Dr. Mark Styczynski is a professor in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Georgia Tech.
In our conversation on October 20th, 2022, we discussed the role of mentorship and hard work in his professional success.
He is trained as a chemical engineer and his current research is focused on biotechnology. Some of his research group develops biosensors and diagnostics to be used in low resource environments, including a diagnostic for zinc deficiency. The rest of his group works on systems biology, which can sometimes uncover unknown elements affecting how well the synthetic sensors and reactions are working.
He has been strongly influenced by mentors and guidance he got during his undergraduate work at Notre Dame and his graduate work at MIT. In some cases the guidance helped him through tough decisions and in other cases it modeled the kind of work and teacher he is now.