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Shelley Research Lab

Just The Science

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  • May 28, 2026: Jared Viggers receives Professor Ronald A. Bailey Graduate Student Travel Award

  • May 28, 2026: Dr. Julia Danischewski receives Professor Ronald A. Bailey Graduate Student Award for Leadership and Service

  • May 28, 2026: Dr. Julia Danischewski receives Walter H. Bauer Doctoral Prize in Chemistry

  • May 28, 2026: Katelin McPeck receives Chemistry and Chemical Biology Excellence in Undergraduate Studies award

  • May 15, 2026: Prof. Shelley receives inaugural RPI Office of Graduate Education Advisor of the Year Award

  • April 29, 2026: Jonathan Graham wins Undergraduate Poster Prize at the Regional American Vacuum Society meeting

  • April 29, 2026: Carlos Nogales Herrera wins Graduate Poster Prize at the Regional American Vacuum Society meeting

  • April 3, 2026: Jared Viggers wins Second Place for poster presentation at the RPI Graduate Research Symposium

  • April 3, 2026: Carlos Nogales Herrara wins Second Place for oral presentation at the RPI Graduate Research Symposium

  • January 21, 2026: Dr. Meri Herrero Perez and her astrobiology research featured in NOVA episode Asteroids: Spark of Life? on PBS

  • December 22, 2025: New paper by Justin Park et al. on the cover of PNAS: Breathing life into the boring billion

  • December 10, 2025: Jared Viggers wins First Place for oral presentation at RPI's Chemistry Graduate Research Symposium

  • December 10, 2025: Carlos Nogales Herrera wins First Place for poster presentation at RPI's Chemistry Graduate Research Symposium

  • October 25, 2025: Julia Danischewski, Meri Herrero Perez, and Samantha Pryor receive RPI's Founders Award of Excellence

  • October 14, 2025: Julia Danischewski receives inaugural RPI Office of Graduate Education Research Excellence Award

  • October 14, 2025: Justin Park receives Honorary Mention for RPI Office of Graduate Education Research Excellence Award

  • October 9, 2025: Julia Danischewski receives Honorable Mention for poster presentation at SciX 2025

Instrument Development

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Our aim is to develop an ionization source which operates at atmospheric pressure that can provide molecular, structural, and atomic information of species present on a sample surface. Overall, this research addresses a major focus of modern analytical chemistry – rapid, in situ detection of relevant compounds without the need for sample modification or a priori information of sample constituents.

Fundamental Characterization

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Advanced imaging and ion manipulation techniques are leveraged to understand the transport of gaseous species from an ion source into a mass spectrometer. Plasma tuning allows for unique gas-phase ion-ion and ion-molecule chemistry to rapidly modify inert substances.

Applications

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These novel methods of analysis are needed in a wide range of areas including environmental monitoring, astrobiology, forensic analysis, drug development, and chemical synthesis.

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