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Gillian Mackinnon holds a BSc (Hons) in Environmental Chemistry and a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Glasgow. Her early research focused on natural attenuation, phytoremediation of petroleum hydrocarbon contaminated soils, and the potential transfer of toxic and allergenic metals from vehicle exhaust emissions into the human food chain, which contributed to ongoing waste repository assessments. She has worked in industry as a project manager, leading a team on the development and application of analytical methods for trace level analysis of veterinary pharmaceutical and agrochemical residues to support regulatory submissions. In 2007, she returned to the University of Glasgow as a lecturer in Biogeochemical Tracers at the Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre (SUERC). She is an elected vice chair of the Scottish Analytical Division of the Royal Society of Chemistry and has been a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy since 2011. Mackinnon has also served as an external examiner for various PhD programs and has supervised numerous students in their research endeavors.
Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre • East Kilbride, UK