John Keith Moffat

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John Keith Moffat
Born1943
Occupation(s)Professor; former Deputy Provost
EmployerUniversity of Chicago
Alma materUniversity of Edinburgh
King's College, Cambridge
Known forTime resolved crystallography
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship
Scientific career
FieldsBiophysics
InstitutionsUniversity of Chicago
Cornell University
Doctoral advisorMax Perutz
Other academic advisorsQuentin Gibson[1]
Notable studentsWerner G. Krebs[2]
Websitebiophysics.uchicago.edu/the-faculty/keith_moffat/

John 'Keith' Moffat (born 1943) is Louis Block Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and former Deputy Provost for Research at the University of Chicago.[3][4] He currently heads BioCARS at Argonne National Laboratory, where he worked on the Advanced Photon Source.[3][5] He is most noted for his contributions to Time resolved crystallography.[6][7] He is a former Guggenheim Fellow and former Cornell University faculty member.[4] He has a Ph.D. from King's College, Cambridge under the Nobel laureate Max Perutz at MRC-LMB and an undergraduate degree from the University of Edinburgh.[8][9] He is married with an adopted son.[3]

  1. ^ "Keith Moffat's Profile on Academic Tree".
  2. ^ Krebs, Werner G. (1996). Kinetic Analysis and Intermediate Structure Determination from High-Speed Time-Resolved Crystallography (MS thesis). University of Chicago. OCLC 923013077.
  3. ^ a b c "John Moffat | The University of Edinburgh". www.ed.ac.uk. Retrieved 2015-11-20.
  4. ^ a b "University of Chicago names Deputy Provost for Research". www-news.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2015-11-20.
  5. ^ "Moffat Appointed Senior Advisor for Life Sciences at the APS". www.aps.anl.gov. Retrieved 2015-11-20.
  6. ^ "The Faculty | Chicago Biophysics | University of Chicago". biophysics.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2015-11-20.
  7. ^ "Distinguished faculty receive endowed chairs". chronicle.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2015-11-20.
  8. ^ "Keith Moffat on LinkedIn".
  9. ^ "Bright Ideas | The Scientist Magazine®". The Scientist. Retrieved 2015-11-20.