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Senior Technician - Teaching and Research

Responsibilities

My main duties and responsibilities are:

• To be responsible for the delivery of technical support activities on a suite of analytical instruments in particular the Sercon elemental analyzer and GC instruments.
• To effect routine maintenance of analytical laboratory equipment.
• To deliver training to researchers, technicians and students in the operation of analytical laboratory equipment.
• To ensure staff and students working within specialist areas have received safety inductions and safety critical training according to Standard operating Procedures.

Publications

• 1. T. Takanohashi, F. Xiao, T. Yoshida, I. Asito
  Difference in extraction yields between CS2/NMP and NMP for Upper Freeport coal
  Energy & Fuels, 2003, 17, 255-256
• 2. T. Takanohashi, F. Xiao, I. Asito, Y. Sanokawa, M. Iino
  Effect of lighter constituents on the solubility of heavy constituents of coals
  Fuel, 2000, 79, 955-960

Qualifications

• M. Sci., Materials Chemistry
• Wuhan University of Science and Technology
• B. Eng., Chemical engineering
• Dalian University of Technology

I worked at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Japan and Loughborough University for many years as a research assistant and lab technician before joining 17³Ô¹Ï University in 2017.