Dr Barbara Kasprzyk-Hordern
Profile
The principal research interests of our group fall into the three interrelated research areas of environmental chemistry/forensics, analytical chemistry and water/wastewater treatment. We are particularly interested in water pollution and novel technologies used to decrease contamination of water and to reduce its potential impact on aquatic organisms and human health.
Research Interests
- Environmental pollution
- Environmental forensics
- Water quality/water treatment
- Analytical chemistry
Publications
López-Serna, R., Kasprzyk-Hordern, B., Petrović, M. and Barceló, D., 2013. Multi-residue enantiomeric analysis of pharmaceuticals and their active metabolites in the Guadalquivir River basin (South Spain) by chiral liquid chromatography coupled with tandem mass spectrometry. Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, 405 (18), pp. 5859-5873.
Baker, D. R. and Kasprzyk-Hordern, B., 2013. Spatial and temporal occurrence of pharmaceuticals and illicit drugs in the aqueous environment and during wastewater treatment: New developments. Science of the Total Environment, 454-455, pp. 442-456.
Kasprzyk-Hordern, B., 2013. Enantioselective analysis of chiral pharmacologically active compounds in urban water. In: The RSC Analytical Division Separation Science Group and the RSC Environmental Chemistry Group Meeting, 'Recent Advances in the Analysis of Complex Environmental Matrices', 2013-02-28, London.
Ikhlaq, A., Brown, D. R. and Kasprzyk-Hordern, B., 2013. Mechanisms of catalytic ozonation: An investigation into superoxide ion radical and hydrogen peroxide formation during catalytic ozonation on alumina and zeolites in water. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 129, pp. 437-449.
Kasprzyk-Hordern, B., Bagnall, J., Baker, D. and Evans, S., 2013. Enantiomerism of medicinal products – a new paradigm in environmental risk assessment. In: Book of abstracts, 23rd Annual Meeting of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC Europe). .
Emke, E., Evans, S., Kasprzyk-Hordern, B. and de Voogt, P., 2013. Stereoselective separation of MDMA enantiomers in sewage water. In: 23rd Annual Meeting of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC Europe), 2013-05-12 - 2013-05-16, Glasgow.
Kasprzyk-Hordern, B., 2013. Wastewater analysis — an emerging science: key issues and their application: General overview of analytical methods and chiral analysis. In: Testing the waters: first international multidisciplinary conference on detecting illicit drugs in wastewater, 2013-05-06 - 2013-05-08, Lisbon.
Bagnall, J.p., Evans, S.e., Wort, M.t., Lubben, A.t. and Kasprzyk-hordern, B., 2012. Using chiral liquid chromatography quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry for the analysis of pharmaceuticals and illicit drugs in surface and wastewater at the enantiomeric level. Journal of Chromatography A, 1249, pp. 115-129.
Ikhlaq, A., Brown, D. R. and Kasprzyk-Hordern, B., 2012. Mechanisms of catalytic ozonation on alumina and zeolites in water: Formation of hydroxyl radicals. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 123-124, pp. 94-106.
Kasprzyk-Hordern, B. and Baker, D. R., 2012. Estimation of community-wide drugs use via stereoselective profiling of sewage. Science of the Total Environment, 423, pp. 142-150.
Kasprzyk-Hordern, B. and Baker, D. R., 2012. Enantiomeric profiling of chiral drugs in wastewater and receiving waters. Environmental Science & Technology, 46 (3), pp. 1681-1691.
Thomas, K.V., Bijlsma, L., Castiglioni, S., Covaci, A., Emke, E., Grabic, R., Hernández, F., Karolak, S., Kasprzyk-Hordern, B., Lindberg, R.H., Lopez de Alda, M., Meierjohann, A., Ort, C., Pico, Y., Quintana, J.B., Reid, M., Rieckermann, J., Terzic, S., van Nuijs, A.L.N. and de Voogt, P., 2012. Comparing illicit drug use in 19 European cities through sewage analysis. Science of the Total Environment, 432, pp. 432-439.
