Assistant Engineering

Lin Chen

***** ** *** ** *** ***, Miami, FL, ****2

Tel: 937-***-**** abj9xi@r.postjobfree.com

JOB GOAL Chemist

EDUCATION M.S in Chemistry Florida International 2010

University Miami

Thesis: Removal of Cyanotoxins by Cyclodextrin Complex,

Titanium Dioxide Photocatalysis and C60 Photocatalysis. 2007

GPA: 3.86/4.00 Beijing

M.S in Chemical Engineering Chinese Academy of Sciences China

(CAS) 2004

Thesis: Preparation and Surface Modification of Magnetic Hangzhou

Carriers for Whey Protein Separation and Purification

GPA: 3.80/4.00 China

Bachelor in Chemical Engineering Zhejiang University

(ZJU)

GPA: 3.69/4.0, top 10% in department. Accepted by CAS

without

entrance exams.

SUMMARY GC, LC-MS, HPLC and UV operating experience in research and

course projects, which includes purification and analysis

programming design, data processing, instrument study, and method

optimizing. Familiar with various data analysis software such as

Empower, LC/MS Chemstation, Galaxie and etc.

NMR operating experience focused on structure analysis for large

molecule and interaction study on molecule complex with H NMR and

C NMR.

Polymerization experience on PMMA, PMA, PGMA, Nano particle

characterization and chemical and physical testing with XRD, SEM,

FTIR, and UV.

Development experience in purification and analysis of unknown

compounds from crude sample.

RESEARCH Research Assistant - Chemistry and Biochemistry Department in FIU

EXPERIENCE 2007.9- by now

Experience on designing, developing and conducting multiple

projects on each type of equipments with the ability of

trouble-shooting and maintenance of instrument.

Selected, installed and modified SPE, HPLC methods and equipments

including purifying and analyzing trace levels of raw materials

of cyanotoxins, such as Microcystin (MC) LR, cylindrospermopsin

(CYN) in crude water.

Communicated and interacted with Dr Alvarez' group in Rice

University, Researched, developed and investigated HPLC methods

on study of C60 photocatalysis of MCLR.

Evaluated, developed and validated HPLC/LCMS techniques,

methodology and procedures on analysis of CYN and its

intermediate and finished product by TiO2 photocatalysis.

Designed and developed improved HNMR and CNMR testing methods on

structure, interaction, mechanism and kinetic study of the

complex of MCs and cyclodextrin.

Research Assistant - State Key Laboratory of Biochemical

Engineering in CAS

2004.9- 2007.7

Polymerized a series of organic/inorganic hybrid materials,Built

a synthesis method to polymerize superparamagnetic particles with

affinity property.

Established systematical methods for characterize this novel

polymers with XRD, SEM, FT-IR, and UV.

Protein extraction and analysis experience utilizing affinity

extraction, electrophoresis and Bradford skills, ELISA.

Successfully applied these magnetic micro-particles on efficient

recovery of protein with high economic and nutritious value from

acid whey by a single step.

Developed a novel system applied for protein purification which

highly streamlined separation process and improved the production

efficiency by more than 20 times.

Research Assistant - Institute of Chemical Engineering in ZJU

2006.7-2007.7

Schemed separation program of an unknown flavones compound from

bamboo leaves in a project supported by National Natural Science

Foundation.

Developed a new way of solving a purification problem in the

process. The results were quoted in a PhD thesis.

IT SKILLS Be familiar with various software for chemistry-related data

analysis and processing, and HPLC and MS analysis software such

as Waters Corp. Empower, LC/MS Chemstation, windows office,

chemoffice, Scifinder, Spinworks, Topspin, and etc.

HONORS AND South Florida ACS award for excellent graduate (Top 10%) 2010

AWARDS 2007

Excellent graduate in CAS (Top 10%) 2004

Excellent graduate in ZJU (Top 10%) 2003

The excellent student cadre (Top 3%) 2001-02

The Second and Third Grade Scholarship in ZJU (Thrice, 2001-03

Top 10~15%)

Three Goods Students (Trice, Top 10%)

LANGUAGE Multilingual: Chinese as native language; fluent in speaking and

writing English; Japanese: Level 1 (highest) of the

Japanese-Language Proficiency Test 323/400

PUBLICATIONS Lin Chen, Chen Guo, Yueping Guan, Huizhou Liu, Isolation of

& lactoferrin from acid whey by magnetic affinity separation,

PRESENTATIONS separation and purification technology, 56 (2007) 168-174.

Lin Chen, Dionysios D. Dionysiou, Kevin O'Shea, Removal of

microcystin from aqueous solution by cyclodextrin complex, to be

submitted in April, 2010.

Lin Chen, Kevin O'Shea, Microcystin-LR Degradation by C60

Photocatalysis, to be submitted in May, 2010.

Lin Chen, Kevin O'Shea, LCMS analysis for photodegradation of

cylindrospermopsin by TiO2, in preparation.

Lin Chen, Carlos Miranda, Kevin O'Shea, Host-Guest Interactions

of Cyclodextrins and Microcystin-LR, Florida annual meeting and

exposition for American chemical society, Orlando, 2008

Lin Chen, Kevin O'Shea, Host-guest interactions of cyclodextrins

and cyanotoxins, 237th ACS National Meeting & Exposition, Salt

lake city, 2009

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