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Alfred Merrill

GaTech Instructor

al.merrill@biology.gatech.edu

Compensation history

YearTitleCategoryOrganizationSalaryTravel
FY2020PROFESSORTeaching FacultyGEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$82,324—
FY2019PROFESSORTeaching FacultyGEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$161,347—
FY2018PROFESSORTeaching FacultyGEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$161,322—
FY2017PROFESSORTeaching FacultyGEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$158,159—
FY2016PROFESSORTeaching FacultyGEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$161,174$4,572
FY2015PROFESSORTeaching FacultyGEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$191,751$1,499

Federal grants acquired

Public NIH + NSF awards where this person is the lead/contact PI, FY2015–2015. A defensible lower bound — co-PI, non-federal, and unmatched awards are not counted.

Total federal
$317K
NIH
$317K
NSF
$0
Awards
1
$285.3K$298K$310.7K$323.3K$336K$348.7KFY2015

Research output

Scholarly record from OpenAlex, publishing since 1974. Author matched by name; metrics are indicative. ORCID 0000-0002-6673-968X.

h-index
98
Citations
38K
Works
363
Works FY15–25
44
Publications and citations by year
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Career history

Prior positions and education from ORCID (self-reported). Academic history is well covered; corporate and founder roles are often omitted, so their absence isn’t evidence they don’t exist.

2001–Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology · School of Biologyacademic
1974–1979Ph.D., Cornell University · Biochemistryeducation

Georgia Tech teaching

166 classes taught28 distinct coursesSpring 2006 – Fall 2025
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Compiled from public records and matched by name — grant, research, and teaching figures are indicative and may be incomplete or, rarely, misattributed, and do not reflect a person’s worth. See methodology. Report a correction.