Education: University of Kentucky

Degree:

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Major:

Analytical Chemistry

Graduation:

July 2009

Advisor:

Dr. Robert A. Lodder (lodder@uky.edu)

 

Collaboration:

 

Departmental: I worked with the Dentistry department to develop methods for using NIRS to differentiate biofilms for diagnosis purposes. I have also worked with engineering students to develop devices for analytical chemistry.

Universities: I worked with members of different universities including Yale University and the University of Wyoming to expediate different projects that otherwise would have failed.

International: I have worked members of the University of Graz in Austria to develop programming for different chemometric methods that are used in analytical chemistry. I have helped write grants and have been on a number of grants that encourage international collaboration.

Projects:

 

Process Analytical Technologies:Developing new PATs are needed in the pharmaceutical industry in order to create more rapid and all encompassing quality control.  NIRS and ARS are two emerging technologies that have the ability of a rapid, non-destructive analysis in which there is no need for sample preparations.  I worked with both of these instrumentations in order to develop new protocols in quantifying and differentiating pharmaceutical materials including tablets, powders and liquids.

Chemometrics: Modern analytical techniques go further than standard statistics and include many different types of chemometrics such as PCR, PLS and MLR. My dissertation research was the development and utilization of a nonlinear calibration BENDS.  The algorithm transforms the highly nonlinear quantitative measurements of the ARS into a reduced linear calibration.  I also worked closely with colleagues in developing various chemometrics in Matlab including ISP, MFC image analysis and others.

Other Projects: Over the 3 years that I have spent at the University of Kentucky there have been many projects that have come and gone with varying results.  Some projects simply sit on the back burner due to low interest or time restraints. I have utilized NIRS and ARS to differentiate different oral bacteria, cocoa beans, coffee beans and pharmaceutical products.

More Info:

 

Analytical Spectroscopy Research Group

University of Kentucky Chemistry Department

Process Analytical Technologies