Susan Kohler

Areas of expertise

I’m a physical chemist and spectroscopist who has had a career teaching chemistry at Mount
Holyoke, Wellesley, and Union Colleges. When I was in graduate school and teaching at Mount
Holyoke, I built myself two NMR spectrometers. I have enjoyed building and taking care of
instruments ever since.

I also have worked in industry at General Electric and Hewlett Packard on magnetic resonance
imaging and magnetic resonance spectroscopy projects. The most exciting project was
hyperpolarized magnetic resonance, a technique that enables real-time biochemical studies on
biological systems (including humans). Ask me about it!