Editors’ Biographies
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David Soulsby David Soulsby was born in 1974 in Newcastle, England. After earning his B.S. degree in chemistry from the University of Lancaster, England, he attended the University of Colorado Boulder and obtained a Ph.D. in organic chemistry. His research involved the development of ferrocenyl oxazoline catalysts for use in the Heck reaction with Dr. Tarek Sammakia. He began his academic career at the University of Redlands in 2001 where he is currently a professor of chemistry. He served as department chair from 2011–2014. Working alongside undergraduate students, his research focuses on the incorporation of NMR spectroscopy into the undergraduate curriculum, quantitative NMR, and the reactions of the intermediates generated from the ozonolysis of silyl enol ethers.
Laura J. Anna Laura J. Anna earned her B.S. in chemistry from Indiana University of Pennsylvania where she had her first introduction to NMR spectroscopy on a 60 MHz instrument. She obtained her Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the University of Michigan investigating applications of chiral vinyl sulfoxides in the asymmetric synthesis of natural products with Dr. Joseph P. Marino. She began her academic career at Millersville University, Millersville, PA, where she was a professor of chemistry for 14 years working with 200 MHz and 400 MHz high field NMR instruments. She transitioned to Montgomery College, Rockville, MD, in 2011, where she is now professor of chemistry and department chair. Her current curriculum efforts continue to focus on the integration of NMR spectroscopy in the organic chemistry curriculum using benchtop and 90Mz instruments and the initiation of an undergraduate research program at Montgomery College.
Anton (Tony) S. Wallner Anton (Tony) S. Wallner was born in 1963 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. After earning his B.S. degree in chemistry from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, he attended the University of Michigan (M.S. analytical chemistry), and obtained a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from Case Western Reserve University where he studied magnetic resonance imaging of ceramics and polymers with Dr. Bill Ritchey. He has conducted research at the Naval Air Warfare Center on MRI of rocket propellants and explosives as well as taken a sabbatical in 2009 at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia investigating © 2016 American Chemical Society Soulsby et al.; NMR Spectroscopy in the Undergraduate Curriculum: First Year and Organic Chemistry Courses Volume 2 ACS Symposium Series; American Chemical Society: Washington, DC, 2016.
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the degradation of creatine followed by NMR. He began his academic career in 1992 at Missouri Western State University. He moved to Barry University in 2000 as chair and professor of chemistry in the Department of Physical Sciences. In 2008, he became Associate Dean of Undergraduate Programs at Barry University. He most recently served a two and a half year term as Interim Chair of Mathematics and Computer Science (2014–2016). His current research, with active participation from undergraduates, focuses on the synthesis, characterization, and degradation followed by NMR of novel creatine salts.
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