Matthew Carnes

Matthew Carnes has over 20 years of work experience. Matthew began their professional career in 2000 as a Quality Control Engineering Intern at Edwards Lifesciences. In 2001, they were an Intern at Nereus Pharmaceuticals. From 2003 to 2008, they attended Columbia University and worked as a Graduate Student, where they conducted organic synthesis of strained, conjugated organic molecules, ring opening metathesis polymerization to form unsaturated polymers, and synthesis of organometallic complexes containing strained ligands. From 2008 to 2010, they were a Post-Doctoral Researcher at Eindhoven University of Technology. From 2010 to 2014, they were a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of Oregon, where they were a sub-group leader in the Johnson Lab and developed a toolkit of solution based techniques for the analysis of inorganic nanoclusters. From 2014 to 2019, they were a Scientist III at Cabot Microelectronics. Since 2019, they have been a Senior Research Scientist at Hazel Technologies, Inc. and an Adjunct Professor at Aurora University.

Matthew Carnes received a BS in Chemical Engineering from UC San Diego between 1999 and 2003. Afterwards, they earned a PhD in Chemistry from Columbia University between 2003 and 2008. Matthew also attended CSMC, though no degree or field of study was indicated.