Ph.D., University of Arkansas, 1982 Postdoctoral Fellow, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Zürich, 1982 Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, 1983-5

Dr. Metz is a physical / analytical chemist with interests in the development and application of instrumentation in chemistry. His main focus is NMR spectroscopy, and he has published extensively in such diverse areas as solution- and solid-state NMR of metal nuclides, techniques in multidimensional NMR, new sample coil designs, spectroscopy and imaging of living biological systems, high-speed NMR imaging using radiofrequency field gradients, NMR techniques for phospholipid analysis, and deconvolution methods for spectral resolution enhancement. The courses Dr. Metz teaches emphasize spectroscopy, chromatography, electrochemistry, and similar approaches, and they are accompanied by an intensively hands-on laboratory program. For example, students routinely construct a working NMR spectrometer from individual components to aid in understanding the subtleties of this method. Dr. Metz also has interests in the history of chemistry, particularly the evolution of laboratory techniques, and he maintains an extensive collection of antique apparatus and rare scientific books.

K. R. Metz, M. M. Lam, and A. G. Webb, "Reference deconvolution: a simple and effective method for resolution enhancement in nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy," Concepts Magn. Reson., 2000, 12, 21-42. K. R. Metz and L. K. Dunphy, "Absolute quantitation of tissue phospholipids using 31P NMR spectroscopy," J. Lipid Res., 1996, 37, 2251-2265.

J. L. Bowers, P. M. Macdonald, and K. R. Metz, "Rapid chemical-shift selective MR imaging using radiofrequency field gradients," J. Magn. Reson., Ser. B, 1995, 106, 72-75.