R. Graham Cooks

R. Graham Cooks

Academic Preparation

  • B.Sc. University of Natal, South Africa 1961
  • M.S. University of Natal, South Africa 1963
  • Ph.D. University of Natal, South Africa (Frank L. Warren, advisor) 1965
  • Ph.D. Cambridge University, Great Britain (Peter Sykes, advisor) 1967

 

Professional Experience and Visiting Positions

  • Post-doctoral Fellow, Cambridge University (Dudley H. Williams, advisor) 1967-1968
  • Assistant Professor, Chemistry Dept., Kansas State Univ. 1968-1971
  • Co-Director of Mass Spectrometry Center, Purdue Univ. 1971-1973
  • Director of Mass Spectrometry Center, Purdue University 1973-1986
  • Associate Professor of Chemistry, Purdue University 1975-1979
  • Professor of Chemistry, Purdue University 1980-present
  • Fulbright Senior Fellow, University of Warwick 1981
  • Adjunct Professor, Beijing Institute of Technology 1987-present
  • Head, Analytical Division, Purdue University 1989-1996, 2006-2009
  • Adjunct Professor, Beijing Institute of Technology 1987-2000
  • Henry Bohn Hass Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, Purdue University 1990-present
  • Guest Professor, Jilin University, Changchun, China, 2002–2003
  • Honorary Professor, Jilin University, 2003-2007
  • Guest Professor, Chemistry Dept., Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 2004-2007
  • Co-Director, Center for Analytical Instrumentation Development, Purdue University, 2008-present
  • Distinguished Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India, 2013-present
  • Honorary Professor, East China Institute of Techonology, Nanchang, China, 2016-present
  • Guest Professor, Nanjing, China, 2018-present 

 

Graduate Education

  • Served as major professor to 150 PhD students.
  • More than 300 graduate students, post-doctorals and visiting scientists have worked and published with Graham Cooks. 

 

Citation

  • h-index 109 (ISI Web of Science) – among ca. 100 most cited chemists worldwide
  • 51,000 citations
  • Google Scholar: 1525 articles; 75,167 citations; h-index 128

 

Honors

  • Elsie Ballot Scholar, Cambridge University 1965-1967
  • Fulbright Senior Fellow, University of Warwick 1981
  • Indiana Lions Club Purdue Cancer Research Award 1983
  • President, American Society for Mass Spectrometry 1984-1986
  • Chemical Instrumentation Award, ACS, Analytical Division, 1984
  • Thomson Medal for International Service to Mass Spectrometry 1985
  • Purdue Sigma Xi Faculty Research Award 1986
  • Honorary Member of Chinese Mass Spectrometry Society 1987
  • Adjunct Professor, Beijing Institute of Technology 1987-present
  • Herbert Newby McCoy Award 1990
  • ACS Award for Mass Spectrometry (Frank H. Field & Joe L. Franklin Award), 1991
  • ACS Award for Analytical Chemistry (Fisher Award), 1997
  • D. Sc. (Honoris causa), University of Natal, 1999
  • Honorary Life Member, British Mass Spectrometry Society, 1999
  • Pittsburgh Spectroscopy Award, Spectroscopy Society of Pittsburgh, PITTCON, 2000
  • Life Member, British Mass Spectrometry Society, 2000
  • Life Member, Indian Mass Spectrometry Society, 2000
  • Association for Laboratory Automation, 2000 ALA Achievement Award, 2000
  • Founding President, International Mass Spectrometry Society, 1997-1998
  • Honor issue, Int. J. Mass Spectrom., 2001
  • Guest Professor, Jilin University, Changchun, China, 2002-2003
  • Honorary Professor, Jilin University, 2003 -
  • Honorary Professor, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, 2003 -
  • Guest Professor, Chemistry Department, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 2004-2007
  • Outstanding Faculty Commercialization Award, Purdue University, 2005
  • Alexander M. Cruickshank Lecturer, Gordon Conferences, 2005
  • National Science Foundation MPS Distinguished Lecture, 2006
  • Plenary Lecturer, Mass Spectrometry Day, Swedish Mass Spectrometry Society, Stockholm, March 27, 2006
  • Max T. Rogers Distinguished Lecturer, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, April 18, 19, 2006
  • Centenial Distinguished Lecturer, University of Texas, Austin, TX, April 13, 2006
  • Anna Naff Symposium Lecturer, Univeristy of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, March 31, 2006
  • Plenary Lecture, DOE 2006 Analysis Contractorsòù Meeting, Warrenton, VA, April 24, 2006 Invited Lecturer 31st Conference on Reaction Mechanisms, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, June 26-30, 2006
  • Distinguished Contribution Award, American Society for Mass Spectrometry, 2006
  • Certificate of Achievement, Indiana Health Industry Forum, Innovention 2006
  • College of Engineering Faculty Award of Excellence (team award, jointly with others), 2007
  • University of Florida, Distinguished Visiting Professor, March 2007
  • Honorary Life Member, Mass Spectrometry Society of Japan, 2007
  • Visiting Professor, Institute for Ion Physics, Innsbruck, Austria, October, 2007
  • Eastern Analytical Conference inaugural Award for Outstanding Achievements in Mass Spectrometry, 2007
  • Plenary Lecturer, Nordic Mass Spectrometry Conference, Savonlinna, Finland, August 28th, 2007
  • Visiting Professor, Institute for Ion Physics, Innsbruck, Austria, October, 2007
  • Plenary Lecture, Isranalytica 2008, Tel Aviv, Israel, 2008
  • Focus Honor Issue J. Amer. Soc. Mass Spectrom., vol. 19, no. 2, February, 2008
  • Gomberg Lecture, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, February 2008
  • Francine and Michael Saferstein Memorial Lecture, Barnett Institute, Northeastern University, Boston, April 2008
  • Introductory Lecture, 56th ASMS Annual Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics, Denver, CO, June, 2008
  • Visiting Professor, Memorial University, Newfoundland, Canada, July 2008
  • Maccoll Lecture, British Mass Spectrometry Society, September, 2008
  • Robert Boyle Medal in Analytical Chemistry 2008, Royal Society of Chemistry, May, 2009
  • Ralph N. Adams Award, the Pittsburgh Conference, March, 2009
  • Graduate Mentoring Award, College of Science, Purdue University, February 2010
  • Elected Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Science, May 2010
  • 2010 Distinguished Lectureship Award, ACS NJ Mass Spectrometry Discussion Group
  • Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award, Purdue University, 2011
  • Centenary Prize, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2011
  • Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, January 2011
  • Sigma Xi Monie A. Ferst Award,October 2011
  • Centennial Prize, Royal Society of Chemistry, November 2011
  • Cotton Medal for Excellence in Chemical Research, American Chemical Society, April 2012
  • Visiting Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Warwick University, UK, December 2012
  • Camille & Henry Dreyfus Prize in the Chemical Sciences, 2013
  • Distinguished Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India, 2013
  • Nobel Laureate Signature Award for Graduate Education in Chemistry (preceptor) ACS, 2014
  • Elected Fellow, National Academy of Inventors, 2014
  • Elected Fellow, US National Academy of Sciences, 2015
  • Focus Honor Issue, J. Am. Chem. Soc., vol. 28, no 6, June 2017
  • Aston Medal, British Mass Spectrometry Society, 2017
  • Waters Symposium, Pittcon, recognizing Ambient Ionization, 2018
  • China International Science and Technology Cooperation Award, 2019
  • ACS Analytical Chemistry J. Calvin Giddings Award for Excellence in Education, 2020

