Chris is the Head of Technology Transfer at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) National Laboratory managed by Princeton University. Chris directs PPPL’s efforts to accelerate the commercialization and transfer of laboratory technologies to the marketplace, including coordinating patent prosecution, negotiating industry contracts, and developing an entrepreneurial ecosystem for lab scientists. Before moving full time to PPPL, he was previously a licensing associate for the physical sciences in the Office of Technology Licensing. Chris earned a BS in Biochemistry from the University of Delaware and a MA in Molecular Biology from Princeton University.