Dr Mark Barrow

Reader of Chemistry

M.P.Barrow@warwick.ac.uk
+44 (0)24 761 51013
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About Me

Mark's research is based upon the application of Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance (FTICR) mass spectrometry and new data processing approaches to the study of complex mixtures, particularly for energy, sustainability, transport, archaeology, and the environment. One area of interest has been termed "petroleomics," which is the molecular characterization of the components of petroleum using ultrahigh-resolution mass spectrometry.

Collaborative work with industry, academia, and the public sector is a key part of this multidisciplinary approach. One example is a long-standing collaboration with Environment and Climate Change Canada, where the focus is upon developing analytical approaches for monitoring the potential environmental impact of the oil sands industry in the Athabasca region of Alberta, Canada. Another example is collaboration with the British Geological Survey to understand current and historical anthropogenic impact upon the environment, with samples coming from Europe, Asia, and Africa.

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Affiliations

British Mass Spectrometry Society (BMSS)
- Elected member of the committee and a trustee, currently General Secretary
American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS)
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC): MSRC CChem
- RSC: Analytical Methods: Instrumental Analysis Expert Working Group
Energy Institute (EI)

Biography

2022-Present: Reader
2019-2022: Associate Professor
2017-2019: Principal Research Fellow
2013-2017: Senior Research Fellow

Research interests

I am currently interested in the following areas:

Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry (FT-ICR MS)
Complex mixture analysis, including sample extraction, sample preparation, ionization, and characterization
Petroleum (crude oil and fractions, including asphaltenes)
Fuels
Biofuels and bio-oils
Environmental samples
Archaeological samples
New data processing algorithms
Data analysis and visualization methods

Teaching and supervision

Postgraduate teaching

Director of the Analytical Sciences and Instrumentation (ASI) MSc course: 2022 - Present
Module lead for CH915 (Techniques in Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis): 2022 - Present
Lecturer for CH908 (Mass spectrometry): 2012 - Present
Lecturer for CH921 (Frontier Techniques in Analytical Science): 2014 - Present
Supervisor for CH985 (MSc Research Project) for AS:MIT and ASI: 2013 - Present

Undergraduate teaching

Module lead for Year 4 and CH401: 2025 - Present
Lecturer for CH3H1 (Analytical Science for Global Challenges): 2025 - Present
Supervisor of CH401 project student: 2017 - 2024, 2025 - Present
CH155 (Practical and Professional Chemistry Skills I): 2019 - Present
CH165 (Chemical Change) tutorials: 2024 - Present
CH275 (Molecular Structure) tutorials: 2024 - Present
CH3G0 (Extended Laboratory): 2018 - Present
CH280 (Chemistry for Sustainability) presentations: 2025
Module lead for CH3F2 (Advanced Analytical Chemistry): 2019 - 2025
Module lead for CH401 (Research Project & Methodology): 2019 - 2022
CH162 tutorials (Introduction to Physical Chemistry): 2019 - 2022
Lecturer for CH3F7/CH416 (Energy): 2016 - 2023

Please see the Barrow Group pages for a fuller listing of present and past group members. I am supervising the following PhD students:

Latifa Alostad
Benedict Gannon
Samuel Mutto
Haokai Wang
Sanugi Dassanayake

Recent group members:

Dr. Rory P. Downham
Dr. Hugh E. Jones
Dr. Mary J. Thomas
Dr. R茅my Gavard

We are happy to take on further PhD students via one of the CDTs, industrial sponsorship, overseas scholarships, or other funding. Please feel free to contact me if you'd like to discuss the options.

Publications

Selected publications

A more complete list can be found on research group publications page ().

, Rory P. Downham, Benedict Gannon, Diana Catalina Palacio Lozano, Hugh E. Jones, Christopher H. Vane, and Mark P. Barrow, J. Hazard. Mater., 2024, 473, 134605

, Thamina Acter, Seungwoo Son, Donghwi Kim, Un Hyuk Yim, Mark P. Barrow, Quan Shi, Nizam Uddin, and Sunghwan Kim,Trends Environ. Anal. Chem., 2023, 40, e00212

, Alina T. Roman-Hubers, Alexandra C. Cordova, Mark P. Barrow, and Ivan Rusyn,Regul. Toxicol. Pharmacol.,2023,137, 105310

