Biography:
Dr Heather Coleman is a Senior Lecturer in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and the Associate Research Group Lead and Postgraduate Tutor in the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at Ulster University. Her research over the last 30 years has been focussed primarily on the fate, analysis and removal of contaminants of concern in the environment. This has involved pharmaceuticals, endocrine disrupting chemicals, antibiotics, personal care products in water, wastewater and animal waste, involving both chemical analysis by high resolution techniques and invitro/in vivo biological analysis. She has also investigated antibiotic removal using alternative water treatments and prescribing rates and attitudes to antimicrobial resistance across the healthcare sector.
Title : Sustainable low-cost adsorbents for the removal of pharmaceutical contaminants from wastewater