Education and Awards
EDUCATION
B.S., Chemistry, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, 1975 (Highest Honors)
Ph.D., Chemistry, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 1980 (Blanche A. Mowrer Memorial Fellowship)
Postdoctoral Member of Technical Staff, Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, 1/80 to 7/81
AWARDS AND HONORS
Camille and Henry Dreyfus Grant for Newly Appointed Faculty in Chemistry, 1981
University of California Regents' Junior Faculty Fellow, 1982
Presidential Young Investigator Award, National Science Foundation, 1984-1989
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, 1986-1990
Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar, 1987-1992
Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award, Chemistry Department, University of Utah,
1988-1989
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, elected 1992
Buck-Whitney Award, American Chemical Society Eastern New York Section, 1993
Distinguished Research Award, University of Utah, 1994
Fellow of the American Physical Society, elected 1994
Mack Memorial Award Lecturer, The Ohio State University Department of Chemistry, 1997
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellow, 1999
ISI Highly Cited Researcher in Chemistry (world's top 250 most highly cited researchers),
2000-present
Biemann Medal, American Society of Mass Spectrometry, 2001
Honoree of Special Issue of Journal of American Society of Mass Spectrometry, Vol. 13, 2002
Utah Award of Chemistry, American Chemical Society, 2002
Cannon Fellow, Chemistry Department, University of Utah, 2003-2018
Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, 2004
Outstanding Alumnus of the Year, Department of Chemistry, Case Western Reserve University, 2004
Freiser Memorial Lecture, Purdue University, 2007
Field and Franklin Award for Outstanding Achievement in Mass Spectrometry, American
Chemical Society, 2009
Governor's Medal for Science and Technology Award, Utah, 2010
R. W. Parry Teaching Award, Department of Chemistry, University of Utah, 2011
Rosenblatt Prize for Excellence, University of Utah, 2011
Morino Lectureship, Morino Foundation of Japan and Kobe University, Japan, 2011
Honoree of Special Issue of International Journal of Mass Spectrometry, Vol. 330-332, 2012
Honoree of Special Issue of Journal of Physical Chemistry A, Vol. 117, 2013
Ron Hites Award, American Society of Mass Spectrometry, 2018
Henry Eyring Presidential Endowed Chair of Chemistry, University of Utah, 2018-present
John B. Fenn Award for a Distinguished Contribution in Mass Spectrometry, American Society of Mass Spectrometry, 2021
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Editorial Boards: International Journal of Mass Spectrometry, 1987-present; Journal of Physical Chemistry, 2005-2007; Journal of Chemical Physics, 2004-2006; Journal of the American Society of Mass Spectrometry, 1999-2004, 2013-2018; Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1996-2001; Organometallics, 1999-2001; Journal of Cluster Science, 1989-1995
Air Force Office of Scientific Research Review Panel, 1988-1992
National Science Foundation Panels: Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1990; Collaborative Research in Chemistry Panel, 2008; CSDM-A Chemistry Panel, 2019; NHFML Panel, 2019
Department of Energy, Energy Frontiers Research Center Review Panel, 2009
Pacifichem symposia reviewer Phys., Theor., & Comput. Chem., 2010, 2015, 2020.
Scientific Committees: Conference on Isolated Biomolecules and Biomolecular Interactions, 2014 – present; Conference on Advancing Mass Spectrometry, 2015 – present
National Award Selection Committees: American Chemical Society (1994-2000, 2019-2021 award cycles), American Society for Mass Spectrometry (1998- 2004 award cycles)
AAAS: Electorate Nominating Committee, 2000-2003
Alternate Councilor, Physical Chemistry Division, American Chemical Society, 2004-2007
AAAS Member-at-Large, Section Committee, Chemistry, 2008 – 2012
Member: American Chemical Society, American Society for Mass Spectrometry
Fellow: American Physical Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Editor, The Encyclopedia of Mass Spectrometry. Volume 1: Theory and Ion Chemistry, Elsevier: Amsterdam, 2003
Guest Editor: J. Phys. Chem. A, 2002; Int. J. Mass Spectrom., 2001, 2003 (2), 2009, 2014