Rosalynn Quiñones-Fernández

Rosalynn Quiñones-Fernandez

Rosalynn Quiñones is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Marshall University in Huntington, WV. Prof. Quiñones graduated from the University of Puerto Rico, Humacao Campus with a B.S. in 2002 in Industrial Chemistry with Certification in Management. She worked in the industry for two years before pursuing graduate studies. In 2008, she received a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Duquesne University working with Dr. Ellen S. Gawalt. Her dissertation focused on modifying metal oxides with self-assembled monolayers and polymers for corrosion mitigation in biomaterial applications. As a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan, she conducted research on pharmaceutical drugs and polymers with Dr. Adam J. Matzger. Then, she joined Washington and Jefferson College as an NSF teaching/research postdoctoral fellow working with Dr. Robbie Iuliucci. Prof. Quiñones joined Marshall University in 2013 as an Assistant Professor where she was tenured and promoted in 2019.