Dr. Jacob T. Shelley

Received his PhD in June 2011

Jake is currently a Postdoctoral Associate
in the laboratories of Professor Graham Cooks
at Purdue University-Aston Labs. 

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He also holds an appointment as a Visiting Scientist

in the Hieftje Labs at Indiana University.

Jake Shelley was born in Albuquerque, NM in 1984. He earned his B.S. in chemistry with a minor in mathematics from Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, AZ in 2005. Jake’s research at NAU, while working under Dr. Diane Stearns, was focused on finding metal-DNA adducts in Chinese hamster ovary cells using ICP-AES; metals of interest included uranium, chromium, and arsenic. Jake worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory for four summers on a wide range of projects including metallomics using X-ray fluorescence, using nanoporous silica as a matrix-free MALDI substrate, and method development for detecting a wide range of radioactive materials. Jake’s current project in the Hieftje laboratory is the development and characterization of a novel plasma source for ambient mass spectrometry.  Jake has also coupled this flowing atmospheric-pressure afterglow (FAPA) source, as it is called, to laser ablation to perform very sensitive mass spectral imaging.