John has a Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from the University of Wisconsin and was on the chemistry faculty at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill before coming to Ohio State in 1991. He won the 1990 Spectrochimica Acta Atomic Spectrometry Award, the 1998 Rappaport Award from the Ohio Valley section of Society for Applied Spectroscopy, the 2001 Lester Strock Award from the Society for Applied Spectroscopy for his outstanding research in inductively coupled plasma spectroscopy and is known internationally for his research in the areas of analytical chemistry, plasma spectrochemistry, elemental speciation and mass spectrometry.
Anthony is a chemist (B.S., Ohio State University, 2003) who is responsible for sample preparation and inductively coupled plasma optical emission and mass spectrometry measurements. He worked with the Microscopic and chemical Analysis Research Center as a student research assistant.
Patrick is a graduate student pursuing a Ph.D. in Chemistry. His initial projects include use of ion-molecule chemistry to overcome spectral overlaps in inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry and to improve isotope ratio and element ratio precision. He is also developing a high efficiency interface between capillary electrophoresis and ICP-MS.
Josh is a graduate student pursuing a Ph.D. in Chemistry. His initial projects include investigation of alternative means to couple energy into inductively coupled plasmas in order to further improve detection limits and accuracy and testing partial-local thermodynamic models that could be used as part of semi-quantitative analysis and diagnostics to improve analysis accuracy by ICP-OES.