{"id":7778,"date":"2022-08-31T09:28:14","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T08:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawkins.biz\/?post_type=leadership&#038;p=7778"},"modified":"2025-08-22T09:30:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T08:30:29","slug":"ed-hammersley","status":"publish","type":"leadership","link":"https:\/\/www.hawkins.biz\/our-experts\/ed-hammersley\/","title":{"rendered":"Ed Hammersley"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"7778\" class=\"elementor elementor-7778\" data-elementor-post-type=\"leadership\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-616cec91 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-eae-slider=\"52403\" data-id=\"616cec91\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-6822d0a\" data-eae-slider=\"96164\" data-id=\"6822d0a\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-493d9f18 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"493d9f18\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>After graduating from the University of York in 2002, Ed worked at analytical laboratories in Yorkshire and London, specialising in the field of analytical chemistry. He then moved to Pfizer in Kent, as an analytical research scientist within the pharmaceutical research and development group. During his nine years at Pfizer, Ed specialised in analytical method development and trace analysis for low-level impurities and contaminants in drug substances and products. A wide range of analytical techniques were used, with a particular focus on gas chromatography and liquid chromatography, both coupled with mass spectrometry detection. Some of this work was published in scientific literature and presented at conferences.<\/p><p>Ed joined Hawkins in 2021 as a Senior Associate before being promoted to a Principal Associate. He has now conducted more than 850 forensic investigations. Those investigations have included fires, explosions, electrical incidents, contamination assessment, chemical reactions and escapes of water within domestic, industrial and marine environments. He regularly travels overseas to conduct investigations. Several of his high-profile cases have involved material losses of more than \u00a310m, with some exceeding \u00a3100m. The marine vessel incidents have involved both engine room and cargo fires, including the TAC Imola, fires onboard large yachts and superyachts, and the MSC Flaminia, for which he gave evidence at Deposition and in the Southern District Court of New York.<\/p><p>Ed is a Chartered Scientist and a Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry. He has experience in the preparation of CPR Part 35 compliant reports, Experts\u2019 Joint Statements and appearance in Court as an Expert Witness.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After graduating from the University of York in 2002, Ed worked at analytical laboratories in Yorkshire and London, specialising in the field of analytical chemistry. He then moved to Pfizer in Kent, as an analytical research scientist within the pharmaceutical research and development group. During his nine years at Pfizer, Ed specialised in analytical method development and trace analysis for low-level impurities and contaminants in drug substances and products. A wide range of analytical techniques were used, with a particular focus on gas chromatography and liquid chromatography, both coupled with mass spectrometry detection. Some of this work was published in scientific literature and presented at conferences. Ed joined Hawkins in 2021 as a Senior Associate before being promoted to a Principal Associate. He has now conducted more than 850 forensic investigations. Those investigations have included fires, explosions, electrical incidents, contamination assessment, chemical reactions and escapes of water within domestic, industrial and marine environments. He regularly travels overseas to conduct investigations. Several of his high-profile cases have involved material losses of more than \u00a310m, with some exceeding \u00a3100m. The marine vessel incidents have involved both engine room and cargo fires, including the TAC Imola, fires onboard large yachts and superyachts, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":7779,"parent":0,"template":"","service":[],"location":[43],"management":[],"experties":[66,68],"region":[79],"class_list":["post-7778","leadership","type-leadership","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-reigate","experties-fire-explosions","experties-materials-chemistry-biology","region-uk-ireland"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ed Hammersley | Forensic Chemistry Expert | Hawkins &amp; Associates<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Ed Hammersley investigates chemical contamination and forensic chemistry cases.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link 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