Dr. Jimmie Carol Oxley

Biography

Dr. Jimmie Carol Oxley is Professor of Chemistry at the University of Rhode Island (URI), the former co-Director of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Center of Excellence (CoE) in Explosive Detection, Mitigation, and Response, and co-Director of the Forensic Science Partnership of URI. Her Ph.D. in chemistry is from the University of British Columbia (Chemistry), and her first faculty position was at New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology (NMT). In 1995 she and her research group moved to URI, where her lab continues to study energetic materials.

Chemical Analysis–is it explosive?

As money, time, and resources shrink, it is imperative we develop smarter ways to assess the performance and safety of new energetic materials. Development time from lab to production is on the order of decades. Our lab is focused on developing ways to screen new explosives molecules and formulations at the gram-scale or smaller.