Dr. Baker is the Head of Partnerships for Chemistry and Materials, Azure Quantum, at Microsoft. Previously, he was a Laboratory Fellow in the Physical and Computational Sciences Directorate at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (or PNNL), as well as an Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics at Washington University in St. Louis. Dr. Baker is a member of the Washington State Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and a former Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow.