His lab aims to address challenges in energy and human health through the design and synthesis of nanoscale inorganic, biological, and hybrid materials. Prof. Hochbaum received a S.B. in Materials Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and completed his Ph.D. in the Department of Chemistry at UC Berkeley studying electrical and thermal transport phenomena in semiconductor nanowires. He was a postdoctoral research fellow in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology at Harvard University where he studied bacterial community dynamics at interfaces. Prof. Hochbaum is an ACS (Division of Inorganic Chemistry) and AFOSR Young Investigator, and has received the Samueli Faculty Career Development Professorship, and a 3M Non-Tenured Faculty award.