Indrek Reile
National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics, Estonia

Indrek Reile defended a PhD in organic chemistry and organometallic reaction mechanism studies in Tallinn University of Technology in 2012. Following a brief visit to the pharmaceutical industry, he switched focus to academic NMR research and worked with diffusion NMR during 2013-2014. He served as a postdoc with Prof Marco Tessari in the Radboud University (the Netherlands) in 2014-2016, where he participated in developing parahydrogen hyperpolarization methods for chemical analysis of biological mixtures.
He has been working as a group leader in the National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics (Estonia) since 2017, focusing on using parahydrogen hyperpolarization as a precise analytical tool in solution NMR. He is studying different ways to achieve compatibility of biofluid (liquid biopsy) and tissue samples with solution state hyperpolarization methods in order to reach metabolic information from below the limit of detection of contemporary standard NMR instrumentation.