Perdita Barran | |
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Born | Perdita Elizabeth Barran |
Education | Godolphin and Latymer School |
Alma mater | University of Manchester (BSc) University of Sussex (PhD) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Chemistry Biomarkers Parkinson's disease Mass spectrometry Ion-mobility spectrometry–mass spectrometry[1] |
Institutions | University of Manchester University of Edinburgh University of California, Santa Barbara |
Thesis | Studies of refractory clusters produced from a pulsed arc source (1998) |
Website | www |
Perdita Elizabeth Barran is a Professor of Mass Spectrometry at the University of Manchester. She is Director of the Michael Barber Centre for Collaborative Mass Spectrometry.[1][2] She develops and applies ion-mobility spectrometry–mass spectrometry to the study of molecule structure and is searching for biomarkers for Parkinson's disease. She is Associate Dean for Research Facility Development at the University of Manchester. In 2020 and 2021 she was seconded to work for the Department of Health and Social Care as an advisor on the use case for mass spectrometry as a diagnostic method for diagnosis of COVID infection.