Dr Kingsley DonkorAdjunct Professor | Human Resources & Planning
Email: kdonkor@tru.ca
Phone:
250-828-5406
Homepage URL:
https://kingsleydonkor.ca/
Interests
Soccer, art and travel.
Research Interests
Analytical and Environmental Chemistry:
My research program focuses on developing analytical methods in capillary electrophoresis and
chromatography and to apply these methodologies to study real-world systems in the medical,
pharmaceutical, food and environmental industries.
Five major areas are:
(i) Developing capillary electrophoretic and mass spectrometric methods for the detection and
characterization of antimicrobial peptides particularly lantibiotics.
(ii)Developing analytical chemistry methodologies to analyze, emerging contaminants, cations and anions
in environmental waters with highly challenging matrices such as oilfield waters, wastewater,
groundwater and river water.
(iii) Developing separation methods, primarily capillary electrophoresis (CE) and liquid
chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC/MS), for the identification, analysis and characterization of
molecular markers in environmental and industrial waters
(iv) Developing analytical chemistry methodologies to determine chemical molecular markers in food and
agricultural matrices.
(v) Application of chemometric techniques in environmental and agricultural research for the
identification of natural and anthropogenic sources of environmental pollution and for classification of
agricultural products based on the origins of the constituents
Education
B.Sc. (Honours) (Ghana)
M.Sc. and Ph.D. (U. Alberta)
Courses Taught
Principles of Chemistry (CHEM 1520); Introductory Analytical Chemistry (CHEM 2100); Fundamentals of Physical Chemistry (CHEM 2250); Instrumental Analysis (CHEM 3100); Instrumental Analysis Laboratory (CHEM 3120); Special Topics in Applied Chemistry (CHEM 4600)
