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Ricardo B Levy
Adjunct Lecturer, Chemical Engineering
BioRicardo Levy is an executive and entrepreneur whose career spans more than three decades of founding and building successful businesses. Born and raised in South America to a European immigrant family, he completed engineering studies in the United States at Stanford and Princeton before returning to South America to run a family business. In 1969 he sold the business and returned to the United States to complete his Ph.D. at Stanford in the field of catalytic chemistry. In 1974, after a number of years in the petroleum and petrochemical industry, he co-founded his first entrepreneurial venture, Catalytica, a research and development firm serving the chemical, pharmaceutical, and clean energy industries. The firm’s discoveries resulted in over one hundred patents and led to the formation of three companies, one of which became, under Levy’s leadership, the largest supplier to the pharmaceutical industry in North America and was sold to European firm DSM in 2000. He has served on several public and private Boards, is Chairman of the Board of a private analytics software company, and from 2010 to 2016 served on the Advisory Board of the Santa Clara University Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship, a global incubator of social entrepreneurs. He continues to be a mentor for that program. He is a Lecturer at the Stanford University Chemical Engineering Department, where he teaches a course on entrepreneurship, leadership and new venture creation. He is the author of the book “Letters to a Young Entrepreneur: Succeeding in Business Without Losing at Life – A Leader’s Ongoing Journey” published in 2015. Throughout his life, Dr. Levy has pursued a keen interest in spirituality and personal growth and his conviction that a person’s inner beliefs and purpose are deeply linked to business success. He has continually applied his diverse studies to his roles as a business leader, mentor and teacher.
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Angela McIntyre
Executive Director, Program-Bao Z.
Current Role at StanfordAngela McIntyre is the Executive Director of the Stanford Wearable Electronics (eWEAR) Initiative. She manages the eWEAR affiliates program and provides member companies opportunities to connect with research and events related to wearables at Stanford University. As a primary contact to eWEAR, Angela fosters membership, assists in forming collaborations between industry and faculty, leads eWEAR events, and is an evangelist for wearables research at Stanford.
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Stella Minaev
Director of Finance and Operations, Chemical Engineering
Current Role at StanfordCurrently, Stella is the Director of Finance and Operations of Chemical Engineering within the School of Engineering. The department has approximately 19 faculty members, 18 staff members, 134 doctoral students, 60 post-doctoral researchers and over 122 masters and undergraduate students. Her responsibilities include strategic planning, financial management, faculty and student affairs, staff hiring, mentoring and supervision, facilities and operations management, policy compliance and furthering of department interests.
She works closely with the department chair to execute policy and strategic direction for the operation of the department and participates in short and long-term planning for department operations and activities. She also ensures that the faculty, students, and staff in the department have the necessary support to carry out their academic, research and administrative duties. -
Tim Schnabel
Technical/Paraprofessional, Program-Sattely, E.
BioMy biggest passion is solving problems. Biotechnology is fascinating and amazingly complex; it has the power to change the world in areas such as sustainable energy, food, and medicine. Between all of these, I do not mind the exact subject so much as the process of creatively finding a solution. I look to explore and expand said creativity and problem solving skills throughout my graduate study at Stanford.
I was born in Germany and attended international schools in both Hannover, Germany, and London, England. After graduating with an IB Diploma I came to Stanford for undergraduate study in Chemical Engineering and Economics. Through an honors thesis project that covered all four years in the James R. Swartz Laboratory, I developed further depth and focus on biotechnology. I am currently enrolled as a Bioengineering student at Stanford and have worked on projects ranging from metabolic engineering of novel anti-cancer drugs to photosynthetic carbon concentration optimization to light-controlled cell division to novel HIV vaccines.
I joined the Elizabeth Sattely lab for my thesis work, and am currently engineering plant-microbe interactions. Bacteria and fungi can confer a number of beneficial properties to crops, such as improved drought tolerance and nitrogen fixation. Understanding and then engineering these mechanisms is a complex, new, and extremely hot field of research. My current project focuses on engineering the cereal-crop-symbiotic bacterium Azospirillum brasilense to excrete ammonia at high rates and over prolonged time frames. If we are successful, then this can transform sustainable agriculture for the future. -
Jeffrey B. Tok
Laboratory Director, Chemical Engineering
BioEducation:
The University of Washington, Seattle, WA, B.Sc. (Chemistry & Biochemistry), 1989-1992
The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, Ph.D. (Bioorganic Chemistry), 1992-1996
Harvard University, Boston, MA, Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Bioorganic Chemistry), 1997-1999
Work Experience:
Assistant Professor, City University of New York, York College and Graduate Center, 1999-2003
Associate Professor, City University of New York, York College and Graduate Center, 2003-2004
Principal Scientist (Indefinite), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 2004-2008
Chief BioScientist, Micropoint Bioscience Inc, 2008-2010
Senior Research Engineer/Scientist, Stanford University, 2010-present
Director, Uytengsu Teaching Center, Shriram Center, 2015-present
Manager, Soft & Hybrid Materials Shared Facility, Stanford Nano Shared Facility, 2010-present
Manager & Instructor, Dept of Chemical Engineering Teaching Lab, 2010-present
Research Activities:
'Google Scholar' link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=hXSGJC0AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra
Soft & Hybrid Materials Facility (SMF) link:
https://snsf.stanford.edu/equipment/smf/index.html
