Joshua Coon

oshua J. Coon is a Professor of Chemistry and Biomolecular Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Thomas and Margaret Pyle Chair at the Morgridge Institute for Research. Coon earned his B.S. degree at Central Michigan University and received his Ph.D. at the University of Florida in 2002. At Florida, Coon studied ambient ionization processes under the guidance of Professor Willard Harrison. From 2003 to 2005 he was an NIH postdoctoral fellow with Professor Donald Hunt at the University of Virginia. During his time at Virginia he, with Hunt and John Syka, coinvented electron transfer dissociation (ETD). Coon’s research program at Wisconsin is focused on all aspects of biomolecular mass spectrometry.