Spectroscopy Interviews

As part of our coverage of Analytica USA, Spectroscopy sat down with Ian Ciesniewski, technical director at Mettler Toledo, to discuss the latest changes made to the United States Pharmacopeia (USP) Chapters 41 and 1251. In this interview segment, Ciesniewski discusses how the recent changes to these two chapters will impact organizations.

Besides the technical program, which encompasses plenary talks, poster sessions, short courses, and many contributed oral presentations, SciX also has several social events for attendees to enjoy in the evenings during the conference week. We highlight these social events here.

In the final part of our conversation with Leonardos “Leo” Gkouvelis, we discussed what happens when opposition effects are ignored when studying exoplanets and how it impacts our understanding of their surface composition.

In a continuation of our conversation with Leonardos “Leo” Gkouvelis, who is in the Faculty of Physics at Ludwig Maximilian University (Munich, Germany), we discussed the phenomenon of shadow hiding and coherent back scattering in astronomy, particularly in the context of observing celestial bodies like the moon and exoplanets.

In this interview segment, Leo Gkouvelis of Ludwig Maximilian University discusses the opposition surge effect and how his study explored a new method for modeling the opposition surge effect in studying exoplanets.

In Part 2 of this “Inside the Laboratory,” feature on George Shields, a professor of chemistry at Furman University and the founder and director of the Molecular Education and Research Consortium in Undergraduate Computational ChemistRY (MERCURY), Consortium, we discuss his research into computational approaches to improve our understanding of molecular behavior in both biochemistry and atmospheric chemistry and his work applying replica exchange molecular dynamics (REMD) for breast cancer drug design.

In this edition of “Inside the Laboratory,” George Shields, a professor of chemistry at Furman University and the founder and director of the Molecular Education and Research Consortium in Undergraduate Computational ChemistRY (MERCURY), discusses the goal of MERCURY and some of its most recent projects

In this interview segment, Robert Ewing discusses how his contactless method improves on traditional drug detection techniques and how the VaporID technology remains adaptive to emerging synthetic variants.

In Part II of our three-part interview with Robert Ewing, he reviews the results of the Nogales border test.

In the first part of a three-part interview, Robert Ewing discusses the core technology behind the VaporID system, explains how the system differs from current IMS systems, and describes the challenges the team faced in miniaturizing the VaporID device into a portable, microwave-sized system.

We sat down with top researchers in analytical spectroscopy to discuss their work, insights, and the paths that brought them here.

In this edition of “Inside the Laboratory,” Brett McGuire of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) discusses his laboratory’s work in astrochemistry.

In the lead-up to the International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy conference, Brett McGuire of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology sat down with Spectroscopy to preview the ISMS conference.

Because the United Arab Emirates is seeing an increase in pet ownership, the quality of both dry and wet pet food is undergoing greater scrutiny to ensure its safety and efficacy. Lucy Semerjian, who works as a Chair and Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Health Science at the University of Sharjah in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, recently explored this topic in a recent paper.

A recent study conducted in the Journal of Food Composition and Analysis examined the concentrations of ten metals in 52 commercially available wet and dry cat food samples, assessing their compliance with U.S. and European pet food safety standards. The lead author of this study, Lucy Semerjian, recently sat down with Spectroscopy to discuss the findings of her study.

In the final part of this video interview with Pooja Sheevam, she discusses the importance of her study in understanding the mineralogical and geochemical processes in Hawaii.

Explore advancements in infrared spectroscopy and insights from Brian Smith, a key columnist, on the future of this evolving field.

In Part IV of our conversation with Pooja Sheevam, she discusses how scanning electron microscopy with an energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (SEM-EDS) and bulk X-ray fluorescence (XRF) were used to better understand fluid-rock interactions.

In Part III, our discussion with Pooja Sheevam focused on the use of long-wave IR (LWIR) spectroscopy in analyzing basaltic rocks.

In this interview segment, Pooja Sheevam elaborates on what LWIR and SWIR are and what advantages they both offer when analyzing Hawaiian geology.

In Part I of our video interview with Pooja Sheevam, she discusses why she and her team used both LWIR and SWIR spectroscopy in analyzing Hawaii's PTA-2 drill core, and how the two techniques complemented each other in the study.

In this Q&A, Pooja Sheevam discusses why she used both long-wave infrared (LWIR) and short-wave IR (SWIR) spectroscopy in analyzing the PTA-2 drill core.

In the final part of this three-part interview, Ayanjeet Ghosh of the University of Alabama and Rohit Bhargava of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign talk about the key performance metrics they used to evaluate their model, and what the future of neurodegenerative disease research looks like.

In the second part of this three-part interview, Ayanjeet Ghosh of the University of Alabama and Rohit Bhargava of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign discuss how machine learning (ML) is used in data analysis and go into more detail about the model they developed in their study.