Thomas Szyperski, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Director, UB High-field NMR facility Chemistry Department University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

Dr. Szyperski was born Dec 13 1963 in Berlin (West), Germany. His interest in natural sciences was fostered early on by his participation at the XIII. and XIV. International Chemistry Olympiads in 1981 and 1982, where he was awarded a silver and a golden medal, respectively. After the obligatory German military service, Dr. Szyperski studied Biochemistry and Chemistry at the University of Tübingen and the Technical University of Munich in Germany, where he received his diploma in chemistry in 1988. Subsequently, he stayed at the University of Auckland in New Zealand as a scholar of the German Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes where his work focused on ab initio quantum chemistry. In 1992 and 1998, respectively, Dr. Szyperski received his Ph.D. and Habilitation in Biophysics at the Institute for Molecular Biology and Biophysics at the ETH Zürich in Switzerland. His Ph.D. thesis was awarded the ‘Medaille der ETH’ for outstanding dissertations. In 1998, he was appointed Associate Professor for Chemistry and Biochemistry at the State University of New York at Buffalo, where he also acts as the director of the University’s high-field NMR facility.

His current research contributes to the development of biological NMR methods for structural genomics, the establishment of NMR-based structural biology in supercooled water and metabolic profiling by NMR in support of biotechnology research. In 1999, Dr. Szyperski received a Research Innovation Award from the Research Corporation. Dr. Szyperski has published more than 70 research articles and is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Structural and Functional Genomics. He acts as a reviewer for 16 scientific journals as well as for NIH, NSF and the Welcome Trust, and has received grant support from NIH, NSF, the Research Corporation and NATO. Dr. Szyperski is a co-founder of the ETH spin-off company Metabolic Concepts.

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