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• Dr. Graham Cooks
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• Dr. James Reilly
• Dr. Vladimir Shalaev

Dr. Graham Cooks
http://www.chem.purdue.edu/cooks/

Dr. R. Graham Cooks received both his undergraduate and doctoral degrees from the University of Natal, South Africa, in 1961 and 1965. In the next two years he earned a second doctorate at Cambridge University in Great Britain, and served there as a post-doctoral fellow for a year before taking an Assistant Professorship in the Chemistry department of Kansas State University in 1968. Three years later in 1971 he moved to Purdue University to lead their Mass Spectrometry Center – a position he would hold for fifteen years, while also joining the faculty of the Purdue Department of Chemistry in 1975. Dr. Cooks became a full professor at Purdue in 1980, and was named the Henry Bohm Hass Distinguished Professor of Chemistry in 1990, while also serving as adjunct faculty for the Beijing Institute of Technology since 1987.

Throughout his distinguished career, Dr. Cooks has been interested in many aspects of mass spectrometry, including fundamental phenomena associated with collisions of ions and molecules in the gas phase and at surfaces. He has for many years been engaged in research using tandem mass spectrometry, and is currently employing ion/molecule reactions to recognize functional groups in polyfunctional compounds and collision-induced dissociation of cluster ions to measure such fundamental thermochemical properties as proton affinities. His interests also include on-line monitoring of bioreactors using membrane introduction mass spectrometry and trace environmental analysis using the same procedure.

Several new types of mass spectrometers have been constructed in Dr. Cooks’ laboratory, including hybrid sector/quadrupole instruments and advanced ion trap instruments capable of MS/MS experiments. His laboratory has made significant contributions to the development of desorption ionization and tandem mass spectrometry as methods of analysis of complex mixtures. His work on the kinetic method of measuring thermochemical quantities is one outcome of his interest in ion structure and fragmentation mechanism. He has received research awards for chemical instrumentation, tandem mass spectrometry and analytical chemistry and has been recognized for his service to mass spectrometry, both nationally and internationally.

Thus far in his career, Dr. Cooks has authored over 650 publications, delivered approximately 95 named and plenary lectures, served as PhD thesis advisor to 92 students and post-graduate mentor to 26, and currently serves on a number of editorial boards, including the Journal of Mass Spectrometry and the International Journal of Mass Spectrometry.

Honors:

• 1981 - Fulbright Senior Fellow, University of Warwick
• 1984 - American Chemical Society, Analytical Division, Award in Chemical Instrumentation
  
• 1985 - Thomson Medal for Mass Spectrometry
  
• 1987 - Honorary Member of Chinese Mass Spectrometry Society
  
• 1990 - Herbert Newby McCoy Award
  
• 1991 - Frank H. Field & Joe L. Franklin Award, (ACS Award for Mass Spectrometry)
  
• 1997 - Fisher Award (ACS Award for Analytical Chemistry)
  
• 1999 - Honorary Life Member, British Mass Spectrometry Society
  
• 2000 - Pittsburgh Spectroscopy Award, Spectroscopy Society of Pittsburgh, PITTCON
  
• 2000 - Association for Laboratory Automation, Achievement Award
  
• 1981-1999 - Highly Cited Chemist among 98 chemists worldwide, ISI Institute for Scientific Information

Selected publications by Dr. Cooks can be found under the publications section of the site