Dr Terry Dillon
Phone: 01904 324706
Email: terry.dillon@york.ac.uk
Kinetics and Photochemistry
Terry is a Senior Lecturer in Physical Chemistry and Faraday College Director of Studies.
Terry teaches core chemistry courses "First Law of Thermodynamics", "Errors and Uncertainty" and "Processes at Solid Surfaces" together with “Lasers in Extreme Environments” from the Lasers in Chemistry year-3 option module.
Terry's research is largely experimental, based in the Wolfson Atmospheric Chemistry Laboratories and in the laser laboratories at the Department of Chemistry.
Research
Terry’s research is directed towards a detailed understanding of gas-phase chemistry in both indoor and outdoor atmospheres. In WACL, in the chemistry laser facilities and in the new indoor air research labs in York, Terry’s research group study the emissions, transformations and fates of the key species in air. We use laser methods, mass-spectrometry, gas chromatography and a host of low-cost sensors in flash photolysis experiments, fast-flow systems, environmental chambers and even real kitchen environments. Terry’s group have most recently been researching:
- degradation of new “green” solvents with Rob McElroyfrom University of Lincoln / GCCE and Conor Rankine;
- photolysis of atmospheric carbonyl species with Andrew Rickard;
- atmospheric radical lifetimes with Pete Edwards;
- impacts of cooking and cleaning on indoor air, with Nic Carslawfrom the Department of Environment and Geography and Dr. Marvin Shaw (WACL).
Terry has supervised nine PhD students and dozens more MChem, MSc, MSci, BSc and summer project students at York. We are always keen to meet enthusiastic students and discuss potential projects.
