Professor Michael Breadmore's expertise lies in the application, understanding and exploitation of the hydrodynamic and electrokinetic phenomena in capillaries and microfluidic devices for the analysis of complex samples. He is particularly interested in the development and integration of sample treatment to construct sample-in/answer-out portable analytical devices. These devices have clinical applications for diagnostics and therapeutic drug detection, forensics for profiling and the detection of illicit drugs and explosives, environmentally for management of nutrients and pollutants, and industrially to control process streams.