Trace Analysis Research Centre

Alan A. Doucette, Professor, Director of TARC
Research interests: developing new technologies and methodologies for the characterization of biological molecules using mass spectrometry, interfacing new front-end technologies to mass spectrometry.

Heather Andreas, Professor
Research interests: the application of electrochemical methods to the study of alternate methods of energy storage and production, in particular the use of supercapacitors.

Rory Chisholm, Instructor
Research interests: application of surface science for characterization and device development. Teaching interests: introducing undergraduate students to realistic quantitative analysis and analytical instrumentation.

Michael Freund, Professor
Research interests: chemical sensing and machine olfaction using electrochemical methods and conducting polymer based sensors.

Tobias Karakach, Assistant Professor
Research interests: to develop novel bioinformatics approaches that allow access to trace biological information embedded in the large amounts of data generated by bio-analytical technology platforms, and which are dominated by information-poor, highly abundant signals.

Amares Chatt, Professor
Research interests: the application of radiochemical analysis and other techniques to probems in the areas of nuclear, bioanalytical, and environmental chemistry and radioactive waste management.

J. Stuart Grossert, Professor
Research interests: fragmentation pathways for nitrogen- and sulfur-containing ions in the gas phase, developing analytical methods for such ions involving mass spectrometry.

Louis Ramaley, Professor
Research interests: application of mass spectrometry and allied technologies to the separation, identification, and quantification of compounds in complex samples, development of novel analytical instruments.

Peter D. Wentzell, Professor
Research interests: chemometrics - the efficient extraction of information from chemical measurements and application to environmental, biological, forensic, and clinical chemistry.

Devanand M. Pinto, Adjunct Professor, National Research Council of Canada
Research interests: development and application of bioanalytical techniques, e.g. chromatography, mass spectrometry, and bioinformatics, to problems in biology, especially pathogenesis.