Dr. David A. Ellis


Director

of the

Centre for Environmental
Modelling and Chemistry


(CEMC)

Associate Professor

and

Chair

of the

Department of
Chemistry

Ph.D. - Interdisciplinary Chemistry (Toronto)
M.Sc. - Organic Chemistry (Toronto)
M.Sc. - Analytical Chemistry (Aberdeen)
B.Sc. Honours (Glasgow)

Send email to me at: DavidEllis at TrentU dot ca

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University Service:

  

Teaching:
  • Sources & Emissions
  • Transport & Modelling
  • Chemical Fate
  • Analytical Method Development
  • Toxicity
  • Synthesis and Analysis
    		•  
  • Chair of Chemistry
  • Chemistry Departmental Committee
  • Chemistry Personnel Committee
  • Chemistry Curriculum Committee
  • Chemistry Seminar Co-ordinating Committee
  • Senate
  • Faculty Board
  • Science Decanal Committee
    		•  
  • CHEM 2100H (Sept - Dec 2011)
    Introductory synthetic organic chemistry
  • CHEM 3100H (Sept - Dec 2011)
    Advanced organic chemistry

    • Student Supervision:

    Undergraduate students in the Chemistry Honours program

    Graduate students in the Applications of Modelling in the Natural and Social Sciences
    and Environmental & Life Sciences (formerly Watershed Ecosystems) graduate programs at Trent University.
    Adjunct Professor at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario Supervising students in the Trent/Queen's graduate program in Chemistry.

    Research Interests:

    My research interests include physical property determinations, behaviour and environmental fate of organic contaminants, especially ionizing surfactants. This focus has evolved from an earlier interest in the role that fluorine imparts upon the fundamental nature of an organic compound and how this in turn effects the dissemination of the material within the environment. Fluorinated surfactants represent an extreme case of ionizing surfactants in general with the additional complication of being ill-suited to many existing property measurement techniques. Analytical technique development, utilizing 19F NMR, mass spectrometry and chromatographic systems with varied modes of detection, is therefore coupled with the determination of key properties that are combined with environmental fate models whose results are compared to reported environmental concentrations. The synthesis of novel compounds is often required to completely understand mechanisms of degradation and methods of analysis. Thus, my investigations have had a comprehensive focus, covering: sources/emissions, transport, fate, analytical method development, toxicity, modeling and synthesis.

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