Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy
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Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy is a professor at Florida State University, where he also serves as a scientist with the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory. In 2018, he was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.[1]
He received a Ph.D. in chemistry from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in 1990. He is graduated in Chemistry of 1984 batch from V.O.C. Arts & Science College, Tuticorin, Tamil Nadu.[citation needed]
Career
His main area of research is the development of solid-state NMR and its applications to non-soluble, non-crystalline chemical and biological solids.[2][3] He is known for the development of solid-state NMR methods (such as USEME, PISEMA, PITANSEMA, HIMSELF, etc.)[4] and as a researcher of membrane-associated peptides and proteins, an organizer of international symposia, and author of a book on NMR Spectroscopy of biological solids.[5][6] He was also involved in the characterization of new nanomaterials.[7] He teaches Chemistry, Biophysics and NMR to undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Michigan.
Books
- NMR Spectroscopy of Biological Solids, 2005, Publisher: CRC Press, ISBN 1-57444-496-4
- Thermotropic Liquid Crystals: Recent Advances (editor), 2007, Publisher: Springer; ISBN 1-4020-5327-4
