Dr Robert Plumb

Honorary Reader in Analytical Chemistry

Senior Business Development Manager and LC/MS laboratory manager with 7 years experience at Waters Corporation (Imperial College is not responsible for the content of external sites), and 15 years experience in the pharmaceutical industry with particular expertise in drug metabolism and bioanalysis.  Specialist in metabolism, separations science and mass spectrometry.  

Reseach Interest

• High Resolution Liquid Chromatography coupled to Electrospray Mass Spectrometry
• Bile Acid Metabolism
• Lipid metabolism
• Metabolic profiling using LC/MS and statistical data analysis
• Bioanalytical strategies using LC/MS/MS and Pharmacokinetics

Membership of societies

• Fellowship: The Royal Society of Chemistry
• Membership: American Association of Pharmaceutical Science
• Membership: American Chemical Society

Areas of Expertise

• Separation Science: HPLC, Preparative LC, LC/MS/MS and LC/NMR/MS
• Capillary and nano scale separations
• Mass Spectrometry: Electrospray mass spectrometry, accurate mass MS and hyphenated MS
• Metabolite ID and metabonomic: Study of mammalian biology and toxicology using LC/MS driven metabolic profiling