Dr. Alex Shvartsburg
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Mailing Address:
Wichita State University Chemistry Department 1845 Fairmount St. Wichita, KS 67260 McKinley Hall Chemistry Main Office Room 206 Lab Room 318 |
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Bio:
Education M.S. (Chemistry), University of Nevada, Reno (1995) M.S. (Chemistry), Northwestern University, Evanston, IL (1997) Ph.D. (Chemistry), Northwestern University, Evanston, IL (1999) Advisor: Professor Martin F. Jarrold (now at Indiana University, Bloomington) After Ph.D NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow, York University, Toronto, Canada (1999 - 2001) Staff Fellow of the FDA, National Center for the Toxicological Research, Jefferson, AR (2001 - 2003) LTE, Senior Research Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA (2003 - 2014) Awards: R&D 100 Award (2013) for “Combined Orthogonal Mobility and Mass Evaluation Technology” FLC Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer (2013) for “Next-Generation Microchip Ion Mobility Spectrometer”, team lead; PNNL Outstanding Performance Award (2013); R&D 100 Award (2010) for “Ion Mobility Spectrometer on a Microchip”, team lead; “Rising star in chemistry based on the increase of number of citations” (Essential Science Indicators, 03/2007); “New chemist with the highest total citations” (Essential Science Indicators, 10/2006); M.T. Thomas Award for Outstanding Postdoctoral Achievement, PNNL (2004); John Polanyi Prize, Government of Ontario (2000) |
Teaching: Advanced Spectroscopy II (CHEM 717, 3 credits), team taught with Dr. Doug English. Dr. Shvartsburg's 1/2 semester focus: Ion Mobility Spectrometry. Fall 2016 Chemistry Seminar (CHEM 700, 1 credit) Fall 2016 Ion Mobility Spectrometry, online course of 8 lectures taught at the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute Spring 2016 Analytical Chemistry (CHEM 523, 4 credits) Textbook "D.C. Harris, Quantitative Chemical Analysis" Fall 2014 (50 students), Fall 2015 (39 students), Fall 2017 (35 Students) Mass Spectrometry (CHEM 809B, 3 credits) Textbook "J. T. Watson, O. D. Sparkman. Introduction to Mass Spectrometry" Spring 2015 (11 students) Fall 2018 (2 Students) General Chemistry I (CHEM 211, 5 credits) Textbook "Burdge, Overby. Chemistry Atoms First" Main "Postma, Roberts, Hollenberg. Chemistry in the Laboratory" Lab Spring 2016 (67 students), Spring 2017 (2 sections 100 students each), Spring 2018 (100 students), Fall 2018 (100 students) |
