Professor Karen Faulds
Pure and Applied Chemistry
Prize And Awards
- Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Analytical Division Mid-Career Award
- Recipient
- 2021
- Robert Kellner Lecture Award
- Recipient
- 2021
- Named on the Top 60 Scientists from Around the World Power List by The Analytical Scientist
- Recipient
- 10/2020
- Charles Mann Award
- Recipient
- 10/2019
- Fleischmann Lecture- RSC Electrochemistry Group
- Recipient
- 8/2019
- Named as one of the Top 100 Most Influential Analytical Scientists
- Recipient
- 2019
Publications
- New insights into lipid and fatty acid metabolism from Raman spectroscopy
- Greig Justin C, Tipping William J, Graham Duncan, Faulds Karen, Gould Gwyn W
- Analyst (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1039/D4AN00846D
- Advancing SERS as a quantitative technique : challenges, considerations, and correlative approaches to aid validation
- Sloan-Dennison Sian, Wallace Gregory Q, Hassanain Waleed A, Laing Stacey, Faulds Karen, Graham Duncan
- Nano Convergence Vol 11 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s40580-024-00443-4
- Ultra-sensitive dual ELONA/SERS-RPA multiplex diagnosis of antimicrobial resistance
- Hassanain Waleed A, Johnson Christopher L, Faulds Karen, Keegan Neil, Graham Duncan
- Analytical Chemistry Vol 96, pp. 12093-12101 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.analchem.4c02165
- Thiol-polyethylene glycol-folic acid (HS-PEG-FA) induced aggregation of Au@Ag nanoparticles : a SERS and extinction UV–Vis spectroscopy combined study
- Verdin Alexandre, Malherbe Cedric, Sloan-Dennison Sian, Faulds Karen, Graham Duncan, Eppe Gauthier
- Spectrochimica Acta - Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy Vol 322 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.saa.2024.124848
- Label-free screening of drug-induced liver injury using stimulated Raman scattering microscopy and spectral phasor analysis
- Tipping William J, Wilson Liam T, Tomkinson Nicholas C O, Faulds Karen, Graham Duncan
- Analytical Chemistry Vol 96, pp. 10639-10647 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.analchem.4c01285
- Live chicken egg embryos as an alternative in vivo tumour model for deep surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy
- McCabe Samantha M, Gardiner Hannah, Mullen Calum, Wallace Gregory Q, Shand Neil C, Mullen Alexander B, Horan Linda, Graham Duncan, Faulds Karen, Boyd Marie
- Analyst Vol 149, pp. 3513-3517 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1039/d4an00617h
Research Interests
Our research focuses on using surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) to create new approaches to bioanalysis for use in the life and clinical sciences. SERS is a spectroscopic technique that offers significant advantages over other established techniques such as fluorescence and our research has focused on highlighting the advantages, creating new examples of increased capability in life science applications and interacting with end users to shape future step changes in research. Our research centres around using the inherent sensitivity of SERS for the detection of target DNA or proteins using signal amplification methods to enhance the signal rather than using target amplification methods such as PCR. Our work has focussed on exploiting the sensitivity of SERS for quantitative analysis of biomolecules as well as exploiting one of the key advantages of SERS, the ability to analyse multiple analytes in one sample. This allows more information to be gained per analysis as well as giving information about complex systems that are intrinsically difficult to measure.
Professional Activities
- Development of a Spatially Offset Raman Spectroscopy Probe for Monitoring Pharmaceutical Drying
- Contributor
- 25/1/2024
- Development of a Spatially Resolved Spectroscopy probe for In-line Monitoring of Pharmaceutical Drying
- Contributor
- 21/3/2023
- Seminar
- Invited speaker
- 11/2022
- SciX 2022
- Keynote/plenary speaker
- 10/2022
- SciX 2022
- Invited speaker
- 10/2022
- International conference on Raman Spectroscopy (ICORS)
- Keynote/plenary speaker
- 9/2022
Projects
- GLAS-CYTO: AN INTEGRATED FACILITY FOR THE BIOPHYSICAL ANALYSIS OF CELLULAR INTERACTIONS
- Burley, Glenn (Principal Investigator) Chamberlain, Luke (Co-investigator) Chow, Shiao (Co-investigator) Corrigan, Damion (Co-investigator) Cunningham, Margaret Rose (Co-investigator) Faulds, Karen (Co-investigator) Jamieson, Craig (Co-investigator) Rattray, Zahra (Co-investigator) Tomkinson, Nick (Co-investigator) Taladriz Sender, Andrea (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Aug-2024 - 31-Jul-2025
- Spectral Phasor-based Automated Raman Histopathology and Tissue Analysis (SPARTAN)
- Faulds, Karen (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jun-2024 - 30-Nov-2024
- Rapid Bacterial Testing
- Faulds, Karen (Principal Investigator) Graham, Duncan (Co-investigator)
- 05-Feb-2024 - 30-Nov-2024
- DTP 2224 University of Strathclyde | Merchant, Andrew
- Faulds, Karen (Principal Investigator) Graham, Duncan (Co-investigator) Merchant, Andrew (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Oct-2023 - 01-Apr-2027
- New Capability for Bacterial Testing in the Food Production Environment
- Faulds, Karen (Principal Investigator) Graham, Duncan (Co-investigator) May, Hayleigh (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Nov-2022 - 31-Oct-2024
- Self-assembling silk for cell and drug delivery
- Rattray, Zahra (Principal Investigator) Faulds, Karen (Principal Investigator) ROAMCHARERN, Napaporn (Post Grad Student)
- 01-Oct-2022 - 30-Sep-2025
Contact
Professor
Karen
Faulds
Pure and Applied Chemistry
Email: karen.faulds@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 2507