Dr. Andrew Spakowitz is an assistant professor at Stanford University and has 10 years of experience in academic research and teaching. Spakowitz received a BS degree in Chemical Engineering from University of Wisconsin in 1999. He also received a Ph.D. also in Chemical Engineering from California Institute of Technology in 2004. Since starting his independent research program at Stanford, Spakowitz and coworkers have published ~20 papers, most of which have appeared in top journals such as Physics Review Letters, PNAS, and the Nature family of journals.