A Practical Guide to Total Reflection X-ray Fluorescence

Authors

Martina Schmeling Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Loyola University Chicago, IL, USA. Martina Schmeling studied at the University of Muenster and received her diploma in 1992. She earned her doctorate at the Institute of Spectrochemistry and Applied Spectroscopy (ISAS) and University of Dortmund in 1997 under the tutelage of R. Klockenkaemper and D. Klockow. She conducted post-doctoral research at the University of Antwerp with R. van Grieken and additional post-doctoral studies at Princeton University with L. Russell. Since 1999, she's been on the faculty of Loyola University Chicago in the field of analytical chemistry and trace elemental analysis. Martina has been involved in the NASA Genesis mission, in various air pollution and biological analysis projects. Her main interests are the study of biological and environmental systems by TXRF. Diane Eichert Senior Scientist, Elettra - Sincrotrone Trieste, Basovizza TS, Italy. Diane Eichert studied physico-chemistry at Bordeaux University and received her DEA in 1998. She earned her doctorate in Materials Science at Ecole Polytechnique of Toulouse (2001). She conducted post-doctoral research at the European Radiation Synchrotron Facility, Grenoble and Marie Curie Excellence Grant as scientist at Bessy II, Berlin, both in X-ray spectro-microscopies. Since 2007, she's been a senior scientist at Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste in the field of X-ray Fluorescence Analysis, where she developed instrumentation and beamline, XRF data analysis skills and applications in many fields of research. Her main interests reside in combining various X-ray and Infrared based analysis on the same sample (mainly biology and nanomaterials) and establishing reliable chemical measurement process with X-ray Fluorescence techniques.