To add breadth and depth to Picarro's internal expertise, the company looks to its Technical Advisory Board (TAB). The board includes world-renowned experts in engineering, physics, and chemistry, particularly technologies most closely aligned with Picarro's products and applications. The extensive and distinguished accomplishments of these scientists strengthens the company's development process and reduces time-to-revenue for new products.
In addition to regular quarterly meetings, the TAB provides advice and scientific expertise to the company on an on-going basis, particularly as it relates to Picarro technologies that are under development or in applying current technologies to new applications. The TAB also advises Picarro on individuals and institutions that would find the company's technology applicable to their scientific endeavors. The members of the TAB are:
Eric Crosson, Chair of the TAB and Chief Technical Officer of Picarro
Prior to joining Picarro in 1999, Dr. Crosson held research positions at Stanford University, including Senior Research Associate at the High Energy Physics Laboratory (HEPL) where he directed research in the areas of medical applications, accelerator science, solid-state/surface science, molecular materials/chemistry, biophysics and free electron laser science. At Stanford, he developed a number of key cavity ring-down spectroscopy techniques.
Dr. Crosson has been a Project Manager at the Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory at Duke University where he helped lead the design and construction of an atomic beam polarized ion source.
He received his Ph.D. in Nuclear Physics from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Professor Ronald K. Hanson, Clarence J. and Patricia R. Woodard Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Thermosciences, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University.
Professor Hanson is an international leader in the development of laser-based diagnostic methods for combustion and propulsion, and in the development of modern shock tube methods for accurate determination of chemical reaction rate parameters needed for modeling combustion and propulsion systems.
He leads the Hanson Research Group which has been actively involved in research at the High Temperature Gasdynamics Laboratory at Stanford University for over 30 years, resulting in over 65 PhDs being awarded. Typically, the Hanson Research Group includes 20 or more graduate students and visiting scientists actively working on research projects.
Dr. Hanson and his students have made several pioneering contributions which have impacted the pace of combustion and propulsion research and development worldwide. His key contributions are in the areas of laser diagnostics applied to shock tubes and for combustion and propulsion.
He pioneered the use of tunable mid-infrared diode lasers for non-invasive measurements in combustion systems; a method now used in many laboratories worldwide. He also developed a technique for instantaneous 2-D imaging of gaseous properties in flowing systems. Known as PLIF (Planar Laser-Induced Fluorescence), this diagnostic is now in use throughout the world and has had substantial impact on combustor development (subsonic and supersonic), high speed aerodynamics and basic research in fluid mechanics.
Professor Hanson pioneered the use of room temperature, near-infrared diode lasers for combustion sensing. This enabled simple, rugged and economical laser diagnostics with wide ranging applications. He has made many contributions to fundamental data bases for spectroscopic properties of gases, especially at high temperatures. By combining rapid-tuning lasers with shock tube methods for heating, unique measurements have been made of spectral broadening parameters and line strengths over a wide temperature range (300K to 3000K).
The Hanson Research Group has published over 400 papers, contributing to advances in shock wave physics and chemistry, laser spectroscopy, advanced optical diagnostics and sensors, chemical engineering. Professor Hanson has received 10 awards for his work including being named a Fellow of the Optical Society of America, the American Society of Mechanical Engineering and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He was awarded his PhD. in Aeronautics and Astronautics in 1968 from Stanford University.
Marc D. Levenson, Editor-in-Chief of Microlithography World and independent consultant.
Dr. Levenson is renowned for his work in phase-shifting methods to improve optical lithography and for contributions to laser spectroscopy and quantum measurement. After completing his education, he became an Associate Professor of Physics and Electrical Engineering at USC in Los Angeles, before joining the IBM Almaden Research Center in 1979, where he worked on laser applications in science and technology. Dr. Levenson is best known in science for his 1982 book "Introduction to Nonlinear Laser Spectroscopy" and for demonstrating back-action evading quantum measurement. He is also known for originating the phase-shifting mask (PSM) for integrated circuit manufacturing.
In 1993, Dr. Levenson formed Focused Research, Inc. (the R&D arm of New Focus, Inc.) with Dr. Milton Chang. Later he held visiting positions at JILA (Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics) on the University of Colorado at Boulder campus and Rice University in Houston, Texas. Dr. Levenson is a Fellow of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), Optical Society of America, and American Physical Society and a member of the SPIE and National Academy of Engineering.
Dr. Levenson graduated from MIT in 1967 and received his PhD degree from Stanford University in 1971, having done his thesis in laser spectroscopy under Arthur Schawlow. He also performed postdoctoral work with Nicolaas Bloembergen at Harvard University.
Bruce Vaughn, Co-Founder and Current Manager of the Stable Isotope Lab at the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR)
INSTAAR, which is affiliated with the University of Colorado, is devoted to studying biogeochemical processes that control environmental change on human timescales, and works to develop new, automated techniques for measuring environmental stable isotopes.
Prior to INSTAAR, Bruce was with the Water Resources Division of the USGS, Project Office Glaciology. He holds a M.Sc. in Geological Sciences from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and has authored over 20 papers, primarily on paleoclimate research and glacier hydrology, and isotopic methods.
In addition, Bruce is an affiliate with the NOAA Carbon Cycle Green House Gas group at the Earth Systems Research Laboratory in Boulder, as well as the WMO/IAEA CO2 Experts group on Carbon Dioxide Concentration and Related Tracer Measurement Techniques. He is currently an Executive Committee member for Biogeosphere Atmosphere, Stable Isotope Network (BASIN), a Field Leader for West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Divide Deep Ice Core Project and a INSTAAR Directorate member. He has also been a member of the Ice Core Working Group NSF Advisory Committee, and served on the technical oversight committee for the development of the NSF Deep Ice Core drill. He has also completed 8 polar field seasons in Greenland and Antarctica and has performed extensive work in equatorial Pacific, Alaska, Ecuador, Cascades and Rocky Mountains.
Professor Richard N. Zare, Marguerite Blake Wilbur Professor in Natural Science and Chair of the Chemistry Department, Stanford University
Professor Zare began his career as an assistant professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1965, but moved to the University of Colorado in 1966 where he held joint appointments in the departments of chemistry, and physics and astrophysics. In 1969 he was appointed to a full professorship in the chemistry department at Columbia University, becoming the Higgins Professor of Natural Science in 1975. In 1977 he moved to Stanford University. He was named Chair of the Department of Chemistry at Stanford University in 2005.
Professor Zare is renowned for his research in the area of laser chemistry, resulting in a greater understanding of chemical reactions at the molecular level. By experimental and theoretical studies he has made seminal contributions to the knowledge of molecular collision processes and contributed very significantly to solving a variety of problems in chemical analysis. His development of laser induced fluorescence as a method for studying reaction dynamics has been widely adopted in other laboratories.
Professor Zare has received numerous honors and awards for his accomplishments in chemical science and several awards for excellence in teaching. He holds honorary degrees from ten universities around the world and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and California Academy of Sciences. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, a Non-Resident Fellow of the Joint Institute of Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA), a Foreign Member of the Royal Society, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Swedish Royal Academy of Engineering Sciences.
Professor Zare served as the Chair of the President's National Medal of Science Selection Committee 1997-2000, chaired the National Research Council's Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications,1992-1995, and was Chair of the National Science Board the last two years of his six years of service. He currently acts as Chairman of the Board of Directors at Annual Reviews, Inc.
Professor Zare has authored and co-authored over 700 publications and more than 50 patents, and he has published four books. He is a graduate of Harvard University, where he received his Ph.D. in chemical physics in 1964.