Steven C. Hayden Email & Phone Number

Golden, Colorado, United States

Cambridge, Massachusetts

• Designed & led multiple simultaneous research projects involving 17 total researchers across multiple institutions in industry (ARC), academia (MIT & Harvard), and national labs (Sandia NL, AFRL, & NASA)
• Established new capabilities for materials discovery R&D, including TEM, SEM/EDX/EBSD, SAXS, and XRD, enabling 5 team patents and 15+ peer-reviewed team publications in 3 years
• Appointed to the ARC strategy development board, contributing to the long-term vision and development plan, presenting the plan to company stakeholders & CTO, and then spearheading its implementation
• Served as the Aramco Research Center Industrial Liaison to the MIT Corporate Programs Office, helping the MIT Energy Initiative select awarded proposals for an aggregate $40 MM/yr in research funding
• Led the Boston team ideation efforts for Aramco’s 2017 Grand Challenge in Sustainability, resulting in the winning cross-discipline project plan; advised its ultimate implementation as a full-scale project
• Co-directed all internal and external outreach events and promotional materials, including interviews with Bloomberg, CEO & Crown Prince visits, and the Aramco Annual Review (est. 100,000 subscribers)

Cambridge, MA

• Led a team of 4 to provide novel microscopy solutions to nanoscience challenges for 20+ PhD researchers across research thrusts, including polymeric membranes, catalysis, corrosion, and sensing/nanotracers
• Patented a pressurized flow cell to provide in-line aqueous gas generation from solid precursors
• Demonstrated the world-first observation of nanoscale corrosion under aqueous flow via in situ LC-S/TEM
• Developed novel supported catalytic materials for upgrading low-value feedstock

Los Alamos, NM

• Developed a biotic device capable of optical data storage via self-assembly of a polymer/protein matrix
• Demonstrated the first in situ method to modulate the hard/soft interface in surface-supported lipid bilayers
• Engineered modular, biomimetic materials with temperature-tunable mesoscopic architectures
• Constructed a composite that uses amphiphilic nanoparticles in a mesostructured gel to sense hydration levels
• Actualized a new class of modular, functional surface coatings composed entirely of biotic amphiphiles
• Managed a team of 20+ to design, construct, and outfit 2 chemical research labs at a National Lab facility

Heidelberg Area, Germany

• Led a team of 5 researchers to develop on-site techniques for nanomaterials synthesis & characterization
• Pioneered the development of a novel assay methodology to quantify drug uptake by bacterial pathogens
• Developed the first class of water-soluble phenazine (leprosy) drugs, elucidated their bactericidal mechanism using spectroscopy / simulations / in vitro assays, and illustrated their low human cell toxicity in vitro

Greater Atlanta Area

• Developed the first wet electrochemical cell to measure and enhance the solar energy conversion of a natural photosynthetic protein by a factor of 5,000 using plasmonic nanoparticles
• Demonstrated trace detection of cancer biomarkers and explosives via surface-enhanced spectroscopy
• Achieved unprecedented efficiency in solar-driven pathogen inactivation water splitting
• Enhanced the efficacy of a photodynamic cancer drug using plasmonic nanoparticles, reducing required drug dosage by 2 orders of magnitude
• Developed expert skills at cross-discipline and cross-cultural discussion and conflict resolution
• Coordinated up to 5 principal investigators at different universities around the world on a single project

General Chemistry Lecture and Laboratory, Organic Lecture

• Translated Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Finance journal articles from French to English

Greater Atlanta Area

• Determined the relationship between dietary pesticide consumption and urinary metabolite excretion using a full-scope intake/output method and a novel extraction/detection assay

Marquise, France

Ph.D, School Of Chemistry & Biochemistry

Activities and Societies: Lab Supervisor, Laser Dynamics Lab | REU & Undergraduate Research Mentor | Graduate Mentor, Women in Chemistry.

Bachelor, Chemistry, French Language