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Personal profile
Overview
School Roles
Deputy Head of Department
Teaching Contributions
•EART32201 Origin of the Solar System.
•EART35202 Planetary Evolution
•EART40130 Topics in Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Science
•EART29200 Second Year Tutorials - Coordinator and Group Lead
Making an Appointment (for Students)
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Biography
After a BSc. in Physics (Sheffield) I completed a PhD entitled "Development of Techniques of Resonance Ionization Mass Spectrometry for the Analysis of Xenon from Meteorites" (again, Sheffield, supervisor, Prof. G. Turmer). I moved to Manchester to take up a postdoctoral research position, and continued working on the same instrument. In 1994 I was awarded a University Research Fellowship by the Royal Society, and joined the academic staff in 2002.
Social responsibility
As part of our Earth & Solar System outreach team I am happy to give talks on my research and other planetary science topics to interested groups - please contact me at the email address above
I and our planetary science team can also provide speakers and activities for schools and science festivals, and support schools in using the STFC Moon and Meteorite Sample Loan Scheme (we were scientific advisers for the recent production of new support materials). Please contact me for details.
You may also be interested in our group's "Earth & Solar System" blog...
http://earthandsolarsystem.wordpress.com/
...and Facebook page...
Research interests
My main research interest is in the prehistory, formation and evolution of the solar system and the bodies within it.
Research Interests Include:
- The composition and history of samples returned from asteroid Ryugu and Bennu (Hayabusa 2 and OSIRIS-REx missions)
- The nucleosynthetic prehistory of the solar system.
- The chronology of solar system formation.
- The evolution of planets, notably Earth and Mars.
- Cosmic ray exposure ages of meteorites and their subcomponents.
- The half-life of 130Te and the possibility of dating mineralisation based on its decay to 130Xe.
- The histoy of the iodine cycle over geological time and its relation to the evolution of complex lifeforms.
- Pu and U signatures in lunar and terrestrial zircons.
- Development of resonance ionization mass spectrometry for combined isotopic analysis of xenon and krypton.
- Analytical Methods, particularly related to mass spectrometry.
- Planetary Image Analysis - Linear Poisson Models
My group
Further information
Asteroid (7927) Jamiegilmour = 1986 WV1
Discovered 1986 Nov. 29 by A. Mrkos at Kleˇt.
Jamie Gilmour (b. 1964) is an isotope cosmochemist at the University of Manchester (UK). He develops novel instrumentation to study the origin and evolution of meteorites using xenon isotopic signatures.
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An I-Xe Age 8 Myr After Solar System Formation In A Hayabusa2 Sample Records Alteration On The Parent Planetesimal Of Asteroid Ryugu
Crowther, S., Cowpe, J., Fawcett, L., Gilmour, J., Lawton, T. & al, E., 23 Nov 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The variety and origin of materials accreted by Bennu’s parent asteroid
Barnes, J. J., Nguyen, A. N., Abernethy, F. A. J., Bajo, K., Bekaert, D. V., Bloch, E., Brennecka, G. A., Busemann, H., Cowpe, J. S., Crowther, S. A., Ek, M., Fawcett, L. J., Fehr, M. A., Franchi, I. A., Füri, E., Gilmour, J. D., Grady, M. M., Greenwood, R. C., Haenecour, P. & Kawasaki, N. & 67 others, , 22 Aug 2025, In: Nature Astronomy.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Constraints on the impact history of the Apollo 16 landing site: Implications of soil-like breccia noble gas records
Nottingham, M. C., Curran, N. M., Pernet-Fisher, J., Burgess, R., Crawford, I. A., Gilmour, J. D., Tartèse, R. & Joy, K. H., 15 Oct 2024, In: Meteoritics and Planetary Science.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Iodine-Xenon Analysis of Material from Asteroid Ryugu Returned by the Hayabusa2 Mission
