Experience

Maxwell Biosciences

• United States
• Biotechnology Research
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-Founder and Member of the Board of Directors

  • May 2015 - 8 years 8 months

  Austin, Texas, United States Development of Novel Broad-Spectrum Anti-Infectives



LUCIDANT POLYMERS, LLC

• United States
• Plastics Manufacturing

• Co-Founder and Member of the Board of Directors, Lucidant Polymers, LLC

  • Sep 2009 - 14 years 4 months

  Sunnyvale, California, United States



Stanford University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Associate Professor of Bioengineering

  • Sep 2007 - 16 years 4 months

  Stanford, CA A tenured faculty position in the Department of Bioengineering at Stanford University.



Northwestern University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Full Professor of Chemical & Biological Engineering

  • Sep 2006 - Aug 2007

  Evanston, IL A tenured faculty position in the Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. I also held a courtesy faculty position in the Department of Chemistry, Organic Division, at Northwestern.

• Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering

  • Sep 2003 - Aug 2006

  Evanston, IL A tenured faculty position in the Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. I also held a courtesy faculty position in the Department of Chemistry, Organic Division, at Northwestern.

• Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering

  • Jan 1997 - Aug 2003

  Evanston, IL A tenure-track faculty position in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. (Later, we changed the name of our department to "Chemical & Biological Engineering").



University of California, San Francisco

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• NIH NRSA Postdoctoral Research Fellow

  • Jan 1996 - Dec 1996

  San Francisco, CA and Emeryville, CA Research Mentors: Professor Ken A. Dill, a Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at UCSF, Laurel Heights (Biophysics) and Dr. Ronald N. Zuckermann (Director of Bioorganic Chemistry, Chiron Corporation, Emeryville, CA). I worked mostly at Chiron under Dr. Zuckermann's supervision, but also interacted extensively with Ken Dill as my research advisor. I worked on the development of Poly-N-substituted Glycines, or "Peptoids", which were co-invented at Chiron by Ron Zuckermann and others.



ACLARA BioSciences

• Postdoctoral Researcher

  • 1996 - 1996



University of California, Berkeley

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Ph.D. Candidate and Research Assistant

  • Aug 1990 - May 1995

  Berkeley, CA Ph.D. Advisors: Prof. Harvey W. Blanch, and Dr. David S. Soane Thesis title: Capillary Electrophoresis of DNA in Uncrosslinked Polymer Solutions: Experimental and Theoretical Studies