Graduate Alumni

  • Lahiruni Halwatura
    6/29/26

    Graduated: Winter 2023

    Ph.D. Thesis:  Tracing Wastewater Chemical Footprint Using Mass Spectrometry: Wastewater-Based Epidemiology for Community Health Surveillance and Early Warning Detection of Potential Disease Outbreaks

    Job: Post-Doc Fellow, Cedars-Sinai (Los Angeles, CA)

  • Dino Camdzic
    6/29/26

    Graduated: Winter 2023

    Ph.D. Thesis:  Identification, Characterization, Quantification, and Removal of Persistent Organic Halogens Using Fluorine Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy and Liquid and Gas Chromatography Coupled to Mass Spectrometry

    Job: Method Development Scientist, Daisy Brand (Dallas, TX)

  • Logan Running
    6/29/26

    Graduated: Winter 2023

    Ph.D. Thesis:  Evaluation of the Exposure and Impact of Environmental Contaminants in Humans Including Per- and Poly Fluorinated Alkyl Substances and Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon

    Job: Graduate Research Assistant, University at Buffalo (Buffalo, NY)

  • Jena Congilosi
    6/29/26

    Graduated: Spring 2023

    Ph.D. Thesis: Using Analytical Chemistry to Address Antimicrobial Resistance in Agroecosystems Within the One Health Framework

    Job: Senior Chemist, Smithers (Onset, MA)

  • Laura Brunelle
    4/24/24

    Graduated: Winter 2022

    Ph.D. Thesis: Evaluation of chemicals of emerging concern and their sub-lethal biological effects in environmental waters using targeted and non-targeted mass-spectrometry based analyses

    Job:   ORISE Fellow, US EPA

  • Rebecca Dickman
    4/24/24

    Graduated: Winter 2022

    Ph.D. Thesis: Evaluating "Forever Chemicals" from Soup to Nuts: Sample Preparation, Targeted Analysis, and Suspect Screening for the Characterization of Per-and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in Wastewater and Biosolids.

    Job:   Senior Scientist, Smithers (MA)

  • Grace Guardian
    6/29/26

    Graduated: Winter 2020

    Ph.D. Thesis: Development and Optimization of Liquid Chromatography with Tandem and High - Resolution Mass Spectrometry Approaches to Identify and Resolve Structures of Emerging Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances and other Micropollutants in Environmental Matrices

    Job: Principal Analytical Investigator, FMC Corporation (Newark, DE)

  • Steve Travis
    4/24/24

    Graduated: Winter 2020

    Ph.D. Thesis: Development and applications of gas chromatography with low- and high-resolution mass spectrometry in assessing human and wildlife exposure to organic contaminants

    Job: Research Scientist, Bristol Meyers Squibb (New Brunswick, NJ)

  • Luisa Gillian Angeles
    4/24/24

    Graduated: Winter 2020

    Ph.D. Thesis: Assessing the Global Occurrence, Fate, and Ecotoxicological Effects of Contaminants of Emerging Concern in the Environment Using Target Analysis and Suspect Screening

    Job: Research Scientist, Merck (Rahway, NJ)

  • Nita Gabriela Chavez Soria
    4/24/24

    Graduated: Summer 2019

    Ph.D. Thesis: Understanding the Effects of Engineered Nanomaterials on Mammalian Cells and Plants Using Mass Spectrometry Based Approaches

    Job: Associate Principal Scientist, Merck (Rahway, NJ)