Speaker: Zandra Baja

Applications Scientist

Speaker: Genevieve Hodson

Senior Technical Specialist

Zandra is an Applications Scientist at PhenoLogix specializing in chiral screening, USP and PhEur applications, and environmental GC-MS applications. Zandra obtained her bachelor's degree in chemistry from California State University of Long Beach. Prior to joining Phenomenex in 2021, she spent 3 years working as a chemist in the petroleum industry and 8 years as an analytical chemist working with gas chromatography in an environmental air testing laboratory. Zandra has also spent several years in quality assurance management where she was responsible for maintaining ISO/IEC 17025 and TNI Standard laboratory accreditations. 

Genevieve graduated from the University of Texas with a BS in Chemistry located in her home town of Austin Texas. She spent 2 years of her undergraduate performing research in an Organic Chemistry Lab synthesizing intermediate. Out of school she spent 4 years as an Analytical Chemist in the QC and R&D Department of Cerilliant (a Sigma Millipore Company). There she worked with many analytical instruments but became an expert at LC by performing purity analysis, customer specific methods, validations, qc testing and stability studies on a wide range of small molecules including pharmaceuticals, pesticides, explosives and illegal substances. From there she moved to Los Angeles California where she worked at Johnson and Johnson and then a small dietary supplement company. After Genevieve spent a year living abroad in Israel raising her first son, she moved back to LA where she got hired as a Technical Specialist at Phenomenex. At Phenomenex she enjoys continuing to learn about chromatography every day through helping customer with all their chromatography needs!