Professor Daqian Jiang
Assistant Professor at the University of Alabama
Summary:
This seminar will cover two topics:
Ablation-based MS for environmental contaminant detection
This work demonstrates the use of matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI) for the rapid detection of glyphosate in real-world environmental matrices and investigates the performance discrepancies using DFT simulations. MALDI significantly lowers the time and cost barriers of glyphosate measurements, offering a scalable solution to real-world monitoring.
Accounting of PFAS in US carpet and equity challenges
This work spatially maps the amount of PFAS (“forever chemicals”) in in-use and landfilled carpet in the U.S. It further quantifies the inequity in potential in-use and end-of-life exposures in different populations, revealing disparities in risk burdens and informing more just chemical and waste management policies.
Brief CV:
Daqian Jiang, aka DJ, is currently an assistant professor at the University of Alabama. He previously worked as an assistant professor in Montana Techn, and held postdoctoral positions at Columbia University, Yale University, University of Minnesota, and Colorado School of Mines. His research aims to bridge bottom-up engineering experiments and top-down industrial ecology computations. He is a recipient of the prestigious NSF CAREER Award and was an invited panellist at a White House Policy Roundtable on Industrial Sustainability. His proudest achievement is mentoring talented students from diverse backgrounds and inspiring them to pursue careers in science and engineering.