Baker, D.R., Očenášková, V., Kvicalova, M. and Kasprzyk-Hordern, B., 2012. Drugs of abuse in wastewater and suspended particulate matter : Further developments in sewage epidemiology. Environment International, 48, pp. 28-38.
Evans, S., Davies, P., Lubben, A. and Kasprzyk-Hordern, B., 2012. Enantiomeric profiling of chiral drugs from environmental solid matrices with the use of microwave assisted extraction and chiral LC-MSMS. In: 8th Annual LC/MS/MS Workshop on Environmental Applications and Food Safety, 2012-07-01 - 2012-07-03, Barcelona.
Kasprzyk-Hordern, B., 2012. Enantiomeric profiling of chiral drugs in the environment with the usage of Chiral-LCMS/MS. In: 8th Annual LC/MS/MS Workshop on Environmental Applications and Food Safety, 2012-07-01 - 2012-07-03, Barcelona.
Dale, S. E. C., Vuorema, A., Ashmore, E. M. Y., Kasprzyk-Hordern, B., Sillanpää, M., Denuault, G. and Marken, F., 2012. Gold-gold junction electrodes: The disconnection method. Chemical Record, 12 (1), pp. 143-148.
López-Serna, R., Kasprzyk-Hordern, B., Petrović, M. and Barceló, D., 2012. Multi-residue enantiomeric analysis of pharmaceuticals and their active transformation products in river and sewage water from the Guadalquivir River basin (South Spain) by chiral liquid chromatography coupled with tandem mass spectrometry. In: 3rd SCARCE International Conference: Bridging toxicants, stressors and risk-based management under water scarcity, 2012-11-26 - 2012-11-27, Valencia.
Kasprzyk-Hordern, B. and Baker, D. R., 2012. PACs during wastewater treatment and in receiving waters – emerging issues. In: 6th SETAC World Congress/SETAC Europe 22nd Annual Meeting, 2012-05-19 - 2012-05-23, Berlin.
Lewis, G.E.M., Dale, S.E.C., Kasprzyk-Hordern, B., Barnes, E.O., Compton, R.G. and Marken, F., 2012. Square wave electroanalysis at generator-collector gold-gold double hemisphere junctions. Electroanalysis, 24 (8), pp. 1726-1731.
Bagnall, J., Malia, L., Lubben, A. and Kasprzyk-Hordern, B., 2012. The stereo-selective biodegradation of amphetamine and methamphetamine in river water using chiral-LC-QTOFMS. In: 8th Annual LC/MS/MS Workshop on Environmental Applications and Food Safety, 2012-07-01 - 2012-07-03, Barcelona.
Baker, D. R. and Kasprzyk-Hordern, B., 2011. Critical evaluation of methodology commonly used in sample collection, storage and preparation for the analysis of pharmaceuticals and illicit drugs in surface water and wastewater by solid phase extraction and liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry. Journal of Chromatography A, 1218 (44), pp. 8036-8059.
Baker, D. R. and Kasprzyk-Hordern, B., 2011. Multi-residue determination of the sorption of illicit drugs and pharmaceuticals to wastewater suspended particulate matter using pressurised liquid extraction, solid phase extraction and liquid chromatography coupled with tandem mass spectrometry. Journal of Chromatography A, 1218 (44), pp. 7901-7913.
Baker, D. R. and Kasprzyk-Hordern, B., 2011. Multi-residue analysis of drugs of abuse in wastewater and surface water by solid-phase extraction and liquid chromatography-positive electrospray ionisation tandem mass spectrometry. Journal of Chromatography A, 1218 (12), pp. 1620-1631.
Kasprzyk-Hordern, B., 2011. Occurrence of illicit drugs in surface water and wastewater in the UK. In: Castiglioni, S., Zuccato, E. and Fanelli, R., eds. Illicit Drugs in the Environment. Hoboken, NJ, USA: John Wiley.
