Christine M Davidson is a Reader in Pure and Applied Chemistry at the University of Strathclyde. She received her BSc (Hons, 1st class) from the University of Glasgow in 1983 and then moved to the Department of Physics and Astronomy to carry out a Ph.D. in laser ionization spectroscopy. She had two postdoctoral appointments, the first at the State University of Utrecht, Netherlands, where she worked on accelerator mass spectrometry, and the second at the Scottish Universities Research and Reactor Centre, studying natural analogues for nuclear waste repositories. She was appointed to the staff at the University of Strathclyde in 1989 and promoted to senior lecturer in 1999. Her research is in the area of environmental analytical chemistry, especially the development of new analytical methods to assess risk to human health and the environment from priority pollutants either directly or through the food chain. Recent studies have focused on chemical speciation analysis of potentially toxic elements (e.g., As, Cd, Cr, Cu, Fe, Hg, Mn, Ni, Pb, Sn, Zn); the study of urban soils and inhalable airborne particles; development of simple colorimetric methods for carrying out analysis in the field; and the investigation of microplastics in terrestrial systems such as freshwater sediments. She has also worked on persistent organic pollutants such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.