Jerome (Jerry) J. Workman, Jr., Ph.D.
Luminous Medical Inc.
Jerome (Jerry) J. Workman, Jr. is the Director of Measurement Systems for Luminous Medical Inc., Carlsbad, CA. He was formally Director of Research, Technology & Applications Development for Molecular Spectroscopy & Microanalysis for ThermoFisher Scientific; Chief Technical Officer and Vice President of Research & Engineering at Argose Inc.; Senior Research Fellow at Kimberly-Clark Analytical Science & Technology; and Principal Scientist at Perkin-Elmer. In his career, his focus has been on molecular spectroscopy, including near infrared, infrared, ultraviolet-visible, process analysis and chemometrics. He is co-author of the popular Spectroscopy series Statistics in Spectroscopy and Chemometrics in Spectroscopy which have published over 110 columns since 1986. He has authored a dozen books, several hundred scientific papers, commercial software programs, and U.S. and international patents. In 2002 he was the recipient of the Eastern Analytical Symposium Award for Outstanding Achievements in the Field of Near Infrared Spectroscopy, the ASTM International Award of Merit, and IBC International Scientist of the Year. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemists, the American Society for Testing and Materials International, and the Royal Society of Chemistry (U.K.). He is also a Chartered Chemist (CChem) of the Royal Society of Chemistry (England) and a Chartered Scientist of the Science Council (UK). He has served as Chair of the Industrial Advisory Board for the Center for Process Analytical Chemistry (CPAC) at the Univ. of Washington; The Council for Near Infrared Spectroscopy; and is immediate past Chairman of ASTM Main Committee E13 on Molecular Spectroscopy and Separation Science. He serves on the U.S. National Academies NRC Panel for assessment of NIST programs. He holds a B.A degree cum laude in natural sciences, and an M.A with distinction in biological sciences from Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota, a Ph.D. degree in biological chemistry from Columbia Pacific University, and is an alumnus of Columbia University Business School.
