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Meet the CERAS team

Professor Andy Milton, Dr Matthew Cooper and Dr Agnes Macey-Michalik are experts in elemental and isotopic analysis at the University of Southampton’s world-class Centre for Earth Research and Analysis Southampton (CERAS). Between them they have more than 50 years’ experience in this field of chemical analysis and are advanced users in a range of mass spectrometry techniques, with countless industry and academic projects under their belts.

If elemental or isotopic analysis is part of the solution for your project, we will call on the CERAS team’s specialist services. They have the expertise and experience to understand your issue, optimise samples for the best results, and select the right instrumentation to get the data you need.

CERAS’s suite of mass spectrometers includes instruments for bulk and high spatial resolution analysis, enabling the team to measure pretty much anything from almost any sample.

Find out more about our chemical analysis services

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Dr Agnes Macey-Michalik, Dr Matthew Cooper and Professor Andy Milton, CERAS

  • Where elemental analysis is concerned, we can measure just about anything in just about anything.

    Professor Andy Milton, Centre for Earth Research and Analysis Southampton

  • We have a wide range of instruments of different sensitivities, so whatever your requirements we can find the answer.

    Dr Matthew Cooper, Centre for Earth Research and Analysis Southampton

  • Through nC², companies can access CERAS’s unrivalled range of elemental and isotopic analysis facilities, and the specialist expertise to go with it.

    Dr Agnes Macey-Michalik, Centre for Earth Research and Analysis Southampton