Primary Job Title CSO Primary Organization 
Lumense
Location United States, North America Gender Male
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Dan serves as the Chief Science Officer for Lumense. He obtained his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1982 where is has since been serving as a member of the research faculty in the Georgia Tech Research Institute. He is skilled in organic synthetic methods, including heterocycles, fluorinated and
organometallic compounds, natural products, carbohydrates and inorganics. Has knowledge of a wide range of separation and characterization techniques. Is skilled in design and microfabrication of electronic devices, including mask making, clean room methodology, photolithography, metal evaporation, sputter and chemical vapor deposition, wire bonding and testing of devices. Has experience in Fabry‑Perot interferometric absorption spectroscopy, microwave spectroscopy and Langmuir‑Blodgett monolayer methodology. He holds several patents as a result of his research a Georgia Tech.
His current interests are in the design and fabrication of devices with integrated optic waveguides for the detection of chemical species with application in chemical processing, environmental monitoring and medical diagnostics; design and synthesis of polymers for chemical sensors; sol-gel chemistry for sensor applications; nonlinear optics and their application in electronic devices; surface chemistry; chemical and physical chemical approaches to optical modulation.
