Ted was an undergraduate majoring in chemical engineering at Michigan.  Upon graduation in the fall of 1999, he started as a full-time research associate in the lab working on the AFM of dendritic drug delivery agents.  He began graduate school at Cal Tech in the fall of 2000 joining the group of Jonas Peters.  Ted completed research for two full papers on dendrimer imaging by AFM before departing.
 
 






Ted is shown below making up a sample of nanoparticles for imaging.