Curriculum Vitae for Robert A. Freitas Jr.
Professional Experience
1994-now: Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Molecular Manufacturing (IMM), Palo Alto, CA. Research/writing of the Nanomedicine book series, the first book-length technical treatment of the medical implications of molecular nanotechnology. Nanomedicine, Volume I, was published by Landes Bioscience in October 1999; Nanomedicine, Volume IIA, was published by Landes Bioscience in October 2003. Also published Kinematic Self-Replicating Machines (Landes Bioscience) in 2004. Continuing nanomedicine, diamond mechanosynthesis (lecture, patent, book), replicating systems, molecular assembler, and nanofactory research at IMM. Filed first patent ever submitted on positional mechanosynthesis and positional diamond mechanosynthesis in 2004-5, which issued on 30 March 2010. Co-founded the Nanofactory Collaboration (2006-now).
2009-2020: Faculty Member and Nanotechnology Track Advisor or co-Chair, Singularity University.
2000-2004: Research Scientist, Zyvex Corporation, Richardson, Texas. Research/writing the Nanomedicine book series, co-authoring a second multivolume book series on molecular assembler design, and consulting on nanotechnology development. Nanomedicine, Volume IIA, was published by Landes Bioscience in October 2003.
1987-1997: Editor and Publisher, Value Forecaster, a monthly econometrics and investment research newsletter (~500 subscribers)
1986-1987: Freelance business consulting, which included developing custom business software for Cargill Molasses Division, Western Region (Stockton, CA) and conducting a national manufacturing facilities expansion analysis for Energy Absorption Systems, Inc. (West Sacramento, CA)
1980-1984: Research Fellow and Study Editor, NASA/ASEE Summer Study Programs, including Advanced Automation for Space Missions (NASA CP-2255), the first technical engineering study of self-replicating machines, sponsored by NASA in 1980.
1977-1982: Editor and Publisher, Space Initiative (company produced numerous editions of Lobbying for Space, the first space program political advocacy handbook ever published).
1976-1986: Freelance science/technology writer for numerous popular publications, including Omni, Astronomy, Science Digest, Technology Illustrated, Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, The Humanist, Student Lawyer, Chicago Tribune, Sexology Today, and others.
1975-1984: Astronomy/SETI researcher; conducted observational programs using optical and radio telescopes at Leuschner Observatory (U.C. Berkeley), Kitt Peak National Observatory, and Hat Creek Radio Observatory (U.C. Berkeley), which included the first optical SETA searches for possible Earth-orbiting artifacts and the first radio SETI search at the tritium hyperfine line. Also completed 500,000-word Xenology book (1975-1979).
1973-1974: Student Teaching Assistant in Freshman and Sophomore Physics Labs, Harvey Mudd College
Education
1974-1978: Juris Doctor (J.D.), University of Santa Clara (Santa Clara, CA), School of Law
1970-1974: Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Harvey Mudd College (Claremont, CA), Physics and Psychology (double major)
1967-1970: High School Diploma, Menlo School and College (Menlo Park, CA) (college-level chemistry coursework)
Professional Service
2015-16: Technical
Program Committee, 3rd ACM Intl. Conf. on Nanoscale Computing and Communication
(ACM NANOCOM 2016)
2013-14: Technical
Program Committee, 1st ACM Intl. Conf. on Nanoscale Computing and Communication
(ACM NANOCOM 2014)
2013-14: Program Committee Member,
14th Intl. Conf. on the Synthesis & Simulation of Living Systems (ALIFE
14 / 2014)
2011-now: Science
and Technology Advisory Board of the Brain
Preservation Foundation
2012-13: Program
Committee Member, 2013 Fourth IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life (IEEE Artificial
Life 2013 / SSCI
2013)
2011-12: International
Advisory Board Member, Symposium J: Biomedical Applications of "Smart”
Technologies (CIMTEC 2012)
2010-11: Program
Committee Member, 2011 Third IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life (IEEE Artificial
Life 2011)
2010: Intl.
Program Committee, IASTED International Conference on Nanotechnology and
Applications (NANA
2010)
2009-now: Founding Co-Chair and Founding
Faculty Member, Nanotechnology
Track, at Singularity University
2008-now: Scientific
Advisory Board of the Alcor
Life Extension Foundation
2008-now: Founding Member, Series Advisory Board, Nature-Inspired
Computing Series, Wiley-Blackwell
(book publishers)
2008-09: Program
Committee Member, 2009 Second IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life (IEEE Artificial
Life 2009)
2007-08: Program
Committee Member, 2nd
Intl. Conf. Quantum, Nano, and Micro Technologies (ICQNM 2008)
2007: Working
Group Member, Battelle/Foresight
International Technology Roadmap for Productive Nanosystems
2006: Technical Program Committee
Member, First Workshop
on Nano and Bio Robotics (NBR 2007)
2006: Senior
Advisory Panel, Touch Briefings
(London); Business
Briefing: NanoBiotechnology Review 2006
2005-now: Founding Member of the
Scientific Advisory Board, The
Lifeboat Foundation
2005-now: Founding Member of the
Advisory Board, The
Nanoethics Group
2005: Scientific
Program Committee Member, Artificial Life Special Session, IEEE
Cong. on Evol. Comp. 2005
2005: Scientific
Program Committee Member, Complex Adapt. Systems, IEEE
Cong. on Evol. Comp. 2005
2004-08: Founding Member of
the Scientific
Advisory Board, Nanorex, Inc.
