Authors
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.
Sian Sloan-Dennison is a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Strathclyde. Her research involves synthesis and functionalisation of nanoparticles with biomolecules and becoming proficient with many different analytical techniques such as Raman spectroscopy, SERRS, UV-Vis spectroscopy, dynamic light scattering, scanning electron microscopy and gel electrophoresis.
Kevin Wilkinson is a professor of environmental chemistry at the Université de Montréal.
Lyufei Chen is an application scientist at HORIBA Scientific with expertise in A-TEEM fluorescence spectroscopy. She earned her Ph.D. from Stony Brook University, where she studied nanomaterials. Combining her experience in method development and validation in the pharmaceutical industry, she collaborates with biopharma clients to address challenges and enhance workflows using A-TEEM technology.
Saikat Banerjee is an Analytical Lab Manager at DuPont.
James de Haseth is an Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at the University of Georgia and Director of Raman and Infrared courses.
José Miguel Hernández-Hierro is an Associate Professor at the Universidad de Sevilla, where he runs the Food & Color Laboratory. His research focuses on the spectroscopy of agricultural products (especially oeneological products) and grape and wine chemistry.
Jennifer Ferguson is an Applications Manager at Renishaw.
David Clases is an associate professor at the University of Graz in Vienna, Austria. Clases’ research spans fundamental and applied aspects of inductively coupled plasma–mass spectrometry (ICP-MS), from laser ablation-ICP-MS to ICP-time of flight MS (ICP-TOFMS) and single-particle analysis.
Dr. Ting Yan received her PhD in Chemistry in 2021. She is an application scientist specializing in advanced microscopy, with experience in super-resolution fluorescence microscopy, O-PTIR. As an application scientist for O-PTIR which provides IR and simultaneous Raman spectra, she has worked with academic and industrial researchers to implement O-PTIR in diverse applications.
Don Osborne is the CEO of EarthDaily, a global Earth observation company focused on delivering science-grade data and analytics designed for broad-area change detection and decision-centric intelligence.