Casey Elkins
Senior Research Associate at Eastman Chemical Company
- Role
- Senior Research Associate at Eastman
- Location
- Kingsport, TN, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Casey Elkins
Experienced Ph.D. polymer/materials scientist with 10 years experience at DuPont in R&D, technical service, and manufacturing technical functions. Strong technical expertise, leadership, and organizational skills. Strong knowledge of new product commercialization, polymer synthesis and characterization, product formulation, and coatings development. Offers a combination of diverse technical expertise, leadership, and project management.Skilled in macromolecular synthesis and characterization.Experience with conventional free radical, anionic, and cationic polymerization methods, including solvent and water based technologies.Design of experiments (DOE).Fluoropolymer polymerization technology.Six Sigma (Green Belt certified) and Stage Gate project management tools.Polymer adhesion and surface characterization.Instrumentation: FTIR, NMR, UV-Vis, GC/MS, GPC/SEC, HPLC, DSC, TGA, DMA, SEM, AFM, rheology.
Experience
Senior Research Associate
Mar 2024 — Present
Education
Michigan State University
Bachelor’s Degree
Virginia Tech
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
Skills
- Nmr
- Research
- Characterization
- Polymer Science
- Uv/Vis
- Spectroscopy
- Six Sigma
- Chemistry
- Formulation
- Materials Science
- Coatings
- Rheology
- Polymer Characterization
- Organic Synthesis
- Design of Experiments
- Manufacturing
- Polymer Chemistry
- Analytical Chemistry
- Polymers
- R&D
- Organic Chemistry
- Tga
- Product Development
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