Appointments

• Associate Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, August 2004 to present

• Visiting Professor, Proteomics and Signal Transduction, Max-Planck Institut für Biochemie, Martinsried bei München, Germany, October 05 to October 2006

• Graduate Faculty of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Minnesota, November 2001 to present.

• Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, August 1998 to 2004

• Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, 1992-1994 (Advisor: Norman Dovichi)

• Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Physiology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, 1990-1992 (Advisors: Dennis Valenzeno and Merrill Tarr)

• Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, 1990 (Advisor: Dr. Roger Stephens)

• Licenciatura en Química, Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, Guatemala City, Guatemala, 1985 (Advisors: Sergio Aragon, SFSU and Elvira de Mejia, UNAM)

Honors and memberships

• NIH EBT Review Study Session, Permanent Member, October 2007 -

• Fesler-Lampert Chair in Aging Studies, Center on Aging, University of Minnesota, July 2007- June 2008.

• Guest Editor, special issue on “Single Cell Analysis,” Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry 387, January 2007.

• Editorial Board, The Open Analytical Chemistry Journal, 2007 to present.

• Member, Cancer Center at the University of Minnesota, November 2006 to present.

• Advisory Board, Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, 2004 to present.

• Member, Advisory Board to the Center for Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics, University of Minnesota, 2004 to present.

• KO2 NIH Career Award, 2003 - 2008

• Preceptor, MD/Ph.D. Program, Medical School, University of Minnesota, October 2002.

• A-Page Advisory Panel, Analytical Chemistry, 2001 - 2003.

• 2001 Distinguished Mentor Award, President’s Distinguished Faculty Mentor Program, University of Minnesota, 2001.

• Research Innovation Award, Research Corporation, 2000.