Richard Jack

Richard is North American Environmental Marketing Manager for, Thermo Fisher Scientific Corporation and involved with environmental applications for over 15 years. Working with regulatory agencies many, he assists these agencies in developing robust analytical methods that are eventually used for compliance monitoring by bringing customer problems to his company to develop new applications, hardware, software or column chemistries. Richard is a co-author for EPA 557 and has also drafted several methods through ASTM and a member of the D19 Waster committee’s taks force on hydraulic fracturing. Previously, Richard was a product manager for Dionex and Hitachi High Technologies were he designed analytical instrumentation including ion chromatography, HPLC systems, pumps, autosamplers and a variety of detectors. Prior to analytical instrumentation, Richard worked at Clontech laboratories in Palo Alto, CA. Richard did his post doctoral work at Virginia Tech and was involved in vaccine development then worked as an environmental scientist involved in bioremediation of toxic compounds in soils. Richard received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Anaerobic Microbiology from Virginia Tech University in Blacksburg, VA and his Masters in Ecology from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, TN.

Contact Information: richard.jack@thermofisher.com; 408-481-4227