Neil Fitzgerald
Professional Experience
2000 - Present
Assistant Professor, Marist College (Visiting 2000-2001). Teaching
courses in general chemistry, quantitative analysis, instrumental methods
and environmental chemistry. Also conduct research, supervise laboratory
sessions and maintain analytical equipment.
1999 - July 2000
Visiting Assistant Professor, Barnard College. Teaching courses in
general chemistry and intermediate general chemistry. Duties include lecturing
classes, grading and supervision of laboratory sessions.
1994 - 1999
Teaching Assistant/ Supervisor, University of Massachusetts. Teaching
of general chemistry laboratory material, help sessions, grading and supervising
lab sessions. Also purchased and set up equipment and wrote labs for analytical
laboratory.
June 1992 - Sept 1992
Temporary Analytical Chemist, Butterworth Laboratories Teddington,
UK.
Education
1994 to January 1999
Ph.D. University of Massachusetts. The use of microwave energy to improve
sample introduction to atomic spectrometry. Project involves the developement
of a high pressure on-line microwave digestion system and the investigation
of the use of microwave energy for desolvation of an aerosol followed by
membrane drying in order to increase sample transport efficiency in plasma
spectrometry. Drier work lead to the production of an industrial prototype
by a major instrument manufacturer(In collaboration with CEM and Permapure.
Adviser: Prof. Julian Tyson).
1992 to 1993
M.Sc. Analytical Chemistry and Instrumentation (pass with distinction).
Loughborough University of Technology (UK). Project: The analysis of novel
polymer materials by attenuated total reflectance FTIR spectroscopy (in
collaboration with ICI Imagedata. Adviser: Dr. Ian Sutherland).
1988 to 1991
B.Sc.(Hons) Chemistry with Environmental Science (Pass, Lower second
class). University of Kent at Canterbury (UK).
Selected Presentations
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FACSS 1995, Cincinnati. Oral presentation, paper 972: "The Application
of Microwave Energy to Sample Preparation and Introduction for Atomic Spectroscopy"-Neil
Fitzgerald, Julian F. Tyson and Lois B. Jassie.
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PITTCON 1996, Chicago. Oral presentation, paper 1182: "Improved Transport
Efficiency and Drying of the Aerosol for Plasma Spectrometry"-Neil Fitzgerald,
Julian F. Tyson and Lois B. Jassie.
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FACSS 1997, Providence. Oral Presentation, paper 717: "Reduction of Water-Loading
Effects in ICP-MS"-Neil Fitzgerald, Julian F. Tyson and David A. Leighty.
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PITTCON 1998, New Orleans. Oral Presentation paper 1306: "Reduction of
Solvent-Loading Effects in ICPMS Utilizing a Nafion Membrane" - Neil Fitzgerald,
Julian F. Tyson and David A. Leighty.
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FACSS 2001, Detroit. Oral Presentation paper 815: "Investigation
of the Physical Mechanisms Occuring in Atomic Spectrometry Liquid Sample
Introduction Systems by Numerical Analysis" - Neil Fitzgerald, Kevin Douglass
and Bradley Ingebrethsen.
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FACSS 2002, Providence. Poster Presentation paper 1: "Development of a Cold Vapor
Generation Atomic Absorption Spectrometry Technique for the Determination of Cadmium in
Environmental Samples" - Neil Fitzgerald and Rebecca Wack.
Publications and Awards
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"Reduction of Water Loading Effects in Inductively Coupled Mass Spectrometry
by a Nafion Membrane Dryer Device"-Neil Fitzgerald, Julian F. Tyson and
David A. Leighty, J. Anal. At. Spectrom., vol 13 (1), page13
(1998).
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"Microwave Theory and its Application to Atomic Spectrometry"-Neil Fitzgerald,
Spectroscopy,
June 2000.
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"Feasibility of a Desolvation System Incorporating Microwave Energy for
Inductively Coupled Mass Spectrometry"- Kevin Douglass, Neil Fitzgerald, Bradley Ingebrethsen
and Julian F. Tyson, Spectrochim. Acta Part B. (Submitted 6/26/03).
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"Comparison of Trace Metal Variations in Buffered and Poorly Buffered Streams
in the Shawangunk Mountain Range"-Neil
Fitzgerald and Kathleen Weathers, Water, Air, and Soil Pollution(in preparation).
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"Analysis of Biological Materials by On-Line Pressurized Microwave Digestion"-Neil
Fitzgerald and Julian F. Tyson, J. Anal. At. Spectrom.(in preparation).
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Awarded John S. Eaton Fellowship for Laboratory Sciences by the Institute
of Ecosystem Studies (Sept. 2001).
Skills
Microwave digestion, flame atomic spectroscopy, ICP-MS, ICP-AES, GC, HPLC,
FTIR, statistical data treatment, flow injection analysis, computer skills,
good written and oral presentation skills.
Membership of Professional Organizations
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Royal Society of Chemistry
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American Society of Chemistry
References
Available on request.
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