email: osbornpt [at] oregonstate.edu

Prof. Thomas M. Osborn Popp (he/him)

Biography. Tom began his research career while working on his B.S. in chemistry at Arizona State University, using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) to study arthropod silks, followed by a short research stint at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, NM, measuring diffusion of molecules within porous carbons with NMR. He then went on to obtain a Ph.D. in physical chemistry at the University of California Berkeley, using solid state NMR to study the structure and properties of metal-organic and covalent organic framework materials (MOFs, COFs). After completing his Ph.D., he spent a year as a postdoctoral researcher at ETH Zürich developing new methodology and hardware for solid state NMR and dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) experiments. In 2021, Tom was awarded an Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellowship in Chemical Instrumentation at Rutgers University to develop NMR instrumentation to address challenging biomolecular problems such as the localization of peripheral membrane proteins on phospholipid membranes and high-pressure biology. As of September, 2023, he is currently an assistant professor of chemistry in the Department of Chemistry, working on developing new NMR methods and technology to study complexity in material and biological systems.

Awards
2021. Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellowship in Chemical Instrumentation
2015. National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship

Hobbies
Walking in nature, making homemade fruit wines, playing piano and bass, video games, watching youtube videos and anime, dinner with friends.