Professor Jacob Shelley
Principal Investigator
Jacob Shelley earned his BS in Chemistry from Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona, in 2005. During his undergraduate career, he was a summer intern at Los Alamos National Laboratory and worked on several projects including metallomics with X-ray fluorescence (XRF) detection, developing nanoporous silica substrates for matrix-free MALDI, and method development for detecting a wide range of radioactive materials. He completed his PhD at Indiana University under Prof. Gary Hieftje in 2011, where his research focus was on the development, characterization, and application of novel plasma ionization sources for molecular MS. Jacob started his postdoctoral research with Prof. R. Graham Cooks at Purdue University 2011 where he developed portable MS instruments capable of in situ analyses. In 2014, Jacob started his independent academic career as an Assistant Professor at Kent State University before becoming the Alan Paul Schulz Career Development Professor of Chemistry at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York in 2016. Prof. Shelley has authored 48 published journal articles, five United States patents/patent applications, a book chapter, and has given more than 65 invited presentations at national and international venues.
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Email: shellj [at] rpi.edu
