Ivan Titaley

Ivan is a Postdoctoral Scholar working with Dr. Jennifer Field in Dr. Staci Simonich’s laboratory. His primary project concerns the method development and analysis of neutral (volatile) per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in landfill gas using thermal desorption coupled with gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (TD-GC-MS). His other projects included analysis of neutral PFAS in consumer products, and aqueous film forming foam (AFFF), as well as on the applications of computational chemistry or chemometrics in environmental chemistry.

He is originally from Indonesia and graduated with a B.A. in Chemistry (minor: Sustainability & Environmental Studies) from Berea College in KY in 2013 and with a Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from OSU in 2017. Before coming back to OSU in 2020, Ivan spent two years as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Örebro University in Sweden working on target, suspect screening, and non-targeted analyses of contaminated soils.