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Research Instrumentation/NMR Facility

UNL Department of Chemistry

Facility Staff

Dr. Joseph Dumais
Director of Instrumentation
Associate Research Professor
Joseph Dumais, Ph. D.

Office: 834B Hamilton Hall
Phone: 402-472-6255
Email: jdumais2@unlnotes.unl.edu
Cell (emergencies only): 310-2310

Physical Chemist specialized in NMR. Experienced in solid state and liquid state NMR, instrumentation design and trouble shooting. Research background includes polymer structure and motion, small molecule structure elucidation, and molecular motion in synthetic DNA fragments. Familiar with the standard suite of small molecule optical, thermal and mass spectrometry techniques offered within the facility.

 

Matt Shortridge
NMR Facility Assistant
Matt Shortridge
Ph. D. Candidate

Office: 721 Hamilton Hall
Phone: 402-472-5316
Email: mds8575@huskers.unl.edu

Facility Teaching Assistant and upper level Graduate Student with a strong background in the application of NMR to Biological systems as well as to small molecule NMR.

 

Sara Basiaga
Assistant Director of Instrumentation
Sara Basiaga, M.S.

Office: 832B Hamilton Hall
Phone: 402-472-3797
Email: sbasiaga@unlserve.unl.edu
Pager (emergencies only): 820-2152

Analytical chemist with -background in chromatography and spectroscopy. Experience in QA environment and analysis of complex matrices such as food products. Background includes method development for GC-MS and HPLC, use of affinity chromatography, and optical methods of analysis.