MÂ Christoforo
Co-Founder And Director at Ark Metrica LTD
Palo Alto, California, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolM Christoforo is a co-founder and director with 11 years of experience blending academic research and industry engineering in advanced optoelectronics and energy systems. He holds a PhD from Stanford and has led postdoctoral work at Oxford focusing on silver nanowire transparent conductors and their integration in perovskite and silicon solar cells, while founding Ark Metrica to translate those materials innovations toward lower-cost, higher-performance electrodes. Earlier roles at GE and Planet Labs reflect deep hands-on expertise in embedded firmware, wireless mesh sensing, and satellite electronics, demonstrating a rare combination of device-scale materials science and systems-level product engineering. He has also applied computational biology skills to sequencing data, showing interdisciplinary agility beyond photovoltaics. Based in Palo Alto with ties to the UK and Denmark, he brings entrepreneurial drive, lab-to-market experience, and a practical focus on manufacturable processes for next-generation solar technologies.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master's Degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor's Degree, Electrical Engineering, Bachelor's Degree, Electrical Engineering at University of Notre DameDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electrical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electrical Engineering at Stanford University
English
Github Skills (87)
seq10
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arch10
chakra9
linux9
opengl9
cad9
archlinux9
qml9
visa9
windows9
javascript-engine9
cpp9
chakracore9
cnc9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
greysAcademicCode/i-v-vs-time-taker
Jan 2015 - Nov 2017
Contributions:1 release, 33 commits, 35 pushes in 2 years 10 months
greysAcademicCode/hystAnalysis
Jan 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:8 commits, 8 pushes in 1 year
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