There are three members of staff in the NMR Service.

Dr Peter Grice has overall responsibility for NMR as well as other sections in the analytical methods grouping.

Duncan Howe and Andrew Mason are the two technicians with over 15 years experience each on the departmental instruments.  We run the service spectrometers in B28, and provide a service on the other instruments for researchers without group users.  We also look after the day to day requirements of the magnets such as Nitrogen fills, and are able to fix many of the smaller problems that can occur with these systems.  We liaise with the manufacturer of our instruments - Bruker - to arrange engineer visits and coordinate repairs as required.  If you require NMR solvents or tubes, then see us in B28 where we will be delighted to help you.  We can also help you to choose experiments to solve your particular problem, and can offer advice when your spectra are not what you expect.  We deal with requests for NMR experiments from researchers in other University departments, collaborate on research projects*, and coordinate work with scientists from external companies.  To send an email to all three of us please use the address nmr@ch.cam.ac.uk.

If we are not in B28, you can probably find one of us in the other rooms on the basement corridor.  Please come and see us if you need information or assistance with anything NMR related.  We don't bite and it may save you some time!

*A collaborative research paper published in 2009:

Gallagher CN, Carpenter KL, Grice P, Howe DJ, Mason A, Timofeev I, Menon DK, Kirkpatrick PJ, Pickard JD, Sutherland GR and Hutchinson PJ. (2009). The human brain utilizes lactate via the tricarboxylic acid cycle: a 13C‐labelled microdialysis and high‐resolution nuclear magnetic resonance study. Brain. 132:2839‐2849