Justin is originally from the Baltimore, Maryland
area. He graduated with a BS in chemistry and a minor in
mathematics from Villa Julie College in 2006. He has previous work
experience at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, military research base, where he
studied explosive drop dispersion. Moreover, Justin had undergraduate
research working with Professor James Fishbein at the University of
Maryland Baltimore County investigating cross linking carcinogens.
Currently, his research interests include biologically relevant
molecules, chiral species as well as their various complexes in a gas
phase environment. Our high resolution technique allows one to
probe further into the preferred conformational structure of such
species, and where a solvent molecule, such as water, could attach.
Furthermore, the effect of a substituent on a molecule’s electronic
transition moment can be significant. Justin would like to
investigate these phenomena further.