Kimberly C. Fabijanczuk
Post-Doctoral Fellow, The McLean Group
Purdue University, IN – Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry
Montclair State University, NJ – B.S. in Biochemistry
Background:
Kimberly received her B.S. in Biochemistry from Montclair State University in 2019. She performed undergraduate research with her advisor, Dr. Jinshan Gao, where she worked on the development on the development and synthesis of novel TEMPO-based free radical reagents for glycan and peptide structural elucidation using mass spectrometry.
Kimberly joined Purdue University in 2019 to pursue her Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry advised by Dr. Scott McLuckey and completed her degree at the end of 2023. During her graduate studies, she studied mass spectrometry instrumentation and fundamentals for quadrupole time-of-flight, electrostatic linear ion trap, and triple quadrupole linear ion trap platforms. Her work heavily focused on employing gas-phase chemistry via ion/ion reactions for a variety of applications, mostly lipid isomers differentiation and intermediate steps in transmetalation reaction. One of her final projects was developing two distinct gas-phase separation techniques, chemical and physical, to separate singly and doubly charged lipid species with overlapping m/z values.
She joined Prof. John McLean’s group in the beginning of 2024 for postdoctoral research where currently she is studying the gas-phase packing and isomeric separation of carbohydrates using drift tube ion mobility and high-resolution SLIM traveling wave ion mobility mass spectrometry. She is also working in collaboration with Bruker Corporation on their timsTOF to improve the sensitivity and measurement of small molecules as well as generate CCS values for said molecules.