Speaker biography:
Thomas Fitzgibbons, PhD; Senior R&D Analytical Chemist; The Dow ChemicalCompany
Tom Fitzgibbons is an Associate Research Scientist at Dow, working in their Core R&D Analytical Sciences division. Over the past 5 years he has worked on developing and implementing various X-ray and microscopy techniques for elucidating the structure-property relationships in soft materials. Before Dow, Tom received his PhD in Chemistry from Penn State University in 2014 on applying various scattering techniques to describe and discover new carbon based nanomaterials at high pressure. He received his BS in Chemistry from the University at Buffalo, State University of New York in 2009. Tom is active in the American Crystallographic Society and with working with Argonne National Laboratory’s Advanced Photon Source.