience, a subsidiary company of UEA. Her current work has a focus on NMR spectroscopy, developing a variety of methods for biochemical analysis. Much of her research is aligned to industrial application, on which she collaborates closely with a range of commercial partners.
Education/Academic qualification
Doctor of Philosophy
Award Date: 1 Dec 1998
Master of Physics, University of Oxford
External positions
Scientific Director, Mestrelab Research S.L.
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Authentication of saffron using 60 MHz 1H NMR spectroscopy
Gunning, Y., Davies, K. S. & Kemsley, E. K., 15 Mar 2023, In: Food Chemistry. 404, Part B, 134649.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Detection, discrimination and quantification of amphetamine, cathinone and nor-ephedrine regioisomers using benchtop 1H and 19F nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy
Hulme, M. C., Hayatbakhsh, A., Brignall, R. M., Gilbert, N., Costello, A., Schofield, C. J., Williamson, D. C., Kemsley, E. K., Sutcliffe, O. B. & Mewis, R. E., Feb 2023, In: Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry. 61, 2, p. 73-82 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Graphical exploration of 600-and 60-MHz proton NMR spectral datasets from ground roast coffee extracts
Kemsley, E. K., 13 Jun 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine quantification via benchtop 1H qNMR spectroscopy: Method validation and its application to ecstasy tablets collected at music festivals
Sutcliffe, O. B., Mewis, R. E., Kemsley, E. K. & Williamson, D. C., 30 Nov 2022, In: Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis. 221, 115042.Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review
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Comparative study of the analysis of seized samples by GC-MS, 1H NMR and FT-IR spectroscopy within a Night-Time Economy (NTE) setting
Dixon, D. I., Antonides, L. H., Costello, A., Crane, B., Embleton, A., Fletcher, M. L., Gilbert, N., Hulme, M. C., James, M. J., Lever, M. A., MacCallum, C. J., Millea, M. F., Pimlott, J. L., Robertson, T. B. R., Rudge, N. E., Schofield, C. J., Zukowicz, F., Kemsley, E. K., Sutcliffe, O. B. & Mewis, R. E., 20 Sep 2022, In: Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis. 219, 114950.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open AccessFile2 Citations (Scopus)10 Downloads (Pure)