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Saul Griffith

PhD from MIT, MacArthur Fellow and inventor turned into serial entrepreneur

Headline: Inventor
Work status: Living The Dream
Website: http://makanipower.com
Skills: Business, Design, Engineering
Location: Alameda, CA
Interested in: Finding engineers, Meeting new people, Recruiting
Tags: clean tech, wind power

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Saul is the President and Chief Scientist at Makani Power. He has multiple degrees in materials science and mechanical engineering and completed his Ph.D. in Programmable Assembly and Self Replicating machines at MIT. He is the co-founder of numerous companies including: Optiopia, Squid Labs, Potenco, Instructables.com, HowToons and Makani Power. Saul has been awarded numerous awards for invention including the National Inventors Hall of Fame, Collegiate Inventor's award, and the Lemelson-MIT Student prize. Recently, he has been named a MacArthur Fellow. Saul holds multiple patents and patents pending in textiles, optics, nanotechnology, and energy production. Saul co-authors children's comic books called HowToons,about building your own science and engineering gadgets, with Nick Dragotta and Joost Bonsen. Saul is a technical advisor to Make magazine and Popular Mechanics.
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