Anika Retzmann is a postdoctoral researcher in the Atom Mass Lab at the University of Calgary. She is an analytical chemist and isotope science researcher specializing in elemental and stable metal isotopic analyses, with applications spanning environmental science, archaeometry, biomedicine, and the life sciences. Her work focuses on advancing analytical methodology to better understand the roles and signatures of essential elements in biological and environmental systems.
In the below video segment, we shifted our focus to the future, with Anika Retzmann of the University of Calgary giving her thoughts about what emerging applications will benefit the most from high-precision metal isotope analysis of biological systems.
In this interview clip, Anika Retzmann of the University of Calgary dives more deeply into the utility of multi-collector microwave inductively coupled atmospheric-pressure plasma mass spectrometry (MC-MICAP-MS) for isotopic analysis.
In this video segment, Anika Retzmann explains how developing fully automated analyte purification procedures helps improve data quality and reproducibility compared to traditional approaches.
In this video segment, Anika Retzmann of the University of Calgary discusses how analyzing elemental and stable metal isotopic compositions of biological systems help answer fundamentally different research questions across fields such as biomedicine and environmental science.
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