 

Lectureships and Special Lectures

  • Distinguished Lecturer, Montana State University 1982
  • Distinguished Speaker Series, University of Utah 1982
  • Plenary Lecturer, FDA Symposium on Analytical Methodology 1982
  • Plenary Lecturer, La Spettrometria di Massa in Chimica Organica, Farmaceutica e Biologica, Italian Chemical Society, Messina, Sicily 1983
  • Plenary Lecturer, Triennial Exxon Worldwide MS Symposium E. Brunswick, NJ 1983
  • Plenary Lecturer, Annual Conference, American Society for Pharmacognosy, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS, 1983
  • Special Lecturer, University Della Calabria, Italy 1983
  • Plenary Lecturer, Annual Conference, SGMS-GAMS, Lausanne, Switzerland 1984
  • Plenary Lecturer, Annual Conference, British Society for Mass Spectrometry 1984
  • Boomer Lecturer, University of Alberta 1984
  • Distinguished Lecturer, Frontiers in Chemical Research Texas A&M University 1984
  • Plenary Lecturer, 1st International Beijing Conference and Exhibition on Instrumental Analysis, Beijing, China 1985
  • Plenary Lecturer, Annual Conference, ACFAS, Chicoutimi, Quebec, Canada 1985
  • Plenary Lecturer, Mass Spectrometry Conference, Gesellschaft fur Biotechnologische Forschung, Braunschweig, Germany 1985
  • Plenary Lecturer, Incontro di Specttrometria di Massa, CNR, Padova, Italy 1985
  • Special Lecturer, Elving Memorial Symposium, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 1985
  • Visiting Lecturer, University of Campinas, Brazil 1986
  • Plenary Lecturer, Triennial Exxon Worldwide MS Symposium, East Brunswick, NJ 1986
  • Plenary Lecturer, International Workshop on Ion/Molecule Reactions in Applied Mass Spectrometry, Societe Francaise de Spectrometrie de Masse, Versailles, France 1986
  • Plenary Lecturer, Annual Conference, Societe Francaise Mass Spectrometrie, Grenoble, France 1986
  • Plenary Lecturer, Encontro Latino-Americano de Expectrometria de Masses, Rio de Janiero, Brazil 1986
  • Plenary Lecturer, Asilomar Conference on Mass Spectrometry Asilomar, CA 1986
  • Special Invited Lecturer, 10th International Conference on Accelerator Mass Spectrometry, Ontario-on-the-Lake Canada 1987
  • Special Lecturer and Installation as Honorary Head, Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China 1987
  • Visiting Lecturer, Josef Stefan Institute, Llubjana, Yugoslavia 1987
  • Plenary Lecturer, Incontro di Spettrometria di Massa CNR, Padova, Italy 1987
  • Plenary Lecturer, 3rd Workshop on Biomedical and Environmental Mass Spectrometry, Italian Chemical Society, Laghi di Sibara, Italy 1987
  • Plenary Lecturer, Incontro di Spettrometria di Massa CNR, Padova, Italy 1988
  • Summer Lecturer, Dept of Chemistry, University of Colorado 1988
  • Plenary Lecturer, Biennial Conference, Australian/New Zealand Society for Mass Spectrometry, Brisbane, Australia 1988
  • Plenary Lecturer, 36th ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics, San Francisco, CA 1988
  • Plenary Lecturer, 4th National Symposium on Mass Spectrometry, Indian Society for Mass Spectrometry, Bangalore, India 1988
  • Plenary Lecturer, 11th International Triennial Conference on Mass Spectrometry, Bordeaux, France 1988
  • J.J. Neckers Lecturer, Hope College, Holland, MI 1989
  • Procter & Gamble Lecturer in Surface Science, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 1989
  • Frontiers in Chemistry Lecturer, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 1989
  • Plenary Lecturer, International Symposium on Applied Mass Spectrometry in the Health
  • Sciences, Barcelona, Spain 1990
  • McCoy Distinguished Lecturer, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 1990
  • Plenary Lecturer, European Meeting on Tandem Mass Spectrometry, University of Manchester Inst. of Science and Technology, Manchester, United Kingdom, 1990 Roland Frei Memorial Lecturer, 7th Montreux Symposium on Hyphenated Techniques, Montreux, Switzerland, International Association of Environmental Analytical Chemistry 1990
  • Barnett Lecturer, Northeastern University, Boston 1991
  • Plenary Lecturer, 12th International Mass Spectrometry Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 1991
  • Willard Lecturer, University of Michigan 1991
  • Plenary Lecturer, Applied Biosystems, Indianapolis 1991
  • Plenary Lecturer, Symposium on Analyticla Chemistry, Kemidagarna Finnish Chemical Congress, Helsinki, Finland 1991
  • Plenary Lecturer, University of Oulu, Sweden 1991
  • Ridder Lecturer, University of Miami, Oxford, OH 1992
  • Clark Lecturer, West Virginia University, Morgantown 1992
  • Plenary Lecturer, Korean Mass Spectrometry Society Meeting, Seoul, Korea 1992
  • Plenary Lecturer, 9th International Conference on Methods in Protein Sequence Analysis, Otsu, Japan 1992
  • Plenary Lecturer, International Conference on Biological Mass Spectrometry, Kyoto, Japan 1992
  • Plenary Lecturer, Science Innovation '93, Boston, Massachusetts 1993
  • Fassel Lecturer, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 1993
  • Keynote Lecturer, International Mass Spectrometry Conference, Budapest, Hungary 1994
  • W. J. Chute Lecturer, Dalhouse University, Halifx, Nova Scotia, Canada 1994
  • Plenary Lecturer, American Society for Mass Spectrometry, Atlanta, Georgia 1995
  • Plenary Lecturer, International Mass Spectrometry Conference, Tampere, Finland 1997
  • Fisher Award Lecture, American Chemical Society, San Francisco, CA, April 14, 1997
  • John van Geuns Lecture, University of Amsterdam, May 12, 1998
  • Inaugural Gill Lecture, Indiana University, Bloomington, January 29, 1999
  • Wolfgang Paul Lecture, German Mass Spectrometry Society, Oldenburg, May 25th, 1999
  • Plenary Lecture, British Mass Spectrometry Society, Reading, September 13, 1999
  • Bayer Award Lecture, University of New Hampshire, Dover, October 14, 1999
  • Davis Memorial Lecture, University of New Orleans, March 10, 2000
  • Pittsburgh Spectroscopy Award Lecture, New Orleans, March 14, 2000
  • Plenary Lecturer, Italian Mass Spectrometry Society, Rimini, Italy, June 7 2000
  • American Laboratory Automation Award lecture, San Diego, July 12, 2000
  • Raymond S. Vogel Memorial Lecture, Urbana-Champaign, IL, November 1, 2000
  • Plenary Lecturer, 13th International Symposium on Chirality, Orlando, FL July 17 2001
  • Plenary Lecturer, Ninth International Beijing Conference and Exhibition on Instrumental Analysis, Beijing, October 17, 2001
  • Plenary Lecturer, Portuguese Chemical Society, Aveiro, Portugal, March 25-27, 2002
  • Plenary Lecturer, 50th Annual Meeting of the Mass Spectrometry Society of Japan, Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan, May 15-17, 2002
  • Plenary Lecturer, 50th ASMS Annual Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Applied Topics, Orlando, Fl, June 2-6, 2002
  • Conover Lecturer, Department of Chemistry, Vanderbilt University, TN, October 21, 2002
  • DOD Day demonstration (Association of American Universities Coalition for National Security), Trace Chemical Warfare Agent Detection in Air with a Hand-held Mass Spectrometery, Washington DC, July 10, 2002
  • Keynote Lecture, International Symposium on Advanced Analytical Techniques and Applications, Analytical Division Korean Chemical Society and Korean Society for Mass Spectrometry, Kyungnam University, Masan, Korea, November 4, 2002
  • McElvain Lecture, University of Wisconsin, Madision, WI, March 7, 2003
  • Dauben Lecturer, Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, May 22, 2003
  • Plenary Lecturer, SIMS XIV Conference, San Diego, CA, September 15, 2003
  • Inauguration Lecture at Jilin University, Changchun, China, October 23, 2003
  • Inauguration Lecture at Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Changchun, China, October 24, 2003
  • Keynote Lecture, Keystone Conference on Mass Spectrometry in Systems Biology, Santa Fe, NM, February 14th, 2004
  • NJMS Distinguished Lecture, New Jersey Mass Spectrometry Discussion Group, September 9, 2004
  • Plenary Lecture, Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry 2004, Quadriennial Conference of Chromatography and Mass Spectrometry, South African Chemical Institute, Buffelspoort, South Africa, October 18, 2004
  • Miniature Mass Spectrometer demonstration, National Science Foundation "Sensors" event,
  • Keck Center, Washington, DC, September 30, 2004
  • Inauguration Lecture as Guest Professor, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, November 1, 2004
  • Outstanding Commercialization Award for Purdue University Faculty Lecture, 2005, Purdue University, West Lafayette, February 1, 2004
  • Alexander M. Cruickshank Lecturer, Gordon Conference on Gaseous Ions:
  • Structures, Energetics & Reactions, Ventura, February 27-March 4, 2005
  • Inaugural Jefferson Lecture, Chemistry Department, University of Virginia, March 11, 2005
