Susan Bird, PhD profile page

As Senior Manager, Susan works to establish the Metabolomics vertical market strategy and lead both the scientific applications and vertical marketing programs. This includes initiatives to expand and strengthen strategic relationships and guide product development to meet the emerging needs of our Metabolomics customers. Susan came from the Thermo commercial team, where she was an instrument sales representative in the Boston and Cambridge area of Massachusetts. Prior to Thermo, she trained as a post-doc and Instructor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School where she developed non-targeted and targeted lipid profiling methods, applied to epidemiology cohorts. This work used primarily LC-MS with Orbitrap detection and provided key contributions to the emerging field of lipidomics.