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Richard Ortega

Senior X-ray Specialist

Polk Hall 4

Education

Ph.D. Chemistry University of New Mexico

Area(s) of Expertise

Richard preformed postdoctoral work with Dr. Philip Coppens at the State University of New York (SUNY) – Buffalo. During his career, he has been a team member at Nicolet/Siemens (currently Bruker AXS) and Rigaku/MSC, and has been involved in a number of entrepreneurial endeavors centered on X-ray methods and analysis. Richard has broad experience in x-ray scattering and diffraction methods, including single molecule diffraction.