  • Plenary Lecture, 2nd Mass Spectrometry Conference applied to Chemical and Biological Warfare Agents, Amsterdam, April 18th 2005
  • Graduation Lecture, Chemistry Department, Kent State University, April 7, 2005
  • Plenary Lecture, British Mass Spectrometry Society, York, UK, September 6, 2005
  • Plenary Lecture, 1st Symposium de Chimie et Biologie Analytiques de la molécule au protéome , Montpellier, France, September 25, 2005
  • Annual Ernest C. Mercier Lecture in Entrepreneurial Chemistry, York University, October 11th, 2005
  • Plenary Lecture, 32nd FACSS Conference, Quebec City, Canada, October 13th, 2005
  • Plenary Lecture, Inaugural Conference of the Brazilian Society for Mass Spectrometry, Campinas, Brazil, November 21, 2005
  • MPS NSF Distinguished Lecture, National Science Foundation, February 27, 2006
  • Plenary Lecture, ASMS Distinguished Contribution Award, Seattle, May 30, 2006
  • Keynote Lecture, 17th International Mass Spectrometry Conference, August 31, 2006
  • Invited Lecturer, 7th Siena Meeting: From the Genone to the Proteome and Back Again, Siena, Italy, Sept 6, 2006
  • Roland Frei Lecture, 23rd LC/MS Montreux Symposium, Montreux, Switzerland, November 8, 2006
  • Plenary Lecture, Norwegian Society of Mass Spectrometry, Hafjell, Norway, January 22, 2007
  • Cherry Emerson Lecturer, Department of Chemistry, Georgia Tech, March 13, 2007
  • Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Florida, Gainsville, Fl, March 21-23, 2007
  • Plenary Lecturer, Annual Conference, Mass Spectrometry Society of Japan, Hiroshima, Japan, May 15th, 2007
  • Plenary Lecturer, Nordic Mass Spectrometry Conference, Savonlinna, Finland, August 28th, 2007
  • Invited Lecturer, Swiss Group on Mass Spectrometry, Interlaken, Switzerland, October 22-24, 2007
  • Visiting Professor, Institute for Ion Physics, Innsbruck, Austria, October, 2007
  • Invited Lecturer, IIT Mumbai, IIT Madras, IIT Delhi, CCMB Hyderabad, IISc, & other Indian Institutions, December 2007
  • Plenary Lecture, Isranalytica 2008, Tel Aviv, Israel, January 2008
  • Gomberg Lecture, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 2008
  • Francine and Michael Saferstein Memorial Lecture, Barnett Institute, Northeastern University, Boston, April 2008
  • Introductory Lecture, 56th ASMS Annual Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics, Denver, CO, June, 2008
  • Maccoll Lecture, British Mass Spectrometry Society, York, UK, September 2008
  • Job Lectures, Memorial University, St. John's, Newfoundland, July, 2008
  • Plenary Lecturer, NVMS International Conference, Rolduc, Netherlands, March, 2009
  • Plenary Lecturer, 18th International Mass Spectrometry Conference, Bremen, Germany, Sepember 2009
  • Plenary Lecturer, 3rd Brazilian Mass Spectrometry Meeting, Campinas, Brazil, December, 2009
  • Plenary Lecturer, LabAutomation 2010, Palm Springs, CA, Jan. 2010
  • Leland Wilson Endowed Lecturer, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa, October 2010
  • Plenary Lecturer, 2nd Asian and Oceanic Mass Spectrometry Conference/8th Korean Society for Mass Spectrometry, Busan, South Korea, August 18, 2011
  • Pittcon Lecturer, Japan Analytical Instrumentation Manufacturers Association, JAIMA EXPO 2011, Chiba,Japan, Septermber 2011
  • Plenary Lecturer, Congress of the French Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics Societies; Avignon, France; September, 2011XVIII, Riva del Garda, Italy, September 2011
  • Zhe Ke Zhen Distinguished Lecturer, Zhejiang University, China, October, 2011
  • Monie Ferst Award Lecture, Georgia Technical Institute, Atlanta, Georgia, October 2011
  • Danforth Lecture, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa, October 2011
  • Plenary Lecturer, 13th Conference on Instrumental Analysis, JAI, Barcelona, 2011
  • Centennial Prize Lectures, Royal Society of Chemistry, February 2012
  • Cotton Medal Lecture, American Chemical Society, April 2012
  • Werner Lecturer, University of Kansas, April 2012
  • Opening Lecture, Desorption 2012, Ebsdorfergrund, Germany, June 2012
  • Plenary Lecture, 19th International Mass Spectrometry Conference, Kyoto, Japan,September 2012
  • Pittcon Lectures, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Chemistry, October 2012
  • Squibb Lectures, University of North Carolina-Asheville, November 2012
  • Plenary Lecture, 6th Conference of the Spanish Society for Analytical Chemistry/13th Conference of the Spanish Society for Analytical Chemistry, June 2013
  • Plenary Lecture, 9th International Conference of the Metabolomics Society, Glasgow, July 2013
  • Plenary Lecture, 17th Brazilian Conference on Analytical Chemistry, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerias, Brazil, October 2013
  • Plenary Lecture, 15th Beijing Conference on Exhibition on Instrumental Analysis (BCEIA 2013) Beijing, China, October 2013
  • Chupka Lecture, Yale University, New Haven, CT, February 2014
  • PNNL Laboratory Director's Distingushed Lecture, Richland, WA, March 2014
  • Chair's Invited Lecture, British Mass Spectrometry Society, Alderly Park, Cheshire, April 2014
  • Plenary Lecture, Hong Kong Society of Mass Spectrometry, June 2014
  • Plenary Lecture, Analitka 2014, South African Chemical Institute, Parys, September 2014
  • Purnendu K. Daspuptra Lecturer, Texas Tech University, October 2014
  • J. Clarence Karcher Lecturer, University of Oklahoma, October 2014
  • G. F. Smith Memorial Lecture, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, November 2014
  • Keynote Lecture, Royal Australian Institute of Chemistry, Adelaide, December 2014
  • India-Purdue Inagural Lectural, IITMadras, JNCASR Bangalore, Ahmedabad University, IISER Mohali, January and February 2015
  • Swiss Chemical Society Lecturer, University of Basle, ETH Zurich, University of Zurich, University of Bonn, University of Geneva, March 2015
  • Pittsburgh Society for Analytical Chemistry Lectures, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, April 2015
  • Murray Lecture, University of Missouri, St. Louis, April 2015
  • Grenville Frost Visiting Lectureship, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, April 2015
  • Gilead Lecture, University of Alberta, Edmonton, April 2015
  • Derby Lecture, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, May 2015
  • Plenary Lecture, BCEIA, Beijing, China, October 2015
  • Plenary Lecture, Eastern Analytical, Somerset, NJ, Novermber 2015
  • Plenary Lecture, MS ACL, Palm Spring, CA, February 2016
  • Plenary Lecture, International Conference on Analytical Chemistry Frontiers, Xiamen, China, June 2016
  • Plenary Lecture, Mendeleev Conference, Russian Chemical Society and IUPAC, Ekaterinburg, Russia, October 2016
  • Larson Lecturer, St. Thomas College, St. Paul MN, October 2016
  • Invited Lecture, ASMS Asilomar Conference on Mass Spectrometery, October 2016
  • Reilly Lecturer, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN, January 2017
  • Invited Lecture, Gordon Research Conference on Gaseous Ion Structures and Reactions, Ventura, CA February 2017
  • Izatt Christensen Lecturer, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, March 2017
  • Invited Lecture, D. Wayne Goodman Symposium, Texas A&M University, May 2017
  • Chair's Invited Lecture, British Mass Spectrometry Society Meeting, Manchester, UK, September 2017
  • Morawetz Lectuer, NY Tandon School of Engineering, March 2018
  • Hermans Lecture, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, April 2018
  • Nanyan Lecture, Peking University, Shenzhen, China, April 2018
  • Keynote Speaker, Analitika 2018, Mookgophong, South Africa, July 2018
  • Keynote Lecturer, HPLC 2018, Washington DC, July 2018
  • Thomas Lecturer, University of Missouri at Columbia, November 2018
  • Keynote Speaker, Gordon Research Symposium, Ventura, CA, February 2019
  • Organizer, Symposium on Minature Mass Spectrometers, Pittcon, March 2019
  • Invited Speaker, Beckman Foundation Meeting on "Opportunities in Instrumentation", Nashville, TN, April 2019
  • Invited Lecturer, International Mass Spectrometry School, Sitges, Spain, September 2019
  • Kolthoff Lectures, University of Minnesota, MN, October 2019
  • Invited Lecture, Watanabe Symposium, Indana University, Bloomington, IN, October 2019
  • George Pimentel Lecture, University of California, Berkely, CA, October 2019
  • Invited Lecture, International Conferecne on Recent Advances in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, ICRAN 19, Stella Maris College, Chennai, December 2019
  • Invited Lecture, International Conference on Emerging Frontiers in Chemical Science, Farook College, Kozhikode, Kerala, India, December 2019
  • Invited Lecture, Asia Oceana Mass Spectrometry Conference 2020, Macao, January 2020

