Paul S. Cremer (born 1967) is an American chemist in physical and analytical chemistry at biological interfaces.

Education and academic career

Cremer graduated from

University of Wisconsin-Madison A university () is an institution of tertiary education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. ''University'' is derived from the Latin phrase , which roughly means "community of teachers and scholars". Uni ...

with a BA in 1990, completed his PhD at

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California), is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after t ...

in 1996, and completed postdoctoral work at

Stanford University Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University, is a Private university, private research university in Stanford, California, United States. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford (the eighth ...

(1996-1998). Cremer joined the faculty in the chemistry department, Texas A&M University in 1998. He is known for his work in

Hofmeister series The Hofmeister series or lyotropic series is a classification of ions in order of their lyotrophic properties, which is the ability to salt out or salt in proteins. The effects of these changes were first worked out by Franz Hofmeister, who s ...

and supported

lipid bilayers The lipid bilayer (or phospholipid bilayer) is a thin polar membrane made of two layers of lipid molecules. These membranes form a continuous barrier around all cells. The cell membranes of almost all organisms and many viruses are made of a l ...

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/ref> He is also interested in nanofabrication,

sum-frequency generation Sum-frequency generation (SFG) is a second order nonlinear optical process based on the mixing of two input photons at frequencies \omega_1 and \omega_2 to generate a third photon at frequency \omega_3. As with any \chi^ optical phenomenon in nonl ...

and biosensing. Cremer joined the faculty in the chemistry department, Penn State University, in 2013. He continues his research in the lipid bilayer and

protein folding Protein folding is the physical process by which a protein, after Protein biosynthesis, synthesis by a ribosome as a linear chain of Amino acid, amino acids, changes from an unstable random coil into a more ordered protein tertiary structure, t ...

References

External links

Cremer lab website

Google Scholar Profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Cremer, Paul American chemists Analytical chemistry University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni Living people University of California, Berkeley alumni Stanford University alumni Pennsylvania State University faculty 1967 births