Lyndon Emsley

David Lyndon Emsley FRSC is a British chemist specialising in solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance. He is a professor at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) He was awarded the 2012 Grand Prix Charles-Leopold Mayer of the French Académie des Sciences and the 2015 Bourke Award of the Royal Society of Chemistry. His work has involved several collaborations with the Bruker Corporation. In 2010, under his supervision as Scientific Director, the CRMN acquired and began using the world's most powerful currently operating NMR spectrometer, which breaks the billion-hertz barrier. In June 2014 he moved to the EPFL as a professor of Physical Chemistry, where he is currently director of the Laboratoire de résonance magnétique of the ISIC (Institute of chemical sciences and engineering). In 2015 he received the Bourke award "for the development of experimental methods that have transformed the field of solid- state NMR and enabled new applications across chemistry" He has published articles in NMR crystallography, structural biology, protein dynamics, dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) enhanced surface NMR Spectroscopy and MRI.