Draft:Michael Brendan Ross

Michael Brendan Ross (born c. 1989) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. His research is on the field of nanomaterials chemistry, plasmonics, and sustainable catalysis.

Scientific career
Fields: Chemistry, Nanotechnology, Spectroscopy, Materials Science

Alma mater: Providence College, Northwestern University, University of California Berkeley

Doctoral Advisor: Chad Mirkin, George Schatz

Thesis/Dissertation: Designing optical properties in DNA-programmed nanoparticle superlattices

Institutions: University of Massachusetts Lowell

Awards: National Defense Science and Engineering Fellowship,  CIFAR Bio-Inspired Solar Energy Postdoctoral Fellowship,  RHED Faculty Fellow, Sustainability

Michael Ross' work focuses on nanomaterial and photonics applications for nanobiology, sustainability, and renewable energy applications. He has over 5,900 citations on peer-reviewed works including several patents.

Early life and education
Ross was born in Massachusetts in 1989. He received a bachelors of science degree in biochemistry from Providence College in 2011 and his PhD in chemistry from Northwestern University in 2016. He did a post-doctoral fellowship at University of California Berkeley under Peidong Yang where he researched heterogenous catalysis for the renewable production of sustainable feedstocks. During his time in Yang's research group, he developed catalysts for the production of syngas from widely available carbon dioxide. He became an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at University of Massachusetts Lowell in 2019

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