Pepper, Sarah, Dr

Dr Sarah Pepper

School of Chemical, Materials and Biological Engineering

Experimental Officer in Aqueous Geochemistry

Sarah.Pepper@sheffield.ac.uk

Sir Robert Hadfield Building

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Dr Sarah Pepper
School of Chemical, Materials and Biological Engineering
Sir Robert Hadfield Building
Mappin Street
91ֱ��
S1 3JD

Profile

Sarah holds a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Manchester as well as a BSc in Chemistry from UMIST and a MSc in Environmental Science from the University of Nottingham.

She has previously worked as a Post-doctoral Research Associate at Washington State University, Los Alamos National Laboratory and the University of Leeds and as a Research Scientist at the Idaho National Laboratory.

Sarah joined the University of 91ֱ�� in November 2021 as Experimental Officer in Aqueous Geochemistry, focussing on the analysis of samples using ICP-MS and ICP-OES.

Qualifications

PhD Chemistry (University of Manchester)
Post-doctoral Research Associate, Department of Chemistry, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA (Jan 2003-Nov 2006)
Post-doctoral Research Associate, Los Alamos National Laboratory – Carlsbad Operations, Carlsbad, NM, USA (Nov 2006 – Jan 2008)
Staff Scientist, Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho Falls, ID, USA (Jan 2008 – Nov 2011)
Post-doctoral Research Associate, Department of Chemical and Process Engineering, University of 91ֱ��, 91ֱ�� (Nov 2016 – Nov 2018) & Department of Geography (Nov 2018 – May 2019)
Research Fellow, School of Chemical and Process Engineering, University of Leeds, Leeds (Jan 2020 – Oct 2021)

Research interests

Sarah’s research interests lie in understanding the fate and transport of contaminants either in environmental systems or in industrial process, with the ultimate aim of developing new remediation strategies to prevent/mitigate their impact. I am also interested in the development of new analytical methods under non-ideal conditions, for example high saline, strongly complexing or anoxic systems

In addition to this, she has developed analytical methodologies to support the detection of different species under challenging environments, e.g. high brine solutions, very low pH solutions, strongly complexing systems or anoxic/reducing conditions.

Publications

Journal articles

Pepper SE, Robshaw TJ, Amphlett JTM, Ruder LR, Harwood LM, Lee TS, Whittle KR & Ogden MD (2024) . Progress in Nuclear Energy, 177, 105458-105458.
Amphlett JTM, Pepper SE, Harwood LM, Whittle KR, Lee TS, Moon EM, Joannes-Boyau R, Foster RI & Ogden MD (2024) . Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, 699, 134639-134639.
Pepper SE, Baker A, Maher CJ, Carrott MJ, Turner J & Hanson BC (2024) . Progress in Nuclear Energy, 169, 105062-105062.
Amphlett JTM, Pepper SE, Riley AL, Harwood LM, Cowell J, Whittle KR, Lee TS & Ogden MD (2020) . Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, 82, 261-268.
Barton DNT, Robshaw TJ, Okusanya O, Kim D, Pepper SE, Sharrad CA, Lee TS & Ogden MD (2019) . Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, 78, 210-221.
Namgung H, Gwon YJ, Kim J, Jang G, Pepper S, Ogden MD, Whittle KR, Harwood LM & Lee TS (2018) . Polymer.
Pepper SE, Whitte KR, Harwood LM, Cowell J, Seung Lee T & Ogden MD (2018) . Separation Science and Technology, 53(10), 1552-1562.
Canner AJ, Pepper SE, Hayer M & Ogden MD (2018) . Progress in Nuclear Energy, 104, 271-279.
Riley AL, Pepper SE, Canner AJ, Griffith C, Soldenhoff K, Brown SF & Ogden MD (2018) . Separation Science & Technology, 53(14), 2338-2338.
Riley AL, Pepper SE, Sexton EL & Ogden MD (2018) Metal Removal from Synthetic Mine Tailing Leachates using Fixed-Bed Ion-Exchange Columns. Copper Cobalt Africa, incorporating the 9th Southern African Base Metals Conference.
Ogden MD, Moon EM, Wilson A & Pepper SE (2017) . Chemical Engineering Journal, 317, 80-89.
Ogden MD, Moon EM, Wilson A, Griffith C, Mata J, Soldenhoff K & Pepper SE (2017) . Chemical Engineering Journal, 324, 414-414.
Pepper SE & Ogden MD (2013) . Separation and Purification Technology, 118, 847-852.
Pepper SE, Borkowski M, Richmann MK & Reed DT (2010) . Analytica Chimica Acta, 663(2), 172-177.
Pepper SE, Peterman DR, Tranter TJ & White BM (2009) . Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, 282(3), 909-912.
Reed DT, Pepper SE, Richmann MK, Smith G, Deo R & Rittmann BE (2007) . Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 444-445, 376-382.
Pepper SE, Hull LC, Bottenus BN & Clark SB (2006) . Radiochimica Acta, 94(4), 229-237.
Shaw S (2005) . American Mineralogist, 90(11-12), 1852-1860.
Pepper SE, Bunker DJ, Bryan ND, Livens FR, Charnock JM, Pattrick RAD & Collison D (2003) . Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 268(2), 408-412.
Smith H, Cordara T, Gausse C, Pepper SE & Corkhill CL () . npj Materials Degradation, 7(1).

Chapters

Keepax RE, Jones DM, Pepper SE & Bryan ND (2002) , Radioactivity in the Environment (pp. 143-177). Elsevier

Conference proceedings papers

Pepper S, Peterman DR & Tranter TJ (2009) Use of cloud point extraction to detect radionuclides in aqueous samples. ACS National Meeting Book of Abstracts
Pepper SE, Bottenus BN, Hull LC, Shepler CG & Clark SB (2006) (pp 277-291)