Analytical Center Research: Staff

Dr. Brian Buckley is the Executive Director of Labs and Facilities at the Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute (EOHSI) and is a member of the graduate faculty at Rutgers University. Dr. Buckley received a B.S. in chemistry for the University of New Hampshire in 1983, a PhD in analytical chemistry from North Carolina State University in 1989 and has also had a post-doctoral appointment at The Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He has worked as a Laboratory Manager for the Nestles Quality Assurance Laboratory in Dublin Ohio. Currently he is specializing in spectroscopic, mass spectrometric and chromatographic instrument modification for matrix specific analyses. His work has focused on methods development for the analysis of environmental contaminants at their biological interface. His research group has specialized in biofluid extractions, trace metals quantification and speciation by chromatography coupled to plasma mass spectrometry. He has been working on Microwave Assisted Solvent Extraction (MASE) and Ion Trap Mass Spectrometric analysis techniques for active contaminants and their metabolites for the last four years. Most recently he has begun to examine the use of microwave extraction to facilitate enzymatic digest of proteins for protein sequencing vis LC/ITMS

Office: EOHSI, room 324
Phone #: 445-0204
Email: bbuckley@eohsi.rutgers.edu

Dr. Bozena Winnik is a Research Chemist and Supervisor of the organic section in the EOHSI Analytical Center where she develops quantitative HPLC/ITMS methods and is responsible for training graduate students and postdoctoral fellows on the operations of the organic instrumentation . She received her Ph.D. in Organic Analytical Chemistry / Mass Spectrometry from Cleveland State University. She was a Postdoctoral Fellow at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School She received her M. Sc. in Organic Chemistry / Organic Synthesis from Jagiellonian University, Kracow, Poland. She has worked as Production Chemist and Environmental Specialist and as a Quality Control Specialist.

Office: EOHSI, room 318
Phone #: 445-0148
Email: winnik@eohsi.rutgers.edu

Hilly (ILL) Yang is a Graduate Assistant in the Analytical Center of EOHSI. He received a B.S. in biological & environmental chemistry at the School of Environmental & Agricultural Science of Sunchon National University in 1990 and a MS in biophysical & analytical chemistry from Seoul National University in 1994. Now he is finishing his PhD in the Department of Environmental Science at Rutgers University. His research in the center focuses on methods development for the analysis of environmental contaminants using chromatographic instrumentations and Ion Trap Mass Spectrometry. He also studies the development and improvement of environmental sample preparation methods using various extraction techniques.

Office: EOHSI, room 318
Phone #: 445-0118
Email: hillyang@eohsi.rutgers.edu

Dr. Qiang Tu is a postdoctoral research fellow in the EOHSI Analytical Center. He received his Ph.D. in Environmental Chemistry from the Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Before coming to EOHSI, he worked in the Department of Analytical Chemistry of Umeå University in Sweden. He has several years of research experience in trace metal speciation and bioavailability studies, with emphasis on sample pretreatment, atomic spectrometry and chromatography/capillary electrophoresis.
Office: EOHSI
Phone #:
Email: tuqiang@eohsi.rutgers.edu

Wilson J. Rodriguez graduated from the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus where he obtained his B.S. in Biology. He matriculated to Rutgers University where he obtained a second B.S. in Biotechnology and Biochemistry. He specializes in the areas of microbial technology and on microbial ecology. He has vast experience in field ecology and in population biology studies. As Project Coordinator of EOHSI his duties include managing the myriad day-to-day building operations as well as insuring the efficient functioning of the EOHSI laboratories.

Office: EOHSI, room 344a
Phone #: 445-5165
Email: wilsonr@eohsi.rutgers.edu

Willie Johnson Jr. is currently supervisor of the Inorganic Analytical Laboratory at EOHSI. He received his B.A in Biology from Amherst College in 1977. He has worked as research scientist for several years at Exxon Research and Engineering where he specialized in metal analysis and developing wet chemical methodology.. He has also worked as staff chemist at PPM Technologies. His current projects at EOHSI includes developing methods in trace metal quantification and chromatographic speciation of metal coupled to an ICP-MS.

Office: EOHSI, room 318
Phone #: 445-0958
Email: williebo@eohsi.rutgers.edu

Robert Stiles received his BA in Chemistry in 1999 from Cook College at Rutgers University. He is presently a graduate student enrolled in the Environmental Sciences program. He is currently developing a method involving the identification of TIC (Tentatively Identified Compounds)using GC-IT/MS.
Hobbies: Soccer & reading

Sihyun Nam is a native South Korean. He is entering his senior year here at Rutgers University majoring in Economics. He is the assistant to the Project Coordinator. His duties include performing various administrative duties and occasionally assisting the researchers at the EOHSI Analytical Center. As student, he has found that his duties provide him with a wealth of experience that he is sure will be invaluable to him in his future career.

Dhawal R. Shah is an undergraduate student at Rutgers University majoring in Computer Science and economics. He is assistant to the Project Coordinator.

For more information about the Analytical Center, contact: bbuckley@eohsi.rutgers.edu