Alon Gorodetsky

Alon Gorodetsky is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of California, Irvine. He has Bachelor of Science degrees in Engineering Physics and Materials Science from Cornell University and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the California Institute of Technology. After his Ph.D., he did postdoctoral research as a fellow at Columbia University. Dr. Gorodetsky’s research has gained international attention and has been featured in Popular Science, Popular Mechanics, The Times, The Guardian, The Washington Post, Smithsonian Magazine, Wired, The Verge, Newsweek, Forbes, NPR, BBC, and CNN. He has received several awards, including the AFOSR Young Investigator Award, the DARPA Young Faculty Award, the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, and the DARPA Embedded Entrepreneurship Initiative Award. Gorodetsky can be reached by email at alon.gorodetsky@uci.edu.