Dr. Joback is president and founder of Molecular Knowledge Systems, a small business located in Bedford, New Hampshire.
For more than 25 years he has worked in the areas of physical property estimation and chemical product design. He has developed a number of group contribution estimation techniques now widely used in industry. He has designed numerous chemical products including environmentally friendly cleaning and separation solvents, new lubricants, enhanced phase-change thermal storage materials, improved jet and rocket fuels, and non-hazardous aircraft deicing fluids. His company has worked on subcontracts for eleven Small Business Innovation Research awards and has recently been awarded two Open Innovation projects through NineSigma.
He holds a bachelor’s degree from Stevens Institute of Technology and a Masters and PhD from MIT, all in chemical engineering.