Degrees B.S. Chemistry, University of Nebraska at Omaha, 1983 Ph.D. Chemistry, Texas A&M University, 1989

My areas of research include analytical applications of mass spectrometry for biomolecule analysis using Matrix Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization Time-of-Flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF) and gas phase ion-molecule chemistry using Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry (FT-ICR). These instruments provide research opportunities in classical physical analytical areas for both graduate and undergraduate students in the College of Natural Sciences(CNS).

Michaela L. Rich, Ira Simet, Shoshanna Coon, and Curtiss Hanson, Use of a Kinetic Energy Orifice as a Probe of Metastable Dissociation in Fourier Transform Ion Cyclotron Resonance Mass Spectrometry J. Amer. Soc. Mass Spectrom. 2000, 11(12),1118-1124 Curtiss D. Hanson, Ion Isolation in a Continuous Zero Angle Reflecting Time-of-flight Mass Spectrometer, Analytical Chemistry, 2000 ,72, 448-453. C.D. Hanson; C.L. Just Selective Background Suppression in MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry,Analytical Chemistry, 1994, 66, 3676-3680. C.L. Just, C.D. Hanson, Selective Elimination of Low-molecular- weight Ions in MALDI-TIF Mass Spectrometry Using a Bipolar Pulsed Electrostatic Particle Guide, Rapid Comm. Mass Spectrom. 1993,7, 502- 506.