Alex Scheeline

Alex Scheeline is a distinguished analytical chemist and Professor Emeritus in the Department of Chemistry, School of Chemical Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He earned his BS in chemistry from Michigan State University in 1974 and his PhD in chemistry from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1978, where he focused on analytical and physical chemistry. Shortly after his doctoral work, he completed a National Research Council postdoctoral fellowship at the National Bureau of Standards before beginning his academic career. He served as an assistant professor at the University of Iowa from 1979 to 1981, after which he joined the University of Illinois faculty, where he remained for several decades