ICR Facility Director
Kristina (Kicki) Håkansson received M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Molecular Biotechnology from Uppsala University, Sweden. She was a Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education (STINT) postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Alan G. Marshall at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University.
In 2003, she joined the faculty in Chemistry at the University of Michigan. Dr. Håkansson received a Searle Scholar Award (2004), an American Society for Mass Spectrometry Research Award (2005), an Eli Lilly Analytical Chemistry Award (2005), and an NSF Career Award (2006).
In 2009, she was promoted to Associate Professor, with tenure and, in 2013, to Professor. In 2016 she received the Biemann Medal from the American Society for Mass Spectrometry, in 2018 an Agilent Thought Leader award, and in 2020 the Berzelius Gold Medal from the Swedish Mass Spectrometry Society.
Her research interests are in Analytical Chemistry and Chemical Biology with a focus on biomolecular mass spectrometry, including gas-phase activation methods, posttranslational modifications, carbohydrate structural determination, and functional studies of natural product biosynthetic enzymes.
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Email: Kristina Håkansson