Authors
Giulio Colnaghi has been working at Milestone since 2003. He is a chemist and started his career at Milestone as an application specialist, focusing on new method development and addressing specific needs in sample preparation. Later, he transitioned to Area Manager for most countries in Latin America and the eastern part of Europe, and then for the U.S. Since 2018, he has held the position of Marketing Manager at Milestone headquarters in Bergamo, Italy. During his career at Milestone, Giulio has worked with hundreds of laboratories and chemists to help them in overcoming daily challenges in elemental analysis by optimizing their workflow and methods. Today, Giulio aims to support worldwide laboratories to enhance their efficiency using state-of-the-art technologies.
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.
Michelle Sestak joined HORIBA in 2012 after earning a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Toledo. She specialized in spectroscopic ellipsometry for cadmium telluride thin-film solar cells. Starting as a thin film applications scientist, she later expanded into Raman spectroscopy and now works as a Raman and thin films applications scientist.
Naihao Chiang is an assistant professor of chemistry at the University of Houston, in Houston, Texas.
Steven Bell is a professor of physical chemistry at Queen's University Belfast. His research focuses on spectroscopy, especially Raman spectroscopy, and the development of nano- and microstructured materials, with both areas intersecting in the creation of new SERS substrates.
Miguel Sanz-Novo is an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Munich, Germany. He previously served as a Juan de la Cierva Postdoctoral Fellow at Centro de Astrobologia and a postdoctoral researcher at Universidad de Valladolid.
Tom Spudich is the Director of the Forensic Sciences Master’s Program and Professor of Analytical Chemistry at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.
Gerardo Gamez is a professor of chemistry and biochemistry and Graduate Advisor at Texas Tech University.