Terri Christison is a Marketing Specialist and Applications Chemist for 17 years at Thermo Scientific and Dionex, developing and promoting Ion Chromatography applications to support new product introductions across all markets needing ionic determinations. In the last two years, her focus has been developing IC-MS applications for the food and petroleum markets. Prior to Thermo Scientific, she conducted material analysis and failure analysis and managed the same in teams and labs in the electronics industry for more than 15 years. Her education is a bachelor’s of arts in chemistry and biology at Fresno State University, Fresno, CA.

Alex was born in the USSR (now Russia) and started to get interested in Chemistry at the age of eight. At the age of ten, he had his own home lab, which eventually filled three rooms and counted over 1,700 chemicals. Alex has worked as a research organic chemist and Assistant Professor of Physical Chemistry at the Saratov State University. He left Russia in 1998 and entered into his 2nd graduate school at the Liquid Crystal Institute in the U.S., wherefrom he received his Ph.D. in Chemical Physics. After he set up a Material Characterization Laboratory, he switched the tracks and travelled through the Northeast part of the United States as a Senior Sales Engineer for Thermo Fisher Scientific – selling scientific instruments for seven years. Then he switched the tracks again to become a mass spectrometry product manager. In his current position, he leads the product management of ion chromatography – mass spectrometry (IC-MS).