 

Books

  • R. G. Cooks, J. H. Beynon, R. M. Caprioli and G. R. Lester,
    "Metastable Ions", Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1973 (Reprinted as an American Society for Mass Spectrometry, Classic Book, 2004)
  • J. B. Lambert, H. F. Shurvell, L. Verbit, R. G. Cooks and George H. Stout,
  • "Organic Structural Analysis", Macmillan, New York, 1976
  • R. G. Cooks (ed.) "Collision Spectroscopy", Plenum Press, New York, 1978
  • J. B. Lambert, H. F. Shurvell, D. Lightner and R. G. Cooks, "Introduction to Organic Spectroscopy", Macmillan, New York, 1987 
  • Joseph B. Lambert, Herbert F. Shurvell, David A. Lightner, R. Graham Cooks, "Organic Structural Spectroscopy" Prentice Hall, 1998
  • Solutions Manual Organic Structural Spectroscopy, Joseph B. Lambert, Herbert F. Shurvell, David A. Lightner, R. Graham Cooks, 1998, Prentice Hall, 1998
  • R. G. Cooks and R. M. Caprioli, (eds) "JMS Special Features: 1995 - 1997, Wiley, Chichester, 1998
  • Organic Structural Spectroscopy, Joseph B. Lambert, Herbert F. Shurvell, David A. Lightner, R. Graham Cooks, 1998, Prentice Hall, 1998, 512 pp. ISBN 0-13-258690-8
  • Solutions Manual Organic Structural Spectroscopy, Joseph B. Lambert, Herbert F. Shurvell, David A. Lightner, R. Graham Cooks, 1998, Prentice Hall, 1998, 64 pp. ISBN 0-13-281403-X
  • JMS Special Features: 1995 - 1997, R. G. Cooks and R. M. Caprioli, Eds. Wiley, Chichester, 1998

 

Book Reviews and Book Prefaces

  • R.G. Cooks, Advances in Mass Spectrometry Vol. 11A and B. Proceedings of the 11th International Mass Spectrometry Conference held at Bordeaux, P. Longevialle (Ed.), Heyden and Son, London, 1989 for Rapid Commun. Mass Spectrom.
  • R.G. Cooks, Mass Spectrometry/Mass Spectrometry. Techniques and Applications of Tandem Mass Spectrometry, K.L. Busch, G.L. Glish and S.A. McLuckey, VCH Publishers, New York, 1988 for Int. J. Mass Spectrom. Ion Proc.
  • R.G. Cooks, Mass Spectrometry/Mass Spectrometry. Techniques and Applications of Tandem Mass Spectrometry, K.L. Busch, G.L. Glish and S.A. McLuckey, VCH Publishers, New York, 1988 for J. Nat. Prod.
  • R.G. Cooks, Quadrupole Storage Mass Spectrometry, R.E. March and Richard Hughes, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1989 for Anal. Chem.
  • R.G. Cooks, "Experimental Investigations of Factors Controlling the Collision Induced Dissociation Spectra of Peptide Ions in a Tandem Hybrid Mass Spectrometer", Int. J. Mass Spectrom. Ion Proc. (1989), 90, 211 for Chemtracts.
  • R.G. Cooks, Continuous-Flow Fast Atom Bombardment Mass Spectrometry, R.M. Caprioli, J.W. Wiley & Sons, Chichester/New York, 1990 for Anal. Biochem.
  • R.G. Cooks, Methods in Enzymology. J.A. McCloskey, Academic Press, San Diego, 1991
  • Preface to Medical Applications of Mass Spectrometry, Karoly Vekey, Andras Telekes and Akos Vertes, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2007
  • Preface to 2nd Edition, Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry, Richard Cole, Wiley, 2007

