Scientific Advisory Board

Dr. Carlos Bustamante
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology, Physics, and Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley
Currently serving as Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology, Physics, and Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Bustamante was born in 1951 in Peru. Considered as one of the best scientists in the USA by Time Magazine, Dr. Bustamante uses novel methods of single-molecule visualization, such as scanning force microscopy, to study the structure and function of nucleoprotein assemblies. His laboratory is developing methods of single-molecule manipulation, such as optical tweezers, to characterize the elasticity of DNA, to induce the mechanical unfolding of individual protein molecules, and to investigate the machine-like behavior of molecular motors. Dr. Bustamante is also a member of the National Academy of Science in the USA.

Academic background: B.S. Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, M.S. Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley; Kellogg Foundation Scholarship during the Master in Biochemistry (1973-1975); Fullbright Commission and Institute of International Education Fellow (1975-1976); Abraham Rosenberg Scholarship, University of California, Berkeley (1975-1976); Research Assistant, University of California, Berkeley (1976-1981); Postdoctoral Fellow, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, Berkely (1981-1982); Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of New Mexico (1982-1986); Searle Scholar (1984); Alfred P. Sloan Fellow (1985); Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of New Mexico (1986-1989); Presidential Lecturer in Chemistry, University of New Mexico (1986); State of New Mexico Eminent Scholar (1989); Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of New Mexico (1989-1990); Professor of Chemistry and Member of the Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon (1991-1998); (1994-1998) Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator; Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society (1995); Member of the Science Advisory Board of the Searle Scholars Program (1997-2000); Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator (2000).

Dr. Marvin L. Cohen
Co-chairperson, Nanōmix Scientific Advisory Board
University Professor, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley
Professor Cohen is a preeminent figure in the field of theoretical condensed matter physics. He is a founding scientist of Nanōmix Inc. and also serves as a Senior Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the recipient of numerous scientific awards, including the National Medal of Science (2002) and the Foresight Institute Feynman Prize (2003).

Thomas Kalil
Special Assistant to the Chancellor for Science and Technology at UC Berkeley
Currently serving as the Special Assistant to the Chancellor for Science and Technology at UC Berkeley. Previously, Thomas Kalil served as the Deputy Assistant to President Clinton for Technology and Economic Policy, and the Deputy Director of the White House National Economic Council. He was the NEC's "point person" on a wide range of technology and telecommunications issues. He led a number of White House technology initiatives, such as the National Nanotechnology Initiative, the Next Generation Internet, bridging the digital divide, e-learning, increasing funding for long-term information technology research, making IT more accessible to people with disabilities, and addressing the growing imbalance between support for biomedical research and for the physical sciences and engineering. He was also appointed by President Clinton to serve on the G-8 Digital Opportunity Task Force (dot force).

Prior to joining the White House, Tom was a trade specialist at the Washington offices of Dewey Ballantine, where he represented the Semiconductor Industry Association. He also served as the principal staffer to Gordon Moore in his capacity as Chair of the SIA Technology Committee.

Tom received a B.A. in political science and international economics from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and completed graduate work at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He is the author of articles and op-eds on S&T policy, nanotechnology, nuclear strategy, U.S.-Japan trade negotiations, U.S.-Japan cooperation in science and technology, the National Information Infrastructure, distributed learning, and electronic commerce.

Dr. Fraser Stoddart
Fred Kavli Chair of NanoSystems Sciences
Director of the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI)
Fraser Stoddart received his BSc (1964) and PhD (1966) degrees from Edinburgh University. In 1967, he went to Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario as a National Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellow, and then, in 1970, to the University of Sheffield as an Imperial Chemical Industries' Research Fellow. Later that same year, he joined the faculty at the University of Sheffield as a Lecturer in Chemistry. After spending a sabbatical (1978-81) at the Imperial Chemical Industries' Corporate Laboratory in Runcorn, he returned to Sheffield where he was promoted to a Readership in Chemistry in 1982. He was awarded a DSc degree by the University of Edinburgh in 1980 for his research on stereochemistry beyond the molecule. In 1990, he moved to the Chair of Organic Chemistry at Birmingham University and was Head of the School of Chemistry there (1993-97) before moving to the University of California, Los Angeles as the Saul Winstein Professor of Chemistry in 1997. In July 2002, he became the Acting Co-Director of the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI). On May 1, 2003 he became the Director of the CNSI and assumed the Fred Kavli Chair of NanoSystems Science.

Professor Stoddart has published over 710 scientific papers and is currently one of the 10 most highly-cited chemists, according to the Institute of Scientific Information. He has pioneered the development of molecular recognition-cum-self-assembly processes and template-directed protocols for the syntheses of mechanically interlocked compounds (catenanes and rotaxanes) that have been employed as molecular switches and as motor-molecules, respectively, in the fabrication of nanoelectronic devices and NanoElectroMechanical Systems (NEMS).

His work has been recognized by many awards, including the International Izatt-Christensen Award in Macrocyclic Chemistry (1993), the American Chemical Society's Cope Scholar Award (1999), and the Nagoya Gold Medal in Organic Chemistry (2004). He is currently on the international advisory boards of numerous journals, including Angewandte Chemie and the Journal of Organic Chemistry. He became an Associate Editor of Organic Letters on July 1, 2003. He was elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society of London in 1994 and to the Fellowship of the German Academy of Natural Sciences, the Leopoldina, in 1999.

Dr. Alex Zettl
Co-chairperson, Nanōmix Scientific Advisory Board
Professor, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley
Professor Zettl is a founding scientist of Nanōmix Inc. and also leads the Superconductivity and the sp2 Nanoscience Programs at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He is one of the world's finest condensed matter experimental physicists and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. Professor Zettl's primary expertise is in the synthesis and characterization of novel materials and nanostructures.