Richard A. Mathies
Principle Investigator
Richard Mathies is a professor of the graduate school of chemistry at UC Berkeley specializing in biophysical, bioanalytical, and physical chemistry. He received his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from Cornell University. In addition to becoming a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, he has received numerous awards for his work in areas including photobiology and capillary electrophoresis.
https://chemistry.berkeley.edu/faculty/chem/mathies
Anna Butterworth
Co-Investigator
Anna Butterworth is a research scientist at the UC Berkeley space sciences laboratory specializing in analysis optimization techniques of extraterrestrial material.
http://berkeley.academia.edu/AnnaButterworth
Jeremy A McCauley
Lead Engineer
Jeremy McCauley is the lead aerospace engineer at the Samuel Silver Space Sciences Laboratory at UC Berkeley. He received his masters in Mechanical Engineering specializing in fluid dynamics from UC Berkeley and has acted as lead engineer on several projects including the GREECE Electric Fields and Van Allen Probes projects.
Matin Golozar
Matin Golozar is a Biophysics Ph.D. Graduate Student at UC Berkeley.
Matin earned his M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering in 2016 from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, where he worked on the numerical simulation and performance optimization of a magnetophoretic bio-separation chip for the isolation of circulating tumor cells, red and white blood cells from the peripheral blood.
Prior to this, he completed his B.Sc. at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Isfahan University of Technology (Iran). His previous research involved theoretical analysis and investigation of the optimal distribution of wall shear stress in the cardiovascular systems and its effect on the pattern of diameters of blood vessels. Prior to starting his Ph.D., he spent two years as a research fellow in Richard Mathies Group in the Department of Chemistry at UCB, where he worked on the design, development, and fabrication of various compact microfluidic devices for lab automation, analyte detection, and membrane dialysis for rapid solvent removal.
Currently, Matin is conducting his research as a research fellow at Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory, where he is contributing to the engineering design of the Enceladus Organic Analyzer (EOA) by developing a new state-of-the-art capture plate/chamber to effectively gather and transport plume ice particles as well as microfabrication of capillary electrophoresis glass wafers that are the central processors for bioorganic marker detection in the EOA microfluidic chip.
Boden Eakins
Boden Eakins is a Bioengineering Ph.D. Graduate student at UC Berkeley, working as a research fellow in Mathies Research Lab.
Boden completed his B.Sc. in Bioengineering through the Engineering Physics program at the University of Alberta in 2021. He transferred from the University of Victoria in his sophomore year to pursue research in biotechnology. In 2019, he joined UAlberta’s Nanophotonics Research Lab, led by Dr. Vien Van, where he worked on building an on-chip photonic device to detect near-infrared luminescence of PbS quantum dots.
In 2020, he joined the Biophysics Research Group, led by Dr. Jack Tuszynski, and spearheaded a project to simulate the potential and ionic concentration profiles around microtubules and microfilaments, resulting in a published scientific paper and review article on the electrical properties of microtubules. He is now part of the UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco joint Bioengineering Ph.D. program, where his primary research focuses on small scale optical and electronic sensor systems for biological applications, particularly for integration into BioMEMS devices.
His current work in Mathies Research Lab includes developing pH and ionic concentration sensors for the sample preparation stage of the MOAB project, which will be used to determine the necessary on-chip protocols.
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(Edited by Nolan Lee, last updated 2/17/22)