 

Patents

  • R. Graham Cooks, Michael S. Story, Gerhard Long and Peter Dobberstein, Hybrid Mass Spectrometer, US Patent 4,526,652, August 20, 1985
  • R. Graham Cooks, Mark E. Bier, Jennifer S. Brodbelt, James C. Tou, Lemoyne B. Westover, Capillary Membrane Interface for a Mass Spectrometer, US Patent 4,791,292, December 13, 1988
  • Mark E. Bier, R. Graham Cooks, George C. Stafford, Mass Spectrometer with In-Line Collision Surface Means, US Patent 5,026,987, June 25, 1991
  • R. Graham Cooks, Scott J. Bauer, Analyte Separation Process and Apparatus, US Patent Analyte Separation Process and Apparatus, US Patent 5,448,062, September 5, 1995.
  • Vladmir E. Frankevich, Manish H. Soni, Mario Mappi, Robert E. Santini, Jonathan W. Amy, R. Graham Cooks, Non-Destructive Ion Trap Mass Spectrometer and Method, US Patent 5,625,186, April 29, 1997
  • R. Graham Cooks, Ethan R. Badman, Zheung Ouyang, James M. Wells, Ion Trap Array Mass Spectrometer, US Patent 6,762,406, July 13, 2004
  • Zoltan Takats, R. Graham Cooks, Electrosonic Spray Ionization Method and Device for the Atmospheric Ionization of Molecules, US Patent 7,015,466, March 21, 2006
  • Zheng Ouyang, R. Graham Cooks, Multiplexed Mass Spectrometer, US Patent 7,157,699, January 2, 2007
  • Zoltan Takats, Bogdan Gologan, Justin M. Weisman, R. Graham Cooks, Method and System for Desorption Electrospray Ionzation, US Patent, 7,335,897, February 26, 2008
  • R. Graham Cooks, Zheng Ouyang, System and Method for the Preparation of Arrays of Biological or Other Molecules, US Patent 7,361,311, April 22, 2008
  • Thomas Blake, Zheung Ouyang, R. Graham Cooks, System and Method for Preparative Mass Spectrometry, US Patent 7,381,373, June 3, 2008
  • R. Graham Cooks, Bogdan Gologan, Zoltan Takats, Justin M. Wiseman, Ismael Cotte-Rodriguez, Method and System for Desorption Atmospheric Pressure Chemical Ionization, US Patent 7,544,933, June 9, 2009
  • Andre Venter, R. Graham Cooks, Enclosed Desorption Electrospray Ionization, US Patent 7,847,244, December 7, 2010
  • R. Graham Cooks, Wen-Ping Peng, Zheng Ouyang, Michael P. Goodwin, Methods and Apparatuses for Preparing a Surface to Have Catalytic Activity, US Patent 7,910,377, March 22, 2011
  • R. Graham Cooks, Bogdan Gologan, Zoltan Takats, Justin M. Wiseman, Ismael Cotte-Rodriguez, Method and System for Desorption Atmoshperic Pressure Chemical Ionization, US Patent 8,076,639, December 13, 2011
  • Zheng Ouyang, Liang Gao, R. Graham Cooks, Discontinuous Atmospheric Pressure Interface, US Patent 8,304,718, November 6, 2012
  • Wei Xu, William Chappell, Zheng Ouyang, R. Graham Cooks, Non-Destructive, Highe Order Harmonic Ion Motion Image Current Detection, US Patent 8,362,418, January 29, 2013
  • Zheng Ouyang, R. Graham Cooks, Sandilya V. Garimella, Jason D. Harper, Nicholas A. Charipar, Systems and Methods for Transfer of Ions for Analysis, US Patent 8,410,431, April 2, 2013
  • Nicholas Charipar, Jason D. Harper, Zheng Ouyang, R. Graham Cooks, Low Temperature Plasma Probe and Use Therof, US Patent 8,519,354, August 27, 2013
  • Zheng Ouyang, R. Graham Cooks, Sandilya V. Garimella, Jason D. Harper, Nicholas A. Charipar, Systems and Methods for Transfer of Ions for Analysis, US Patent 8,592,765, November 26, 2013
  • Zheng Ouyang, R. Graham Cooks, Sandilya V. Garimella, Jason D. Harper, Nicholas A. Charipar, Systems and Methods for Transfer of Ions for Analysis, US Patent 8,686,351, April 1, 2014
  • R. Graham Cooks, Ahmed M. Hamid, Alan K. Jarmusch, Zheng Ouyang, Mass Spectrometry Analysis of Microorganisms in Samples, US Patent 8,704,167, April 22, 2014
  • R. Graham Cooks, Ahmed M. Hamid, Alan K. Jarmusch, Zheng Ouyang, Ion Generation Using Wetted Porous Material, US Patent 7,766,178, July 1, 2014
  • Zheng Ouyang, Jason D. Harper, Nicholas Charipar, R. Graham Cooks, Low Temperature Plasma Probe and Methods and Use Thereof, US Patent 8,772,710, July 8, 2014
  • Zheng Ouyang, R. Graham Cooks, Sandilya V. Garimella, Jason D. Harper, Nicholas A. Charipar, Systems and Methods for Transfer of Ions for Analysis, US Patent 8,803,085, August 12, 2014
  • Zheng Ouyang, He Wang, Nicholas E. Manicke, R. Graham Cooks, Qian Yang, Jiangjiang Liu, Ion Generation Using Wetted Porous Material, US Patent 8,816,275, August 26, 2014
  • Zheng Ouyang, Liang Gao, R. Graham Cooks, Discontiuous Atmospheric Pressure Interface, US Patent 8,853,627, October 7, 2014
  • Zheng Ouyang, He Wang, Nicholas E. Manicke, R. Graham Cooks, Qian Yang, Jiangjiang Liu, Ion Generation Using Wetted Porous Material, US Patent 8,859,956, October 14, 2014
  • Zheng Ouyang, R. Graham Cooks, Keyong Hou, Systems and Methods and Sample Analysis, US Patent 8,859,957, October 14, 2014
  • Zheng Ouyang, He Wang, Nicholas E. Manicke, R. Graham Cooks, Qian Yang, Jiangjiang Liu, Ion Generation Using Wetted Porous Material, US Patent 8,859,958, October 14, 2014
  • Zheng Ouyang, He Wang, Nicholas E. Manicke, R. Graham Cooks, Qian Yang, Jiangjiang Liu, Ion Generation Using Wetted Porous Material, US Patent 8,859,959, October 14, 2014
  • R. Graham Cooks, Ahmed M. Hamid, Alan K. Jarmusch, Zheng Ouyang, Ion Generation Using Wetted Porous Material, US Patent 8,859,986, October 14, 2014
  • Zheng Ouyang, He Wang, Nicholas E. Manicke, R. Graham Cooks, Qian Yang, Jiangjiang Liu, Ion Generation Using Wetted Porous Material, US Patent 8,890,063, November 18, 2014
