Court Sandau

Affiliation

Chemistry Matters Inc.

Track

Biography

Court Sandau is the principal and owner of Chemistry Matters Inc., and is a founder and Vice President of Innovation at Statvis Analytics Inc. Dr. Sandau has worked in the environmental industry in Canada since 2004 and founded Chemistry Matters Inc. (CMI) in 2011. Considered a boutique, international, environmental consulting firm, CMI specializes in geoforensics, environmental forensics, human and wildlife biomonitoring, and arson investigations. The team at CMI uses advanced data analysis, visualization, and compound identification to comb through large data sets identifying patterns, causes, and origins in litigious chemistry issues. Dr. Sandau is a world expert and provides litigation support on cases involving the analysis and interpretation, fate and transport, source apportionment and chemical fingerprinting of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDD/Fs), persistent organic pollutants (POPs), per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) such as perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS), polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), naphthenic acids (NAs), petroleum hydrocarbons (PHCs), and volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Dr. Sandau has been retained as an expert for several oil spills, oil sands investigations, and superfund site cases involving multiple contaminant evaluations and source apportionment. Dr. Sandau regularly lectures at local and international conferences and symposiums. Dr. Sandau is a member in good standing for the Association of the Chemical Profession of Alberta and a fellow for the Royal Society of Chemistry. Court Sandau has an h-index of 23, i10-index of 29, and his scientific publications have received over 2600 citations.