Professor Ian Croudace BSc, PhD, FRSC
Emeritus Professor
Professor Ian Croudace is Emeritus Professor of Environmental Radioactivity and Geochemistry within Ocean and Earth Science, National Oceanography Centre Southampton at the University of Southampton. He is also founding Director of GAU-Radioanalytical and a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
BSc Geology with Chemistry, Liverpool University, 1973
PhD Granite Geochemistry, Birmingham University, 1980
PDRF, Université de Paris VI & Centre d'Etude Nucléaires, Saclay, 1980-82
Ian Croudace is a specialist in several branches of analytical geochemistry including X-ray fluorescence spectrometry, gamma ray spectrometry and radioanalytical chemistry and has published more than 150 papers in the international geochemical and chemical literature. He has supervised 28 PhD students on topics relating to environmental radioactivity and environmental geochemistry. He also has a strong interest in enterprise and has co-developed instruments that are widely used in both the nuclear sector and academic research. One instrument has become the industry standard instrument for extracting tritium and C-14 from nuclear and related materials while another is the prototype to the world’s leading micro-XRF core scanner. This instrument was developed with NOC colleague Guy Rothwell in 2000 using partial funding obtained from the UK-OST and partnering with Swedish company Cox Analytical Systems. The world's first Itrax core scanner, based at NOCS, arrived in 2003.