Dr. Jeffrey Anker is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Clemson University. He earned his B.S from Yale University and his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan where he worked on magnetically modulated fluorescence-based sensors. Before joining Clemson University, Dr. Anker was an NIH Postdoctoral Fellow at Northwestern University. He is currently a member of the Center for Optical Materials Science and Engineering Technologies (COMSET) at Clemson. His research interests focus on optical spectroscopy and nanoparticle devices to study chemical and bioanalytical processes.