Dr Steve Wilkinson is Science Business Manager in charge of the Occupational Health and Emergency Response Section of the Food and Biological Chemistry Laboratory of the Chemistry Centre (WA).
Prior to joining the Chemistry Centre in 1994, Steve had nineteen years experience in clinical chemistry research including enzyme defects, steroid biochemistry and investigations into human breast cancer.
His area of expertise is in the use of Mass Spectrometry for the trace analysis of organic chemicals. He is particularly interested in the analysis of volatile organics in both indoor and outdoor air including air toxics, toxic industrial gases and chemical weapons. He is also particularly interested in the use of field portable systems for the on-site detection of toxic chemicals in Hazmat incidents. Steve's work in these areas has been presente at both National and International conferences.
Steve's group at the Chemistry Centre provides analytical and consulting services to government and industry in the area of ambient air quality, indoor air quality and industrial emissions together with a 24/7 emergency response service to the Western Australian Government in cases of Hazmat or CBR incidents.
In the mid-1990s Steve developed US EPA method TO14A for the analysis of trace levels of volatile organics in ambient air at the Chemistry Centre (WA). Steve holds NATA signatory status for several environmental analysis methods including US EPA Methods TO14A, TO17 and TO11A which are specifically concerned with environmental air analysis.
Steve is a Fellow of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (FRACI) a member and former WA Branch Committee Member of the Clean Air Society of Australia and New Zealand (CASANZ) and a member of the Standards Australia Committee on Indoor Air Quality.
