Bio: JEAN H. FUTRELL is Senior Battelle Fellow and Chief Science Officer at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. He serves the Laboratory as Chair of the Council of Fellows and is a member of the Laboratory Director's Senior Leadership Team.
Jean Futrell received his Ph.D. in physical chemistry at the University of California specializing in nuclear and radiation chemistry, working at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in Glenn Seaborg's division. He has published one reference book and over 300 scientific papers in scientific journals plus numerous reports. His research has included chemical kinetics, reaction dynamics, ion-neutral chemistry and physics, collision phenomena and mass spectrometry. His research groups have created a number of novel instruments for investigating these classes of phenomena, including tandem mass spectrometry. This is a core analytical method, and both his pioneering work in the field and his continuing contributions to understanding the basic processes underlying tandem mass spectrometry are the basis of his international reputation in mass spectrometry. His current research has the creation of new instrumentation as a significant component and his continuing interest in tandem mass spectrometry has shifted from gas phase to ion-surface collisions.
Prior to joining PNNL in February 1999 as the first permanent Director of the William R. Wiley Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory Jean pursued an academic career of teaching, research and administration. His immediate prior assignment was as Willis F. Harrington Professor of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Chemical Engineering at the University of Delaware. He is Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at the University of Delaware and Adjunct Professor of Chemistry at the University of Utah, the University of Idaho and Washington State University.
Current major external advisory roles include membership in the Chemical Sciences Roundtable of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Science Foundation (NSF) Director's Advisory Committee on Environmental Research and Education (member of Executive Committee), NSF Mathematics and Physical Sciences Advisory Committee, the University of Washington Vice-Provost for Research's Nanoscience Advisory Board, and the Board of Visitors at Washington State University.