Matt Grandbois
Dow Chemical Company
@GrandboisMatt
Matt Grandbois is a Corporate Account Marketing Manager for the Dow Chemical Company where he focuses on developing new technologies and solutions across Dow’s chemical portfolio to address the needs of their complex customer accounts within the electronics industry. Grandbois is a member of the American Chemical Society (ACS) Younger Chemist Committee and is the current Chair, and Chair-Elect, of the ACS Division of Professional Relations Younger Chemist Subdivision. In these roles, he develops programming at national ACS meetings aimed at developing professional skills for young scientists. He has been developing trainings and programs to further improve the communication skills of scientists while he was part of the University of Minnesota Chemistry Department Graduate Student Workshop Committee that further spread to his leadership within Dow’s internal early career scientist development committee. He has a BA (2004) in chemistry (ACS) and music performance from Augustana College (Sioux Falls, South Dakota) and a PhD (2010) in chemistry from the University of Minnesota. He was a 2008 Fulbright Scholar to Norway where he studied the relationship between technology and society at the Norwegian Institute of Science and Technology.
Ken Haenen
Hasselt University & IMEC vzw
@KenHaenen
Ken Haenen is Professor and Chair of the Department of Physics, and Director of the Doctoral School of Sciences and Technology at Hasselt University, Belgium, where he obtained his PhD degree in physics in 2002. He is also a guest professor at IMEC, Belgium. His research interests focus on CVD diamond, including its deposition, optoelectronic characterization, surface functionalization, and diamond-based devices, as part of a broader scope on carbon materials for energy harvesting and conversion. He is a 2017 Volume Organizer for
MRS Bulletin and Editor-in-Chief of
Diamond and Related Materials. He is involved in the organization of several leading international diamond and nanocarbon conferences, including the International Conference on Diamond and Carbon Materials (Chair), Hasselt Diamond Workshop (Co-Chair), and New Diamond and Nano Carbons (Executive Committee); he organized MRS symposia on carbon functional interfaces at the 2011 and 2013 MRS Spring Meetings; and he served as a co-chair of the 2015 MRS Spring Meeting.
Jennifer L. Maclachlan
PID Analyzers, LLC
@pidgirl
As a co-owner and sales manager of PID Analyzers, LLC, Jennifer L. Maclachlan is responsible for managing relationships with distributors and key clients as well as the web-based marketing, social, and digital media initiatives, of which she was an early adopter. Maclachlan is the Chair of the American Chemical Society (ACS) National Committee on Public Relations and Communications (CPRC) and serves in various Public Relations Communications roles for the ACS as well as providing Public Relations training to ACS groups in-person and via Webinar. She is a founder of the Cape Cod Science Café, which she started in 2011, with support from the Northeastern Section of the ACS (NESACS) and an International Year of Chemistry (IYC2011) mini-grant. This program has continued to gain popularity and the 19th Cape Cod Science Café will take place on March 25, 2017, within a large public outreach event, STEM Journey, of which she is a founding member and organizer. STEM Journey is an award-winning K–12 annual public outreach, day-long event with collaborative efforts from the ACS Local Section (NESACS), the Cape & Islands Boy Scouts, Sandwich STEM Academy, and PID Analyzers, LLC.
Judy Meiksin
Materials Research Society
@Judy_Meiksin
Judy Meiksin is News Editor for the Materials Research Society, where she is responsible for generating content for news and features for
MRS Bulletin, the
Materials360® Newsletter, and
Meeting Scene®. She has taught writing for over 20 years, including courses at the University of Pittsburgh and the School of the Carnegie as well as invited workshops, most recently at the College of William and Mary and at the Center for Study of Science, Technology & Policy (Bangalore). She has her B.A. degree (1983) from Carnegie Mellon University and MFA degree (1989) from the University of Pittsburgh, both in Writing.
RóisÃn Owens
École des Mines de St. Étienne
@biochemist_hero
RóisÃn Owens is an Associate Professor in the Department of Bioelectronics (BEL) at the Centre Microélectronique de Provence of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint Etienne. She received her BA in Biochemistry at Trinity College Dublin, in Ireland, and her PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Southampton University in the UK. She held a postdoctoral fellowship at Cornell University, studying lipid metabolism of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. This was followed by a 1.5 year appointment at Agave BioSystems in Ithaca, New York, where she was involved in developing immunological and biochemical methods for the detection of cancers and pathogenic organisms. She returned, then, to Cornell to engineer proteins for rhinovirus therapeutics, as well as develop nanoparticles for
in vivo targeting. Owens has a wide range of expertise in the areas of protein and lipid biochemistry, microbiology, molecular biology, and immunology. She has received several awards including the European Research Council starting grant, a Marie Curie reintegration fellowship, and an EMBO fellowship. She is principal editor for biomaterials for
MRS Communications and a news advisor for
MRS Bulletin.
Karen Weintraub
Freelance Health/Science Journalist
@kweintraub
Karen Weintraub is a freelance health/science journalist who regularly contributes to
Scientific American,
USA Today,
The New York Times, and
STAT news, among others. She teaches journalism as an adjunct at Boston University and the Harvard Extension School, and has written two books and three e-books with Harvard doctors.
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