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Education

B.Sc.(Hons) (1993, Trent), B.Ed. (1994, Queen's), P.hD. (1999, Queen's, J. Mark Parnis)

Postdoctoral research University of Waterloo (Terry B. McMahon) 1999-2003

Appointments

Assistant Professor (Laurier, 2003-2005)
Assistant Professor (2005)
Associate Professor (2010)
Professor and Head (2015-2018)
Associate Dean of Science (2018-present)

Biography

Dr. Fridgen began his academic career in chemistry at in Peterborough, Ontario. His original plan was to teach high school chemistry and was accepted concurrently into Science at Trent and the at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. After completing an Honours Thesis in in  studying the reactions of O(¹D) with organic and inorganic molecules in argon matrices (1993) he finished his B.Ed. (1994). His thirst for both research and teaching set him on a slightly different trajectory and he began graduate studies at in the   (1999).

Following his Ph.D., Dr. Fridgen began postdoctoral studies (1999-2003) with in the .  Prior to arriving at ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵ Dr. Fridgen was an Assistant Professor at Laurier where he first began spectroscopically characterizing trapped gaseous ions in collaboration with  at the just outside Paris, France.

Publications
Structures, Energetics, and Reactions of Gas-Phase Ions
Trent Conference on Mass Spectrometry
Fridgen Research Group