个人简介

Dr. Koerner (“Dr. K.”) earned his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from the University of California at Santa Barbara. He started his industrial research experience as a pharmaceutical process chemist at G.D. Searle (a division of Monsanto, at the time), and then as a product development and formulation scientist at The Clorox Company. Dr. K. moved into the world of business. He was successful as a Associate Partner of technology transfer at Research Corporation Technologies, where he was responsible for creating, market planning, venture funding, directing the research, and managing the intellectual property of many technology start-up companies based upon chemistry research (clean energy, environmental, pharmaceutical, petroleum, medical oncology and imaging, among others). Dr. K. redeployed his efforts into the realm of higher education in 2000, teaching the in the MBA program at the Eller College of Management at the University of Arizona, where he still retains his position as Faculty Fellow of Entrepreneurship. In 2006, Dr. K. transitioned into teaching the subject of college Chemistry as an Adjunct Lecturer in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry at The University of Arizona and then moved (2013) to Champaign-Urbana as a Lecturer of Organic Chemistry at The University of Illinois.