Research Group Members

Dissertation: Novel Approaches in Lignomics Employing Liquid Chromatography and Mass Spectrometry December 2017

Currently at Agilent Technologies

Dissertation: Characterization of polar carbonaceous PM using liquid and gas chromatography with mass spectrometry.

Awards: Received EPSCoR DDA "Characterization of Polar Carbonaceous PM Using Liquid and gas Chromatography with Mass Spectrometry". Departmental Severson award.

Currently  at Zentiva (Prague, Czech Republic)

Dissertation: Essential analytical parameters in the gas chromatographic-mass spectrometric analysis of complex materials: biofuels and fungicide treated wood

Currently at Bristol Myers Squibb

Dissertation: Investigating the heterogeneous chemistry of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and other organic species in atmospheric aerosols

Awards: EPSCoR DDA "The Role of Vaporization within Atmospheric Processes". Travel award to the meeting of Nobel Laureates in Lindau Germany. Severson Graduate Research Scholarship.

Currently at Thermo Fisher Scientific

Dissertation: Role of Triazoles in Wood Protection: Developing Analytical Approaches and Examining Sorption, Distribution, and Environmental Fate of Fungicides

Currently at Hewlett Packard San Diego

Dissertation: Characterization of lignans and other biologically active molecules in flax seed

Currently at  Department of Soil and Water Systems, University of Idaho

Dissertation: Chromatographic Analysis of Low Molecular Weight Polar Compounds in Complex Environmental Matrices and Renewable Materials

Currently at Restek Inc.

MS Thesis: Determination of lignin degradation products by GC-MS and thermal carbon analysis (TCA) 

Project: "Fate of nitro-PAHs in atmospheric reactions", summer 2013 06-09.

Currently at LovoChemie, Czech Republic

MS Thesis: Formation pathway of polar derivatives of nitro-PAHs,

MS Thesis: Chemical characterization of organic carbon in various particulate matter samples 

Currently at EPA Duluth MS

MS Thesis: Quantification of lignin hydroxyl containing functional groups via 31P1 NMR spectroscopy and synthesis of degradation standards.

MS Thesis: Characterization of kraft alkali lignin and product of its thermal degradation by fractional pyrolysis methods 

MS Thesis: “Generation and isolation of by-products for biojet fuel production

“Oxidation reactions of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) and determination  with chromatography with mass spectrometry.” 2017

Chem 492 (3 credits) and AS undergraduate research creativity award drone sampling research.

REU Project: "Evaluation of genotoxicity of nitro-PAHs" Summer 2007

Chem 492 Capstone: “Determination of acids and aldehydes in wood smoke PM.” (3 cr.) Summer–Fall 2014

Research on hydroxylation of lignin

Project: "Evaluation of lignin re-polymerization". June 2016 - August 2016. 

“Investigation of repolymerization of lignin and its degradation products.” Summer 2016

Currently at Turtle Mountain Community College.

Project: “Chemical characterization of lignin decomposition products” Summer 2014

Project: "Lignin hydrotreatment and analysis"  Summer 2014

Chem 392, Project: “Thermal partitioning of the organic in air PM.” Spring 2014

Chem 492 Capstone: “Thermal desorption and pyrolysis gas chromatography mass spectrometry of lignin” (3 cr.) Summer 2017 

Chem 492 Capstone: "Determination of fungicides in wood using SPE" (3 cr.) June-December 2015

AURA Project: “Determination of PAHs oxidation product in atmospherically relevant reactions” May 2014-May 2015

Projects:

AURA "Valuable Renewable Chemicals from Thermal Hydrotreatment of Lignin"  May 2015– May 2016

Carbon-based analysis for characterization of lignin". June 2015 - August 2020.

Currently at the EERC, UND.

IREC REU Project: “Characterization of lignin using thermal carbon analysis” Summer 2017

Project: “Fate of the preservatives in wood” Summer 2014

REU Project: "Design and optimization of the atmospheric reaction chamber”  Summer 2014

Honors Thesis: "Organic carbon analysis of PM” (3 cr.) Summer, Fall 2018 

"Determination of Metformin." January 15, 2018 - December 31, 2018

"Meformin LC-MS analysis in plants." June 15, 2018 - August 31, 2018

Summer research experience for undergraduate students (REU) from NSF ND EPSCoR support

Capstone: “Fractionation of lignin with gel permeation chromatography” (3 cr.) Summer 2017 and 2018

Capstone: “Organic and Elemental carbon determination in extracts from atmospheric samples” (3 cr.) Fall 2014

Project: “Desorption of fungicides from wood.” May 2010–May 2011

Received REU NSF travel award to present at National ACS meeting.

US MASTER scholar and AS Undergraduate Research Creativity Award: "River Coulee and organic speciation” (1 cr.) Fall 2018

“Investigation of Lignin solubility using TCA and TD-Pyr-GC-MS." June 15, 2018 - August 31, 2018

Summer research experience for undergraduate students (REU)