Curriculum Vitae Scott Ambrose Wicker, Ph.D.

Computer Languages:Basic knowledge about C/C++
Scientific Applications:EVA, Commandar, TOPAS, Fit2D, GSAS, FullProf, SixPack, Athena, Artemis, Hephaestus, CIFEDIT, pdCIFplot, CrystalMaker, CrystalDiffract, PowDLL Converter, Jfeff, Octave, Spartan '10
Office Applications:Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Publisher
Database:FindIt, ICDD PDF 2, AMCSD
Learning Management Systems:Blackboard, Moodle, LiveText, Banner, ARGOS

Scientific Instrumentation Skills:

X-rays Spectroscopy:

  • Bruker D8 Advance (PXRD), LynxEye, Gobel Mirror, Graphite Monochromator
  • Bruker S4 Explozer (XRF)
  • Center for Advanced Microstructures & Devices (LSU-CAMD) Synchrotron
  • 0 Double-Crystal Monochromator Beamline, (XAS - XANES, EXAFS)
  • 0 Powder Diffraction Beamline (XPD)
  • Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, 1-BM-B,C
  • 0 Bending Magnetic, Transmission mode, Capillary, Heated Stage, 2D detector (HR-PXRD)

Fourier Transform Spectroscopy:

  • Bruker 400 MHz NMR, TopSpin 1.3
  • Bruker EPR
  • Bruker Tensor 27 FT-IR

Atomic Spectroscopy:

  • PerkinElmer Optima 2100DV ICP-OES
  • PerkinElmer AAnalyst 400 AAS

Chromatography:

  • 7890 Agilent Technologies 5975C VL MSD - GC-MS, GC-FID
  • PerkinElmer 2400 Series II CHNS/O System

Thermal Analysis:

  • TA Q600-SDT, Q500-TGA-FTIR, Q10-DSC
  • Bomb Calorimetry

Microscopy:

  • JEOL JSM-6390 SEM with Apollo X EDS (EDAX)

Electrochemical:

  • Solartron SI Electrochemical Interface, ZPlot
  • Solartron 1252A Frequency Analyzer
  • EG&G Princeton Applied Research Model 273, Potentiostat/Galvanostat
  • Arbin Battery Tester, 4 - channels