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Professor Tim Mason is among the most published and most quoted experts worldwide on the subject of sonochemistry. As Director of the Sonochemistry Centre at Coventry University, his interests are in a range of applications of power ultrasound technologies including environmental protection, materials processing, food processing, electrochemistry and therapeutic ultrasound. He has published some 200 papers and 15 books on sonochemistry. He was the first president as of the European Society of Sonochemistry (1991) and is currently serving in that role, is the chairman of the UK Sonochemistry Group (from 1990) and is Editor in Chief of the journal "Ultrasonics Sonochemistry" and the "Advances in Sonochemistry" series. He serves on several scientific boards including World Congress on Ultrasonics, Ultrasonics International and the International Society for Therapeutic Ultrasound.
Prof. Mason graduated with a PhD in Physical Organic Chemistry from Southampton University, UK (1970). He was a NATO Fellow at Amherst College, Mass. USA (1970 - 72), Research Fellow, York University, UK (1972 - 73), and Temporary Lecturer in Organic Chemistry, Bradford University, UK (1973 - 74). He joined Coventry Polytechnic (now University) in 1975, and was appointed as Professor of Chemistry in 1991, a post he still holds. In 1996, Tim Mason was awarded a D.Sc. (the highest UK research degree awarded for major contributions to science by a senior scientist) from Southampton University, UK, and holds an Honorary Chair at Chongqing Medical University, P R China | 