Justin Perry

Professor Justin Perry

Professor

Department: Applied Sciences

I am interested in multidisciplinary projects at all TRL, especially if there's a sustainability angle. There's room for a bit of chemistry in everything.

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Research Themes and Scholarly Interests

Sustainable materials and chemical methods.

Creation of materials with biological or enzymatic componentry.

Biocatalysis.

Using chemical analysis plus data scienec to ground-truth drone data.

Chemical analysis of historical objects or works of art (especially 20th century).

Key Publications

Conversion of Contaminated Post-Consumer Polyethylene Terephthalate into a Thermoset Alkyd Coating Using Biosourced Monomers, Thomas, B., Lopez,  ., Railton, J., Bousbaa, J., Perry, J., Unthank, M. 29 Apr 2024, In: ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces
Rational design of a cyclohexanone dehydrogenase for enhanced α,β-desaturation and substrate specificity, Singh, W., Brown, N., McCue, H., Marriott, S., Wilson, R., Perry, J., Turkenburg, J., Dubey, K., Prior, S., Carnell, A., Taylor, E., Black, G. 7 Apr 2024, In: Chemical Science
Use of machine learning for monitoring the growth stages of an agricultural crop, Ahmed, S., Basu, N., Nicholson, C., Rutter, S., Marshall, J., Perry, J., Dean, J. 1 Jan 2024, In: Sustainable Food Technology
Use of remote sensing and image processing for identification of wild orchids, Ahmed, S., Lightbown, J., Rutter, S., Basu, N., Nicholson, C., Perry, J., Dean, J. 26 Apr 2024, In: Frontiers in Environmental Science
Use of remote sensing to assess vegetative stress as a proxy for soil contamination, Dean, J., Ahmed, S., Cheung, W., Salaudeen, I., Reynolds, M., Bowerbank, S., Nicholson, C., Perry, J. 1 Jan 2024, In: Environmental Sciences: Processes and Impacts
Use of an unmanned aerial vehicle for monitoring and prediction of oilseed rape crop performance, Ahmed, S., Nicholson, C., Rutter, S., Marshall, J., Perry, J., Dean, J. 10 Nov 2023, In: PLoS One
Winter beans: the use of an unmanned aerial vehicle for monitoring and prediction of crop performance, Ahmed, S., Nicholson, C., Rutter, S., Marshall, J., Perry, J., Dean, J. 25 May 2023, In: Open Science Journal (OSJ)
Engineered living photosynthetic biocomposites for intensified biological carbon capture, In-na, P., Sharp, E., Caldwell, G., Unthank, M., Perry, J., Lee, J. 4 Nov 2022, In: Scientific Reports
Life cycle assessment of self-healing products, Cseke, A., Haines-Gadd, M., Mativenga, P., Charnley, F., Thomas, B., Downs, R., Perry, J. 1 May 2022, In: CIRP Journal of Manufacturing Science and Technology
Modelling of environmental impacts of printed self-healing products, Cseke, A., Haines-Gadd, M., Mativenga, P., Charnley, F., Thomas, B., Perry, J. 10 Feb 2022, In: The Science of the Total Environment

Current and Recent Projects

Green growth skills, Watson, R. (Principal Investigator), Perry, J. (Co Investigator), North of Tyne Combined Authority, 01/04/23 - 31/03/26, £463,160.00

PGR Supervision

Alysha Green Strengthening the interpretation of chemical data in the forensic analysis of explosive evidence Start Date: 03/07/2024
Bradley Thomas Novel Approaches to Sustainable Polymeric Materials Start Date: 01/10/2021

Qualifications

Science PhD June 30 1995
Fellow (FRSC) Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 2017

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