Director of Instrumentation
Associate Research Professor
Joseph Dumais, Ph. D.

Physical Chemist specialized in NMR. Experienced in solid state and liquid state NMR, instrumentation design and trouble shooting. Research background includes polymer structure and motion, small molecule structure elucidation, and molecular motion in synthetic DNA fragments. Familiar with the standard suite of small molecule optical, thermal and mass spectrometry techniques offered within the facility.

Assistant Director of Instrumentation
Sara Basiaga, M.S.

Analytical chemist with -background in chromatography and spectroscopy. Experience in QA environment and analysis of complex matrices such as food products. Background includes method development for GC-MS and HPLC, use of affinity chromatography, and optical methods of analysis.

NMR Facility Assistant
Matt Shortridge
Ph. D. Candidate

Facility Teaching Assistant and upper level Graduate Student with a strong background in the application of NMR to Biological systems as well as to small molecule NMR.