Welcome to the Murray Group web server at the Louisiana State UniversityDepartment of Chemistry. The group specializes in mass spectrometry using laser desorption and ablation for sampling and ionization.
Research Areas
- Aerosol MALDI
- Atomic Force Microscopy Tip Enhanced Laser Ablation
- Emory University
- Internet Resources
- Laser Ablation Ambient Sampling
- Laser Ablation and Ionization Fundamentals
- MALDI Microfluidics
- Mass Spectrometry Applications
Biography
Kermit K. Murray is the Roy Paul Daniels Professor of Chemistry at Louisiana State University. He was born in Oakland, California and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and graduated from Concord High School in 1978. He obtained his B.S. degree in Chemistry with high honors at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1982 and was the Chemistry valedictorian. He received his Ph.D. in Chemical Physics at the University of Colorado in 1988, working with Professor W. Carl Lineberger on the chemistry and spectroscopy of negative ions. He went on to postdoctoral research on infrared spectroscopy at Rice University with Professor Robert F. Curl and at Texas A&M University with Professor David H. Russell, where he developed novel spray ionization methods for MALDI mass spectrometry. In 1994, he became an assistant professor at Emory University before moving to Louisiana State University in 2001. His research focuses on instrument development for mass spectrometry using lasers for sampling and imaging of complex biological samples. He has collaborated in three Small Business Administration projects through the National Institutes of Health to develop laser sampling and imaging systems for biomedical research applications. He is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Mass Spectrometry, Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, Analytica Chimica Acta, and the Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry. He is a past board member of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry and a recipient of the ASMS Research Award. In 2013, he was elected an IUPAC Fellow for development of mass spectrometry terminology and on-line resources.