Welcome to Niko Loening's site
I'm a professor in the chemistry department at Lewis & Clark College. I teach a variety of courses, including general, physical, and analytical chemistry as well as some of our biochemistry courses. My research interests lie in the development and application of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy.
Before coming to the college, I worked as a post-doctoral research fellow with Bob Griffin at MIT and before that I was at the University of Cambridge where I worked on my PhD thesis under James Keeler. I spent the 2006-2007 academic year on a research sabbatical at the Medical Research Council - Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, UK, where I worked on determining protein structures using NMR spectroscopy, and spent another sabbatical in 2010-2011 in Berlin, Germany, working at the Leibniz Institute für Molekulare Pharmakologie. Most recently, I spent 2017-2018 on sabbatical at Oregon State University where I worked with Elisar Barbar. I led the Lewis & Clark Overseas Program to Australia in Spring 2012 and since then I established our current Overseas Program to Berlin (which I led in Fall 2015, Fall 2019, and Fall 2023).
