Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. A.B. (chemistry), Princeton University, magna cum laude, 1995; Ph.D. (chemistry), University of California, Berkeley, 1999; Postdoctoral Scholar, California Institute of Technology, 1999-2002.

Cottrell Scholar Award (2005)
NSF Career Award (2004-2009)
Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award, Oak Ridge Associated Universities (2003)
Research Innovation Award, Research Corporation (2002)
Eastman Fellowship, Physical Chemistry, Eastman Chemical Company (1998-1999)
Robert Thornton McKay Prize in Physical Chemistry, Princeton University (1995)

Current research interests of the Goodson Group include: molecular structure, dynamics, and interactions-particularly involving proteins, protein complexes, and inclusion compounds; optical / nuclear double resonance; highly spin-polarized systems; sensitivity and contrast enhancement in NMR and MRI; novel exogenous MRI contrast agents; NMR of laser-polarized noble gases; liquid crystals; organic crystals; biomolecular and polymer thin films; time-resolved spectroscopies and methods; spin-spin interactions; quantum computation.

“Dendron-functionalized superparamagnetic nanoparticles with switchable solubility in organic or aqueous media: Matrices for homogenous catalysis and potential MRI contrast agents.” C. Duanmu, I. Saha, Y. Zheng, B.M. Goodson, and Y. Gao, Chem. Mater., 18, 5973-5981 (2006). 

“Mobilizing Magnetic Resonance” B.M. Goodson, Physics World, 19, 28-33 (2006). 

“Interactions between xenon and phospholipid bicelles studied by 2H / 129Xe / 131Xe  NMR and optical pumping of nuclear spins.” X. Li, C. Newberry, I. Saha, P. Nikolaou, N. Whiting, B.M. Goodson, Chem. Phys. Lett., 419, 233-239 (2006). 

“NMR studies of chloroform@cryptophane-A and chloroform@bis-cryptophane inclusion complexes oriented in thermotropic liquid crystals.”  K.E. Chaffee, M. Marjanska, and B.M. Goodson, Solid State Nucl. Magn. Reson. (Special Issue in honor of Alex Pines’ 60th birthday) 29, 104-112 (2006). 

“Applications of Optical Pumping and Polarization Techniques in NMR. I. Optical Nuclear Polarization in Molecular Crystals.” B.M. Goodson, Ann. Rep. NMR Spectrosc., 55, 299-323 (2005).

“Effects of Small Neutral Molecules on Phospholipid Bicelle Ordering.” X. Li, B.M. Goodson, Langmuir 20, 8437-8441 (2004). 

“NMR Studies of Inclusion Complexes Oriented in Liquid-Crystalline Solvents.” M. Marjanska, B.M. Goodson, F. Castiglione, A. Pines, J. Phys. Chem. B, 107, 12558-12561 (2003).

"NMR of Laser-Polarized Noble Gases in Molecules, Materials, and Organisms." B.M. Goodson, published jointly by Adv. Magn. Reson. and J. Magn. Reson. 155, 157-216 (2002).

"Direct Imaging of Transient Molecular Structures with Ultrafast Diffraction." H. Ihee, V.A. Lobastov, U. Gomez, B.M. Goodson, R. Srinivasan, C.-Y. Ruan, A.H. Zewail, Science 291, 458-62 (2001).

"Evidence of Nonspecific Surface Interactions Between Laser-Polarized Xenon and Myoglobin in Solution." S.M. Rubin, M.M. Spence, B.M. Goodson, D.E. Wemmer, A. Pines, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 97, 9472-5 (2000).