Jonathan Trent, Ph.D.

Dr. Jonathan Trent is a member of Silicom Ventures advisory board. Dr.
Trent is a Senior Scientist at NASA Ames Research Center. After
receiving his Ph.D. in Biological Oceanography at Scripps Institution
of Oceanography, Dr. Trent spent six years in Europe at the Max Planck
Institute for Biochemistry in Germany, the University of Copenhagen in
Denmark, and the University of Paris at Orsay in France. He returned to
the U.S.A. to work at the Boyer Center for Molecular Medicine at Yale
Medical School for two years before establishing a biotechnology group
at Argonne National Laboratory. In 1998 he moved to NASA Ames Research
Center to be part of NASA’s Astrobiology program and established the
Protein Nanotechnology Group in 1999. In addition to working at NASA,
he is an Adjunct Professor in the Dept. of Biomolecular Engineering at
UC Santa Cruz and is a Fellow of the California Academy of Sciences.