BIOGRAPHY
Dr. Larry Dunn is co-founder, and Sr. Director of Business Development at TIE. During TIE’s startup phase he served as the lead for TIE’s innovation ecosystem and workforce development programs. He previously served as Asst. Director of the NSF-funded Nanomanufacturing Systems Center (NASCENT) at UT Austin, where he managed the center’s Industrial Partnership Program and taught graduate courses in Device Physics. Prior to joining UT, Larry was helped to build Atonometrics from an early-stage startup to a leading manufacturer of test and measurement equipment for the photovoltaic industry. Larry earned his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Texas at Austin, for which he was awarded the Ben Streetman Prize for outstanding research in electronic and photonic materials and devices, and his B.A. in physics from Hendrix College. Larry has co-authored 15 peer reviewed and popular scientific articles and is an inventor of 11 issued U.S. patents.