Gilmour, J., Crowther, S., Fawcett, L., Cowpe, J., Okazaki, R., Kitajima, F., Yada, T., Yogata, K., Yurimoto, H., Nakamura, T., Noguchi, T., Naraoka, H., Yabuta, H., {Sakamoto}, K., Tachibana, S., Watanabe, S.-I., Tsuda, Y. & Hayabusa2 Initial Analysis Volatile Team, Mar 2024.Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract
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Xenon Isotopic Analysis of Individual Intermediate Particles from the OSIRIS-REx Sample of Asteroid Bennu
Crowther, S., Gilmour, J., Cowpe, J., Fawcett, L., Barnes, J. J., Nguyen, A. N., Jr, H. C. C. & Lauretta, D. S., Mar 2024.Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract
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Noble gas and halogen compositions of OSIRIS-REx samples and carbonaceous chondrites
Gilmour, J. (PI) & Burgess, R. (CoI)
1/04/24 → 31/03/27
Project: Research
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Searching for cometary volatile signatures in primitive carbonaceous chondrites
Broadley, M. (PI), Gilmour, J. (CoI) & Tartese, R. (CoI)
1/10/26 → 30/09/29
Project: Research
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Planetary Science
Gilmour, J. (PI), Joy, K. (PI), Lyon, I. (CoI), Burgess, R. (PI), Jones, R. (PI), Tartese, R. (PI), Holland, G. (PI), Clay, P. (CoI), Crowther, S. (Researcher), Pernet-Fisher, J. (Researcher), Ruzie, L. (Researcher), Assis Fernandes, V. (CoI), MacArthur, J. (Researcher), Nottingham, M. (Researcher), Bell, S. (Researcher), Baker, E. (Researcher), Hartley, M. (PI), Neave, D. (PI), Snape, J. (PI), Almayrac, M. (Researcher), Broadley, M. (PI), Barrett, T. (Researcher), Neukampf, J. (Researcher), Boschetty, F. (Researcher), Cogliati, S. (Researcher) & Williams, T. (PI)
Project: Research
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Space at Manchester
Smith, K. (PI), Crisp, N. (PI), Roberts, P. (PI), Foster, T. (PI), Jeevendrampillai, D. (PI), Agir, M. B. (Researcher), Bourne, N. (CoI), Allmendinger, R. (CoI), Koehler, S. (CoI), Dresner, D. (CoI), Storchi, R. (CoI), Falkowska, M. (CoI), Peakman, A. (Affiliate), Quinn, M. (CoI), Hollingsworth, P. (CoI), Utyuzhnikov, S. (CoI), Modell, S. (CoI), Stappers, B. (CoI), Thornton, A. (CoI), Thomas, C. (CoI), Allen, A. (CoI), Farrell, M. (CoI), Browning, P. (Affiliate), Ryder, P. (PGR student), Garrett, M. (CoI), Marsh, L. (CoI), Li, Q. (CoI), Cobb, S. (CoI), Joy, K. (CoI), Piccirillo, L. (CoI), Fisher, M. (CoI), Harris, A. (CoI), Cowpe, J. (Technical team), Soutis, C. (Affiliate), Cocco, P. (Affiliate), Milosavljevic, N. (CoI), Turner, J. (CoI), Gautam, P. (PGR student), Allen, G. (CoI), Porumb, V.-A. (CoI), Bellamy, R. (CoI), Battye, R. (CoI), Rakhi, P. (CoI), Buckley, P. (CoI), Beswick, R. (CoI), Xiao, P. (CoI), Collins, E. (CoI), Dixon, C. (CoI), Pritchard, R. (CoI), Schultz, D. (CoI), Mingo, B. (CoI), Waller, L. (Researcher), Kotselidis, C.-E. (CoI), Snape, J. (CoI), Foster, T. (PI), Crowther, S. (CoI), De Bo, G. (CoI), Domingos, M. (CoI), Binks, D. (CoI), Mamman, J. (Researcher), Gaydecki, P. (CoI), Lawless, B. (Researcher), Lee, E. (CoI), Ebruka, N.-H. (PGR student), Lyon, I. (Affiliate), Da Conceicao Bispo, P. (CoI), Withers, P. (CoI), Currell, F. (CoI), Chernyavsky, I. (CoI), Bempong-Manful, E. (CoI), Mason, L. (PGR student), O'Brien, T. (CoI), Jones, E. (PGR student), Dennis, L. (CoI), Bull, P. (CoI), Parkes, B. (CoI), Gilmour, J. (CoI), Zhao, P. G. (CoI), Cimpan, I. (CoI), Gibson, M. (CoI), Smith, G. (CoI), Edmondson, S. (CoI), Conselice, C. (CoI), Barrett, E. (CoI), Garrington, S. (CoI), Coulson, B. (Researcher), Zhong, S. (CoI), Tartese, R. (CoI), Mcgrath, C. (CoI), Harish, A. (CoI), Sarov, A. (Technical team), Bradlaugh, A. (Researcher), McMorrow, J. M. (CoI), Brown, T. (CoI), Chluba, J. (CoI), Sutcliffe, S. (Researcher), Jones, R. (CoI), Thottungal Ravy, D. (Affiliate), Nair, M. (CoI) & Mcculloch, M. (CoI)
Project: Research