The company’s name, goeppert (pronounced: GO-pert), was inspired by the groundbreaking scientific work of physicist Maria goeppert Mayer, who also happened to be a Physics Nobel Laureate in 1963, for developing the nuclear shell model of the atomic nucleus.
Inspired by her pioneering work, our company aims to accelerate science and help researchers in academia and industry develop a wide range of applications from biomedicine to nanoelectronics and quantum computing.
Prof. Marija Drndic is one of the the co-founders, co-owners, and technical leaders of the company. In this role, she helps to set technical direction and strategy.
Prof. Marija Drndic is the Fay R. and Eugene L. Langberg Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania and the faculty member of the MRSEC Center at Penn, over the last 16 years at Penn as a faculty. She received her PhD from Harvard University and was a Pappalardo Fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, before joining Penn in 2003. Her work on nanocrystal electronics and nanofabrication has been recognized by the Presidential Young Investigator Award, the Alfred Sloan Fellowship, the DARPA Young Faculty Award, the ONR Young Investigator, and the NSF Career Award. She was named an APS Fellow “for development of novel nanofabrication methods for graphene nanoelectronics and fast biomolecular analysis in solution”. She also received several teaching awards, including the 2008 Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Award for Distinguished Teaching. Her academic research focuses on the exploration of mesoscopic and nanoscale structures in the areas of experimental condensed matter physics, nanoscience and nanotechnology. The group is known for their studies of fundamental physical properties of low-dimensional and small-scale structures
and the development of their device applications. Examples include the study and control of nanocrystal assembly, fabrication of electronic devices and understanding of the basic mechanisms of charge transport in them. Drndic lab has also developed new biophysics-oriented approaches towards the detection and analysis of biomolecules using graphene and other nanopores, and in situ transmission electron microscope experiments. Her laboratory’s work and publications at University of Pennsylvania’s Department of Physics and Astronomy can be found at following website: https://web.sas.upenn.edu/drndicgroup/
Dr. Niedzwiecki is Senior Scientist at Goeppert. Dr. Niedzwiecki has been in the nanotechnology and nanopore field for more than ten years working on biological as well as solid-state nanopores in silicon nitride, graphene and other 2D materials. Specifically, he has extensive experience in high-bandwidth solid-state nanopore sensors and technology development. Dr. Niedzwiecki’s previous PhD and postdoc research was primarily focused on nanopore-based techniques for studying the biophysical properties of single-molecules. Dr. Niedzwiecki has extensive experience in electron-beam lithography, microfluidics, TEM techniques, and nanoscale devices broadly. David received his PhD in physics at Syracuse University in 2013 and was previously a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. Below are his selected recent publications.
- Shekar, S.; Niedzwiecki, D.J.; Chien, C.; Ong, P; Fleischer, D.A.; Lin, J.; Rosenstein, J.K.; Drndić, M., Shepard, K.L. Measurement of DNA Translocation Dynamics in a Solid-State Nanopore at 100 ns Temporal Resolution.
- Nano Lett. 2016, 16, 4483–4489.
- Niedzwiecki, D.J.; Lanci, C.J.; Shemer, G.; Cheng, P.S.; Saven, J.G.; Drndić, M. Observing changes in the structure and oligomerization state of a helical protein dimer using solid-state nanopores.
- ACS Nano, 2015, 9 (9), 8907–8915.
- Balan, A.; Machielse, B.; Niedzwiecki, D.J.; Lin, J.; Ong, P.; Engelke, R.; Shepard, K.L.; Drndić, M. Improving Signal-to-Noise Performance for DNA Translocation in Solid-State Nanopores at MHz Bandwidths.
- Nano Lett., 2014, 14 (12), 7215–7220.
- Niedzwiecki, D.J.; Iyer, R.M.; Borer, P.N.; Movileanu, L. Sampling a Biomarker of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) across a Synthetic Nanopore. ACS Nano, 2013, 7 (4), 3341–3350.
- Niedzwiecki, D.J.; Mohammad, M.; Movileanu, L. Inspection of the Engineered FhuA ∆C/∆4L Protein Nanopore by Polymer Exclusion. Biophys. J. 2012, 103(10), 2115-2124.
- Niedzwiecki, D.J.; Grazul, J.; Movileanu, L. Single-molecule observation of protein adsorption onto an inorganic surface. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010, 132 (16), 10816-10822.
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