Eric Munson's Biography

Eric Munson, Professor, University of Kentucky

Eric Munson received his B.A. degree from Augustana College in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. After studying one year in Munich, Germany, on a Fulbright Fellowship, he continued his education at Texas A&M University, where he received his Ph. D. degree in 1993. He then spent one year as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, under the direction of Professor Alexander Pines. In 1994 he started as an Assistant Professor in the Chemistry Department at the University of Minnesota, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2000. In 2001 he moved to the Pharmaceutical Chemistry Department at the University of Kansas, where he was promoted to Professor in 2006. He then moved to the Pharmaceutical Sciences Department at the University of Kentucky in 2010 to become the Patrick DeLuca Professor in Pharmaceutical Technology. In 2012 he became an Associate Editor for Molecular Pharmaceutics. His research program is focused on the characterization of pharmaceutical solids using a variety of analytical techniques, with an emphasis on solid-state NMR spectroscopy. He is a recipient of an NSF CAREER award and a McKnight Land-Grant Professorship, and is an AAPS Fellow.