Scientific Advisory Board

Henry Weinberg, Ph.D.
Chair

Henry Weinberg is Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board and CTO of Draths Corporation, a chemical company enabling commodity and specialty chemicals from biorenewable feedstocks. Prior to joining Draths, Henry was CTO at Symyx Technologies since its founding in 1996 and was responsible for the technological and scientific direction of the company. Before 1996, Henry was in academia at University of California, Santa Barbara as Professor of Chemical Engineering, Materials Engineering, and Chemistry from 1989 through 1996 and at California Institute of Technology as Professor of Chemical Engineering and Chemical Physics from 1972 through 1989. Henry has presented over 400 invited lectures or seminars at various academic, industrial, and governmental organizations around the world during the past 30 years. He has authored or co-authored over 550 scientific papers that have appeared in refereed journals, and the book Low-Energy Electron Diffraction: Experiment, Theory, and Surface Structural Determination, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, 1986, 608pp (with M.A. van Hove and C.M. Chan). He is the General Editor of the review journal Surface Science Reports. Henry obtained his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of South Carolina, and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.

Don Murphy, Ph.D.

Dr. Donald Murphy, National Academy of Engineering member, was a member of the technical staff at Bell Laboratories (1972-2000) with research activities areas including lithium-ion battery technology, superconductors and other electronic materials. He has over 160 publications and 10 patents. He headed departments at Bell Labs in Solid State Chemistry and Applied Materials Research. Since 2000 he has been an advisor to several companies.

Peter Schultz, Ph.D.

Professor Schultz, National Academy of Science member, is the Scripps Family Chair Professor of Chemistry at The Scripps Research Institute and former Institute Director for the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation. Dr. Schultz has pioneered combinatorial approaches to the physical and life sciences. He was the founder of Symyx Technologies, which has had a large commercial impact in the materials and catalysis fields, including partnerships with Exxon-Mobil, Dow and others. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Schultz is a founding scientist of Affymax Research Institute and co-founder of Symyx, Syrrx, Kalypsys, Phenomix, Ilypsa, and Ambrx. Peter Schultz website

Frank DiSalvo, Ph.D.

Professor Frank DiSalvo, National Academy of Science member, is the John A. Newman Professor of Physical Science at Cornell University. He has over 460 scientific publications and is a premier physicist and solid state chemist with extensive scientific managerial experience, both as a former research manager at Bell Labs and of a MRSEC at Cornell. Dr. DiSalvo is currently co-director of the Cornell Fuel Cell Institute and Director of the Cornell Center for a Sustainable Future. Frank DiSalvo website

Jeffrey Long, Ph.D.

Professor Jeffrey R. Long is Professor of Chemistry at the University of California Berkeley and Faculty Senior Scientist in the Materials Sciences Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. In addition, he is lead-PI for the Berkeley Hydrogen Storage Program and Deputy Director of the Berkeley Center for Gas Separations. With over 100 publications, his research areas include the synthesis of inorganic clusters and solids with unusual electronic and magnetic properties, generation of microporous metal-organic frameworks for applications in hydrogen storage and carbon dioxide capture, and the development of molecular catalysts for electro- and photochemical water splitting. Jeffrey Long website

Jean Frechet, Ph.D.

Professor Jean M.J. Fréchet, National Academy of Science & National Academy of Engineering member, is the Henry Rapoport Chair of Organic Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley. In addition he is the Scientific Director of the Organic and Macromolecular Facility for the Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He has authored about 800 scientific papers and holds over 70 United States Patents. His research areas include organic synthesis and polymer chemistry applied to nanoscience and nanotechnology with emphasis on the design, fundamental understanding, synthesis, and applications of functional macromolecules. Jean Frechet website

Michael Stiegerwald, Ph.D.

Dr. Michael Stiegerwald was a member of the technical staff at Bell Laboratories (1983-2002) where he worked in several areas of materials chemistry including pioneering synthesis of nanoscale materials. He is now a Research Professor at Columbia University associated with the Center for Nanostructured Materials MRSEC.

Wilhelm Maier, Ph.D.

Prof. Wilhelm Maier of Saarbrücken University, Germany specializes in high throughput materials synthesis and has vast experience in the customized development and use of laboratory automation for synthetic discovery. Wilhelm Maier website