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Celebrating 5 Years of Service: Dirk Mayer, PhD
Posted 3:29 PM, October 13, 2008, by jaruiz
Dirk Mayer, PhD, senior research scientist, has been working as a Stanford senior research associate (50%) and as a research scientist (50%) at SRI International since 2007. As a senior research associate at the Lucas Center, Dr. Mayer works with Dan Spielman, PhD, focusing on the hyperpolarizer project, and with Drs. Pfefferbaum and Sullivan at SRI International. He originally came to Stanford as a postdoctoral scholar in October 2000, when he began working with Dr. Spielman, PhD, on MR spectroscopy and spectroscopic imaging. Three years later, he started as a research associate in the Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford (MIPS) under the guidance of Sam Gambhir, MD, PhD, professor of radiology and bioengineering, and head of the Nuclear Medicine Division. Dr. Mayer's hobbies include basketball, scuba diving, and cooking.

