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Prof. Brynn Hibbert

 

David Brynn Hibbert

B.Sc., Ph.D. Lond. C.Chem FRSC FRACI
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

Electroanalytical chemistry. Sensors. Electronic nose technology. Self assembled monolayers and biosensors. Electrodeposited fractals and mechanistic electrochemistry. Chemometrics. Multivariate analysis of data. Artificial intelligence applied tochemistry. Non-linear dynamics and chaos. See also: Prof. Hibbert's research group page.

AWARDS, LECTURES AND OTHER ACTIVITIES OF INTEREST

Fellow Royal Australian Chemical Institute. Fellow Royal Society of Chemistry. RACI analytical medallist for 1999.

Associate editor, Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems. Chair of Analytical Division of RACI 1999 - 2001. Founding President of Australian Chemometrics Society. Australian representative to International Chemometrics Society. Member of National Standards Committee on Chemical Metrology. Active member of Australian Skeptics.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  • Hibbert D.B., Introduction to Electrochemistry, Macmillan, London, 350pp. 1993.
  • Fleury, V., Kaufman, J.H. and Hibbert, D.B., A Mechanism of Morphology Transition in Ramified Growth, Nature 367, (1994), 435-438.
  • Hibbert DB, *Wilkinson IF, Chaos Theory and the Dynamics of Marketing Systems, J. Acad. Marketing Science, 22, (1994), 218-233.
  • Yang XH, Hibbert DB and P. W. Alexander Continuous flow analysis of lead(II) and mercury (II) with substituted diazacrown ionophore membrane electrodes, Talanta 45 (1997) 155-165.
  • Hibbert D.B., Chemometric analysis of essential oils In: Linskens H F, Jackson J F (eds) Modern methods of plant analysis, vol 19, Analysis of plant fragrance, Springer, Berlin Heidelberg New York 119 - 140 (1997)
  • Ramadan, Z. Mulholland M., Hibbert D. B. Preston, P., Compton, P and Haddad, P.R., Towards an expert system in ion-exclusion chromatography by means of multiple classification ripple down rules, J Chromatography A, 804 (1998) 29 - 35.
  • Hibbert DB, Data analysis of Multi-Sensor Arrays, Electroanalysis, 10, 1077-1080 1998.

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