Principal Scientist, National Physical Laboratory, UK

Dave Worton is the Science Area Leader for NPL’s Gas Metrology Group, providing the traceability that underpins gas composition measurements related to climate, air quality, health, advanced manufacturing, energy trading and fuel quality. Dave’s current research interests are focused around isotopic reference materials for deconvoluting natural and man-made greenhouse gas emissions, nitrogen dioxide reference materials to underpin direct measurements in ambient air and multicomponent volatile organic compounds reference materials to improve the comparability of online chemical ionisation instruments like proton transfer reaction mass spectrometry (PTR-MS) and select ion flow tube mass spectrometry (SIFT-MS).

He received a First Class Bachelor's degree in Chemistry from the University of Nottingham, a Master's degree with distinction in Environmental Geochemistry from the University of Leeds, and a PhD in Atmospheric Chemistry from the University of East Anglia. Prior to joining NPL in 2015, he was a Research Specialist at the University of California, Berkeley and a Research Associate at Aerosol Dynamics Inc. Dave has over 20 years' experience of gas chromatography and mass spectrometry techniques and has published over 60 peer-reviewed papers. He is a Chartered Chemist and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and represents NPL at the Euramet-TC MC, CCQM Gas Analysis Working Group and on the BSI EH/2/3 and CEN TC264 standardisation committees.