Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy
Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy is the Robert W. Parry Collegiate Professor of Chemistry and Biophysics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. In 2018, he was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Early life and education. He received a Ph.D. in chemistry from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in 1990. He is graduated in Chemistry of 1984 batch from V.O.C. Arts & Science College, Tuticorin, Tamil Nadu. Career. His main area of research is the development of solid-state NMR and its applications to non-soluble, non-crystalline chemical and biological solids. He is known for  the development of solid-state NMR methods (such as USEME, PISEMA, PITANSEMA, HIMSELF, etc.) and as a researcher of membrane-associated peptides and proteins, an organizer of international symposia, and author of a book on NMR Spectroscopy of biological solids. He was also involved in the characterization of new nanomaterials. He teaches Chemistry, Biophysics and NMR to undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Michigan.