, Latifa K. Alostad, Diana Catalina Palacio Lozano, Benedict Gannon, Rory P. Downham, Hugh E. Jones, and Mark P. Barrow, Energy Fuels, 2022, 36, 16, pp. 8663-8673

, Mary J. Thomas, Ho Yi Holly Chan, Diana Catalina Palacio Lozano, and Mark P. Barrow, Anal. Chem., 2022, 94, pp. 4954鈥�4960

, Diana Catalina Palacio Lozano, Hugh E. Jones, Remy Gavard, Mary J. Thomas, Claudia X. Ram铆rez, Christopher A. Wootton, Jos茅 Arist贸bulo Sarmiento Chaparro, Peter B. O鈥機onnor, Simon E. F. Spencer, David Rossell, Enrique Mejia-Ospino, Matthias Witt, and Mark P. Barrow, Anal. Chem., 2022, 94, pp. 7536鈥�7544

, Diana Catalina Palacio Lozano, Hugh E. Jones, Tomas Ramirez Reina, Roberto Volpe, and Mark P. Barrow, Green Chem., 2021, 23, pp. 8949-8963

, Hugh E. Jones, Diana Catalina Palacio Lozano, Chris Huener, Mary J. Thomas, David Aaserud, J. Corinne Demuth, Mathew P. Robin, and Mark P. Barrow, Energy Fuels, 2021, 35, 15, 35, 15, pp. 11896鈥�11908

, Mary J. Thomas, Hugh E. Jones, Diana Catalina Palacio Lozano, R茅my Gavard, Shaun Carney, and Mark P. Barrow, Fuel, 2021, 291, 120132

, Jeffrey A. Hawkes, Juliana D鈥橝ndrilli, Rachel L. Sleighter, Hongmei Chen, Patrick G. Hatcher, Amna Ijaz, Maryam Khaksari, Simeon Schum, Lynn Mazzoleni, Rosalie K. Chu, Nikola Tolic, William Kew, Nancy Hess, Jitao Lv, Shuzhen Zhang, Chen He, Quan Shi, Ryan H. S. Hutchins, Diana Catalina Palacio Lozano, R茅my Gavard, Hugh E. Jones, Mary J. Thomas, Mark P. Barrow, Helena Osterholz, Thorsten Dittmar, Carsten Simon, Gerd Gleixner, Stephanie M. Berg, Christina K. Remucal, N煤ria Catal谩n, Richard B. Cole, Beatriz E. Noriega-Ortega, Gabriel Singer, Nikola Radoman, Nicholas D. Schmitt, Aron Stubbins, Jeffrey N. Agar, Phoebe Zito, David C. Podgorski, Limnology and Oceanography: Methods, 2020, 18, pp. 235-258

, Mary J. Thomas, Hugh E. Jones, and Mark P. Barrow, Annual Review of Analytical Chemistry, 2020, 13, in press

, R茅my Gavard, Hugh E. Jones, Diana Catalina Palacio Lozano, Mary J. Thomas, David Rossell, Simon E. F. Spencer, Mark P. Barrow, Anal. Chem., 2020, 92 (5), pp. 3775-3786.

, Diana Catalina Palacio Lozano, Claudia X. Ram铆rez, Jos茅 Arist贸bulo Sarmiento Chaparro, Mary J. Thomas, R茅my Gavard, Hugh E. Jones, Rafael Cabanzo Hern谩ndez, Enrique Mejia-Ospino, Mark P. Barrow, Fuel, 2020, 259, art. no. 116085.

, R茅my Gavard, Diana Catalina Palacio Lozano, Guzman, A., David Rossell, Simon E. F. Spencer, Mark P. Barrow, Anal. Chem., 2019, 91 (23), pp. 15130-15137

, Diana Catalina Palacio Lozano, Remy Gavard, Juan P. Arenas-Diaz, Mary J. Thomas, David D. Stranz, Enrique Mej铆a-Ospino, Alexander Guzman, Simon E. F. Spencer, David Rossell, and Mark P. Barrow, Chem. Sci., 2019, 10 (29), pp. 6966-6978

蝇, Mary J. Thomas, Emma Collinge, Matthias Witt, Diana Catalina Palacio Lozano, Christopher H. Vane, Vicky Moss-Hayes, and Mark P. Barrow, Science of The Total Environment, 2019, 662, pp. 852-862

