Dr. Nate Newman is the Chief Executive Officer of Paramagnetix Inc., a technology startup pioneering the development of portable, cost-effective magnetic resonance devices aimed at enhancing food safety for both commercial and consumer applications.

Dr. Newman holds a Ph.D. and M.S. from Stanford University, as well as a B.S. in Biomedical and Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California. He has held faculty positions at Northwestern University and Arizona State University (ASU), where he earned multiple teaching awards. At ASU, he served as the Lawrence Professor of Solid State Sciences and is now Emeritus Professor in the Materials Science program.

His professional experience includes technical staff roles at Stanford University, Conductus, Inc., Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and the University of California, Berkeley. His research has focused on the growth, characterization, and modeling of advanced solid-state materials for microwave, photonic, and high-speed electronic applications.

Dr. Newman has authored or co-authored over 200 peer-reviewed publications and holds 16 U.S. patents. He is the recipient of the IEEE Van Duzer Award and is a Fellow of the IEEE, the American Physical Society, and the American Ceramic Society, as well as a member of the European Union Academy of Sciences.

He has also served as Associate Editor for Materials for the IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity, Chair of the U.S. Committee on Superconductor Electronics, and Director of ASU’s LeRoy Eyring Center for Solid State Science.