Michael Sigman
professor
Department of Chemistry
University of Central Florida
United States of America
Biography
Education: 1982 B.S., Chemistry, Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield, MO. 1986 Ph.D., Organic Chemistry, The Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL. 1986-87 NIH Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL. 1987-90 NIH Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. Employment: 1989-90 Dow Chemical USA, Midland, MI. 1990-2002 Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN. 2002-present University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL. Department of Chemistry and National Center for Forensic Science 2002 – 2007: Associate Professor, untenured 2007 – 2013: Associate Professor, tenured 2013 – Present: Professor 2013 – Present: Director, National Center for Forensic Science Honors, Awards and Fellowships: 1986 Graduate Research Award in Chemistry, The Florida State University 1986-89 National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Fellowship 1996 ORNL Significant Event Award (Methylated Sol-Gel Sorbents patent submission) 1997 R&D 100 Award, Methylated Sol-Gel Sorbents. 2007-08 Teaching Incentive Program (UCF-TIP) Award, University of Central Florida 2010-11 Research Incentive Award (UCF-RIA), University of Central Florida
Research Interest
Pattern recognition is a challenging aspect of forensic fire debris analysis that is addressed by my research group. Fire debris analysts are required to detect the pattern of a multiple-component ignitable liquid in the presence of a highly complex background. Gas chromatography – mass spectrometry is the industry standard method for analysis of fire debris samples. Interpretation of the data and inference regarding the presence or absence of ignitable liquid residue benefits greatly from the application of chemometrics. Statistical learning methods have been shown by our laboratory to produce validated models that allow the analyst to make probabilistic statements regarding the evidentiary value of fire debris samples.
Publications
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Leffler,* J. E. and Sigman, M. E. “Supercritical Carbon Dioxide 3. The Decomposition of Phenylazotriphenylmethane in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide,†J. Org. Chem. 1987, 52, 1165.
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Leffler,* J. E. and Sigman, M. E. “Supercritical Carbon Dioxide 2. π* and the Dielectric Function for Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Media at Various Densities,†J. Phys. Chem. 1986, 90, 6063.
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Leffler,* J. E., Sigman, M. E. and Lindley, S. M. “Supercritical Carbon Dioxide: Behavior of π* and β Solvatochromic Parameters in Media of Different Densities,†J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1985, 107, 1471.
