Dr. Kristin Burnum-Johnson profile page

Kristin Burnum-Johnson is a science group leader for functional and systems biology at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory(PNNL). She earned her PhD in biochemistry from Vanderbilt University with Professor Richard M. Caprioli and then completed a postdoctoral fellowship at PNNL with Dr. Richard D. Smith.

Her research is dedicated to achieving transformative molecular-level insights into environmental and biomedical systems by implementing advanced mass spectrometry (MS) instrumentation. Dr. Burnum-Johnson has more than 20 years of experience and more than 80 publications dedicated to the development and evaluation of in situ imaging MS, structural characterization of molecules using ion mobility-MS and analyses of molecules in complex matrices using high-resolution MS.