Graduate Alumni

  • Mitchel Mayville
    4/24/24

    Graduated: Spring 2017

    Master of Arts in Chemistry

    Job: Industrial Hygienist, U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (Rome, NY)

  • Katia Noguera Oviedo
    4/24/24

    Graduated: Winter 2016

    Ph.D. Thesis: Tales of mass spectrometry applications: detection of legacy and emerging contaminants in the environment

    Job: Research Scientist, Eurofins CDMO Alphora Inc. (Missisauga, ON Canada)

  • Josh Wallace
    4/24/24

    Graduated: Summer 2016

    Ph.D. Thesis: Modernizing environmental analysis: Mass spectrometry as a tool for investigating and answering salient environmental questions

    Job: Director of Instrumentation and Research Laboratories, UB RENEW Institute (Buffalo, NY)

  • Mike Gross
    4/24/24

    Graduated: Summer 2016

    Ph.D. Thesis: Many doors, one key: addressing ecotoxicological, engineering, environmental, and toxicological questions using liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry

    Job: Senior Environmental Scientist, California Department of Food and Agriculture (Sacramento, CA)

  • Stacia R. Wegst-Uhrich
    4/24/24

    Graduated: Summer 2014

    Ph.D. Thesis: Trace Analysis of Organic and Metal contaminants in Biological and Environmental Systems by Liquid Chromatography-, Inductively Coupled Plasma-, and Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry

    Job: Associate Director of Analytical Sciences/QC, Nuvalent, Inc. (Buffalo, NY)

  • David Stewart
    4/24/24

    Graduated: Summer 2014

    Ph.D. Thesis: Emerging Environmental Contaminants and the Metabolic Effects of Exposure Investigated by Mass Spectrometry

    Job: Interim Dean of School of the Arts, Science and Education and Assistant Professor, D'Youville University (Buffalo, NY)

  • Lijuan Su
    4/24/24

    Graduated: Summer 2014

    Ph.D. Thesis: Analysis of Emerging Contaminants and Biomarkers of Endocrine Disruption by using Liquid Chromatography and Different Mass Spectrometry Techniques

    Job: Director of Analytical Chemistry,  Massachusetts State Public Health Laboratory (Boston, MA)

  • Susan Mackintosh
    4/24/24

    Graduated: Summer 2013

    Ph.D. Thesis: Answering burning questions: Analysis and quantification of halogenated flame retardants and their metabolites in environmental and biological matrices

    Job:  Technical Program Manager, Google (San Francisco, CA)

  • Seungyun (Tony) Baik
    4/24/24

    Graduated: Fall 2012

    Ph.D. Thesis: Quantification and identification of pharmaceuticals and their treatment by-products in drinking water and wastewater by LC/MS/MS

    Job: Senior Researcher, KIST EUROPE (Saarbruecken, Germany)

  • Divina Navarro
    4/24/24

    Graduated: Summer 2011

    Ph.D. Thesis: Investigating the fate and transport behavior of cadmium selenide quantum dots and transition metal oxide nanoparticles in aquatic and soil environments

    Job: Research Scientist, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (Adelaide, Australia)