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Curriculum Vitae (updated 2014-08-03)
Charlotta Turner, Prof. Born Oct 23rd 1970 in Lund, Sweden. Married to Kuria Ndung’u. Children: Elias Ndung’u (born in 2002) and Gabriel Ndung’u (born in 2007). GTG homepage: www.kilu.lu.se/cas/research/groups/green_technology_group
Academic degrees 2012-01-26 Professor in Analytical Chemistry, Lund University 2008-10-27 Assoc. Prof. (docent) in Analytical Chemistry, Uppsala University (UU). 2001-01-26 Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry, Lund University (LU), Sweden. Advisor: Prof.
Lennart Mathiasson. Thesis title: “Determination of fat-soluble vitamins in foods based on supercritical fluid extraction”.
1995 M.Sc., Analytical Chemistry, LU, Sweden.
Post-doctoral position 2001-2004 Three-year post-doctoral research position at the U.S. Department of Agriculture
(USDA), ARS, Berkeley, California, USA. Other research visits 1999 Five-months research visit during PhD education at the U.S. Department of
Agriculture (USDA), Peoria, Illinois, USA, supervised by Prof. Jerry W. King. 1998 Two-weeks research visit at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences,
Vienna, supervised by Prof. Franz Ulberth. Employment 2011-2016 Senior research position (rådsforskare) in “Analytical chemistry for a sustainable
development” appointed by the Swedish Research Council (VR), 90% research. 2010-ongoing Lecturer at the Department of Chemistry, LU (90% research). 2007-2010 Assistant professor (forskarassistent) financed by VR (100%) at the Department of
Analytical Chemistry, UU. 2004-2006 Research position (100%) at the Department of Analytical Chemistry, UU,
Sweden (starting 1st of Aug 2004). 2004 Five months’ research position (100%) at the Swedish Food Administration in
Uppsala, in collaboration with the Department of Analytical Chemistry, UU.
Maternity leave: Aug-Nov 2002 (100%) and Dec- 07 – Dec 08 (50-100%) Current official university tasks (Lund University) 2014-ongoing Member of the PhD educational board at the Natural Science Faculty at LU 2013-ongoing Examiner for PhD students in Environmental Science (CEC, LU) 2013-ongoing Member of the PhD education group at CAS. 2013-ongoing Chair of the “Feel Good” (Trivsel) group at CAS 2012-ongoing Member of the Strategy Group at CAS Other current official tasks 2014-ongoing Board member of Division of Analytical Chemistry (DAC), European Association
for Chemical and Molecular Sciences (EuCheMS) 2013-ongoing Chair of the Analytical Chemistry Div. of the Swedish Chemical Society 2012-ongoing Blogger for the Swedish Foundation of Strategic Research (SSF)
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Graduated PhD students Sofia Lindahl, "Enzymatic hydrolysis coupled to hot water extraction for determination of flavonoids in plants", 2012-01-27. Main supervisor Samiullah Khan (LU, biotechnology), Molecular development of a thermostable β-glucosidase for modification of natural products, 2012-01-23. Co-supervisor Michelle Co, “Extraction and identification of health-beneficial compounds in plants using sustainable high-pressure fluid technology”, 2010-12-10. Main supervisor Erik Petersson, “Analysis of acrylamide and anthocyanins in foods – Extraction optimization for challenging analytes”, 2009-12-04. Main supervisor PhD students, ongoing (as main supervisor): Jiayin Liu, “Pressurized fluid extraction of polyphenols”; Victor Abrahamsson, “Supercritical fluid extraction kinetics”; Said AlHamimi, “Polyphenol analysis”; Mingzhe Sun, “Two-dimensional high-diffusion liquid chromatography”. PhD students, ongoing (as co-supervisor): Louise Ovaskainen (KTH, polymer technology); Firas Mohsin (LU, "Green Analytical Chemistry focused on chromatography"); Martin Andersson (Uppsala University, Engineering Science with specialization in Microsystems Technology). Postdoc fellows, ongoing: Merichel Plaza del Moral, “Antioxidant analysis”. Postdoc fellows, in the past: Arwa Mustafa, “Extraction and particle formulation using pressurized fluids”, 2008-2012; Oskar Werner, “Superhydrophobic surfaces produced by RESS”, 2008-2011; Anna Shevchenko, “Lipidomics”, 2008-2010; Can Quan, “Supercritical fluid technology for nanoparticle formulation”, 2006-2008. Irene Rodgriguez, “Supercritical fluid technology in separation and crystallization science” (2009-2011).
Awards SSF Ingvar Carlsson Award for returning post-docs, 100.000 SEK (2006), the Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf’s award for environmental science, 75.000 SEK (2005). Research grants, ongoing, with Turner as PI 2014-17 Research grant from FORMAS, 3.699.000 SEK. Title: “Advanced chemical analysis of
complex biorefinery samples: Two-dimensional high-diffusion fluid chromatography”. 2014 Lund University/University of Nottingham collaboration grant, 300.000 SEK. Title:
“Faster and greener processes for production of superhydrophobic surfaces by polymer spraying”.
2013 Infrastructure grant from the Crafoord Foundation, 300.000 SEK, for a liquid CO2 chromatography system.
2013-15 Research grant from Lund University Antidiabetic Food Centre (LU-AFC), 3.000.000 SEK. Title: "Advanced analytical chemistry tools to determine flavonoids and its metabolites in food, feed and biological samples".
2011-14 Research grant from VR, the Swedish Research Council, 3.200.000 SEK. “Subcritical fluid extraction – Analytical chemistry for a sustainable development”.
2011-16 Senior research position in “Analytical chemistry for a sustainable development” appointed by the Swedish Research Council, 7.600.000 SEK.
2009-14 Research grant from SSF, the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research, (rambidrag material), 14.900.000 SEK. SuperSurface - Superhydrophobic surfaces by sustainable technology.
Total obtained grants since 2004 as the main grant holder: 70 MSEK
Other merits of significance: 54 original articles and 15 book chapters/review articles (h-index 19), 1 patent, 1 patent application, >20 conference proceedings, ca 40 oral presentations at international conferences and >60 presentations at other occasions, examiner for 11 PhD theses and conference chair 16 times. Developing and teaching courses in analytical chemistry, sustainable development, environmental chemistry and pressurized fluid technology.
