David C. Muddiman
North Carolina State University, USA

David C. Muddiman is currently a Professor of Chemistry, Founder and Director of the W.M. Keck FT-ICR Mass Spectrometry Laboratory at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC.  Prior to moving his research group to North Carolina State University, David was a Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Director of the Mayo Proteomics Research Center at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine in Rochester, MN.  Prior to his appointment at the Mayo Clinic, David was an Associate Professor of Chemistry at Virginia Commonwealth University where he began his academic career as an assistant professor in 1997. David was born in Long Beach, CA in 1967 but spent most of his formidable years in a small town in Pennsylvania.  David received his B.S. in chemistry from Gannon University (Erie, PA) in 1990 and his Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from the University of Pittsburgh in 1995 under the auspices of David M. Hercules.  He then was a Department of Energy Postdoctoral Fellow at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory working with Richard D. Smith from 1995-1997.  David has served on over 35 NIH study sections since 1999 and reviews for over 30 scientific journals.  He has been a guest editor for Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, Mass Spectrometry Reviews and the Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry.  He currently serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of Mass Spectrometry Reviews, Journal of Proteome Research, Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, and the Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry.  He also serves on the advisory board of the National Science Foundation FT-ICR Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University, the Yale/NIDA Neuroproteomics Center, Yale University and was elected to the Board of Director of the United States Human Proteome Organization.  His group has presented over 300 invited lectures and presentations at national and international meetings, has published over 130 peer-reviewed papers, and has received one US patent with two more pending.  He is the recipient of the 2004 ACS Arthur F. Findeis Award, the 1999 American Society for Mass Spectrometry Research Award, and the Safford Award, University of Pittsburgh, for Excellence in Teaching.