Authors
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.
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.
Kelly Elkins is a forensic scientist and professor of chemistry at Towson University. Before joining Towson University’s Forensic Science faculty, Elkins served as a Fulbright Scholar at the European Media Laboratory and the University of Heidelberg, completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at MIT’s Department of Biology as a Cancer Research Institute Fellow, and was a forensic faculty member and Director of the Forensic Science Program at Metropolitan State College of Denver. She is the author and editor of eight forensic science books. Her research focuses on applying next-generation sequencing and massively parallel sequencing to forensic samples, forensic DNA phenotyping, genetic genealogy, real-time PCR assay development, and novel bioinformatics tools.
Dongxin Zhao is with the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Henan University of Technology, in Zhengzhou, China.