About us
Based in Cambridgeshire, UK, Anthias Consulting Ltd provides consultancy and training services to clients throughout Europe, America and beyond, including multi-national corporations, small independent laboratories and academic institutions.
Our Complete GC & GC - MS Course is recognised by the Royal Society of Chemistry for purposes of Continuing Professional Development.
Analytical chemist Diane Turner founded Anthias Consulting in 2005. She has over 10 years of hands-on experience in Gas Chromatography and all related techniques, on a wide range of manufacturers instrumentation (including Agilent, Thermo, Varian, PerkinElmer, Shimadzu, Leco, CTC, ATAS, Gerstel, Markes), and in a huge variety of applications and industries.
The Anthias Consulting team
Diane Turner, Senior Consultant and Director, MSc MRSC
Diane Turner is the Founder and Director of Anthias Consulting Ltd. A Warwick University Graduate, Diane started her career as Analytical Chemist, later on gaining significant experience also as Applications Chemist. She founded Anthias Consulting to meet the growing need for quality training and consultancy in GC & GC-MS, which is now the company's main focus.
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Stuart Pattinson, Consultant, MSc MRSC
Stuart Pattinson joined Anthias Consulting in 2010 in the role of consultant to help meet ever-increasing requests for GC & GC-MS related training. Stuart has considerable experience utilising GC and GC-MS methods for the analysis of trace-level contaminants, especially in the environmental and water sectors, and comes also with extensive background in pharmaceutical/medical device manufacturing.
Our services
Our experience covers all aspects of the customer needs: supplier interface from both sides, providing an insight into the needs of each and hence 'Bridging the Gap'. We believe that customers buy what the product does, not what it is, gaining a good understanding of this leads to better success for all those involved.
Anthias Consulting can help both instrument manufacturers and the analysts who use the scientific instrumentation, with experience and support, from consultancy advice to training to get the best out of their analytical instruments.
Our expertise includes techniques such as:
- Gas Chromatography (GC)
- Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS, GC-ToFMS)
- Multi-Dimensional GC (2D, GCxGC, GCxGC-ToFMS, heart-cutting)
- Large Volume Injection (LVI)
- Programmable Temperature Vaporisers (PTV)
- Selective Discrimination
- Thermal Desorption and Extraction (TD)
- Pyrolysis (Py)
- Static and Dynamic Headspace (SHS, DHS)
- Purge and Trap (P&T)
- Solid Phase Extraction (SPE)
- Solid Phase Micro-extraction (SPME, SBSE)
- Automated sample preparation
Find out more about the Services we can offer you and your organisation. If the technique you are interested in isn't listed here, please contact us and we'll see if we can help.
About our customers
Anthias Consulting offers services and consultancy to a wide range of clients:
- Manufacturers and suppliers for whom we provide customer education training and consultancy, instrument demonstrations and applications development.
- Academic institutions as well as individual companies for whom we provide theoretical, hardware and software training as well as applications support and method consultancy.
- We service many locations (we've worked with clients from the UK, Europe, Africa, Asia , USA)
- Industries (pharmaceutical, forensics, food, marine, agriculture, space science, chemical engineering , environmental, manufacturing)
- Roles: lab managers, analysts, lab technicians, research fellows, technical sales, service engineers,...
What we offer:
- GC & GC-MS training courses - beginners to advanced
- In-house training courses targeted to Your team
- Instrument training
- Help with method development
- Technical authoring
- Conference support
- Design of external training programmes
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