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Paulina Lake, Oregon
July 2020
Paulina Lake, Oregon

Krakow, Poland
October 2019
Krakow, Poland

Cambridge, England
June 2018
Cambridge, England

Queenstown, New Zealand
March 2018
Queenstown, New Zealand

Whidbey Island, Washington
July 2017
Whidbey Island, Washington

Paulina Peak, Oregon
October 2016
Paulina Peak, Oregon

Potsdam, Germany
September 2015
Potsdam, Germany

London, England
July 2014
London, England

Yamhill, Oregon
November 2013
Heart's Desire Beach, California

About (me)

Although I don't talk like I'm from around there (if you've met me, you'll know what I mean), I grew up in Iowa City, Iowa, which is probably best known for being the home of the University of Iowa. After graduation from high school, I headed off west to Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, California, where I received a BS in chemistry. I was fortunate enough to receive a Churchill Scholarship to study at the University of Cambridge. Although I was only supposed to spend a year there to get a master's degree, I enjoyed the environment there as well as the research that I was doing with James Keeler, so I ended up staying for a bit longer to get my PhD. The research that I worked on centered on the development of new pulse sequences for solution-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy.

After finishing up my PhD thesis, I headed back to the US to spend the next two and a half years at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where I worked for Bob Griffin as a post-doctoral research fellow. The two areas that I worked on while I was in the Griffin group were the application of solid-state NMR spectroscopy to look at biological systems and the use of a technique known as dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) to enhance the signal in NMR experiments.

In August 2003, I started my current position in the chemistry department at Lewis & Clark College. In 2006-2007, I spent a sabbatical year at the Medical Research Council - Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, UK, and in 2010-2011 I spent a sabbatical year at the Leibniz-Institut für Molekulare Pharmakologie in Berlin, Germany. Most recently, I spent 2017-2018 on sabbatical at Oregon State University. I led the Lewis & Clark Overseas Program to Australia in Spring 2012 and since then I established our current Overseas Program to Berlin (which I led in Fall 2015 and Fall 2019).

Heart's Desire Beach, California