Speakers

Alexander Barnes develops and deploys new technology and methods in magnetic resonance. He earned his PhD from MIT where he learned DNP, MAS NMR, and how to build MAS NMR probes and gyrotrons from Robert Griffin and Richard Temkin. He started his assistant professorship at Washington University in 2012 where he developed frequency agile gyrotrons for chirped DNP and electron decoupling, and performed the first MAS DNP within intact cells. In 2019 he was appointed a full professor at ETH Zurich where he continues to develop NMR and DNP methods and technology with applications to in-cell NMR and functional materials. His current focus is on developing handheld 40 Tesla magnets for high resolution NMR and pulsed DNP.