Carolyn Quarles Burdette BS, PhD

Carolyn After graduating with a B.S in Chemistry from Winthrop University in 2007, Carolyn Quarles Burdette earned her PhD in Analytical Chemistry from Clemson University in December 2012 under Dr. Ken Marcus. Burdette is currently a research chemist in the Chemical Sciences Division at NIST. Her research focuses on the development of analytical techniques (LC-UV, LC-MS and MS/MS) for the determination of vitamins and vitamin metabolites in the clinical and food/dietary supplement areas, as well as value assignment for fat soluble vitamin and vitamin metabolites in DEQAS serum samples and NIST Standard Reference Materials (SRMs). Other projects include the development of novel ionization sources for targeted and non-targeted tandem mass spectrometric analysis of dried blood spots. Her research interests expand into the analytical aspects of environmental and agricultural areas.