Barry Blight

Educational background

• Post-Graduate Certificate in Higher Education PGCHE (2015) University of Kent, Canterbury, UK
• NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow (8/2010-12/2012) Queen’s University, Ontario, Canada.
• Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow (9/2008-07/2010) University of Edinburgh, UK
• Ph.D. (2008) Chemistry, University of Western Ontario, Canada
• B.Sc. (2003) Chemistry, Mount Allison University, NB, Canada.

Research interests

• Supramolecular influence of photoluminescent materials
• Development of luminescent sensors for biological and chemical detection
• Design and assembly of porous solids termed metal-organic framework (MOF) materials for substrate extraction/delivery in biological and industrial realms.
• Experimental elucidation of discrete energetics of hydrogen bonding interactions in materials.
• Sustainable approaches to MOF assembly for industrial vapour/gas sorption/desorption.
• Interfacing inorganic solids with biological constructs.