Kathryn Linge Email & Phone Number

The foundation of my career has been the application of analytical chemistry to solve a variety of environmental, geological and water research problems. My substantial expertise in inorganic analysis began development during my PhD, where I undertook trace analysis of arsenic in sediments, and continued during my postdoctoral appointment at the NERC ICP Facility, where I specifically focussed on environmental applications of ICP-MS. Between 2007 and 2018, I worked as a research academic in the Curtin Water Quality Research Centre in the Department of Chemistry (now School of Molecular and Life Sciences) at Curtin University, where I undertook research in drinking water and wastewater treatment, including formation of emerging disinfection by-products in drinking water and recycled water, analysis and removal of anthropogenic chemicals in recycled water treatment (particularly reverse osmosis), and characterisation of organic carbon and organic nitrogen in wastewater and recycled water. At ChemCentre I support ChemCentre’s statutory mandate to ensure a safe and prosperous Western Australia by undertaking fundamental and applied research using ChemCentre’s state of the art analytical laboratories, and contribute to development of ChemCentre’s research strategy. I have led research projects in the areas of mine pit lake remediation and dust source apportionment and have developed new expertise for ChemCentre in the areas of microplastic and nanoparticle characterisation and the use of isotopic ratio signatures for source identification and food adulteration.