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.

Malama Chisanga, Assistant Professor
Research interests: developing plasmonic nanomaterials and surface-enhanced Raman scattering nanosensors for chemometrics/machine learning-driven molecular sensing and biomedical diagnostics.

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.

Mark Wall, Instructor
Research interests: development of improved workflows for high-throughput proteomics analysis by liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry. Teaching interests: development and implementation of strategies in the analytical teaching laboratory to ensure the successful growth of undergraduate analytical lab skills and provide experience with modern instrumentation and techniques.

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.