Science Director, Biological Mass Spectrometry – Professor Helen Cooper
Professor Helen Cooper
Science Director, Biological Mass Spectrometry
University of Birmingham
Helen J. Cooper is Professor of Mass Spectrometry in the School of Biosciences at the University of Birmingham.
She undertook her BSc in Chemistry at the University of Warwick, before going on to study for her PhD under the supervision of Peter Derrick. After her PhD, she remained at the University of Warwick as technical officer in the newly-created EPSRC national FT-ICR mass spectrometry facility. In 2000, she moved to the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory at Florida State University to work with Prof Alan Marshall. She returned to the UK in 2003 to establish an independent career at the University of Birmingham. She has been the recipient of a Wellcome Trust University Technology Fellowship and an EPSRC Established Career Fellowship.
Helen’s research focuses on developing native ambient mass spectrometry methods for in situ analysis of proteins. She is Associate Editor of the Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and winner of the 2022 Royal Society of Chemistry Theophilus Redwood Award for analytical chemistry.