Vicki Hopper Wysocki is an American scientist. She is a professor and the current chair of the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry at

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Education

Vicki Wysocki received a BS in chemistry from

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in 1982. She received a PhD in chemistry at

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in 1987, under the supervision of R. Graham Cooks. She did post-doctoral work at Purdue University and at the

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as a National Research Council Fellow.

Career

Wysocki became an assistant professor at

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in 1990, and an associate professor in 1994. In 1996, she continued her career at

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, and she was promoted to professor in 2000. She was the chair of the department of chemistry and biochemistry at University of Arizona. She is a professor and an Ohio Eminent Scholar at Ohio State University, and the director of the Campus Chemical Instrument Center. She was the treasurer (1998–2000), vice president for programs (2014–2016), president (2016–2018) and past president (2018–2020) of the

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. She served on the editorial board of Analyst, and she served as an associate editor of

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. She serves as the editor-in-chief of the ''

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'', she serves on the Honorary Board of '' International Journal of Mass Spectrometry''.

Awards

* 2023 The Analytical Scientist The Power List - Leaders and Advocates * 2022

International Mass Spectrometry Foundation The International Mass Spectrometry Foundation (IMSF) is a non-profit scientific organization in the field of mass spectrometry. It operates the International Mass Spectrometry Society, which consists of 37 member societies and sponsors the Inter ...

Thomson Medal Award * 2022

American Chemical Society The American Chemical Society (ACS) is a scientific society based in the United States that supports scientific inquiry in the field of chemistry. Founded in 1876 at New York University, the ACS currently has more than 155,000 members at all ...

Division of Analytical Chemistry Award in Chemical Instrumentation * 2021 The Analytical Scientist The Power List * 2019 The Analytical Scientist The Power List * 2019 German Mass Spectrometry Society (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Massenspektrometrie, DGMS) Wolfgang Paul Lecture * 2017 American Chemical Society Frank H. Field and Joe L. Franklin Award for Outstanding Achievement in Mass Spectrometry * 2013 Purdue University Department of Chemistry Outstanding Alumni Award * 2009

John B. Fenn Award for a Distinguished Contribution in Mass Spectrometry *1992 American Society for Mass Spectrometry Research Award

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Wysocki, Vicki Purdue University alumni Living people Mass spectrometrists Ohio State University faculty Year of birth missing (living people) American women chemists American women academics 21st-century American women