  • R. Graham Cooks, Zheng Ouyang, Zhiping Zhang, Ion Generation Using Modified Wetted Porous Materials, US Patent 8,895,918, November 25, 2014
  • R. Graham Cooks, Guangtao Li, Xin Li, Zheng Ouyang, Systems and Methods for Sample Analysis, US Patent, 8,933,398, January 13, 2015
  • R. Graham Cooks, Ahmed M. Hamid, Alan K. Jarmusch, Zheng Ouyang, Mass Spectrometry Analysis of Microorganisms in Samples, US Patent 8,937,288, January 20, 2015
  • Zheng Ouyang, R. Graham Cooks, Sandilya V. Garimella, Jason D. Harper, Nicholas A. Charipar, Systems and Methods for Transfer of Ions for Analysis, US Patent 8,937,288, February 24, 2015
  • R. Graham Cooks, Zheng Ouyang, Chien-Hsun Chen, Ziqing Lin, Livia S. Eberlin, Enclosed Desorption Elecrospray Ionization Probes and Methods of Use Therof, US Patent 9,024,254, May 5, 2015
  • R. Graham Cooks, Ahmed M. Hamid, Alan K. Jarmusch, Zheng Ouyang, Mass Spectrometry Analysis of Microorganisms in Samples, US Patent 9,035,239, May 19, 2015
  • Zheng Ouyang, Liang Gao, R. Graham Cooks, Discontinous Atmospheric Pressure Interface, US Patent 9,058,967, June 16, 2015
  • Zheng Ouyang, R. Graham Cooks, Sandilya V. Garimella, Jason D. Harper, Nicholas A. Charipar, Systems and Methods for Transfer of Ions for Analysis, US Patent, 9,484,195, November 1, 2016
  • Zheng Ouyang, He Wang, Nicholas E. Manicke, R. Graham Cooks, Quian Yang, Jiangjiang, Liu, Sample Dispenser Including an Internal Standard and Methods of Use Thereof, US Patent 9,500,572, November 22, 2016
  • R. Graham Cooks, Jason Duncan, Guangming Huang, Guangtao Li, Xin Yan, Ewa Sokol, Xin Li, Synchronization of Ion Generation with Cycling of a Discontinuous Atmospheric Pressure Interface, US Patent, 9,500,623, November 22, 2016
  • R. Graham Cooks, Zheng Ouyang, He Wang, Ion Generation Using Modifed Wetted Porous Materials, US Patent, 9,500,630, November 22, 2016
  • R. Graham Cooks, Zheng Ouyang, Chien-Hsun Chen, Ziqing Lin, Livia S. Eberlin, Desorption Electrospray Ionization Sampling without Damaging an In Vivo Tissue Sample, US Patent 9,538,945, January 10, 2017
  • R. Graham Cooks, Kevin S. Kerian, Alan K. Jarmusch, Ahmed M. Hamid, Livia S. Eberlin, Analyzing a Metabolite Level in a Tissue Sample using DESI, US Patent 9,546,979, January 17, 2017
  • R. Graham Cooks, Zane Baird, Wen-Ping Peng, Ion Focusing, US Patent 9,548,192, January 17, 2017
  • R. Graham Cooks, Anyin Li, Qingjie Luo, Systems and Methods for Producing Metal Clusters; Functionalized Surfaces; and Droplets Including Solvated Metal Ions, US Patent 9,551,079
  • R. Graham Cooks, Jason Duncan, Guanming Huang, Guangtao Li, Xin Yan, Ewa Sokol, Xin Li, Synchonization of Ion Generation with Cycling of a Discontinuous Atmospheric Interface, US Patent 9,671,426 B2, September 12, 2017
  • R. Graham Cooks, Dalton Snyder, Systems and Methods for Ejection of Ions from an Ion Trap, US Patent, 9,922,813 B2, March 20, 2018
  • R. Graham Cooks, Livia S. Eberlin, Christina R. Ferreira, Allison L. Dill, Demian R. Ifa, Combined DESI and Optical Imaging Analysis of Tissues, US Patent, 9,921,233 B2, March 20, 2018
  • R. Graham Cooks, Ahmed M. Hamid, Alan K. Jarmusch, Zheng Ouyang, Mass Spectrometry Analysis of Microorganisms in Samples, US Patent 9,941,105 B2, April 10, 2018
  • R. Graham Cooks, Zheng Ouyang, Chien-Hsun Chen, Ziqing Lin, Livia S. Eberlin, Enclosed Desorption Electospray Ionzation Probes and Method of use Thereof, US Patent 10,004,440 B2, June 26, 2018
  • Zheng Ouyang, R. Graham Cooks, Sandilya V. Garimella, Jason D. Harper, Nicholas A. Charipar, Systems and Methods for Transfer of Ions for Analysis, US Patent 10,008,374 B2, June 26, 2018
  • R. Graham Cooks, Zane Baird, Wen-Ping Peng, Ion Focusing, US Patent 10,014,169 B2, July 3, 2018
  • R. Graham Cooks, Zane Baird, Pu Wei, Sample Analysis Systems and Use Thereof, US Patent 10,079,140 B2, September 18, 2018
  • R. Graham Cooks, Zheng Ouyang, Ion Generation using Modifed Wetted Porous Materials, US Patent 10,088,46 B2, October 2, 2018
  • R. Graham Cooks, Michael S. Wleklinski, Thalappil Pradeep, Depanjan Sarkare, Systems and Methods for Producing Metal Clusters; Functionalized Surfaces; and Droplets inclding Solvated Metal Ions, US Patent 10,113,24 B2, October 30, 2018
  • R. Graham Cooks, Christian R. Ferreira, Tiago Sobreira, Systems and Methods for Screening a Sample Based on Multiple Reaction Monitoring Mass Spectrometry, US Patent 10,168,312 B2, January 1, 2019
  • R. Graham Cooks, Fred P. M. Jjunju, Anyin Li, Iman S. Roqan, Methods of Analyzing Crude Oil, US Patent 10,197,547 B2, February 5, 2019
  • R. Graham Cooks, Ahmed M. Hamid, Alan K. Jarmusch, Zheng Ouyang, Mass Spectrometry Analysis of Microorganisms in Samples, US Patent 10,204,772 B2, February 12, 2019
  • R. Graham Cooks, Zheng Ouyang, Chien-Hsun Chen, Ziqing Lin, Livia S. Eberlin, Enclosed Desorption Electrospray Ionization Probes and Methods of use Thereof, US Patent 10,213,143 B2, February 26, 2019
  • R. Graham Cooks, Anyin Li, Adam Hollerbach, Systems and Methods for Relay Ionization, US Patent 10,242,856 B2, March 26, 2019
  • R. Graham Cooks, Michael S. Wleklinski, Soumabha Bag, Yafeng Li, Zero Voltage Mass Spectrometry Probes and Systems, US Patent 10,266,085 B2, April 9, 2019
  • R. Graham Cooks, Dalton T. Snyder, Systems and Methods for Conducting Neutral Loss Scans in a Single Ion Trap, US Patent 10,580,633 B2, March 3, 2020

