The Chromatography Forum

of Delaware Valley

Erin Ennis Ballinger, Ph.D.  is currently an Analytical Research Scientist at FMC Corporation located at the Stine Research Center in Newark, Delaware. She currently works as a product technology expert on the crop protection operations analytical team, and focuses on method validation, 5-batch analysis, and assay and impurity profile method development for pesticide products. Previously she worked at Frontier Scientific Services as a Senior Scientist and contractor for DuPont.
Erin received her doctorate under the guidance of Dr. Joe Foley at Drexel University in the fall of 2016. Her thesis, “Development of Experimental and Computational Techniques to Improve or Predict the Likelihood of Separation Success of Chromatographic and Electrophoretic Techniques”, focused on the utilization of peak capacity to predict separation optimization in capillary electrophoresis and sequential elution liquid chromatography and method development for nonaqueous chiral separations in capillary electrophoresis. Erin has presented her work at numerous conferences, including the American Chemical Society, Eastern Analytical Symposium, HPLC, and Pittcon. She is the recipient of the Chromatography Forum of the Delaware Valley Student Award at the Mid Atlantic Regional Meeting, the Ruth and Eugene Rosenbaum Teaching Award, the Graduate Student Teaching Excellence Award, and the American Institute of Chemists Student Award for 2016. Erin joined the Chromatography Forum of the Delaware Valley in 2010 and has served as the Publicity/Social Media Chair and a board member for the past 3 years.