Dr. Joback is president and founder of Molecular Knowledge Systems. For more than 25 years he has worked in the areas of physical property estimation and chemical product design. He has developed a number of group contribution estimation techniques now widely used in industry. He has designed numerous chemical products including environmentally friendly cleaning and separation solvents, new lubricants, enhanced thermal storage materials, improved jet and rocket fuels, and non-hazardous aircraft deicing fluids. His current responsibilities include managing the development and marketing of MKS’s CRANIUM and SYNAPSE software products. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Stevens Institute of Technology and a Masters and PhD from MIT, all in chemical engineering.