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Profile
| Academic position | Emeritus |
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| Research fields | Biochemistry,Inorganic Molecular Chemistry |
| Keywords | synchrotron radiation, nitrogenase, hydrgenase, XAFS, NRVS |
Current contact address
| Country | United States of America |
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| City | Mountain View |
| Institution | SETI Institute |
| Institute | Carl Sagan Center |
| Homepage | http://chemgroups.ucdavis.edu/~cramer/ |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Emad Flear Aziz | Abteilung N 1, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie (HZB), Berlin |
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| Prof. Dr. Martin Kaupp | Institut für Chemie, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin |
| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/03/2014 |
Program(s)
| 2013 | Humboldt Research Award Programme |
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Nominator's project description
| Professor Cramer is well known internationally for his outstanding research and development of EXAFS and other synchrotron-based X-ray spectroscopies to study metals in biological systems. The other methods have included soft X-ray absorption, X-ray absorption magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD), high-resolution X-ray fluorescence, resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS) and most recently nuclear resonance vibrational spectroscopy (NRVS). Professor Cramer and his team were the first to apply these techniques to metal-containing enzymes. The information from these spectroscopic results provides extra details that are often beyond the reach of X-ray diffraction methods. In Germany, Professor Cramer focuses on previously established techniques in solid phase to be used for liquid and liquid-solid interfaces investigation new matarials for energy. |