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.