Dr. Peter Maskell is an Internationally recognised forensic toxicologist with interests in forensic alcohol calculations and improving the objectivity of interpretation in postmortem forensic toxicology.
Dr. Maskell is currently a Senior Forensic Toxicologist at SPA Forensic Services and has also been a reporting Forensic Toxicologist at the Centre for Forensic and Legal Medicine, University of Dundee and Forensic Medicine and Science, University of Glasgow. He is also currently an Honorary Assistant Professor at University of Glasgow. He regularly gives court testimony in both the High and Sheriff Courts in Scotland.
Dr. Maskell earned his bachelor’s degree in pharmacology at the University of Portsmouth, his Ph.D. in Pharmacology at Oxford Brookes University, and completed postdoctoral fellowships in pharmacology at Oxford Brookes University and respiratory physiology at the University of Birmingham. He has held teaching and tenured academic positions at several Universities (University of Bristol, University of Huddersfield, Abertay University and Dundee University).
Dr. Maskell is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, a Fellow of the Chartered Society of Forensic Sciences and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. He is also a Chartered Scientist and a Chartered Chemist.
Dr Maskell is an active member of Society of Forensic Toxicologists (SOFT); The International Association of Forensic Toxicologists (TIAFT), serving as the TIAFT UK representative since 2020 and being part of the organising committee for the 2019 Birmingham TIAFT conference; LTG, a UK wide analytical and forensic toxicology group (of which he has been a committee member since 2015, Vice Chair 2017-2019, Chair 2019-2021, Past Chair 2021-2023) and the United Kingdom and Ireland Association of Forensic Toxicologists (UKIAFT) of which he co-wrote the current UKIAFT Guidelines for Forensic Alcohol Calculations and was a co-opted member of UK Governments Advisory Council for the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) sub-group for NPS benzodiazepines. Dr. Maskell is a member of the editorial advisory board for “Clarkes Analysis of Drugs and Poisons”.
Throughout his career Dr. Maskell has been an active researcher with currently over 50 publications in respected peer reviewed academic journals. He has been invited to speak at both national and international conferences on his research. His work on forensic alcohol calculations in transgender individuals was selected as the Journal of Forensic Sciences 2022 Toxicology section noteworthy article. In 2024 he won the TIAFT Randall Baselt Award.
