Thomas Meersmann 23rd International Society of Magnetic Resonance Conference 2023

Thomas Meersmann

Prof. Meersmann received his Chemistry Diploma (Chemie-Diplom) from the University of Tübingen, Germany in 1993 for his thesis based on his spin-exchange optical pumping (SEOP) work in the group of Professor Alex Pines at the University of California, Berkeley. He obtained his Ph.D. in 1997 at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, working on NMR coherence transfer and relaxation in the group of Professor Geoffrey Bodenhausen. As a research fellow at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (NHMFL) in Tallahassee, Florida he discovered the magnetic field induced quadrupolar splitting in 131Xe. In 1998, he re-joined the group of Professor Alex Pines at the University of California and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, now as a As a Feodor Lynen Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, working on further aspects of SEOP and its applications. He was appointed a faculty position at the Chemistry Department of Colorado State University in 2000 and became a tenured Associate Professor in 2006. In 2009, he was offered his current Professorship in Translational Imaging at the School of Medicine of the University of Nottingham, UK and, in 2018 also joined the Department of Electric and Electronic Engineering at the University of Nottingham at Ningbo, China. His work focuses on hyperpolarized noble gases and MRI contrast development.