Education

BMSS Lecture Series

The role of the lecturer is to promote mass spectrometry and the activities of the BMSS, to the wider scientific community. This will help develop a greater understanding of the power of mass spectrometry (MS) and hopefully generate a greater interest in the subject amongst researchers, students and the general public. This promotion of MS will be achieved by the presentation of a series of high impact, research based lectures, describing the lecturers particular field of MS research.

The BMSS Lecturer is requested to present a number of lectures. As the lectures are sponsored by BMSS, there will typically be no cost to the host institution. The lecturer will be sponsored to give up to 4-10 lectures per year in the UK. The final number will be dependent on demand and will be decided by mutual agreement. The lecturer, by agreement with the BMSS, will be sponsored when giving lectures at appropriate international conferences.

Current BMSS Lecturer: Tony Bristow

Tony Bristow is Principal Scientist for Analytical and Measurement Science and Director for Trace Analysis in Chemical Development at AstraZeneca (Macclesfield, UK). In addition, Tony holds the role of technology and capability lead for the Analytical Sciences Leadership Team, within AstraZeneca’s Pharmaceutical Technology & Development organisation. These roles are focussed on the development and delivery of analytical science strategy and currently has a focus on the implementation and application of automation and digital technologies. Prior to this current role, Tony’s expertise was the application and development of mass spectrometry (2005 - 2018). Tony is the Chair of the Industry Advisory Board of the Community for Analytical Measurement Science (CAMS) and a Visiting Professor at the University of Warwick. Tony is a former member of the Royal Society of Chemistry Analytical Division Council (2013-2019) and the former Chair of the British Mass Spectrometry Society (2012-2014). Tony was awarded a degree in Applied Chemistry in 1992 and his PhD (mass spectrometry) in 1996. Tony previously worked for Kodak and LGC focussed on a variety of analytical science based projects. Tony is an author/co-author of 47 peer reviewed publications and regularly presents at national and international conferences.

Current BMSS Lecturer talks:

Mass Spectrometry in the pharmaceutical industry - its amazing impact on the delivery of medicines to patients
The challenges in trace analysis of nitrosamines to demonstrate patient safety - the story so far
Trust in science in an increasingly polarised and noisy world - a thought experiment for the next generation of scientists

Abstracts for all three talks can be found in the Resources Section at the bottom of this webpage.

Please contact: admin@bmss.org.uk if your organisation is interested in hosting a lecture.

History of lecture tours

2007 Malcolm Clench - inaugural lecturer

2010 Frank Pullen - read more about Frank's tour here

2013 Mike Morris - lecture is available to members on our heritage page

2016 John Langley

2019 Jane Thomas-Oates (series extended due to COVID-19 pandemic)

2020 Jane Thomas-Oates (series extended due to COVID-19 pandemic)

2025 Tony Bristow