Kristin is a Senior Scientist at 51³Ô¹ÏÍøin our Bend, OR location. She has three years of experience in extractable and leachables testing and six years of experience and specializations in the structural elucidation of small molecule unknowns.
Kristin is a Senior Scientist at 51³Ô¹ÏÍøat our Bend, OR location. She has three years of experience in extractable and leachables testing and six years of experience and specialization in the structural elucidation of small molecule unknowns.
Experience
Kristin received her Ph.D. from West Virginia University in Applied Analytical Chemistry with a focus in the uncertainty of GC-Ms electron impact spectra of illicit drugs. Following graduation, Kristin held a post-doctoral research associateship at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) where her research focused on small molecule impurities in high explosives. During her time at LANL, Kristin performed method development for component quantification of plastic formulations; she also performed both targeted and untargeted screening of high explosive formulations as well as structural elucidation of impurities. These fined-tuned skills made transitioning into the Extractable and Leachable industry an easy decision.
Since her time with Element, Kristin as specialized in and is the resident small molecule structural elucidation SME. She regularly performs low resolution and high-resolution structural elucidation interpretations of both GC-MS and LC-MS data. Kristin also spends time processing and deconvoluting complex GC and LC screening data. Customers have also collaborated with her during studies as her expertise in method development and validation are an asset to both 51³Ô¹ÏÍøand their customers.
Kristin is performing industry-leading and relevant research projects in response to FDA "hot-topics" including uncertainty factors and bad actors like PFAS.
Specialisms
Materials Testing Services, Liquid Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry (LC/MS), Gas Chromatography/ Mass Spectrometry (GC/MS)
Chemical Characterization
Impurity Identification
Extractable & Leachable Testing
Career Highlights
Kelly, K.*; Brown, G. (2021). 1,3,5-trichloro-2,4,6-trinitrobenzene- The elusive impurity standard. Propellants, Explosives, Pyrotechnics, 46, 1-13. doi: 10.1002/prep.202000223
Kelly, K*; Bell, S.; Maleki, H.; Valentine, S. (2019). Synthetic small molecule characterization and isomer discrimination using gas-phase hydrogen-deuterium exchange IMS-MS. Analytical Chemistry, 91, 6259-6265. doi: 10.1021/acs.analchem.9b00979
Lead Unknown Identification team of experienced chemists
Mentor LC chemists of varying experience levels in data analysis and instrument maintenance/troubleshooting
John R. Conrad and C. Eugene Bennett Fellowship Recipient
Specialisms
Materials Testing Services, Liquid Chromatography/ Mass Spectrometry (LC/MS), Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry (GC/MS)
Chemical Characterization
Impurity Identification
Extractable & Leachable Testing
Affiliations
Basic Chemometrics, 2018, Eigenvector Research, Inc. sponsored by SciX 2018
