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About David Baldwin

Dr. David P. Baldwin is Director of the Environmental and Protection Sciences Program at Ames Laboratory and Director of the Midwest Forensics Resource Center at Iowa State University. He earned a B.S. degree in chemistry from Lebanon Valley College (Annville, Pennsylvania) and a Ph.D. degree in physical chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he performed research on laser spectroscopy elucidating the electronic structure of small gas-phase molecules. He was a postdoctoral associate at the Combustion Research Facility at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, California, where he studied the chemical dynamics of photofragmentation and bimolecular gas-phase interactions.  As a program director at the Ames Laboratory, he coordinates research in forensic science, environmental monitoring, and nuclear nonproliferation. As Director of the Midwest Forensics Resource Center, he develops and coordinates a program of multidisciplinary projects to develop, test, and evaluate new methods for use in forensic science.  In 2013 and 2014 he served as Interim Deputy Director of the Ames Laboratory.  Dr. Baldwin is Chair of the Scientific Working Group on Bloodstain Pattern Analysis (SWGSTAIN) and a member of the Physics and Pattern Evidence Committee of the NIST Organization of Scientific Area Committees for forensic science.

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Present Scientist II - Vice President for Research, Iowa State University
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130 Spedding
Ames, IA 50011-3020
515-294-4748 fax

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