Spectroscopic and Chemometric Techniques for Pharmaceutical Applications

Gerard G. Dumancas is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry and the Director of the NSF Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program, and a Community-Based Learning Faculty Fellow at the University of Scranton in Scranton, Pa. He received his BS in Chemistry from the University of the Philippines in 2005 and his Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry (Chemometrics) from Oklahoma State University in 2012. He completed his postdoctoral training at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation in the area of statistical genetics and bioinformatics. His research has been recognized by the American Oil Chemists’ Society, the Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening, the NSF Noyce Scholarship Program, the NSF S-STEM Program, and the LSU LIFT2. He was previously named as an NSF Program to Empower Partnerships with Industry Fellow as well as a Visiting Scientist of the Department of Energy’s Joint Bioenergy Institute and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.

Lakshmi Viswanath is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Utah Valley University. She received her BS in Chemistry from the University of Madras in 2004 and completed her MS in Applied Chemistry in Anna University, India (2006). She also served as the senior research officer for Sanmar Specialty Chemicals in Chennai, India, before pursuing her doctoral degree in 2009. She completed her Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from Oklahoma State University in 2013. Soon after that, she started her career in teaching. She has published many articles in international journals, has been a journal reviewer for many journals, and actively participates in ACS regional and national conferences.

Arnold Lubguban currently holds an appointment as a professor and senior researcher at the Mindanao State University – Iligan Institute of Technology’s (MSU-IIT) in the Philippines. Before joining MSU-IIT in 2015, he had a short-term Balik-Scientist stint with the Philippines’ Department of Science and Technology (DOST) in 2014, giving lectures and training on bio-based polymer processing to academe and local industries. He received his B.S. in 1999 at the University of the Philippines – Los Baños (UPLB) and the University of Missouri’s MS and Ph.D. programs in chemical engineering in 2005 and 2009, respectively. He did a postdoc in industrial polymer processing in 2009 at the Ohio State University, focusing on biomass conversion into polyols and polyurethanes. He led several research programs and project leadership under the USAID-STRIDE and DOST-PCIEERD on processing sustainable polymers for industrial applications.

Beulah Solivio is a postdoctoral scientist at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. She studies rare genetic diseases and seeks to understand their molecular mechanisms. Before this, she worked as a Research Fellow at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. She received her Ph.D. in Chemistry at the University of Cincinnati in 2019. Before moving to the US, she worked as a research assistant at the Marine Science Institute and the National Institute of Geology at the University of the Philippines. She received her bachelor’s degree in chemistry at the University of the Philippines in 2010.

Roberto M. Malaluan was born in San Jose, Batangas, Philippines, and attended the Mindanao State University - Marawi, receiving a B.S. in 1983. He worked as an engineering instructor at Mindanao State University – Iligan Institute of Technology (MSU-IIT) for several years before attending Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan, where he received his Ph.D. under the guidance of Kunio Arai in 1995. He became a full professor of chemical engineering at MSU-IIT in 2004. He led several project leadership positions on supercritical carbon dioxide extraction of selected natural products and indigenous species for drug discovery and industrial applications under the Philippines’ Department of Agriculture (DA) and the Department of Science and Technology (DOST). He works as a senior faculty member doing instruction and research on sustainable polymers.

Michael Waller is an Assistant Librarian at Louisiana State University of Alexandria. He received his MLIS from the School of Library and Information Science at LSU in 2007. He served as the Technical Services Librarian at St. John’s College in Annapolis before joining the LSUA faculty in 2018. His work in higher education has focused on systems administration as well as educational and visual design. He is responsible for the graphic and visual design of Analytical Chemistry Lecture and Analytical Chemistry Lab, textbooks published through an LA Board of Regents Course Transformation Grant. In 2021 he was selected as open textbooks pilot cohort leader in a Department of Education funded grant.