I am currently an Associate Professor of Chemistry at Saint Anselm College. 

Previously, I was a Senior Application Chemist at VG Elemental (now Thermo Fisher Scientific) in the Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry product division, and a National Research Council Postdoctoral Associate at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the Analytical Sciences and Technology Laboratory. 

I received my B.S. in chemistry from Bucknell University and my M.S. and Ph.D. in analytical chemistry from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

As an undergraduate I developed an interest in environmental science that has continued throughout my career. Summer jobs in environmental analysis labs inspired my later studies in analytical chemistry with an emphasis on instrumentation. My graduate and postdoctoral research focused on integrating chromatography with element-specific detection for metal speciation in environmental samples. This work lead to the first metal speciated standard reference materials produced by NIST.

While I have conducted various environmentally related research projects while on the faculty at Saint Anselm College, my current research focus is in the area of archaeometry – analytical measurements on archaeological samples. This research has provided me with the unique opportunity to learn an entirely new area of study while utilizing my expertise as a measurement chemist. This work has focused thus far on metals measurements in archaeological samples.