Janelle Coutts
Analytical Laboratories Branch Technical Lead @NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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WORK HISTORY
Analytical Laboratories Branch Technical Lead @NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Kennedy Space Center, FL, US
In addition to serving as the Analytical Laboratories (NE-L3) Branch Lead, I have taken on a new role as Technical Lead for the Branch, providing scientific and engineering analysis for special projects, future projects, and in advance planning of new systems and capabilities of all applicable agency programs and areas of concern and responsibility.Specific projects and program support duties currently under my purview- Providing technical expertise on the method development to identify, quantify, and develop removal technologies of contaminants in high purity hydrazine and monomethylhydrazine utilized in space operations- Providing technical expertise on the identification and evaluation of alternative solvents or processes for precision cleaning utilized in space operations- Serving as the technical lead to resolve critical imagery analysis technical issues involving flight and ground systems, spanning across multi-Center imagery teams using an integrated systems engineering approach.
EDUCATION
University of Central Florida
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Materials Chemistry
University of Central Florida
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Chemistry
SKILLS
ABOUT JANELLE COUTTS
Analytical Chemist versed in a wide range of analytical techniques for aqueous, solvent, oil, gas, cryogenic, and hypergolic fuel sample analyses. Expertise in instrumentation including Gas Chromatographs (with FID, ECD, TCD, PID, NPD, and MS Detectors), High Performance Liquid Chromatographs (and UHPLC, with PDA and RID Detectors), Ion Chromatographs, Total Organic Carbon Analyzers, Ion-Coupled Plasma-Optical Emission Spectrometers, Metal Composition Determination Systems, Supercritical CO2 Extraction Systems, Low-Frequency Plasma Cleaning Systems, Automated titrators, and UV-Vis Spectrometers. Familiarity in other analytical instrumentation including Direct Analysis in Real Time-TOF MS (DART-MS), and Fourier-Transform Infrared Spectrometers.Research focuses have spread across analytical and biological chemistry from trace contamination in hypergolic fuels, water recycling and air purification in closed loop systems, catalyst development, environmental chemistry for destruction of harmful compounds, analysis of green technologies for precision cleaning, and chemical assay development.
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