2002-16: Honorary
Vice-Chairman, World Transhumanist
Association
2001-06: Scientific
Advisory Council, TransVio Technology
Ventures
2001-now: Scientific
Advisory Board, Maximum Life Foundation
2017: Grant
Proposal Reviewer, National Research Council, Swiss
National Science Foundation (SNSF)
2016: NSERC
Grant Proposal Reviewer, Natural
Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
2014: Peer
Review Panel Member, Fifth EuroNanoMed Joint Transnational Call
(grant applications), EuroNanoMed
Project
2013: Peer
Review Panel Member, Fourth EuroNanoMed Joint Transnational Call
(grant applications), EuroNanoMed
Project
2011: Peer
Review Panel Member, Third EuroNanoMed Joint Transnational Call
(grant applications), EuroNanoMed
Project
2010: Grant
Proposal Reviewer, Opportunities
and Risks of Nanomaterials (NRP64), Swiss National
Science Foundation (SNSF)
2010: Peer
Review Panel Member, Second EuroNanoMed Joint Transnational Call
(grant applications), EuroNanoMed
Project
2009: Peer
Review Panel Member, First EuroNanoMed Joint Transnational Call
(grant applications), EuroNanoMed
Project
2008: NMRC
Grant Proposal Reviewer, National
Medical Research Council (NMRC, Ministry of Health, Singapore)
2008: Grant
Proposal Reviewer, Innovative
Design and Manufacturing Research Centre, University of Bath, U.K.
2007-12: NSERC
Grant Proposal Reviewer, Natural
Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
2007: NMRC
Grant Proposal Reviewer, National
Medical Research Council (NMRC, Ministry of Health, Singapore)
2004: U.S.
National Science Foundation (NSF) Ad Hoc Reviewer, Science
and Technology Centers (STC) Program
2018-now: Editorial
Board member for Precision
Nanomedicine
2014-now: Editorial Board member for the Journal
of Research in Nanotechnology
2012-now: Editorial
Board member for the Journal
of Nanomaterials & Molecular Nanotechnology
2011-now: Editorial
Board for the journal Current
Nanomedicine (formerly Recent Patents in Nanomedicine)
2011-17: Editorial
Board for the journal Nano
Communication Networks (NanoComNet)
2011-14: Editorial
Board for the journal ISRN
Nanotechnology
2008-13: Founding Member of the
Intl.
Editorial Advisory Panel (also)
for the International
Journal of Green Nanotechnology
2008-14: Founding Member of
the Editorial
Board for the Open Nanomedicine
Journal
2007-13: Founding Member, Intl.
Editorial Advisory Board for the journal Studies
in Ethics, Law and Technology
2006-12: Founding Member
of the Editorial
Advisory Board for the Journal
of Bionanoscience
2005-15: Founding Member of the
Editorial
Board (also)
for the journal Nanomedicine:
Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine (Also)
(Also)
2005-now: Founding Member
of the Editorial
Board for the International
Journal of Nanomedicine
2004-17: Founding Member of the
Editorial
Board for the journal NanoBiotechnology
2003-now: Founding Member of
the Editorial Board
for the Journal
of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience
2002-now: Editorial
Consultant for the Journal
of Evolution and Technology
2000-now: Reviewer/Referee: ACM
Computing Surveys
Acta
Astronautica
Artificial
Intelligence in Medicine
Artificial
Life
Computer
Methods and Programs in Biomedicine
Current
Drug Delivery
Diamond
and Related Materials
Entropy
Expert
Review of Medical Devices
Frontiers
in Life Science
Icarus
IEEE
Communications Letters
IEEE
Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering
IEEE
Transactions on Nanobioscience
IEEE
Transactions on Nanotechnology
IEEE
Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part C
International
Journal of Machine Consciousness
International
Journal of Nanomanufacturing
International
Journal of Nanomedicine
International
Journal of Robotics Research
Journal
of Dentistry and Oral Hygiene
Journal
of Evolution and Technology
Journal
of Intelligent and Robotic Systems
Journal
of Nanomaterials & Molecular Nanotechnology
Journal
of Nanomedicine Research
Journal
of Nanotechnology
Journal
of Spacecraft and Rockets
Nano
Letters
Nanomedicine
(Future Medicine)
Nanomedicine:
Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine
Nanotechnology
Nature
Communications
Open
Nanomedicine Journal
PLoS
Medicine
Quarterly
Review of Biology
Recent
Patents on Nanomedicine
Robotica
Solid
State Sciences
