John C. Fetzer

Biography

I am an expert on petroleum, its composition, the composition of its many products – light hydrocarbon gases (natural gas, methane, liquefied petroleum gas), gasoline, diesel fuel, jet fuel, kerosene, naphtha, mineral and lubricating oils, wax, asphalt, petroleum coke).

I am an accomplished analytical chemist and expert in chromatography and molecular spectroscopy (infrared, ultraviolet absorbance, fluorescence, mass spectrometry, and nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometry). In that role, I developed several Good Laboratory Practices compliant chromatography methodologies, as well as ones to determine octanol-water partition coefficients and to determine solubilities in water and other solvent systems.

I am a recognised world-class expert in the chemistry and analysis of the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). I have over 100 reviewed publications and numerous book chapters, and authored the books The Chemistry and Analysis of the Large Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons, J. C. Fetzer, John Wiley and Sons, New York, p. 1-288 (2000) and Career Management for Chemists, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, p. 1 -266 (2004).