Ruth Gordillo

Ruth Gordillo, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at UT Southwestern and Director of the UT Southwestern Metabolic Phenotyping Core. She is also a faculty member at the Touchstone Diabetes Center. Originally from Badajoz, Spain, she holds bachelor's and master's degrees in chemistry, as well as a doctorate in science and chemistry from the Universidad de Extremadura. Her postdoctoral training included organic chemistry at Universidad de Extremadura and physical organic chemistry/computational chemistry at UCLA.

Dr. Gordillo's research focuses on developing LC/MS/MS technologies for metabolite quantification and spatial lipidomics/metabolomics using mass spectrometry imaging. She has been at UT Southwestern since 2011, contributing expertise in analytical chemistry and metabolic profiling.

Her work is affiliated with the Touchstone Diabetes Center and the Metabolic Phenotyping Core. While no specific grants, awards, or advised students are listed, her technical innovations in mass spectrometry techniques are central to her contributions in metabolic research.