Facilities

Dr. Karen Gaskell joined our technical staff as the XPS (X-ray Photoemission Spectroscopy) Facility Manager in February 2008.  Karen obtained her Ph. D. degree from Kansas State University where she continued her interest is XPS and other surface instruments that began while she was an undergraduate student at Nottingham Trent University in England.  After her graduate studies she was a postdoctoral research associate with Professor Marjorie Langell at the University of Nebraska from where she moved to Maryland.

Dr. Yeu Li joined our department as Director of the Mass Spectral Facilities in February of 2008, coming to us from the position of Research Scientist in the Department of Chemistry at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., where he was a postdoctoral associate of Professor Akos Vertes.  Educated at Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (Ph. D. in 1999) in China, Yeu joined the research group of Professor Tomas Baer at UNC Chapel Hill as a postdoctoral associate, then moved to the University of Rochester to work with Professor James M. Farrar until 2005.

Dr. Yan Wang joined the department as Research Assistant Professor, and she is Director of the Proteomics Facility for the College of Chemical and Life Sciences.  She has come to us from the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) where she was Director of the Mass Spectrometry Facility which served as the prteomics facility for the Chicago Biomedical Consortium (University of Chicago, Northwestern, UIC, Argonne).  She received her B.S. and M.S. degrees from Nankai University, and she obtained her Ph.D. degree (2001) from UIC with Professor Richard van Breeman. 

Dr. Daoning Zhang joined the department as Director of the Biomolecular NMR Facility where he oversees the operations and maintenance of two high field spectrometers devoted to biomolecular research.  He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Wuhan, China, and his Ph.D. degree from South Dakota State University (2003).  Following a postdoctoral appointment at Catholic University, Dr. Zhang joined the research group of Professor David Fushman at the University of Maryland where his responsibilities included training of new users and involvement in NMR spectrometer maintenance.