John R. Engen

John R. Engen is an accomplished chemist currently serving as the Chief Executive Officer and Director of Research at the New Mexico Consortium since May 2023. With a long-standing academic career at Northeastern University beginning in September 2006, John holds several prestigious titles including the James L. Waters Endowed Chair in Analytical Chemistry and Distinguished Professor of Chemistry & Chemical Biology. Previous positions include Visiting Professor at Harvard Medical School, the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, and an Assistant Professor at the University of New Mexico. John began a postdoctoral fellowship at Los Alamos National Laboratory and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory after completing a Ph.D. in Chemistry at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln from 1995 to 1999.