He has since been appointed as the group leader for the Environmental Test and Evaluation Group at MRI and is involved in a variety of environmental related projects, such as one examining the ability of algae to sequester carbon dioxide.

Prior to joining MRI, Dr. Gordon spent a year and a half both teaching a bioengineering laboratory course and completing a postdoctoral appointment within Dr. Hsueh-Chia Chang’s group at the University of Notre Dame. The focus of this research work was on the development of microfluidic based diagnostics platforms.

Dr. Gordon received his Ph.D. in Dr. Andre Palmer’s group within the Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering department at the University of Notre Dame in 2006. His dissertation was “Improved Oxygen Delivery to Hepatic Hollow Fiber (HF) Bioreactors,” which examined the use of oxygen carriers to improve hepatic HF bioreactor oxygen delivery from both an experimental and a modeling approach. Dr. Gordon received a B.S. in chemical engineering from Iowa State University in 2001 and a B.S. in chemistry from Rockhurst University in 2000.