ARL QUANT’X EDXRF Benchtop Spectrometer Webinar

Glenn Williams recently joined the Thermo Fisher Scientific Bulk Elemental applications group in their brand new laboratory in Houston, Texas.  Previously, Glenn worked at Rigaku Americas Corporation for 9 years, where he specialized in X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometry including the development of applications and new technologies. Prior to joining Rigaku, Glenn worked for approximately 15 years in the pharmaceutical industry in solid-state characterization groups (including Pfizer Central Research in Groton, CT, and GlaxoSmithKline in King of Prussia, PA). He obtained his Ph.D. in Physical Organic Chemistry from SUNY Buffalo and has over 20 years’ experience in materials characterization and analytical chemistry.

Thanh Nguyen has recently joined Thermo Fisher Scientific as a Senior Applications Scientist. In her current role, she has performed method development of customer-based applications on a wide variety of materials (e.g., pharmaceuticals, thin films, alloys, state-of-the-art textiles, foods, plastics, cements, etc).  In addition, she provides hands-on trainings, both onsite and remote, for customers in XRF, XRD, and OES. Before joining Thermo Fisher Scientific, Thanh worked at Rigaku for 8 years as a Senior XRF applications scientist and for 15 years in the pharmaceutical R&D industry at Merck, Merial (now Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health), and Encysive Pharmaceuticals as a lead bioanalytical chemist in DMPK. Thanh holds a Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia and a BS in Chemistry from Texas A&M University.

Christina Drathen is the product manager for the ARL XRF spectrometers at Thermo Fisher Scientific. Products include both benchtop and floor standing EDXRF and WDXRF instruments for research and industry. Christina has over 10+ years’ experience with X-ray analytical tools. Following a post-doc at the European Synchrotron in France, Christina moved to the analytical instrument manufacturing industry, where she worked as application specialist and product manager. Christina holds a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Edinburgh, UK.

Pascal Lemberge is an XRF applications specialist at Thermo Fisher Scientific. His current role is to support sales and marketing as well as R&D through application development, analysis of customer samples, demonstration of instruments, and training. With several years of EDXRF experience he also provides input for the R&D group and is involved in the development of new hardware and software features. Pascal obtained a PhD at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, with a concentration on spectrum evaluation and multivariate calibration techniques for EDXRF. During a short post-doctoral fellowship, he participated in the development of a new EDXRF instrument that would serve as a quality control tool in the silicon wafer industry. For a 6-year intermezzo, he was a development chemist at Chevron, working on new recipes that improve the corrosion inhibition characteristics of coolants for the automotive industry. In 2009, he returned to the XRF world by joining Thermo Fisher Scientific to support and further develop their ARL QUANT’X EDXRF spectrometer.