Staff profile
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Job title: Senior Lecturer
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Dept: Geographical and Life Sciences
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Tel: 01227 782335
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Campus: Canterbury
BSc, PhD (Santiago de Compostela, Spain), MSc (Imperial College London), PGCLT(HE)
Senior Lecturer
Learning and Teaching Coordinator|, Faculty of Social and Applied Sciences
Teaching Responsibilities
Courses which have a chemistry component, such as Core Science, Organic Chemistry, Environmental Chemistry or Pollution Science
Research Interests
Coordination chemistry. Design and synthesis of new macrocyclic and acyclic ligands and study of their interaction with metal ions, with potential environmental and medical applications (see Research Publications - Chemistry|||).
Currently collaborating with Dr Carlos Lodeiro and Dr Jose L. Capelo| (Universidade de Vigo, Spain). in the synthesis and study of new fluorescence chemosensors|| |for Ca, lanthanide, and bio-transition metal ions (Zn, Cd, Co and Cu).
Educational research interests include the development of e-learning resources| for chemistry and environmental science to encourage independent learning, and enhancing the teaching-research nexus in the undergraduate curriculum (see Research Publications - Education|).
For a complete list of publications see CREATE|.
Other Interests
Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry Kent Local Section committee and secretary of the South East Education committee, Fellow of the HE Academy, CCCU contact person for the ECTN (European Chemistry Thematic Network|||)
Research Publications - Chemistry
Joseph Burman, E. Bertolo, Jose Luis Capelo, David Ponsonby, Preliminary results on the analysis of volatile and non-volatile pheromones in chilocorus nigritus by GC/MS. Electronic Journal of Environmental, Agricultural and Food chemistry, 2010, 9(7), 1274-1282. ISSN: 1579-4377.(Download: http://ejeafche.uvigo.es/component/option,com_docman/task,cat_view/gid,109/|)
N,N'-{1,3-Phenylenebis[methyleneoxy-2,1-phenylene(Z)methylylidene]}bis[1-(1-naphthyl)methanamine] Lucy A. George, Emilia Bertolo and Carlos Lodeiro, Molbank 2010, 2010(4), M702, doi:10.3390/M702. (Download|)
Exploiting anionic and cationic interactions with a new emissive imine-based b-naphthol molecular probe, Luz Fernandes, Maxime Boucher, Javier Fernández-Lodeiro, Elisabete Oliveira, Cristina Nuñez, Hugo M. Santos, Jose Luis Capelo, Olalla Nieto Faza, Emilia Bértolo, Carlos Lodeiro, Inorganic Chemistry Communications 12 (2009) 905–912.
J.L. Capelo, E. Bertolo , E. Oliveira, H. M. Santos, J. Fernandez-Lodeiro, and C. Lodeiro, ‘Power Ultrasound in the Classroom: Efficient methodology for the fast degradation of organic matter in urine’, Electronic Journal of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 8(11) (2009), pp. 1227-1239. ISSN: 1579-4377.
Cristina Nuñez, Rufina Bastida, Alejandro Macias, Emilia Bertolo, Luz Fernandes, Jose Luis Capelo, Carlos Lodeiro, (2009) Synthesis, characterization, and fluorescence behavior of four novel macrocyclic emissive ligands containing a flexible 8-hydroxyquinoline unit, Tetrahedron 65, 6179–6188.
Research Publications - Education
Emilia Bertolo (2009). Research Informed Teaching: enhancing the teaching-research nexus in science disciplines, Technology Education and Development, Aleksandar Lazinica and Carlos Calafate (Ed.), ISBN: 978-953-307-007-0, INTECH, (Download|)
E. Bertolo. K. Carlton (2008) Using e-learning to support the development of an undergraduate research culture in Sciences, International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation (ICERI 2008), 17-19 November 2008, Madrid (Spain). Conference proceedings, paper 657.
E. Bertolo (2008) Web 2.0: Unlearned lessons from previous Virtual Learning Environments, Bioscience Education e-journal (BEE-j), 11-7 (Download||)
E. Bertolo, G. Lambert (2008) Using CAA for summative assessment: engaging non-science students with chemistry, International Technology, Education and Development Conference (INTED 2008) ,Conference proceedings, Poster 485.
E. Bertolo (2008), Engaging Bioscience students with Chemistry using VLEs, Bioscience Bulletin, Spring edition, HEA (Bioscience), No 23. (Download||)
E. Bertolo, G. Lambert (2007) Implementing computer aided assessment in chemistry: a case study, 11th Int. Computer Aided Assessment (CAA) Conference proceedings. (Download||)
E. Bertolo, S. Clay (2006) Simulating environmental surveys using custom developed software, Planet, 17, 42-43. (Download||)
E. Bertolo (2006) Case study Introduction to Infrared Spectroscopy, developed for the HE Academy, (Download||)