Authors

Garth Simpson earned his B.S. from Western Washington University in 1995 under Mark Bussell and his Ph.D. from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2000 under Kathy Rowlen, then completed an LSRF postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University with Richard Zare from 2000 to 2001. He joined Purdue University as an assistant professor of chemistry in 2001, was promoted to associate professor in 2006, and has been a full professor since 2011, working in analytical and physical chemistry. His group develops the theory and experimental applications of new instrumental methods built on nonlinear optical interactions, including harmonic generation microscopy for detecting and characterizing protein crystals to support protein function studies and rational drug design.

Michael Metzger, Ph.D. is the Herzberg–Dahn Chair and Associate Professor at Dalhousie University. His group develops safe, long-life, sustainable battery materials, investigates degradation mechanisms, and explores lithium and sodium battery technologies. He is the Former Senior Research Engineer at Bosch and holds a PhD, from the Technical University of Munich.

Pavithraa Sundararajan is a postdoctoral fellow at NASA Ames Research Center.

Siddhartha Das is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maryland working across micro- and nanoscale fluid mechanics, soft electrokinetics, polyelectrolyte brush systems, and the behavior of water and ions confined near 2D materials such as graphene and hexagonal boron nitride. His group also applies atomistic simulation and machine learning to soft-matter problems, including fluid dynamics in additive manufacturing. He has authored more than 210 papers in journals including Nature Materials, Science Advances, and PNAS, is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the Royal Society of Chemistry, and the Institute of Physics, and is ranked among the top 2% of cited scientists globally. The AES Mid-Career Award recognizes an investigator in the middle of their career for exceptional contributions to electrophoresis, microfluidics, and related fields.

Stephan Baumann joined Agilent Technologies’ global marketing team in 2018, with a focus on technical applied markets. Prior to that he has been an application chemist covering the environmental, manufacturing, and pharmaceutical industries for over 27 years. In the battery space, his interest covers applications needing organic and inorganic analysis including spectrometry and spectroscopy.

Seth Kenkel is a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Santiago Marin is a graduate student at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Fiona Xi Xu received her Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Washington under the advisement of Dan Fu. Her graduate research focused on quantitative analysis of protein and lipid metabolism in cells and tissues using advanced vibrational spectroscopy techniques, particularly stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) microscopy. She is currently a life science applications scientist at HORIBA, where she specializes in Raman spectroscopy for life science and biopharmaceutical applications, utilizing platforms ranging from confocal Raman microscopes to process and high-throughput Raman instruments.●

Kelsey Williams is a postdoctoral researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) working on planetary instrumentation using spectroscopic techniques such as laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) and laser ablation molecular isotopic spectrometry (LAMIS).

Janam Pandya is an Applications Scientist at Thermo Fisher Scientific at their Tewkesbury headquarters. Since joining Thermo Fisher Scientific in 2022, he has focused on advancing Raman spectroscopy applications for real-time process measurements, working with customers across biopharmaceutical, pharmaceutical, polymer, food, and clean-energy industries to implement Process Raman Analyzer technology as a Process Analytical Technology (PAT) solution. Throughout his career, Pandya has held roles at several large organizations including Abbott, Nestlé, and Ocean Spray Cranberries, where he worked on several projects that involved applying analytical technologies to solve complex industrial challenges.

Christopher Zall is an Associate Professor at Sam Houston State University.

Spiros Pergantis is a Full Professor at the University of Crete. His research interests include the development of advanced analytical chemistry techniques for determining metal species (As, Hg, Se, Sb, Sn, Cr), including metal-containing biomolecules, as well as nanoparticles in environmental and biological matrices, and also for investigating their interaction(s) with biomolecules.

Michael Coppola serves as a product manager at Milestone Inc, directing product strategy, development, and market growth initiatives. He holds a bachelor’s degree in chemistry and physics from Central Connecticut State University. Before joining Milestone, Coppola worked in the polymer chemistry sector as a product manager, where he led efforts to commercialize nanotechnology-based additives for the paint and plastics industries. He is a named inventor on more than 60 patents and publications related to materials science, chemical formulation, and applied analytical technologies.

Vice President and co-founder of Eigenvector Research, Inc. established January 1995.

Neal Gallagher earned a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering with a mathematics minor from the University of Arizona in 1992, an M.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Washington in 1987 and B.S. degrees in Chemical Engineering and Engineering Physics from the University of Colorado in 1985.

Recent research includes novel algorithms for iterative target detection in hyperspectral imaging and shift-invariant tri-linearity (SIT) for modeling hyphenated chromatography data. Since founding Eigenvector in January 1995, Neal has been intimately involved in chemometrics consulting, teaching short courses and software development including algorithms for detection, classification and quantification. Specific interests include hyperspectral imaging, process modeling, multi-variate curve resolution and classical least squares modeling.

Annemieke Milks is a British Academy postdoctoral researcher in the department of archaeology at the University of Reading, UK.