BME7900 Seminar Series – Jacob Robinson, PhD

We start off our Spring seminar series with Dr. Jacob Robinson from Rice University. Dr. Robinson is a Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Bioengineering. He is also the Co-founder and CEO of Motif Neurotech.

Bio: Jacob Robinson received a B.S. in Physics from UCLA in 2003 and a Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Cornell University in 2008 under advisor Dr. Michal Lipson. After completing his Ph.D.studying silicon nanophotonics he began postdoctoral research in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University. While at Harvard, Jacob developed silicon nanowire devices to probe the electrical and chemical activity of living cells. In the summer of 2012, he joined the ECE and BioE departments at Rice. He is currently interested in developing nanofabricated devices to study the structural and functional dynamics of living neural circuits.