Linda Betz, Ph.D., has recently joined CPS as an analytical chemistry
consultant and technical writer.
Linda has used her analytical expertise in a wide variety of projects over the
course of her career in both industry and academia. She has directed the
start-up and certification process of an environmental analytical testing lab
and has developed quantitative and qualitative methods of analyses in the
pharmaceutical and environmental fields. These range from toxic gases in
coal-mine air at the Bureau of Mines, PCB’s in transformer oils, biogenic amines
in rat-brain tissue at the Southwest Foundation for Research and Education to
hydrocarbon pattern analysis in the exoskeleton of Peruvian orchid bees.
For much of her career, Linda taught classical analytical chemistry and
instrumental methods of analysis. She is a professor emerita at Widener
University and teaches analytical chemistry laboratory classes at West Chester
and Villanova Universities and has been recognized for her excellence in
teaching. She has also taught hands-on chromatography short courses through the
Delaware Valley Chromatography Forum and has served as a consultant for a number
of educational institutions.
She is actively conducting research in the physical and analytical
characterization of materials utilizing LC/MS/MS, spectroscopic, and thermal
methods of analysis.
Linda earned her B.S. in chemistry from the University of Pittsburgh, an M.S. in
analytical chemistry from The Pennsylvania State University and a Ph.D. in
analytical chemistry from Villanova University. |