Kristin Treece

Kristin is a Senior Scientist at Element at our Bend, OR location. She has three years of experience in extractable and leachables testing and six years of experience and specialization in the structural elucidation of small molecule unknowns. 

Experience

Kristin received her Ph.D. from West Virginia University in Applied Analytical Chemistry with a focus in the uncertainty of GC-Ms electron impact spectra of illicit drugs. Following graduation, Kristin held a post-doctoral research associateship at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) where her research focused on small molecule impurities in high explosives.  During her time at LANL, Kristin performed method development for component quantification of plastic formulations; she also performed both targeted and untargeted screening of high explosive formulations as well as structural elucidation of impurities. These fined-tuned skills made transitioning into the Extractable and Leachable industry an easy decision. 

Since her time with Element, Kristin as specialized in and is the resident small molecule structural elucidation SME. She regularly performs low resolution and high-resolution structural elucidation interpretations of both GC-MS and LC-MS data. Kristin also spends time processing and deconvoluting complex GC and LC screening data. Customers have also collaborated with her during studies as her expertise in method development and validation are an asset to both Element and their customers. 

Kristin is performing industry-leading and relevant research projects in response to FDA "hot-topics" including uncertainty factors and bad actors like PFAS.

Specialisms

• Materials Testing Services, Liquid Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry (LC/MS), Gas Chromatography/ Mass Spectrometry (GC/MS)
• Chemical Characterization
• Impurity Identification
• Extractable & Leachable Testing