Martin Harper
CDC/NIOSH, Morgantown, USA
Martin Harper was born in the UK, in 1956, but now resides as a citizen in the USA. He has degrees and diplomas in geology, analytical chemistry, pollution control, and environmental science from universities in the UK, and he received his PhD for research into industrial hygiene air sampling methods from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in 1990. He has taught in the industrial hygiene programs of the University of Alabama at Birmingham and West Virginia University (USA). He became Chief of the Exposure Assessment Branch at the NIOSH Health Effects Laboratory Division in 2002. He is Chair of ISO TC 146/SC2 on Workplace Air Quality. His interests include: sampling and analysis of coarse dusts including wood and metals, metalworking fluids, asbestos and silica, as well as diffusive sampling for gases and vapors, indoor air chemistry, exhaled breath monitoring and strategies and models for exposure assessment.
