Management Bios
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A. John Hart
Co-Founder and Chief Scientist
 John Hart is
Assistant Professor of
Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor,
Michigan. At Michigan, John leads the Mechanosynthesis Group,
whose
research seeks to expand the science, manufacturing, and applications
of nanostructures and novel nanostructured materials. John teaches
undergraduate and graduate courses in design, manufacturing, and
micro/nanotechnology.
He also holds a courtesy appointment as Assistant Professor of Art and
Design. John has Ph.D. (2006) and S.M. (2002) degrees from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a B.S.E (2000) degree from
the University of Michigan, all in Mechanical Engineering.
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Yeh-Chuin Poh
Co-Founder and VP of Operations
 Yeh-Chuin Poh is a Mechanical
Engineering PhD student focusing in cellular mechanics at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research interests
include mechanotransduction, live cell stress distribution, cellular
and molecular visualization, stress- induced gene expression,
nucleolar
and cytoskeletal biomechanics, stress-induced stem cell
differentiation, and mechanobiology. Poh’s research seeks to combine
biomechanics and biochemistry at the cellular and subcellular levels to
understand the fundamentals of cells in response to mechanical stimuli.
Poh was born in Malaysia and received his B.S.E degree (2008) from the
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and M.S. degree (2009) from the
University of Illinois.
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Tom Serbowicz
Co-Founder and VP of Manufacturing
 Tom Serbowicz is currently practicing as a
test engineer in the aerospace industry where he is working in the
field of experimental dynamics. Tom received his B.S.E. degree in
Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in
2008. During his time at Michigan, Tom contributed to research
developing a force model for bimetallic face grinding, as well as
research investigating the control of a hopping robot with an
artificial neural oscillator.
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Steve Vozar
Co-Founder and VP of Technology
 Steve Vozar is a
PhD student in
Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
Steve is currently a research assistant in the Ground Robotics
Reliability
Center (GRRC), focusing on improving mobile robot reliability via
enhanced user-interfaces. His research interests include human-robot
interaction, mobile robot teleoperation, augmented reality
systems, mobile robot simulation, and control of robot swarms. Past
research includes the development of optical diagnostic tests for fire
retardants. Steve holds an M.S.E (2009) and a B.S.E. (2008) from the
University of Michigan, both in Mechanical Engineering. |
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Company
History
- Absolute Nano was
founded in 2007 to commercialize novel instruments for
laboratory-scale synthesis of
nanostructured materials. Absolute Nano’s initial technologies
were created through research at the University of Michigan and
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Our team has
interdisciplinary expertise in materials science, mechanical
engineering, chemical engineering, manufacturing, and
nanotechnology. Our first two products, the SabreTube Desktop
Thermal Processing System (2007) and the SpinGrower Layer-by-Layer
Assembly System (2009), received prestigious R&D 100 Awards.
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