Meet the Provost

Dr. Inga Musselman

Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost

inga.musselman@utdallas.edu
972-883-2271

Dr. Inga Musselman’s love for UT Dallas has only continued to grow across her three-plus decades on campus. She often talks about its magnetic environment and is devoted to sharing that welcoming pull with faculty, staff and students.

Musselman joined UT Dallas as assistant professor of chemistry in 1992 and was promoted to professor in 2008. She became acting provost in 2015 and interim provost on Jan. 1, 2017, before being named vice president for academic affairs and provost in December 2017.

Early in her career, Musselman studied mechanisms and limits of contrast in scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) images of molecular adsorbates, with the goal of advancing STM as a chemically sensitive microscopy technique.

More recently, her research interests have focused on the development and application of microscopy and microanalysis methods for the study of materials structure in the areas of gas separations, fuel cells and bionanotechnology.

She has been the primary research supervisor of numerous doctoral, master’s and baccalaureate degree students as well as high school summer students.

Education

• Bachelor of Arts, chemistry, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 1982
• Doctor of Philosophy, chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1988

Research

• Research Chemist, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 1983-88
• Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1982-84
• Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1984-88
• Postdoctoral research, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, 1988-91. Also associated with North Carolina State’s Precision Engineering Center.

External Leadership

• Microanalysis Society (MAS): President, director, secretary of Executive Council, chair of MAS Education Committee, national tour speaker, conference program co-chair, symposium co-chair, newsletter editor. Member since 1992. Microanalysis Society presented her with its Presidential Service Award in 2003.
• American Council on Education: Presenter, “Changing Your Orientation: From Mid-Level to Senior-Level Thinking,” Regional Women’s Leadership Forum, Dallas, 2017.
• Also a member of the American Chemical Society and North American Membrane Society.