Alexander Pearse

Alexander Pearse has held a variety of roles in the materials science and engineering fields. From 2017 to present, they have been a Senior Materials Engineer and Materials Engineer at Modern Electron, where they have been responsible for testing and developing core technology and designing and building experimental setups. From 2012 to 2017, they were a Ph.D. Materials Science Researcher and Barbara Hulka Energy Research Fellow at the University of Maryland, where they invented and demonstrated the first fully conformally-grown, all-solid-state lithium ion batteries and developed several novel materials. In 2011, they were a Research Assistant at Johns Hopkins University. In 2006, they were a Research Intern in Physical Oceanography at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, where they developed MATLAB code for automated environmental and weather data acquisition and dispersal to field operations and code for the visualization of complex wind-driven transport process in the ocean water column.

Alexander Pearse obtained a Bachelor's Degree in Physics and a Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania between 2007 and 2011. Alexander then went on to earn a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Maryland in 2017. Alexander also holds a LabView Developer certification.