About
Madeline Isom, Ph.D., is an applied assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry at The University of Tulsa. She earned a B.S. in chemistry from The University of Central Arkansas in 2021, and is an alum of the UCA Schedler Honors College. In 2025 she earned a Ph.D. in chemistry at The University of Kansas where she was a recipient of the KU Madison and Lila Self Graduate Fellowship.
Awards and honors
- The University of Kansas Overall Superior Achievement Award in Chemistry: Higuchi Doctoral Progress Award, 2025
Education
- Ph.D., Chemistry, The University of Kansas
- Dissertation: “Noninvasive Sebum Sampling using Mass Spectrometry and Machine Learning and Extended Applications of Supervised Classification”
- B.S., Chemistry, The University of Central Arkansas
Research interests and areas of expertise
- General chemistry
- Organic chemistry
- Analytical chemistry
- Chemical education
- Mass spectrometry
- Noninvasive sebum sampling
- Lipidomics
- Machine learning