Authors
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.
Annemieke Milks is a British Academy postdoctoral researcher in the department of archaeology at the University of Reading, UK.
Jared Estevanes is a Forensic Scientist at Microtrace LLC.
Rohith Reddy is an Associate Professor and CPRIT Scholar in Cancer Research at the University of Houston.
Gustavo M. Hobold, Ph.D. is CTO of Elementium Materials and an MIT-trained battery scientist focused on lithium metal anodes and electrolyte design. A former Senior Scientist at SES AI, he coauthored high impact studies in Nature Energy and earned the 2023 ECS Battery Division Student Research Award.
Fay Nicolson is a Research Fellow at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School.
Damodaran Krishnan Achary is a research professor and director of the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Facility at the University of Pittsburgh.
Leonardos Gkouvelis is a researcher with Ludwig Maximilian University in Germany.
Oskar Hagelskjaer is the CEO and Founder of Microplastic Solution.
Lenka Halámková is an assistant professor at Texas Tech University. Her research focuses on applying machine learning and multivariate statistical methods to vibrational spectroscopic data for forensic and biomedical applications. Her work includes developing techniques to detect and classify biological stains, gunshot residue, and other trace evidence, as well as using enzymatic sensors and biochemical computing to analyze biological markers associated with characteristics such as sex and ethnicity.
Thomas G. Mayerhofer earned his diploma in chemistry from the University of Regensburg in 1996 and his PhD in physical chemistry from Friedrich Schiller University Jena in 1999. He completed his habilitation in 2006, specializing in the optics and infrared spectroscopy of polydomain materials. Since 2007, he has been a researcher at the Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology, where he has worked to unify and advance infrared spectroscopy by integrating wave optics and dispersion theory. More recently, his research has focused on refining the theoretical foundations of Attenuated Total Reflection and pioneering the introduction of complex-valued chemometrics in spectroscopy. Mayerhöfer has published over 120 peer-reviewed papers—more than half as first author—primarily on spectroscopic theory. He is also the author of Wave Optics in Infrared Spectroscopy: Theory, Simulation, and Modeling.
Robert Lascola is an Advisory Scientist in the Environmental & Legacy Management Directorate of Savannah River National Laboratory and Team Lead for the Online Monitoring group. Lascola’s work involves developing process and laboratory analytical methods using absorption, Raman/IR, X-ray, and fluorescence spectroscopies, including the development of chemometric analysis in support of those methods.
Prof. Dr. Palaniappan Lakshmanan is presently the Head of the Department of Physics at Annamalai University in Tamil Nadu, India. In the field of education and research since 1989, he has gained commanding expertise in almost all branches of physics, with 100+ peer reviewed publications, 200+ conference presentations, organized 25+ academic events, completed 3 major research projects, and served three years in Malaysia.