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Mr. John M. Guerra, P.E., Founder, President, and CEO. Prior to
founding Nanoptek in 2002, Mr. Guerra was
Vice President of Technology and General Manager at Calimetrics Inc.,
a technology start up in Alameda, CA, where he established their East
Coast facility in Bedford, MA. There he led a team developing integral
near-field optical media (INFO) with double the density of DVD, with
an ATP award from NIST. Prior to that, Mr. Guerra was Senior Principal
Engineer and Program Manager at Polaroid Corp., where he developed numerous
products for medical, consumer, architectural, and computer imaging.
Mr. Guerra has 31 patents or patents pending, most of these in near-field
optics. He has 20 publications and 20 presentations to his credit, and
his work is cited in numerous texts and patents in this area. He has
won the R&D 100 Award, Photonics’ Circle of Excellence Award,
and the Optical Society of America’s Engineering Excellence Award,
in addition to several Polaroid awards. He is a biographee in Marquis’
Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in Science,
3rd Edition, (1996-97), and Bowker’s American Men and Women
of Science (1998).
Mr.
Luke Thulin, Chief Scientist. Mr. Thulin joined Nanoptek just prior to its
move to Clock Tower Place in
2004, He has been key in both the organizational development of Nanoptek
as well as in its technology. Mr. Thulin first joined Guerra
at Calimetrics in Bedford, MA, where for two years he developed several
inventions in the field of nano-structured optical data storage, and
subsequently has a patent and several peer-reviewed publications to
his name. He then obtained his Masters in Photonics Engineering
from Boston University, and is now the resident photoelectrochemical
analysis and testing expert for Nanoptek. In addition to his many
generalist skills that are so critical to a small company, including
computer programming, computer analysis, information technology, electrical
instrument design and repair, and optical instrument design and fabrication,
Mr. Thulin also possesses the rare combination of both excellent experimental
skills and superb theoretical analytical abilities needed for Nanoptek.
Our team is growing:
Dr.
Amol Chandekar, Senior Scientist. Dr. Chandekar recently joined
Nanoptek after completing a Post Doctoral Fellowship at the University
of Massachusetts at Lowell, where he was also awarded his PhD. in
chemistry with honors. For his undergraduate work, he attended Laxminarayan Institute of Technology, University of Nagpur, India, where
he earned his B. Technology in Chemical Engineering. Dr. Chandekar was
instrumental to significant progress made while interning at Nanoptek in
2006. He has eleven publications to his credit, many in the area of
nano-scale patterning of materials.
Dr. Andrei Ursache, Senior Scientist.
Dr. Ursache recently joined Nanoptek. As Post Doctoral Researcher at the
University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where he obtained his Ph.D. in
physics, Dr. Ursache developed capability for in situ EQCM
(Electrochemical Quartz Crystal Microbalance), cyclic voltametry, and
impedance spectroscopy of electrochemical cells. His expertise includes
fabrication of nanostructured materials and devices by both lithographic
nanofabrication and electrochemical processes, as well as advanced
electrochemical characterization techniques. Dr. Ursache has seven
publications and a patent in this field.
Advisors:
Dr. Dmitri Vezenov,
Science Advisor. Dr. Vezenov is Professor of Chemistry at Lehigh University.
He received his PhD degree in chemistry from Harvard University while working
on the development of a new scanning microscopy technique - chemical
force microscopy – to study intermolecular interactions between
organic, biological and polymer surfaces at nanometer scale. This work
was recognized by the Adhesion Society with the Peebles Award for research
in adhesion science. He joined Polaroid Corporation’s media research
department to work on optical near field storage systems. He later continued
this effort at Calimetrics, and participated in the establishment of
Calimetrics’ East Coast facility. He was responsible for the design
and testing of the integral near field optics media (INFO), development
of new microscopy techniques for characterization of the masters and
substrates for the nano-optics, and oversaw the modeling effort in the
design of the nano-optical media. As first employee at Nanoptek, Dr.
Vezenov was a Principal Investigator on the Phase I NASA SBIR photolysis
project, successful completion of which led to the Phase II grant. Dr. Vezenov is a co-author of 14 publications
in scientific journals and several patents on nano-optics fabrication
and tracking schemes for near-field media.
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