Natalie L. Adolphi holds a Ph.D. in Physics (1995) from Washington University in St. Louis, and an M.S. in Medical Physics (2013) from the University of New Mexico.  Currently her funded research is focused on developing applications of advanced imaging methods (MRI and CT) for medicolegal death investigation.

Other recent research projects include the development of methods for assessing and improving the targeting of nanoparticles for diagnosis and therapy, magnetic relaxometry methods for detecting targeted magnetic nanoparticles in vivo, targeted magnetic nanoparticles for MRI detection of cancer, microcoil NMR methods for in vitro detection of magnetic particles, and novel MRI techniques for pulmonary imaging. 

Dr. Adolphi has experience in the academic, government, and small business research settings, having worked as a consultant or contractor for Sandia National Labs and for several small for-profit companies, including Senior Scientific, LLC and ABQMR, Inc. (both in Albuquerque, NM) and MRTechnology (Tsukuba, Japan).  Before joining the UNM Health Sciences faculty, Dr. Adolphi was a Research Scientist (2003-2008) at New Mexico Resonance, a small, non-profit research company in Albuquerque.   From 1995-2003, she was a member of the physics faculty at Knox College, where her NSF-funded research program was focused on the characterization of metal-hydrogen systems using Magic-Angle Spinning (MAS) spectroscopy and other NMR methods.  

Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, MSC08 4670, 1 University of New Mexico

Albuquerque, New Mexico  87131-0001

United States of America