Studies
in Ethics, Law and Technology
Surface
Science
Symmetry
Trends
in Molecular Medicine
CRC Press (3 books)
John Wiley & Sons (1 book)
MIT Press (1 book)
NSTA Press (National Science
Teachers Association) (2 books)
Praxis Publishing Ltd. (1 book)
Springer-Verlag (2 books)
2000-now: Curator, Nanomedicine Art Gallery (Foresight Institute)
Awards, Distinctions, Tests, Other
2010: Awarded first
patent ever issued on positional mechanosynthesis or diamond mechanosynthesis
(Also)
2009: Winner, 2009
Feynman Prize in nanotechnology for theory (press
release)
2009: Paper
ranked most
accessed in Biology and Medicine area for the journal Nanotechnology
in 2008
2008: Finalist
for Feynman
prize in nanotechnology (theory) (9th consecutive year)
2008: Second
patent ever filed on positional mechanosynthesis or positional diamond mechanosynthesis
2007: Winner, 2007
Foresight Prize in Communication (press
release) from Foresight Institute
2007: Finalist
for Feynman
prize in nanotechnology (theory) (8th consecutive year)
2006: Awarded first Lifeboat
Foundation Fellowship from The Lifeboat
Foundation
2006: Finalist
for Feynman
prize in nanotechnology (theory) (7th consecutive year)
2006: Winner, 2006
Guardian Award from The Lifeboat Foundation
2005: Winner, 2005
Harold Ellis Prize from the International
Journal of Surgery
2005: Finalist
for Feynman
prize in nanotechnology (theory) (6th consecutive year)
2004: Finalist
for Feynman
prize in nanotechnology (theory) (5th consecutive year)
2004-5: First
patent ever filed on positional mechanosynthesis or positional diamond mechanosynthesis
2003: Finalist
for Feynman
prize in nanotechnology (theory) (4th consecutive year)
2002: Nanotechnology Now's
“Best
of 2002” nanotechnology website (Nanomedicine
Art Gallery)
2002: Finalist
for Feynman
prize in nanotechnology (theory) (3rd consecutive year)
2001: Nanotechnology Now's
“Best
of 2001” nanotechnology website (Nanomedicine
Art Gallery)
2001: Finalist
for Feynman
prize in nanotechnology (theory) (2nd consecutive year)
2001-now: Original
signatory, “Invitation to
ETI ” group
2000: Finalist
for Feynman
prize in nanotechnology (theory)
1999-08: Fellow,
World Technology Network
1999: Published first textbook
on medical nanorobotics (Nanomedicine,
Vol. I, Vol.
IIA)
1999: Finalist
for World
Technology Award in Materials Science ..... Case
Study
1998: Published first technical
nanomedical
device design paper to appear in a peer-reviewed
mainstream medical journal
1995-06: Senior Associate, Foresight
Institute
1987-93: Designed and owner-buildered
4 bedroom house (current residence).
1982-now: “Who’s Who”
listings (WW in America, WW in Media and Communications, WW in the West, etc.)
1981-now: Life Member, National
Space Society (formerly L-5 Society)
1981: Winner, 1981
Best Science Fact Article Award from Analog Magazine
(see also)
1979: Langdon
Adult Intelligence Test IQ153 (99.95%)
1977-now: Member, AAAS
1975-98: Member, World Future Society
1970: Winner, 1970
Laboratory Science Merit Award for Chemistry from Bank of America
(Menlo High School)
Lists of Publications
1993-now: Nanomedicine,
Nanorobotics, Nanofactories, Molecular Assemblers and Machine-Phase Nanotechnology
1988-1997: Financial
Forecasting, Econometrics, and Investment
1976-1991: Astronomy,
SETI/Xenology, Machine Self-Replication, Science, Law and Ethics
Patents
2015/16:
“Mechanical
Computing Systems” (pending)
2007/08-12:
“Positional
Diamondoid Mechanosynthesis” (issued 1 May 2012)
2004/05-10: “A
Simple Tool for Positional Diamond Mechanosynthesis, and its Method of Manufacture”
(issued 30 March 2010) Also
Media/Entertainment
2010: Cast
credit (as himself) in A-line of movie production “The
Singularity is Near” ... full
cast ..... IMDB listing for
Freitas ..... Bonus Footage (YouTube)
2008-11: Nanorobotics Technical Advisor
for“Pig”, an
independent film production by writer/director Henry
Barrial and producer Mark
Stolaroff
2002-03: Participating
Scholar, “The
Next Thousand Years” Television Series (Foundation
for the Future)
2000-01: Nanotech
animation consultant (also
also),
Thomas Lucas Productions
(also),
“Beyond Human”
(also)
(aired
May 2001, PBS TV) (also aired 1 January 2006 CBS
"60 Minutes" interview with Aubrey de Grey)
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