Daniel is the Director of the Technology Transfer Office at Montana State University.  He joined MSU in 2016, following 16 years of technology development experience in industry.  He first worked in semiconductor capital equipment, developing processes and equipment to deposit ultrathin conformal layers of metal on silicon wafers. 

His most recent industry role was in senior management at a VC-funded startup company that grew to 500+ employees, where his responsibilities included creating and managing the corporate intellectual property program.  Daniel has been granted 24 US patents, and has BS, MS, and PhD degrees in Physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.