Dr. Hilary Ann Robotham Westmeier is a chemist specialising in the use of nuclear analytical methods to assess environmental and other pollutants. She was born in Montego Bay in 1955 but grew up in Kingston and loved mathematics and literature as a child and student at St. Andrew High School. She also loves dancing and was a founding member of the L'Acadco Dance Company in 1982. She studied chemistry at The University of the West Indies obtaining a Ph.D. in Physical Organic Chemistry before going to work in the newly established Centre for Nuclear Sciences where she was the Lead Scientist and Coordinator from 1983 until she left in 1993. As an analytical chemist specialising in applications of nuclear analytical techniques, her main research work involved the mapping of the geochemistry of soils and radiation levels throughout Jamaica. She was instrumental in setting up a pilot facility for monitoring the exposure levels of workers who handled radioactive materials or worked with radiation, and she helped to develop methods and programmes for monitoring chemical pollutants in the environment. She conducted training in these areas in several countries around the world and was a Senior Lecturer in the Chemistry Dept. at The UWI. She eventually moved to Germany and is a consultant in a Consulting and Software Firm with expertise in nuclear spectrometry systems and software development where she is involved in projects such as nuclear transumutation whereby highly reactive long-lived nuclear waste is transformed to safer states. She continues her interest in the creative arts as well as science.
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