Current Meldrum Lab people
Coffee order: Large iced coffee
Favorite animal: Otter
Dream job: Small town bakery owner
Best part of working in the Meldrum Lab: The people are all really interesting and helpful, and it is great to learn from them!
Current projects: Working on implementing dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) on single-sided NMR
Favorite ice cream: Cotton Candy
Dream job: Physician
Best part of working in the Meldrum Lab: Everyone is very welcoming and enthusiastic about their respective projects.
Current projects: I will be working on creating a spatially localized polarizing agent media that will increase signal intensity for our DNP NMR.
Coffee order: Large iced latte
Favorite animal: Cow
Dream job: Broadway pit musician
Best part of working in the Meldrum Lab: Working with some of the best people inside and out of the lab
Current projects: Verifying molecular dynamic simulations
Favorite ice cream: Strawberry
Favorite animal: Axolotl
Dream job: Professional food taster
Best part of working in the Meldrum Lab: The passion that everyone has for their projects and the diverse backgrounds of skills and knowledge that everyone brings!
Current projects: I’ll be working on using Hall sensors to map the magnetic field for our magnets and shimming magnets to make them more homogeneous.
Coffee order: Vanilla almond milk latte with an extra shot
Dream job: Lab director for a big material or pharmaceutical company
Best part of working in the Meldrum Lab: The people and the atmosphere make it a great place to have fun and learn something new.
Current projects: I am working on using NMR to analyze epoxies and curing agents.
Interested in joining the Meldrum lab? Please reach out to Tyler or any group member to learn more. Importantly, you do not need to have a background in magnets, materials, or NMR to join and learn with the group.
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Collaborators
We are fortunate to work on interdisciplinary projects with fantastic collaborators. Here are a few of our science friends:
- Barbara Berrie (National Gallery of Art; Washington, DC)
- Gwendoline Fife, René Hoppenbrouwers (SRAL, Maastricht, The Netherlands)
- Prof. Ville Telkki (The University of Oulu, Finland)
- Prof. Christian Hilti (Texas A&M University)
- Prof. Kristina Keating (Rutgers University)
- Metna, Co. (Lansing, MI)
- Prof. Daphna Shimon (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)