Finding the Right College – Mission Impossible? with Jed Macosko, Professor of Physics at Wake Forest University and Research Director at Academic Influence

Originally from Minneapolis, Professor Jed Macosko has lived in Minsk, Princeton, Belfast, Tashkent, Chicago, Copenhagen, Moscow, Albuquerque, and Strasbourg. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science from MIT and earned his doctorate at UC Berkeley. After a postdoctoral research stint with Howard Hughes Medical Investigator Carlos J. Bustamante, he worked with Nobel laureate Kary Mullis at a start-up in Irvine, California than with Professor David Keller at the University of New Mexico. Currently, Jed is a professor of Physics at Wake Forest University. He continues his two decades of research on the mechanics of cells and molecular motors while teaching undergraduates the basics of big data and virtual reality. His lab has received millions of dollars in outside funding, and he is a contributing author of several books. His work has been cited thousands of times, and his parents have been developed in the biotech sector. One of his most fulfilling intellectual projects so far has been at AcademicInfluence.com where he serves as Research Director and Chief Public Liaison. 

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