 

Corporate

Start-up Companies
  • MIMS Technology, Inc., 1987
  • Griffin Analytical Technologies, Inc. 2001 (now a division of FLIR)
  • Prosolia, Inc., 2004
  • QuantIon, Inc., 2011
  • PurSpec, LLC, 2016

 

Advisory Boards
  • ICx Scientific Advisory Board 2007 - 2009
  • Prosolia, Board of Directors 2006 - 2012

 

Advisory, Reviewand Organization Panels (Partial List)
  • Representative, Allerton Analytical Group 1981-1985
  • Member, Board of American Society for Mass Spectrometry 1982-1988
  • Vice President for Programs, American Society for Mass Spectrometry 1982-1984
  • Biological Instrumentation Panel, Directorate for Biological, Behavioral and Social Sciences, National Science Foundation 1982-1986
  • President, American Society for Mass Spectrometry 1984-1986
  • Organizer, Short Courses on Tandem Mass Spectrometry 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985 & 1987
  • Advisory Panel, National Sciences and Engineering Research Council (Canada) 1983
  • Advisory Committee, DOE, University Coal Research Program 1985
  • International Organizing Committee, International Mass Spectrometry Conference 1985
  • Advisory Committee, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Analytical Chemistry Division 1987-1991
  • Advisory Committee, Michigan State University Mass Spectrometry Center 1985-1989
  • Advisory Committee, Project SIINC, Virginia Military Institute 1980-1985
  • Member, Chemisty Section Committee, AAAS 1987-1988
  • Member, Board of Asilomar Conference of Mass Spectrometry 1987-1988
  • Instrumentation Advisory Panel, Anal. Chem. 1989- 1991
  • Co-organizer, ACS 43rd Annual Summer Symposium on Analytical Chemistry, Oak Ridge, TN, July 24-27, 1990
  • Advisory Committee, University of California, Riverside Mass Spectrometry Center 1990-1992
  • Co-organizer, 9th Annual Asilomar Conference on Mass Spectrometry 1992
  • Co-Organizer of Turkey Run Analytical Chemistry Conference, Marshall, IN 1986, 1987, 2000
  • Co-organizer, ACS 43rd Annual Summer Symposium on Analytical Chemistry, Oak Ridge, TN, July 24-27, 1990
  • Kyoto 1992 International Committee, '92 Conference on Biomedical and Biochemical Mass Spectrometry 1990-1992
  • Editor, Int. J. Mass Spectrom. Ion Proc., vol. 111, "Biomolecules" 1991
  • Co-organizer, Asilomar Conference on Mass Spectrometry, Asilomar, CA 1992
  • Chairman, Asilomar Conference on Mass Spectrometry, Asilomar, CA 1994-1995
  • Editor, Special Features, J. Mass Spectrom. 1997- 2004
  • Chairman, Working Committee, International Mass Spectrometry Society, 1994-1997
  • Organizer, Honorary Degree Symposium, Purdue University, May 12, 1995
  • External evaluation committee, Chemistry Graduate Program, UC Riverside 1997
  • External advisory committee, Chemistry Department, University of Arizona, 1997
  • Founding President, International Mass Spectrometry Society, 1997-1998
  • Editor, Int. J. Mass Spectrom., vol 182, 183, "A Memorial to Ben S. Freiser", 1999
  • Co-Founder, Indiana Instrumentation Institute (III), 2000
  • External advisory committee, Chemistry Department, University of Arizona, 2000
  • Ad hoc reviewer, Ohio Eminent Scholar Program, University of Akron, 2001
  • Ad hoc Instrumentation Advisory Panel, National Science Foundation, 2001
  • Panel Member & Speaker, NSF's Analytical Instrumentation for the New Millenium, Tucson, 2001
  • Panel member, Chemistry Research Instrumentation & Facilities (CRIF), National Science Foundation 2001
  • Member, Committee of Visitors, Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Gaithersburg, MD, January 30-February 1, 2002
  • Organizer, Conference on Fieldable Mass Spectrometers for Selective Trace Level Detection of Chemical/Biological Warfare Agents and Explosives, Arlington, VA, July 8, 9 2002, Civilian Research & Development Foundation (CRDF)
  • Organizer, Conference on Fieldable Mass Spectrometers for Selective Trace Level Detection of Chemical/Biologcial WEarfare Agents and Explosives, Arlington, VA, July 8, 2002, Purdue University Center for Sensing Science and Technology
  • Co-Organizer, Protein Mass Spectrometry Short Course, Purdue University, July 22-24, 2002
  • Co-Organizer, 15th Sanibel Conference on Mass Spectrometry, American Society for Mass Spectrometry, Sanibel, FL 2003
  • Scientific Committee Advisory Committee, 10th Beijing Conference and Exposition on Instrumental Analysis 2003
  • Co-Organizer, Joint Award Symposium in Honor of Richard D. Smith (ACS Award in Analytical Chemistry) and Jesse L. Beauchamp (Field and Franklin Award for Mass Spectrometry, ACS National Meeting, March 26, 2003, New Orleans
  • CBMS Program Review June 23, 24, 25 2003, Edgewood, MD, For Joint Science & Technology Panel for Chemical Biological Defense, US Dept of Defense
  • Panel member, Chemistry Bonding Centers, National Science Foundation, 2004
  • Co-organizer, Sanibel Conference on Mass Spectrometry, ASMS, Sanibel, FL, January 24-28, 2003
  • Co-organizer, Awards Symposium for Mass Spectrometry & Analytical Chemistry Awards, ACS, New Orleans, March 2003
  • Scientific Committee, 10th Internatioinal Beijing Conference and Exbition on Instrumental Analysis, 2003
  • Reviewer of Draft Report on National Research Council "Testing and Evaluation Methodology for Biological Point Detectors", 2004
  • External advisory committee, Chemistry Department, Texas A&M University, 2005
  • Department of Homeland Security, Panel on Mass Spectrometry Validation Study, 2006
  • Science Community Meeting on Communication with Law Enforcement, FBI, Washington, 2006
  • Advisory Board, Molecular Signatures Core Facility, Indiana University School of Medicine, 2007
  • Participant in "Workshop on Instrumentation Development: Tools for the New Millenium" Sponsored by Chemistry Division, NSF, GMS NIH June 2008
  • Participant in Workshop on Biological Instrumentation, NSF Chemistry Division, September 2008
  • Committee on Reduction of False Positives from Explosives Detection Systems, Board on Manufacturing & Engineering, National Research Council, 2008 -
  • Scientific Review Committee, Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Taiwan Academy of Sciences, Taipei, 2009
  • Coorganizer, US-China Analytical Chemistry Workshop October 6,7 2010, Purdue University, 2010
  • Reviewer of Report of NAS Committee on Assessment of Agent Monitoring Strategies for the Blue Grass and Pueblo Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plants 2012
  • Center for Analytical Instrumentation Development Workshops, Purdue University, 2008-2013
  • International Scientif Advisory Board, Phenome Center, Imperial College, London, 2012
  • Advisory Board, National Centre for Excellence in Mass Spectrometry Imaging (NiCE-MSI), NPL, U, 2012-present
  • Organizer, NSF-sponsored Panel on Strengthening Forensic Science through Connections with the Analytical Sciences, Arlington, VA, December 3-4, 2012
  • Scientific Committee, Bejing Conference on Exhibition on Instrumental Analysis, 2013
  • Co-Organizer, Innovations in Mass Spectrometry Instrumentation Conferene, Saint-Petersburg, Russia, July 14-18, 2013
  • Organizer, ASMS 2014 Symposium, The Triple Quadrupole: 35 Years of Evolution and Application to Celebrate Chris Enke's 80th Birthday, Baltimore, MD, June 18, 2014
  • Member, External Advisory Committee, Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences, NSF, 2015-2016
  • Member, Commitee of Visitors, Chemistry Division, NSF, 2016
  • Organizor, 29th James L. Waters Symposium, Pittcon, February 2018
  • Vice-char, Gordon Conference on Molecular Structure Elucidation, Vermont, 2018

