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Prof. Brynn Hibbert

 

David Brynn Hibbert

B.Sc., Ph.D. Lond. C.Chem FRSC FRACI
Emeritus Professor of Analytical Chemistry
E-mail: B.Hibbert@unsw.edu.au
Research group web site: http://www.chem.unsw.edu.au/research/groups/hibbert/

BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS

Born 1951. Research Assistant, The City University, London 1975 -1977. Lecturer in Physical Chemisty, Bedford College, University of London 1977 - 1982. Lecturer in Physical Chemistry, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London 1982 - 1987. Appointed Professor of Analytical Chemistry, UNSW in 1987 and Head of School 1993 - 1996.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Chemometrics. Metrology in Chemistry. Electroanalytical chemistry. Sensors. Electronic nose technology. Self assembled monolayers and biosensors. Electrodeposited fractals and mechanistic electrochemistry. Artificial intelligence applied to chemistry. Non-linear dynamics and chaos. See also: Prof. Hibbert's research group page and electrodeposited fractals page.

Prof. Hibbert talks about the potential of an 'electronic nose' to detect sports cheats, graffiti vandalism, and drug importers on UNSW TV.

AWARDS, LECTURES AND OTHER ACTIVITIES OF INTEREST

Fellow Royal Australian Chemical Institute. Fellow Royal Society of Chemistry. RACI Analytical Medallist for 1999. RACI Ollé Prize 2007 winner for his book Quality Assurance in the Analytical Chemistry Laboratory (OUP, New York, 2007).

Chair of Analytical Division of RACI 1999 - 2001. Australian representative to International Chemometrics Society. Member of the Chemical Analysis Advisory Committee of the National Association of Testing Authorities (NATA). Member of the Reference Materials Advisory Committee of NATA. Secretary of the Analytical Chemistry Division of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC), 2007 - 2011. Australian delegate to IUPAC General Assembly 2005, 2007, 2009. IUPAC representative on Working Group 1 of the Joint Committee of Guides on Metrology, responsible for the Guide to the Expression of Uncertainty in Measurement (GUM). Active member of Australian Skeptics.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  • Hibbert D.B., Introduction to Electrochemistry, Macmillan, London, 350 pp. 1993. (Available through UNSWorks: http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/39800 )
  • Fleury, V., Kaufman, J.H. and Hibbert, D.B., A Mechanism of Morphology Transition in Ramified Growth, Nature 367, (1994), 435-438.
  • Hibbert D.B., Wilkinson I.F., Chaos Theory and the Dynamics of Marketing Systems, J. Acad. Marketing Science, 22, (1994), 218-233.
  • Hibbert D.B. (2007) Quality Assurance for the Analytical Chemistry Laboratory, Oxford University Press, New York, 310 pp., ISBN 0195162137
  • Leila Hejazi, Diako Ebrahimi, Michael Guilhaus and D. Brynn Hibbert, Determination of the composition of fatty acid mixtures using GCXFI-MS:  a comprehensive two dimensional separation approach, Analytical Chemistry, 81, (2009), 1450-1458.
  • D.B. Hibbert, Systematic errors in analytical measurement  results, J. Chromatgr. A, 1158:1-2, 25 – 32  (2007) http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chroma.2007.03.021
  • Armstrong, N.; Hibbert, D.B., An introduction to Bayesian methods for analyzing chemistry data. Part 1: An introduction to Bayesian theory and methods. Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems 2009, 97, (2), 194-210.

A complete list of Prof. Hibbert's publications is available here (PDF).

See also: Perpetual Motion Machines?

Research Students:

See Prof. Hibbert's research group page.

Research Associates:

School of Computer Science, Dept. of Artificial Intelligence.

Don Barnett

Mary Mulholland - University of Technology, Sydney, Department of Chemistry

Martin Grossel - University of Southampton, Department of Chemistry

Ian Wilkinson - University of Western Sydney, School of Marketing