Justin Perry

Professor Justin Perry

Professor

Department: Applied Sciences

I am interested in multidisciplinary projects at all TRLs, especially if there's a sustainability angle. There's room for a bit of chemistry in everything.

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Research Themes and Scholarly Interests

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).

Key Publications

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. 10 Sep 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

Current and Recent Projects

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

PGR Supervision

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