Author: Nick Stone

Dr David Moss has been staff scientist at Synchrotron Light Source ANKA, Karlsruhe Research Center since 2001 and is responsible for biological applications at the infrared spectroscopy and microspectroscopy beamline. His current research interests include biomolecular and biomedical applications of infrared spectroscopy; structure/function relationships and molecular mechanisms in proteins; synchrotron infrared microspectroscopy of single living cells and mechanism of charge separation in biomimetic nanosystems for artificial photosynthesis. Dr Moss received his BSc in biology from Imperial College London in 1981 and his Ph D in biochemistry from Cambridge University in 1985. He has held postdoctoral positions in biochemistry/biophysics in the UK and Germany and since 1987 his main field of expertise has been in the biological applications of infrared spectroscopy. He has had his permanent position at the Karlsruhe Research Center (a German government research laboratory) since 1990. Dr Moss initiated and organized a workshop on “Biological Applications of Synchrotron Infrared in Europe” in Karlsruhe in 2003 and was the organizer of the “International Summer School on Synchrotron Infrared Microspectroscopy”, June 2008 in Karlsruhe, Germany. He was also the coordinator of an EU project “Diagnostic Applications of Synchrotron Infrared Microspectroscopy” from 2005 – 2008 and has contributed to many journal articles and book chapters.