Dr. Peter Gardner

Peter Gardner obtained a PhD in surface vibrational spectroscopy in 1988 from the University of East Anglia. He then spent four years at the Fritz Haber Institute (MPG) in Berlin using vibrational spectroscopy to monitor oscillatory reaction phenomenon on surfaces. In 1992 he joined the Chemistry Department at the University of Cambridge studying catalytic systems and then in 1994 moved to the Chemistry Department at UMIST. In 2004, with the formation of the University of Manchester he joined the School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science but his research is carried out at the Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre.

Since 2000 he has built a successful biomedical spectroscopy group, and in collaboration with Noel Clarke has focused on using vibrational spectroscopy in the diagnosis of prostate cancer. His group also has a keen interest in understanding the fundamental causes of spectroscopic discrimination and separating biochemical and physical spectral influences.