Inside the Laboratory is a joint series with LCGC and Spectroscopy, profiling analytical scientists and their research groups at universities all over the world. This series spotlights the current chromatographic and spectroscopic research their group is conducting, and the importance of their research in analytical chemistry and specific industries. In this edition of “Inside the Laboratory,” John McLean, PhD, dean of graduate education and research at the College of Arts & Science at Vanderbilt University, discusses his group’s current research endeavors, including developing mass spectrometry technologies via ion mobility–mass spectrometry (IM–MS).
At the McLean Laboratory in Vanderbilt University, scientists have been looking into the development of mass spectrometry technologies via ion mobility–mass spectroscopy (IM–MS). This research has been led by John McLean, the dean of graduate education and research at the College of Arts & Science of Vanderbilt University (1).
John McLean earned his PhD at George Washington University in 2001 in the development of inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry instrumentation for ultratrace elemental analysis. He subsequently performed postdoctoral research at Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany, and then at Texas A&M University before beginning at Vanderbilt University in 2006. McLean was named the winner of the 2023 EAS Award for Outstanding Achievements in Mass Spectrometry.
In this LCGC International video interview, McLean answers the following questions:
(1) John McLean. Vanderbilt University 2024. https://as.vanderbilt.edu/chemistry/bio/john-mclean/ (accessed 2024-4-16)
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