User:Ninjaphobos

Ninjaphobos (born 1984 in Little Rock, AR) is a Research Scientist at the University of Missouri-Columbia with a doctorate in Bioengineering. He studies nanotechnology (specifically surface plasmon resonance (SPR)-enhanced biosensors and nanoparticles used for disease biomarker detection).

Education
He attended Wilbur D. Mills University Studies High School in Little Rock, AR, graduating in 2002 as an AP Scholar with Distinction. He attended the University of Arkansas from 2002-2006, majoring in Biological Engineering with minors in Mathematics and Anthropology, and then completed a Master's Degree in Biomedical Engineering in 2009. He then completed his PhD in Biological Engineering at the University of Missouri-Columbia from 2009-2014 with his dissertation on a SPR-enhanced sensor to detect vaporous chemical byproducts of trinitrotoluene.

Career
He was a Research Associate and Adjunct Assistant Teaching Professor in Bioengineering from 2016-2018. In June 2018, he took a position as a Research Scientist working on a SPR-enhanced sensor to detect tuberculosis disease (TB) biomarker lipoarabinomannan from noninvasive body fluids (e.g. urine).

Contributions to Wikipedia
His first major contribution was to the Peyton Hillis article, which he updated and guarded closely from internet trolls during Hillis' active period in the NFL. Hillis is one of his all-time favorite athletes for many reasons, not the least of which is the fact that Hillis has been underrated and under-used his whole career until now.

He also plans on contributing to articles in nanotechnology.

Personal
Ninjaphobos was married in 2009 to a young woman met in college. They have two biological children and are licensed foster parents. He is a Christian who claims no specific denomination, but attends an Evangelical Presbyterian church. His extracurricular activities include birding, xeriscaping with native Missouri plants, conservation, the history of the Levant, cultural anthropology, and plays multiple musical instruments (guitar, violin, piano, and lap dulcimer).