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Ian Burke
Ian is an environmental geochemist interested in the fundamental processes that affect the environmental behaviour, mobility and bioavailability of metals and radionuclides in a range of natural and contaminated systems. My research is driven by a fascination in the complex behaviour that is observed in real environmental situations and is focused on experimental approaches involving advanced geochemical and geomicrobiological investigation. Recent projects include work on: resource recovery and remediation of alkaline wastes (e.g. steel slags, bauxite residues, construction and demolition wastes, and EfW residues), the environmental behaviour of mineral and organic (nano)particles, and the mobility and fate of contaminant radionuclides at UK nuclear sites.
