Dr. Kevin R. Tucker is an Associate Professor of Chemistry and Director of the Shimadzu Innovation Lab in the Department of Chemistry, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. He completed his PhD studies in Chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. He leads projects focused on emerging contaminants in aquatic and soil systems, pharmaceutical and personal care product contamination, contaminant uptake in biological tissues, and mass spectrometry imaging of environmental exposures. His teaching disciplines include analytical chemistry, instrumental analysis, chromatography, mass spectrometry, environmental chemistry, and research methods, and his interests include environmental analytical chemistry, novel applications of mass spectrometry, LC-MS/MS, GC-MS/MS, MALDI mass spectrometry imaging, emerging contaminants, aquatic toxicology, contaminant fate and transport, and student-centered research training.