Gustavo Serrano

Gustavo Serrano

PhD Student

Email: gustavo@umich.edu

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Design and develop of portable instruments for analysis of volatile organic compounds

  • Gas chromatography (GC, GC/MS, GCxGC)\

  • Portable direct-reading instrumentation

  • Environmental & occupational health and safety

EDUCATION

Ph.D., University of Michigan (2008-present)

Department of Environmental Health Sciences

M.S., University of Michigan (2008)

Department of Environmental Health Sciences (Concentration: Industrial Hygiene)

B.S., Pontfical Catholic University, Lima, Peru (2004)

Department of Chemistry

HONORS & AWARDS

  • 2011 Best student poster, American Industrial Hygiene Conference and Expo

  • (AIHce), Portland, OR

  • 2009 Best student poster, AIHce, Toronto, Canada

  • 2209 Best student poster, Vaughan Symposium, Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

  • 2008 George and Florence Clayton Scholarship Award, American Industrial Hygiene Association

PUBLICATIONS

S-J. Jim, G. Serrano, K. Wise, K. Kurabayashi, “Evaluation of a microfabricated thermal modulator for comprehensive two-dimensional micro gas chromatography”, Anal. Chem., Vol. 83, pp. 5556-5562, 2011

T. Sukaew, H. Chang, G. Serrano, E. T. Zellers, “Multi-stage preconcentrator/focuser module designed to enable trace level determinations of TCE in indoor air with a microfabricated GC”, Analyst, Vol. 136, pp. 1664-1674, 2011.

G. Serrano, S. M. Reidy and E. T. Zellers, “Assessing the reliability of wall-coated microfabricated gas chromatographic separation columns”, Sens. Actuat. B, Vol. 141, pp. 217-226, 2009.

G. Serrano, H. Chang, L. K. Amos, and E. T. Zellers, “A micro gas chromatogram for high-speed determinations of explosive markers”, Proc. Transducers ’11, Beijing, China, June 2011, pp. 2082-2085.

G. Serrano, H. Chang, and E. T. Zellers, “A micro gas chromatograph for high-speed determinations of explosive vapors”, Proc. Transducers ’09, Denver, June 2009, pp. 1654-1657.

E. T. Zellers, S. K. Kim, G. Serrano, H. Chang,F. Bohrer, R. Veeneman, E. Covington, and C. Kurdak, “Application-specific micro gas chromatographs”, Transactions of the Electrochemical Society Symposium entitle 35 years of Chemical Sensors in honor of Jiri Janata, Vol 19, pp. 315-325, 2009

G. Serrano, S. Reidy, K. D. Wise, and E. T. Zellers, “DRIE-Si gas chromatography columns: efficiency and thermal stability of stationary phases for two-dimensional (GCxGC) separations”, Proceedings Solid-State Sensor, Actuator, and Microsystem Workshop; Transducers Research Foundation, Inc., Hilton Head, SC, June 2008, pp. 260-263

PRESENTATIONS

  • Prototype micro gas chromatograph for rapid determination of explosive marker compounds. Trace Explosive Detection Workshop, Portland, OR, USA, 04/2011.

  • Prototype micro gas chromatograph for rapid determination of explosive marker compounds, American industrial hygiene conference & expo, Portland, OR, USA, 05/2011.

  • A MEMS gas chromatograph for rapid determinations of explosive marker compounds, Transducers, Beijing, China, 06/2011.

  • Prototype micro gas chromatograph for high-speed determinations of explosive vapors, Toronto, ON, Canada, 06/2009.

  • A micro gas chromatograph for high-speed determinations of explosive vapors, Transducers, Denver, CO, USA, 07/2009

  • Testing the reliability of microfabricated GC columns, American industrial hygiene conference & expo, Philadelphia, PA, USA, 04/2008.

WHEN I AM NOT IN THE LAB, I AM

Working on music production at my home studio. Playing tennis (during summer) and racquetball/squash (during winter). Brewing my own beer, and occasionally playing on-line games.