Dr. Joseph Dalluge receives Research Technical Staff Award
MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (10/22/2025) – The University of Minnesota Research and Innovation Office (RIO) recently announced the winners of the Research Technical Staff Award, which recognizes staff for their distinguished service to the University of Minnesota research community and celebrates exemplary leadership. The Department of Chemistry’s Mass Spectrometry Laboratory Director, Dr. Joseph Dalluge, was named one of ten awardees.
In his role managing the Mass Spectrometry Laboratory (MSL), Dalluge oversees a suite of six leading-edge mass spectrometry platforms, providing critical expertise to academic and industrial researchers across the University and the Twin Cities metro. Over the course of his career, he has co-authored 23 publications with researchers from eight different UMN departments. Under his leadership, the MSL was recognized as a Waters Center of Innovation, a designation that recognizes and supports the efforts of scientists facilitating breakthroughs in health and life science research, environmental protection, and beyond. Dalluge has been the principal investigator on grants totaling $1.2 million. In addition to his work in the MSL, he also serves on multiple NSF and NIH grant review panels and has worked to develop laboratory modules to improve the STEM pipeline from local two-year colleges to UMN.
Chemistry Director of Operations Chuck Tomlinson writes: “We're very fortunate to have Joe on our team, sharing his expertise in support of our research mission, collaborating with faculty groups, and training users for their future careers. It's a well-deserved honor.”
Dalluge joined the Department of Chemistry in 2009, after completion of his PhD in biochemistry in 1996 from the University of Utah and work for the National Institute of Standards and Technology and Cargill.
About the Research Technical Staff Award
The Research Technical Staff Award recognizes staff for their distinguished service to the University of Minnesota (UMN) research community and celebrates exemplary leadership that positively impacted their colleagues and advanced the University's mission. Dalluge was one of ten recipients of the award, who represent more than nine units across four campuses. The awardees will be recognized with an honorarium and a luncheon hosted by RIO on October 30, 2025.