Authors
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.
Eoghan Dillon, originally from Dublin, Ireland, earned his BSc in physics from TU Dublin and completed his PhD in Chemistry at Rice University in 2012, focusing on CO₂ capture using functionalized nanocarbons. He has authored multiple peer-reviewed publications and presented at major U.S. conferences including ACS, MRS, and BPS. Eoghan began his career at Anasys Instruments, specializing in AFM-based techniques like nanoscale IR and thermal analysis. He is currently the worldwide manager of applications and business development at Photothermal Spectroscopy Corp, where he leads efforts in advancing O-PTIR and simultaneous Raman spectroscopy across life sciences, polymers, and contamination analysis.