Julian Tyson

Julian Tyson, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, received his B.S. in Chemistry from Aberdeen University in Scotland in 1971, and his Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from Imperial College, London University in England in 1975. He was a faculty member at Loughborough University, in the UK for 13 years, before relocating to UMass in 1989.

Julian is an analytical chemist whose current interests are focused on the bio- geo- and environmental chemistry of arsenic compounds and the associated chemical measurement challenges. He has been associated with the work of Chemists Without Borders since the fall of 2014. He is currently the manager of the Arsenic-in-Rice Project.