Gary W. Kramer

Gary W. Kramer graduated from Earlham College with general honors and honors in chemistry and received his Ph.D. from Purdue University in organic chemistry with Professor H.C. Brown. He joined Purdue's Chemistry Instrumentation Facility, where he designed analytical instruments and instrument interfaces, consulted on measurement problems, and co-directed a project to automate organic synthesis development in the laboratory for which he received a Pioneer in Laboratory Robotics award. In 1990, he came to the National Institute of Standards and Technology, served as Project Manager for the Consortium on Automated Analytical Laboratory Systems (CAALS), a U.S. industry/Government joint venture to foster the development of laboratory automation for analytical chemistry, and Leader of the Chemical Sensing and Automation Technology Group, the Molecular Spectroscopy and Microfluidic Methods Group, and the Biospectroscopy Group. In 1998, he received the Association for Laboratory Automation Achievement Award and in 2004 the Association for Laboratory Automation Charter Member Award. Currently, he is developing standards for fluorescence measurements, standards and practices for nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy quantitation, and a markup language for spectroscopy and chromatography result data interchange and archiving (AnIML). He serves as the Computer Security Officer for the Biochemical Science Division. He is a member of the Advisory Board for the Analytical Science Digital Library and the editorial board of the Journal of the Association for Laboratory Automation and chairs ASTM Subcommittee E13.15 on Analytical Data.