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CURRICULUM VITAE – Frank Gyngard
EDUCATION
o Ph.D. in Physics, 2009
Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
o B.S. in Physics with minor in Pure Mathematics, 2003
Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO
EMPLOYMENT
o Lecturer on Medicine and Research Scientist, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, 2018-2022
o Consulting Science Editor, Accdon LLC, 2018-present
o Research Scientist and NanoSIMS Laboratory Director, Washington University, 2011-2017
o McDonnell Center for Space Sciences Fellow, Washington University, 2012- 2015
o Postdoctoral Fellow, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 2009-2011
o Graduate Research Assistant, Washington University, 2005-2009
SCIENTIFIC WORK
o Multi-element isotopic studies of terrestrial and meteoritic materials, including H, Li, B, C, O, N, Al, Mg, Si, S, K, Ca,
Ti, Cr, Fe, Ni
o Determination of cosmic ray exposure ages of individual grains by measuring Li, He, and Ne in large SiC grains
o Development of automatic particle measurement technique (Autograin) for the NanoSIMS
o Measurement of D/H ratios in IOM from various meteorites (e.g., Tagish Lake)
o Principal Investigator, NASA (2013): “Correlated Studies of Isotopes, Chronologies, and Microstructures of Stardust SiC Grains” NNX13AH08G
o Co-Principal Investigator, Bright Focus Foundation (2017): “In Vivo Stable Isotope Labeling and Quantitative
Mass Spectrometry Imaging of Aβ Plaque Deposition in Human AD”
INVITED TALKS
o Gyngard, F. (2008), "The development of automated, high-throughput NanoSIMS measurement techniques and applications to the study of presolar grains", 5th Biennial Geochemical SIMS Workshop, University of Wisconsin- Madison
o Gyngard, F. (2013), “Constraining timescales before the formation of the Solar System with grains of stardust”, 12th International Symposium on Origin of Matter and Evolution of Galaxies (OMEG12), Tokyo, Japan
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