 

Editorships and Editorial Boards

Coeditor
  • Annual Reviews of Analytical Chemistry 2010 - 2015

 

Editorial Boards
  • Mass Spectrometry Reviews 1988-1994, 1999-present
  • Int. J. Mass Spectrom. Ion Proc. 1987-2012
  • Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 1986-present
  • Biological Mass Spectrometry 1984-1995
  • Talanta 1984-2001
  • Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry 1989-1997, 1999-2004, 2007 - 2012
  • Analytical Chemistry Bench Top Series 1990-1992
  • Encyclopedia of Scientific Instruments 1990-1993
  • Organic Mass Spectrometry 1990-1995
  • Instrumentation Advisory Panel, Analytical Chemistry 1989-1991
  • Accounts of Chemical Research 1993-1995
  • Encyclopedia of Scientific Instrumentation 1993-1995
  • Journal of Mass Spectrometry 1995-2006
  • Analytica Chimica Acta 1993-2001
  • Journal of Chinese Mass Spectrometry Society, 2002 - present
  • Central European Journal of Chemistry 2002 - present
  • Anaytical Chemistry 2002-2005
  • Chemistry World 2005 - 2007
  • J. Proteome Research 2006- 2007
  • Analyst 2006- present
  • Annual Reviews of Analytical Chemistry 2006 –2009
  • J. Mass Spectrometry Society Japan 2009 – present
  • Chemical Science 2010 - present

 

University Committees and Activities (Partial List)

  • Chairman, Advisory Committee for Campus-Wide Mass Spectrometry Facility 1984-1988
  • Advisory Committee for Campus-Wide Mass Spectrometry Facility 1988-1995
  • Chairman, Visual Arts Committee 1986-1989
  • Patents and Copyright Committee 1989-1992
  • Edward C. Elliott Hall of Music 50th Aniversary Planning Committee 1988-1990
  • School of Science Promotions Committee 1989-present
  • Ad Hoc University Committee on Conflict of Interest 1990-1991
  • Ad Hoc University Committee on Property Screening 1991-1992
  • University Scholars Committee (School of Science) 1999
  • Ad Hoc University Committee on Large Proposals 2000
  • Distinguished Professor Evaluation Committees 1994 and many subsequent years
  • Advisory Committee to Consider Intellectual Property Policies for Purdue University 2005-2006
  • Distinguished Professor Promotion Committees (ad hoc, total ca 14)
  • Planning Committee, Alfred K. Mann Foundation Institute at Purdue University, 2005-2006
  • School of Science, Dean selection committee, 2008/2009
  • Entrepreneurship and Commercialization Committee, 2011
  • Decadal Committee, 2011
  • Joint Networked Centre, IUUSSTF
  • Chair, VPR "Pillars" Committee on Biosciences at Purdue, 2014
  • Discovery Park Directors' Scientific Advisory Board, 2016-2017

 

Chemistry Department Committees and Activities (Partial List)

  • Planning & Policy Committee 1989-1994; 2007 -
  • Industrial Cooperation Committee, Chair 1984-1989
  • Industrial Cooperation Committee 1989-2003
  • Instrumentation Facility Liaison Committee 1988 and subsequently
  • Head Search Committee 1997- 1998; 2004
  • Ben S. Freiser Memorial Lecture Committee (Department of Chemistry)
  • Program Organizer, Frontiers in Mass Spectrometry, 1999
  • Short Courses on Mass Spectrometry and Analytical Chemistry 1973 and subsequently

 

Profesional Memberships

  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences (elected fellow)
  • American Association for the Advancement of Science (elected fellow)
  • American Society for Mass Spectrometry
  • American Chemical Society
  • Sigma Xi
  • Chinese Mass Spectrometry Society (Honorary)
  • British Mass Spectrometry Society (Honorary)
  • Indian Society for Mass Spectrometry (Honorary)
  • Mass Spectrometry Society of Japan (Honorary)
  • Royal Society of Chemistry (Fellow)

 

Contact Information

560 Oval Drive
Department of Chemistry
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN 47907-1393
Phone: (765) 494-5263
Fax: (765) 494-9421
Email: cooks@purdue.edu

Academic Preparation

  • B.Sc. University of Natal, South Africa 1961
  • M.S. University of Natal, South Africa 1963
  • Ph.D. University of Natal, South Africa (Frank L. Warren, advisor) 1965
  • Ph.D. Cambridge University, Great Britain (Peter Sykes, advisor) 1967

Professional Experience and Visiting Positions

  • Post-doctoral Fellow, Cambridge University (Dudley H. Williams, advisor) 1967-1968
  • Assistant Professor, Chemistry Dept., Kansas State Univ. 1968-1971
  • Co-Director of Mass Spectrometry Center, Purdue Univ. 1971-1973
  • Director of Mass Spectrometry Center, Purdue University 1973-1986
  • Associate Professor of Chemistry, Purdue University 1975-1979
  • Professor of Chemistry, Purdue University 1980-present
  • Fulbright Senior Fellow, University of Warwick 1981
  • Adjunct Professor, Beijing Institute of Technology 1987-present
  • Head, Analytical Division, Purdue University 1989-1996, 2006-2009
  • Adjunct Professor, Beijing Institute of Technology 1987-2000
  • Henry Bohn Hass Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, Purdue University 1990-present
  • Guest Professor, Jilin University, Changchun, China, 2002–2003
  • Honorary Professor, Jilin University, 2003-2007
  • Guest Professor, Chemistry Dept., Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 2004-2007
  • Co-Director, Center for Analytical Instrumentation Development, Purdue University, 2008-present
  • Distinguished Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India, 2013-present
  • Honorary Professor, East China Institute of Techonology, Nanchang, China, 2016-present
  • Guest Professor, Nanjing, China, 2018-present 

Graduate Education

  • Served as major professor to 150 PhD students.
  • More than 300 graduate students, post-doctorals and visiting scientists have worked and published with Graham Cooks. 

Citation

  • h-index 115 (ISI Web of Science) – among ca. 100 most cited chemists worldwide
  • 56923 citations
  • Google Scholar: 1525 articles; 89,391 citations; h-index 141