Address

University of Missouri - Kansas City
Department of Chemistry
5009 Rockhill Rd., Spencer Hall, #233
Kansas City, MO, 64110

Contact Information

Call: +1-816-235-2297

Email: oylern@umkc.edu

Research Interests

  • Amorphous Materials
  • SS-NMR

Nathan Oyler, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Chemistry
Oyler Research Group Lead

University of Missouri - Kansas City
Department of Chemistry

Biography

Professor Oyler joined UMKC in 2005 after a postdoc at the National Institutes of Health and graduating with his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the University of Washington in 2000. Professor Oyler’s research interests are focused on two separate area: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (either solids or solution with a focus on material science) and hyperspectral imaging applied to medieval texts.

Collaborations with the CPG

Prof. Oyler collaborates with the CPG through an NSF sponsored Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future (DMREF) project (DMR-1539918): Predictive Modeling of Polymer-Derived Ceramics: Discovering Methods for the Design and Fabrication of Complex Disordered Solids. Prof. Oyler’s group leads the Solid-State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance characterization effort.

Education

  1. 2000

    Ph.D. Physical Chemistry

    University of Washington
  2. 1994

    B.Sc. Chemistry

    University of Arizona

Professional Experience

  1. 2012-Present
    Associate Professor
    University of Missouri - Kansas City
  2. 2005 – 2012
    Assistant Professor
    University of Missouri - Kansas City
  3. 2004 – 2005
    Research Fellow
    National Institutes of Health
  4. 2001 – 2004
    Postdoctoral Fellow
    National Institutes of Health