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Luke Hanley

LAS Distinguished Professor & Associate Dean
University of Illinois Chicago
University of Illinois Chicago, United States

Luke Hanley is a LAS Distinguished Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Associate Dean of Research & Facilities at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC), where he has been a faculty member at UIC since 1990. He received his B.Sc. and Specialist in Chemistry from the University of Toronto in 1983 and his Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1988. He was awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Chemistry in 1988 which he served at the University of Pittsburgh, was an NSF Young Investigator in Chemistry from 1994 to 1998, and also a University of Illinois Scholar during this period. He was awarded the UIC Researcher of the Year Award and was elevated to Fellow of the American Vacuum Society in 2009. Finally, he spent 2017 - 2018 as an NSF Program Officer in the Chemistry Division in Alexandria, VA. His research has focused on the modification and analysis of organic, nanocomposite, and biological surfaces and films. He has developed and applied various advanced instrumental methods in mass spectrometry, photoionization, and photoemission. His ~150 refereed papers cover a diverse array of topics including laser desorption, laser photoionization, surface science, mass spectrometry, analytical chemistry, bioengineering, and microbiology. Wiley-VCH published in 2021 the book that he co-edited with Ralf Zimmermann: “Photoionization and Photo-induced Processes in Mass Spectrometry: Fundamentals and Applications”. He is currently using advanced methods in mass spectrometry imaging to identify biomarkers of the ancient biofilms that are thought to have formed the Earth’s atmosphere and explore how phenotype impacts metabolic processes in multispecies microbial communities. His work is currently funded by NSF and the National Institutes of Health with prior funding from NASA, the Department of Defense, and the Department of Energy. Web: chem.uic.edu/profiles/luke-hanley & https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7856-1869

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