Professor Justin Perry

Sustainable materials and chemical methods, especially using industrial byproducts or biosourced waste.

Creation of highly functional materials with biological or enzymatic componentry.

Biocatalysis and biotransformation using enzymes or whole organisms.

Using chemical analysis plus data science to ground-truth large data sets from drone images or photo libraries.

Chemical analysis of historical objects or works of art (especially 20th century).

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• Investigation and analysis of explosive traces in public locations with no military context: a critical review, Crapper, G., Green, A., Dean, J., Perry, J. 7 May 2025, In: Analytical Methods
• Use of environmental forensics to assess land sustainability: A case study on a former coal mining site, Salaudeen, I., Randall, K., Basu, N., Cheung, W., Nicholson, C., Perry, J., Dean, J. 1 Nov 2025, In: Environmental Science: Advances
• Conversion of Contaminated Post-Consumer Polyethylene Terephthalate into a Thermoset Alkyd Coating Using Biosourced Monomers, Thomas, B., Lopez,  ., Railton, J., Bousbaa, J., Perry, J., Unthank, M. 29 Apr 2024, In: ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces
• Rational design of a cyclohexanone dehydrogenase for enhanced α,β-desaturation and substrate specificity, Singh, W., Brown, N., McCue, H., Marriott, S., Wilson, R., Perry, J., Turkenburg, J., Dubey, K., Prior, S., Carnell, A., Taylor, E., Black, G. 7 Apr 2024, In: Chemical Science
• Use of machine learning for monitoring the growth stages of an agricultural crop, Ahmed, S., Basu, N., Nicholson, C., Rutter, S., Marshall, J., Perry, J., Dean, J. 1 Jan 2024, In: Sustainable Food Technology
• Use of remote sensing and image processing for identification of wild orchids, Ahmed, S., Lightbown, J., Rutter, S., Basu, N., Nicholson, C., Perry, J., Dean, J. 26 Apr 2024, In: Frontiers in Environmental Science
• Use of remote sensing to assess vegetative stress as a proxy for soil contamination, Dean, J., Ahmed, S., Cheung, W., Salaudeen, I., Reynolds, M., Bowerbank, S., Nicholson, C., Perry, J. 1 Jan 2024, In: Environmental Sciences: Processes and Impacts
• Use of an unmanned aerial vehicle for monitoring and prediction of oilseed rape crop performance, Ahmed, S., Nicholson, C., Rutter, S., Marshall, J., Perry, J., Dean, J. 10 Nov 2023, In: PLoS One
• Winter beans: the use of an unmanned aerial vehicle for monitoring and prediction of crop performance, Ahmed, S., Nicholson, C., Rutter, S., Marshall, J., Perry, J., Dean, J. 25 May 2023, In: Open Science Journal (OSJ)
• Engineered living photosynthetic biocomposites for intensified biological carbon capture, In-na, P., Sharp, E., Caldwell, G., Unthank, M., Perry, J., Lee, J. 4 Nov 2022, In: Scientific Reports

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• Green growth skills, Watson, R. (Principal Investigator), Perry, J. (Co Investigator), North of Tyne Combined Authority, 01/04/23 - 31/03/26, £463,160.00
• Development of a laundry stain identification and removal process, Nicholson, K. (Principal Investigator), Perry, J. (Co Investigator), Innovate UK, 01/09/18 - 31/08/21, £259,645.00

• Ibrahim Aderemi Salaudeen Evaluation of Pollution Load on Contaminated Land in North East England using a UAV with Multispectral Image Camera Start Date: 10/04/2025 End Date: 17/10/2025
• Ibrahim Aderemi Salaudeen Evaluation of Pollution Load on Contaminated Land in North East England using a UAV with Multispectral Image Camera Start Date: 10/04/2025
• Bradley Thomas Novel Approaches to Sustainable Polymeric Materials Start Date: 01/10/2021 End Date: 01/10/2025
• Alysha Green Strengthening the understanding of chemical data in the forensic analysis of explosive evidence Start Date: 03/07/2024 End Date: 16/10/2025

• Science PhD June 30 1995
• Fellow (FRSC) Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 2017