Dr. Roy Hoffman ARCS, MRSC, CChem, CSci
Chemist with over 20 years experience in computational, physical and organometallic chemistry & NMR spectroscopy and 22 years experience in laboratory management. Published over 90 scientific papers.
Objective
To pursue a career in one or more of: chemistry, signal & image processing, software engineering and astronomy.
Professional Experience
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- 2010- Magen David Adom, Jerusalem, Israel: Voluntary Ambulance Technician and Medic
- 1990– Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel: NMR laboratory Manager
- Developed many new liquid, semi-solid and solid-state NMR and other techniques and lead or took part in research that resulted in over 70 refereed scientific papers.
- Learned a variety of techniques from object-oriented programming to glassblowing and vacuum techniques for handling air-sensitive materials.
- Learned HTML & created an Internet site for the lab. that is ‘The very best NMR site on the net’ according to DMOZ and widely acclaimed by the international NMR community
- Improved service & increased customer base from approx. 70 to 300.
- Maintained lab. with high user satisfaction and barely any downtime.
- Implemented fair and reliable accounting and administration procedures.
- 1988–1989 Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA: Postdoc: novel computing architectures for analytical chemistry
- Developed novel NMR processing techniques.
- Invented new parallel computing algorithms: academic and industrial
- Eight scientific papers.
Education
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- 1984–1988 Birkbeck College, London, UK
- PhD, Chemistry (NMR spectroscopy and food chemistry).
- Eight scientific papers.
- 1981–1984 Imperial College, London,UK
- BSc, Chemistry (with minor in computer science).
- 1968–1984 Schooling, London, UK
- 3 ‘A’ levels + 1 ‘S’ level (equivalent to full matriculation), 8 ‘O’ levels
Hobbies
- Astronomy & Photography – past chairman of the Israeli New Moon Society – 15 scientific publications
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