Dan Sanders is a Principal Research Staff Member and Senior Manager in charge of the Materials Discovery department at IBM Research – Almaden. He received a Bachelor’s degree in Polymer Science and Engineering in 1996 and a Master’s degree in Macromolecular Science in 1999, both from Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, OH). Later, he received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, CA) working in the lab of Prof. Robert H. Grubbs on metal-catalyzed fluoropolymers for 157nm lithography. In 2004, he joined IBM’s Almaden Research Center as a Research Staff Member in the Lithography group to work on advanced patterning materials for nanofabrication, eventually assuming leadership of the group in 2012. In 2018, Dan added management responsibility for the Accelerated Materials Discovery group and was promoted to Senior Manager in 2020. His Materials Discovery department’s mission is to apply informatics, simulation, Artificial Intelligence, and advanced lab automation to speed the discovery of new sustainable materials and apply these techniques to pertinent use cases of relevance for IBM and the world. Currently, his team is working on advanced battery materials, CO2 upcycling into novel monomers and polymers, and sustainable materials for semiconductor fabrication.