{"id":41,"date":"2020-01-08T18:25:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T18:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ackerson.colostate.edu\/?page_id=41"},"modified":"2024-10-23T13:44:13","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T19:44:13","slug":"about-chris-ackerson","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ackerson.colostate.edu\/index.php\/about-chris-ackerson\/","title":{"rendered":"Christopher J. Ackerson, PhD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Education<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Graduate Studies: (2005) Ph.D. in Biophysics,
Stanford University, CA.
Dissertation Adviser: Roger Kornberg <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Undergraduate Studies: (1998) B.S. in Biochemistry,
The University of Texas at Austin, TX.
Awarded with Honors and Special Honors in Chemistry <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Professional Experience<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

7\/2021 – current<\/strong>
Professor, Department of Chemistry, Colorado State University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

7\/2015 – 6\/2021<\/strong>
Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Colorado State University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

7\/2009 – 6\/2015<\/strong>
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO<\/p>\n\n\n\n

10\/2006 – 6\/2009 <\/strong>
Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratory of\u00a0Dan Feldheim,\u00a0University of Colorado – Boulder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1\/2005 – 10\/2006 <\/strong>
Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratory of Roger Kornberg<\/a>, Stanford University, Stanford CA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4\/1999 – 12\/2004  <\/strong>
Graduate Research Assistant, Laboratory of Roger Kornberg, Stanford University, Stanford CA. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Memberships<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

American Chemical Society (ACS)
AAAS<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Awards and Honors<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2017 Keynote Speaker, ISMPC17, Ascona, Switzerland
2016 Keynote Speaker, GOLD, Cardiff, Wales
NSF CAREER 2015
Damon Runyon New Innovator Award Finalist 2012
AFAR Gilbert Fellow 2009-2011
American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellowship (2006, declined)
Phi Beta Kappa  1998 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sabbaticals<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2024 Fall Semester:
Chan Zuckerberg Imaging Institute<\/a>
Host: David Agard<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2017 Fall Semester<\/strong>:
Oxford University, Department of Structural Biology. Host: Prof Juha Huiskonen.
Funding: National Science Foundation – European Research Council, Collaboration Opportunity Award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2017 Spring Semester:<\/strong>
National Renewable Energy Lab, Golden, CO.
Host: Nathan Neale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Industrial\/Commercial<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2019 – current
Consultant and Advisor to Atomically Engineered Materials (AEMS) Inc.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Education Graduate Studies: (2005) Ph.D. in Biophysics, Stanford University, CA.Dissertation Adviser: Roger Kornberg Undergraduate Studies: (1998) B.S. in Biochemistry,The University of Texas at Austin, TX. Awarded with Honors and Special Honors in Chemistry Professional Experience 7\/2021 – currentProfessor, Department of Chemistry, Colorado State University 7\/2015 – 6\/2021Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Colorado State University 7\/2009 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-41","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ackerson.colostate.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ackerson.colostate.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ackerson.colostate.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ackerson.colostate.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ackerson.colostate.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/ackerson.colostate.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1049,"href":"https:\/\/ackerson.colostate.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41\/revisions\/1049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ackerson.colostate.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}