Associate Professor Godwin Ayoko

Teaching Areas

• Analytical chemistry
• Chromatography
• Molecular spectroscopy
• Atomic spectrometry

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Areas of Expertise

• Development and application of modern analytical techniques for characterising and monitoring pollutants in the environment.
• Application of multivariate data analysis techniques.
• Characterisation of emissions from vehicle and outboard motors.
• Synthesis, characterisation and application of organometallic and inorganic complexes.
• Receptor Modelling.

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Professional Associations

• Member, Royal Society of Chemistry (UK)
• Member, Royal Australian Chemical Institute

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Current Grants

• Time of Flight Aerosol Mass Spectrometer for Research on airborne particles and their impact on Health and the Environment - 2006 Australian Research Council LIEF Grant (with L. Morawska, Z.D. Ristovski, N. S. Holmes, M. R. Moore, B.N. Noller, J.C.Ng, D.L.Gilbert).
• Physico-Chemical characterisation, source identification and source apportionment of airborne nanoparticles, Queensland University of Technology Incentive Scheme Funding for Australian Research Council Discovery (with R.Jayaratne and G.R.Johnson).
• Emissions measurements from Scania Compressed Natural Gas Buses and New Generation diesel buses, 2006 Department of Transport (with L. Morawska, Z. Ristovski,R.Jayaratne and N. Meyer).
• Assessment of emissions from Compressed Natural Gas and New Generation diesel buses, 2006 Department of Transport (with L. Morawska, Z. Ristovski, R. Jayaratne and N. Meyer).

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Selected Research Projects

• Development and application of modern analytical techniques for characterising and monitoring pollutants in the environment.
• Characterisation of emissions from vehicle and outboard motors.
• Receptor modelling and application of multivariate data analysis techniques to environmental pollution data.
• Characterisation and source apportionment of pollutants in air, water and soil/dust samples.
• Synthesis, characterisation and application of organometallic and inorganic compounds.

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Selected Publications

• Lim, M.C.H, AYOKO, G. A., Morawska, L., Ristovski, Z. D., Jayaratne, E.R. & Kokot, S., (2006) A comparative study of the elemental composition of the exhaust emissions of cars powered by Liquefied Petroleum Gas and Unleaded Petrol, Atmospheric Environment, Vol 40, 3111-3122.
• Herngren L., Goonetilleke A.& AYOKO G. A., (2006) Analysis of heavy metals in road-deposited sediments, Analytica Chimica Acta, Vol 571, 270-278.
• Lim, M.C.H, AYOKO, G. A., Morawska (2005) Characterisation of elemental and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon compositions of urban air in Brisbane, Atmospheric Environment, Vol 39, 463-476.
• AYOKO, G. A. (2004) Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC) In Indoor Environments in The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry (Ed- In -Chief: Hutzinger), Pluschke P (Ed) Volume 4 Air Pollution, Springer -Verlag, Germany, Chapter 1, pp 1-35.
• AYOKO, G.A., Morawska, L., Kokot, S., & Gilbert, D. (2004) Application of multicriteria decision making methods to air quality in the microenvironments of residential houses in Brisbane, Australia - Environmental Science and Technology, 38: 2609-2616.

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Current Postgraduate Students

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