Robert Pantazes, PhD, is an assistant professor of chemical engineering at Auburn Univ. (Email: rjp0029@auburn.edu). His research group focuses on combining computational and experimental methods to design and identify therapeutic proteins, with an emphasis on rapidly designing high-affinity binding proteins and comprehensively characterizing epitope repertoires. He received his BS and PhD in chemical engineering at Pennsylvania State Univ. under the supervision of Costas Maranas, researching computational protein engineering. He completed his postdoc at the Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, researching autoimmune disease biomarker discovery under the supervision of Patrick Daugherty. After completing his postdoc, Pantazes was a scientist at Serimmune, Inc.