Dr. Kristina T. Nelson is the director of the Chemical and Proteomic Mass Spectrometry Core Facility and Research Assistant Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University, and was previously the assistant director of the Keck Mass Spectrometry Core Facility at the University of Virginia. Dr. Nelson has developed the instrumentation and capacity of the VCU Core Facility, and collaborated and published extensively on multiple research projects. She is a professional member of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry and Association of Biomolecular Research Facilities, and has served on the NSF-MRI mass spectrometry instrumentation panel.