Fabian Meyer studied chemistry at the University of Hamburg, Germany and completed his doctorate at the Institute of Technical and Macromolecular Chemistry in 2008. His dissertation focused on the comparison of rheo-optical and rheo-mechanical material functions of diluted biopolymer solutions. From 2009 to 2013, Fabian was the Rheology Applications Specialist for North America at Thermo Scientific in Tewksbury, MA. In 2013, he became part of the applications support team at the Material Characterization headquarters in Karlsruhe, Germany. Fabian has been leading the team since 2018.

Yiro Shimabukuro is the Polymer Science Lab Manager at the Polymers Center (PCE). He oversees the daily operations as well as designing testing protocol for customers looking for new product development, failure analysis, quality control, etc., using physical, thermal, spectral, and rheological instrumentation. He currently holds interest in using rheometry for uncovering structure-property relationships in materials as well as for molding/extrusion simulations.
 
 
 

Matt Bartucci is currently a Senior Application Scientist for the Nicolet FTIR product line at Thermo Fisher Scientific, and currently works out of the Bannockburn Center of Excellence demo laboratory outside of Chicago, IL. Matt earned his B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Iowa in 2008 and his Ph.D. from Loyola University Chicago in 2013. His graduate research focused characterizing organic monolayer surface coatings via grazing angle FTIR (i.e. PM-IRRAS) to confirm the molecular assembly with applications towards future electronic devices. After graduate school, Matt’s postdoctoral research for the Army Research Labs focused on generating novel polymers in armor composites that could perform in extreme military environments. Today he will be discussing how FTIR can be used as quality control tool to generate product confidence in the polymer industry.