Education and Training: University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Licenciature, 1990, Physics; University of Oregon-Oregon, M.S., 1993, Physics; University of British Columbia, M.B.A., 1995, Business; University of California-Berkeley, Ph.D., 2000,      Biophysics.

Research and Professional Experience:

2006 to 2014   Staff Scientist, Life Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

2003 to 2006     Postdoctoral Staff Research Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

2000 to 2002   Postdoc, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California-San Francisco

Career Break: 1989-91, 1992-95 managing family agroforestry business in Argentina and obtaining MBA.

Three Selected Publications:

• TWI2050 report “The Digital Revolution and Sustainable Development: Opportunities and Challenges” (http://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/15913/1/TWI2050-for-web.pdf), International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA).
• Luef, B., Comolli, L. R., Siegerist, C. R., Frischkorn, K. R., Wrighton, K. C., and Banfield, J. F. (2014). Diverse, uncultivated ultra-small bacterial cells in groundwater. Nature Communications 6, Article number: 6372. doi:10.1038/ncomms7372. (Corresponding author).
• Geng J., Kim, K., Zhang, J., Escalada, A., Tunuguntla, R., Comolli, L. R. Allen, F. I., Shnyrova, A. V., Cho, K. R., Munoz, D., Wang, Y. M., Grigoropoulos, C. P., Ajo-Franklin, C. M., Frolov, V. A., and Noy, A. (2014). Stochastic transport through carbon nanotubes in lipid bilayers and live cell membranes. Nature 514, 612-615. doi: 10.1038/nature13817.