By Brian’s PhD focused on investigating the endocrine disrupting potential of both municipal effluent and Nonylphenol on the freshwater zebra mussel (Dreissena polymorpha). Brian received a visiting fellowship from the Canadian government to undertake a post-doc with Environment Canada in the St Lawrence Centre, Montreal, where he helped develop bioassays to investigate the effects of pharmaceuticals in the aquatic environment.
In 2008, he received a Developing Environmental Research Potential (DERP) award from the Irish Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). This project focused on pharmaceuticals in the Irish aquatic environment, their chemical analysis and biological effects and was biomarker focused, both the development of new biomarkers and investigating how their expression can indicate effects at a population level. Brian is currently investigating the potential for human diagnostic technologies to be used in environmental monitoring. He has developed and teach various modules in environmental science at both under and postgraduate levels.
More information about Brian can be found on his webpage at the University of the West of Scotland.