Martin Kirk
Martin L. Kirk is Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at The University of New Mexico. His research program focuses on (1) spectroscopic, synthetic, biochemical, and computational studies of pyranopterin molybdenum enzymes and models, (2) detailed magnetic, spectroscopic, and theoretical studies of spin containing molecular systems in the context of molecular electronics, and (3) optical generation of multiple spin qubits for quantum information science (QIS) applications. He was a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow (1990-1993, Stanford University) with E. I. Solomon, completed his Ph.D. in 1990 at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with W. E. Hatfield, and obtained his B.S. in 1985 at West Virginia University performing undergraduate research with Naresh Dalal. He was guest Editor (with Prof. D. A. Shultz) for Molecular Spintronics: a web themed issue of Chemical Communications and an Editor of Molybdenum and Tungsten Enzymes; a three volume Metallobiology Series sponsored by the Royal Society of Chemistry. Prof. Kirk has served on the Editorial Board of Inorganic Chemistry, was a prior ACS Inorganic Division Chair of the Bioinorganic Subdivision, and a Chair of the Gordon Research Conference on Molybdenum and Tungsten Enzymes. He was a former Chair of UNM’s Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and Adjunct Professor of Chemistry at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. Prof. Kirk is currently a member of UNM’s Center for High Technology Materials, Center for Computational Chemistry, and Center for Quantum Information and Control.
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