17 years of microfluidic & sensor hardware development
17 peer reviewed publications
1 US Patent
Photobioreactor PhD, U Toronto; Quantum physics MSc, Queen's U;
Biophysics (photosysthesis) BSc, U Guelph
A hands-on CEO as employee #2, having skills in fundraising, team-building, partnership-forming, management, business strategy, and networking for a pre-seed hardware startup (see Neuston).
I offer
Ground-floor creation of an entirely new type of microalgal photobioreactor enabled by existing TRL3+ tech, primarily for the aquaculture industry.
Introduction
After graduating in microalgal photobioreactor design, in 2017 I became employee #3 in a pre-seed high-tech startup in Alberta. There, he got a grounds-eye view of the company's maturation and helped it through internal governance, product strategy, technical sales, and developing much of its core tech (optical, microfluidic, and software systems), which became a suite of lab testing services and a turnkey commercial fluid analysis system. The company now has 50+ employees and large, international clients. Simultaneously, in Alberta, I continued my photobioreactor research after-hours in a DIY home lab, building the practical and theoretical framework for a reactor design that leverages recent literature-proven material breakthroughs in different fields. In forming Neuston Biosystems, I'm passionate to continue this work toward building low cost, low power, reliable photobioreactors that make algae biomass more commercially available and biosecure for human consumption.
