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Benjamin Katz is an American scientist. He is a Mass Spectrometry development engineer in the department of chemistry at the University of California, Irvine and was previously a scientist in the department of biochemistry at Kansas State University.

Education and Early Career
Benjamin Katz received a BSE in biomedical engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2006. Katz was a research assistant in Dr. Clifford Henderson's chemical engineering research group where he developed photoresists for the stereolithography of biomaterials for use in directed cell growth for tissue engineering. He joined a proteomics startup company in Knoxville, TN called Protein Discovery Inc, which was sold to Expedeon in 2011 and subsequently acquired by Abcam in 2020. He contributed to new reverse phase chromatography and gel electrophoresis technology for Biomarker (medicine) detection.

Career
Katz became a part-time staff researcher at Kansas State University in 2010 while continuing to work as a scientific consultant for proteomics and agricultural commodity manufacturing. In 2013, he transitioned to a full time staff scientist and acted as an expert witness for the food forensic industry. In 2017, he moved to the mass spectrometry core facility at University of California, Irvine and is the acting proteomics specialist in the department of chemistry.

Outreach
Katz is a published author of children's books and chemistry puzzles with an aim to promote early science literacy. He has also been active on social media as a STEM influencer providing a unique framework to answer questions of public interest using mass spectrometry.