Professional Duties

1993-present X-Ray Facility Director, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA

2008-present Research Associate, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA

2003-2008 Associate in Research, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA

1993-2002 Assistant in Research, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA

1989-1993 Research Asst Prof, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA

1987-1989 Research Associate, CCMB, Hyderabad, India

Professional Experience

15 year experience as a manager of macromolecular x-ray facility

· Provide crystallographic expertise to students and faculty

· Teach students and post-docs x-ray data collection and analysis

· Conduct safety and crystallographic workshops

· Coordinate, collect and process data at national synchrotron sources

10 year experience as safety coordinator the Institute

3 year experience as web site maintainer

Mentor high-school science students

Education

1981–1987 Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India Ph.D (Chemistry)

1979–1981 University of Madras Chennai, India Masters (Chemistry)

1976–1979 University of Madras Chennai, India Bachelors (Chemistry)

Scientific Publications

Published over thirty peer-reviewed articles

Presented posters and conferences and symposia

Presented invited talks at universities in India and US

Contact

Address: 91, Chieftan Way, Institute of Molecular Biophysics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306-4380

Phone: (850) 644-6448

E-mail: tsomasundaram@fsu.edu

URL: www.sb.fsu.edu/~soma

Updated: August 2009