Martin Jarrold

Martin F. Jarrold was born and raised in England. He obtained his undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Warwick, and then went to the University of California, Santa Barbara as a NATO Postdoctoral Fellow. After several years at UCSB, he joined the Physics Research Division of AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, NJ. His work at Bell Labs focused on determining the properties of metal and semiconductor clusters, particularly silicon clusters. He moved to Northwestern University in 1992 to become a Professor in the Chemistry Department. While at Northwestern he performed pioneering work on ion mobility mass spectrometry, developing methods to extract structural information from mobility measurements. In 2002 he moved to Indiana University as Professor and Robert and Marjorie Mann Chair in the Chemistry Department. His work at IU has focused on investigating phase transitions in metal clusters, investigating charge separation in natural phenomena like bursting bubbles, and in developing charge detection mass spectrometry (CD-MS). In 2018 he cofounded Megadalton Solutions to commercialize CD-MS and make it more widely available.