Royston Goodacre PhD, FRSC, FLSW, FSAS

Roy's degree is in microbiology from the University of Bristol and he was awarded his Ph.D. in 1992 in mass spectrometry applied to microbiological problems. From 1992-2003 he was a PDRA, Wellcome Trust Fellow, and latterly a Microbiology Lecturer in the then the University of Wales Aberystwyth. In 2003 he moved to UMIST to be Reader in Analytical Science and was awarded his chair in 2005 in The School of Chemistry, The University of Manchester. In Nov 2018 he moved to IIB (Department of Biochemistry) as Professor in Biological Chemistry and will help the University of Liverpool establish a Centre for Metabolomics Research.

Roy's research interests are broadly within analytical chemistry and applied to interesting biological questions. He has helped establish mass spectrometry-based metabolomics for long-term studies and is employing these methods for clinical and plant studies, as well as for understanding microbial systems. He has developed a variety of different Raman spectroscopy approaches for bioanalysis with a particular focus on metabolite quantification and chemical image analysis.