Authors
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.
Libo Yuan is with the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Henan University of Technology, in Zhengzhou, China
Susan Haigney is the Lead Editor of Pharmaceutical Technology.
Pooja Sheevam is a Research Associate at the New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources in New Mexico. She was formerly a PhD Candidate at the University of Nevada Reno, specializing in infrared spectroscopy and its applications in understanding past aqueous environments for energy and mineral exploration.
John Margeson is the Product Manager at Thermo Fisher Scientific responsible for Thermo Scientific™ Niton™ X-ray fluorescence (XRF) products. He works at the intersection of XRF instrument development, real-world applications, and customer needs, helping translate complex elemental analysis challenges into practical solutions. With deep hands-on experience in XRF analyzers and their use across industrial and scientific markets, John supports customers in applying Niton™ XRF for fast, reliable material identification and elemental analysis.