Saul Griffith
Dr. Saul Griffith 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. Griffith 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 Griffith has been named a MacArthur Fellow. A large focus of his research efforts are in minimum and constrained energy surfaces for novel manufacturing techniques and other applications. He holds multiple patents and patents pending in textiles, optics, nanotechnology and energy production. Griffith co-authors children’s comic books called HowToons about building your own science and engineering gadgets with Nick Dragotta and Joost Bonsen. He is a technical advisor to Make magazine and Popular Mechanics, and is a columnist and regular contributor to Make and Craft magazines.