Bradford Behr

Bradford Behr is a co-inventor of Tornado’s proprietary HTVS technology and currently serves as Chief Technology Officer, guiding the company’s technology development roadmap and identifying potential additions to the intellectual property portfolio. He is responsible for optical engineering and system architecture for many of Tornado’s Raman spectroscopy products including the HyperFlux™ PRO Plus 785 and the Hudson and SpectroPort Raman probes. Brad received his BA in Astronomy from Williams College and his PhD in Astrophysics from the California Institute of Technology. He held postdoctoral research fellowships at The University of Texas McDonald Observatory and the U.S. Naval Observatory, pioneering new analysis methods and cutting-edge astronomical spectrometer designs for quantifying the chemical composition and dynamics of stars in the galaxy. Much of this work has translated directly to Tornado’s advancement of the state-of-the-art for terrestrial spectroscopy applications such as real-time monitoring and industrial process analytics.