Leonard Demoranville
Associate Professor of Chemistry
Offices & Programs
Education
BS from Eastern Nazarene College
PhD from the University of Maryland-College Park
Expertise
Analytical Characterization of Bourbon:
The Demoranville group investigates the chemical components of bourbon using chromatographic methods. Group is developing methods to accomplish that goal and long-term hope to study the impact of different production processes using those methods.
BIOGRAPHY
Leonard Demoranville joined the Centre faculty in 2012 as visiting assistant professor of Chemistry and was awarded tenure and promotion to associate professor in 2019.
Before coming to Centre, Demoranville spent time as a National Research Council Post-Doctoral Fellow at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. His research there focused on the trace detection of illicit drugs using ion mobility and mass spectrometry. During his graduate work, he participated in the University of Maryland University Teaching and Learning Program, which trains future faculty members in the scholarship of teaching and learning. This led to his selection as a Lilly Graduate Teaching Fellow.