, Kerry M. Peru, Mary J. Thomas, Diana Catalina Palacio Lozano, Dena W. McMartin, John V. Headley, and Mark P. Barrow, Chemosphere, 2019, 222, pp. 1017-1024

, Remy Gavard, David Rossell, Simon E. F. Spencer, and Mark P. Barrow, Anal. Chem., 2017, 89, 21, pp. 11383-11390

, Miriam M. Cortese-Krott, Gunter G. C. Kuhnle, Alex Dyson, Bernadette O. Fernandez, Marian Grman, Jenna F. DuMond, Mark P. Barrow, George McLeod, Hidehiko Nakagawa, Karol Ondrias, P茅ter Nagy, S. Bruce King, Joseph E. Saavedra, Larry K. Keefer, Mervyn Singer, Malte Kelm, Anthony R. Butler, and Martin Feelisch, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 2015, 112, pp. E4651-E4660

, Mark P. Barrow, Kerry M. Peru, and John V. Headley, Anal. Chem., 2014, 86, pp. 8281鈥�8288

, Matthew T. Griffiths, Raffaello Da Campo, Peter B. O'Connor, and Mark P. Barrow, Anal. Chem., 2014, 86, pp. 527-534

, Yunju Cho, Yulin Qi, Peter B. O鈥機onnor, Mark P. Barrow, Sunghwan Kim, J. Am. Soc. Mass Spectrom., 2014, 25, pp. 154-157

, John V. Headley, Kerry M. Peru, Richard A. Frank, Jonathan W. Martin, Roderick R. O. Hazewinkle, David Humphries, Narine P. Gurprasad, L. Mark Hewitt, Derek C. G. Muir, Dorothy Lindeman, Richard Strub, Rozlyn F. Young, David M. Grewer, Randy M. Whittal, Phillip M. Fedorak, D. A. Birkholz, Ralph Hindle, Rick Reisdorph, Xiaomeng Wang, Kim Kasperski, C. Hamilton, M. Woudneh, G. Wang, Barry Loescher, Andrea Farwell, D. George Dixon, Matthew Ross, Alberto Dos Santos Pereira, Emily King, Mark P. Barrow, Brian Fahlman, Jonathan Bailey, Dena W. McMartin, Christoph H. Borchers, C. H. Ryan, N. S.Toor, H. Martin Gillis, L. Zuin, G. Bickerton, M. McMaster, Ed Sverko, Dayue Shang, and Fred J. Wrona, J. Environ. Science and Health, Part A, 2013, 48, pp. 1145-1163

, John V. Headley, Mark P. Barrow, Kerry M. Peru, Brian Fahlman, Richard A. Frank, Gregory Bickerton, Mark E. McMaster, Joanne Parrott, and L. Mark Hewitt, Rapid Commun. Mass Spectrom., 2011, 25, pp. 1899-1909

, Mark P. Barrow, Biofuels, 2010, 1, pp. 651-655 (Invited editorial)

, Mark P. Barrow, Matthias Witt, John V. Headley, and Kerry M. Peru, Anal. Chem., 2010, 82, pp. 3727-3735

, John V. Headley, Kerry M. Peru, and Mark P. Barrow, Mass Spectrom. Rev., 2009, 28, pp. 121-134

, Raffaello Da Campo, Mark P. Barrow, Andrew G. Shepherd, Malcolm Salisbury, and Peter J. Derrick, Energy Fuels, 2009, 23, pp. 5544-5549

, Mark P. Barrow, John V. Headley, Kerry M. Peru, and Peter J. Derrick, Energy Fuels, 2009, 23, pp. 2592-2599

, John V. Headley, Kerry M. Peru, Mark P. Barrow, and Peter J. Derrick, Anal. Chem., 2007, 79, pp. 6222-6229

, Mark P. Barrow, William I. Burkitt, and Peter J. Derrick, Analyst, 2005, 130, pp. 18-28

, Mark P. Barrow, John V. Headley, Kerry M. Peru, and Peter J. Derrick, J. Chrom. A, 2004, 1058, pp. 51-59

, Mark P. Barrow, Liam A. McDonnell, Xidong Feng, J茅r茅mie Walker, and Peter J. Derrick, Anal. Chem., 2003, 75, pp. 860-866