Ben Rogers

Ben studied engineering and journalism in college and later earned a master's degree in mechanical engineering. Since then he has worked as an analyst at a business accelerator, a reporter at newspapers, a teacher, and a research scientist at various labs, including the University of Nevada, Reno, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He is the lead author of Nanotechnology: Understanding Small Systems (CRC Press), the first-ever comprehensive college textbook on nanotechnology, now in its third edition, and also Nanotechnology: The Whole Story (CRC Press), a general audience book, as well as various works of fiction. He helped to launch NevadaNano in 2004, holds multiple patents in sensor technology, and is a co-inventor of the Molecular Property Spectrometer (MPS).