Professor Martin F. Jarrold

Martin F. Jarrold was born and raised in England. He obtained his undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Warwick, and then came to the United States as a NATO Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Santa Barbara. After several years in Santa Barbara, he joined the Physics Research Division of AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey. His work at Bell Laboratories focused on determining the physical and chemical properties of semiconductor clusters. He became a Professor in the Chemistry Department at Northwestern University in 1992, and Dow Chemical Company Research Professor in 2000. While at Northwestern he worked on advanced mass spectrometry based methods to study peptides and proteins. In the summer of 2002 he moved to Indiana University as Professor and Robert & Marjorie Mann Chair in the Chemistry Department.