Kasprzyk-Hordern, B. and Baker, D., 2011. The significance of chirality of illicit drugs for the estimation of drugs abuse using the sewage epidemiology approach. In: SETAC Europe 21st Annual Meeting, 2011-05-14 - 2011-05-18, Milan.
Kasprzyk-Hordern, B., 2010. Pharmacologically active compounds in the environment and their chirality. Chemical Society Reviews, 39 (11), pp. 4466-4503.
Kasprzyk-Hordern, B., Kondakal, V. V. R. and Baker, D. R., 2010. Enantiomeric analysis of drugs of abuse in wastewater by chiral liquid chromatography coupled with tandem mass spectrometry. Journal of Chromatography A, 1217 (27), pp. 4575-4586.
Waters, L. J. and Kasprzyk-Hordern, B., 2010. Micellar chromatographic determination of partition coefficients and associated thermodynamic data for pharmaceutical compounds. Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry, 102 (1), pp. 343-347.
Nawrocki, J. and Kasprzyk-Hordern, B., 2010. The efficiency and mechanisms of catalytic ozonation. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 99 (1-2), pp. 27-42.
Kasprzyk-Hordern, B., 2010. Zawansowane procesy utleniania. In: Bilozor, S. and Nawrocki, J., eds. Uzdatnianie wody. Vol. 1. Grudzień, Poland: PWN.
Kasprzyk-Hordern, B., Dinsdale, R. M. and Guwy, A. J., 2009. Illicit drugs and pharmaceuticals in the environment - Forensic applications of environmental data, Part 2: Pharmaceuticals as chemical markers of faecal water contamination. Environmental Pollution, 157 (6), pp. 1778-1786.
Kasprzyk-Hordern, B., Dinsdale, R. M. and Guwy, A. J., 2009. Illicit drugs and pharmaceuticals in the environment - Forensic applications of environmental data. Part 1: Estimation of the usage of drugs in local communities. Environmental Pollution, 157 (6), pp. 1773-1777.
Kasprzyk-Hordern, B., Dinsdale, R. M. and Guwy, A. J., 2009. The removal of pharmaceuticals, personal care products, endocrine disruptors and illicit drugs during wastewater treatment and its impact on the quality of receiving waters. Water Research, 43 (2), pp. 363-380.
Kasprzyk-Hordern, B., Dinsdale, R. M. and Guwy, A. J., 2008. The occurrence of pharmaceuticals, personal care products, endocrine disruptors and illicit drugs in surface water in South Wales, UK. Water Research, 42 (13), pp. 3498-3518.
Kasprzyk-Hordern, B., Dinsdale, R. M. and Guwy, A. J., 2008. Multiresidue methods for the analysis of pharmaceuticals, personal care products and illicit drugs in surface water and wastewater by solid-phase extraction and ultra performance liquid chromatography-electrospray tandem mass spectrometry. Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, 391 (4), pp. 1293-1308.
Andrzejewski, P., Kasprzyk-Hordern, B. and Nawrocki, J., 2008. N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA) formation during ozonation of dimethylamine-containing waters. Water Research, 42 (4-5), pp. 863-870.
Kasprzyk-Hordern, B., Dabrowska, A., Vieno, N., Kronberg, L. and Nawrocki, J., 2008. Occurrence of acidic pharmaceuticals in the Warta River in Poland. Chemia Analityczna, 53 (2), pp. 289-303.
Kasprzyk-Hordern, B., Dinsdale, R. M. and Guwy, A. J., 2008. The effect of signal suppression and mobile phase composition on the simultaneous analysis of multiple classes of acidic/neutral pharmaceuticals and personal care products in surface water by solid-phase extraction and ultra performance liquid chromatography-negative electrospray tandem mass spectrometry. Talanta, 74 (5), pp. 1299-1312.

